Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Backing Track "Doll on a Music Box & Truly Scrumptious"
Made into Musical 1968


Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was first published in 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London and Random House in New York, and later made into a successful film.

Writer Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s, christened "Chitty Bang Bang".

Plot:

The story was made into a musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968.

The film is completely different from the book. During the opening credits, we see highlights from the illustrious racing career of a car which won just about every race it took part in, until one day, it crashed. The car is now in an old junkyard, and Caractacus Potts' (Dick Van ####) two young children, Jeremy (Adrian Hall), and Jemima (Heather Ripley), like to pretend it is a racing car. But it looks as if those happy days are soon to come to an end, because a thoroughly unpleasant man has offered to buy the car, and the junkyard owner, Coggins (Desmond Llewelyn), cannot refuse his offer. The children say that they will ask their father to buy the car. On the way home they meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who insists on giving them a lift. We discover that the Potts live in an old windmill, where Truly Scrumptious meets the children's eccentric Grandpa Potts (Lionel Jeffries), and their father, Caractacus. She argues with Caractacus about how the children should be in school, and that he should not be allowing them to run wild in the streets. He becomes furious with her for interfering, and telling him how to raise his children, and sends her away with a fly in her ear. After Truly has gone, the family have dinner, reflecting on their happy family life, ("You Two").

Just a short overview.