Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1968
Running Times: 144m/145m
Length:
Format: 65mm/filmed in Super Panavision
Colour Format: Technicolor
Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Sound: 70mm 6-Track

DIRECTION

Directed by: Ken Hughes

PRODUCTION
Copyright: Warfield Producuctions Inc. and Dramatic Features Inc. MCMLXVIII
Production Companies: MGM  Albert R. Broccoli presents
Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli
Associate Producer: Stanley Sopel
Production Supervisor: David Middlemas

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Roald Dahl & Ken Hughes
Additional Dialogue by: Richard Maibaum
Book: Ian Fleming (credited only in a posessive above the title, i.e: Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

DIRECTION
Second Unit Director: Richard Taylor
Assistant Director: Gus Agosti
Continuity: Angela Martelli

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Christopher Challis
Camera Operator: John Harris
Second Unit Cameraman: Skeets Kelly
Aerial Cameraman: John Jordan
Colour by: Technicolor

EDITING
Editor: John Shirley

MUSIC
Music & Lyrics by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Music Supervised & Conducted by: Irwin Kostal
Music Editor: Robin Clarke

SOUND
Sound Recorded by: John Mitchell and Fred Hynes
Dubbing Editors: Harry Miller and Les Wiggins
Recorded at: Todd-AO

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Colour Costume Design by: Elizabeth Haffenden & Joan Bridge
Wardrobe Supervisor: Jackie Cummins

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John Stears

VISUAL EFFECTS
Matte Effects: Cliff Culley

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designed by: Ken Adam
Art Director: Harry Pottle
Assistant Art Directors: Bob Laing, Michael White, Peter Lamont
Associate Art Director: Jack Stephens

OTHER CREW
Production Associate: Peter Hunt
Potts Inventions by: Rowland Emett
Musical Numbers Staged by: Marc Breaux & Dee Dee Wood

LOCATIONS
Locations: Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany (castle scenes); Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany (castle scenes); Turville Windmill, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Rohrbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Location Manager: Frank Ernst

STUNTS
Stunts: Vic Armstrong (uncredited)

CAST

Dick Van Dyke (Caractacus Potts)
Sally Ann Howes (Truly Scrumptious)
Lionel Jeffries (Grandpa Potts)

Starring
Gert Frobe (Baron Bomburst)
Anna Quayle (Baroness Bomburst)
Benny Hill (toymaker)

Also Starring
James Robertson Justice (Lord Scrumptious)
Robert Helpmann (Child Catcher)

With
Barbara Windsor (blonde)
Davy Kaye (Admiral)
Alexander Dore (first spy)
Bernard Spear (second spy)
Stanley Unwin (Chancellor)
Peter Arne (Captian of Guard)

Introducing
Heather Ripley as Jemima
Adrian Hall as Jeremy

Desmond Llewelyn (Coggins)
Victor Maddern (junkman)
Arthur Mullard (big man)
Ross Parker (chef)
Gerald Campion, Felix Felton, Monti DeLyle (ministers)
Totti Truman Taylor (Duchess)
Larry Taylor (Lieutenant)
Max Bacon (orchestra leader)
Max Wall, John Heawood, Michael Darbyshire, Kenneth Waller, Gerald Taylor, Eddie Davis
(inventors)
Richard Wattis (secretary at sweet factory)
John Baskcomb (chef)

UNCREDITED CAST

Geoffrey Bayldon (Scrumptious's clerk (uncredited))

USA
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists
Laserdisc Distributor: MGM Home Video (ML 102429) (13 January 1993)
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (907032) (10 November 1998)

Finland
Rating: S

Sweden
Rating: 11

USA
Rating: G
MPAA: 21682

1969
Academy Awards (USA)
Best Music, Song (nomination) - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman - for the song Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Golden Globes (USA)
Best Original Score (nomination) - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Best Original Song (nomination) - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman - for the song Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968
December
18: USA - theatrical release
19: Sweden - theatrical release

1969
April
18: Finland - theatrical release

1974
December
26: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1984
October
14: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1986
December
26: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1989
December
29: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1991
December
24: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1993
January
13: USA - laserdisc release (MGM Home Video ML 102429)

December
24: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1997
December
14: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London

1998
November
10: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment 907032)

1999
January
1: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

2000
April
24: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

2002
January
1: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

December
28: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

2004
May
3: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

December
24: UK - television broadcast (on ITV1)

2005
December
28: UK - television broadcast (on ITV1)

2006
April
30: UK - television broadcast (on ITV1)

2007
January
1: UK - television broadcast (on ITV1)

Tschitti Tschitti Bäng Bäng - German title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Radio Flyer (1992)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
I Love Christmas (2001)

PERIODICALS

Monthly Film Bulletin (1969) p.24 (UK)
review, credits

Time 27 December 1968 (USA)
review

BOOKS

Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.146
mini review, credits

Reference Guide to Films on Video p.64
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

book into film, cars, children, flying cars, inventors, ruritania, single fathers, story in story

Last Updated: 19 February, 2010