In the year 1909 in rural England, Jemima and Jeremy, the two young children of widowed unsuccessful inventor
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• Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts
• Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious
• Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa 'Bungy' Potts
• Gert Fröbe as Baron Bomburst… See more

After Ian Fleming had a heart attack in 1961, he decided to write a children's novel based on the stories about a flying car that he used to tell his infant son. He wrote the book in longhand, as his wife had confiscate… See more

United Artists promoted the film with an expensive, extensive advertising campaign, hoping to reproduce the success of The Sound of Music (1965), and it was initially released on a roadshow basis. See more

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang contains about the best two-hour children's movie you could hope for, with a marvelous magical auto and lots of adventure and a nutty old grandpa and a mean Baro… See more

The film's original soundtrack album, as was typical of soundtrack albums for musical films of the period, featured mostly songs with vocals, and few instrumentals. Some of the songs were edited to accommodate the time co… See more