Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
 
 
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming’s 1964 novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car. The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann and Gert Fröbe. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, the regular co-producer of the James Bond series of films (also based on Ian Fleming novels). The song “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was nominated for an Academy Award.  (More from Wikipedia)
As taken from the John Barge liner notes about the Gynecologists: “The story begins in a small unnamed redneck town south of Indianapolis where Tommy [Afterbirth] grew up. Tommy’s gateway drug to punk rock was his father’s drive-in movie theater, which, along with such prosaic family fare like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, thrilled the local yahoos with garish horror films and cheap psychedelic biker flicks during the sixties. From this Tommy learned to love the seedy underbelly of pop culture with a fixation that bordered on compulsive.”
 
(June 2016)
Last edited: March 22, 2021