1968 British-American musical-fantasy film by Ken Hughes
This article is about the 1968 film. For other uses, see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (disambiguation).
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Ken Hughes
Screenplay by
Roald Dahl
Ken Hughes
Additional dialogue by
Richard Maibaum
Based on
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming
Produced by
Albert R. Broccoli
Starring
Dick Van Dyke
Sally Ann Howes
Lionel Jeffries
Gert Fröbe
Anna Quayle
Benny Hill
James Robertson Justice
Robert Helpmann
Cinematography
Christopher Challis
Edited by
John Shirley
Music by
Songs:
Richard M. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman
Background Score:
Irwin Kostal
Production companies
Warfield Productions
Dramatic Features
Distributed by
United Artists
Release dates
16 December 1968 (1968-12-16) (London premiere)
17 December 1968 (1968-12-17) (UK)
18 December 1968 (1968-12-18) (US)
Running time
145 minutes[1]
Countries
United Kingdom[2]
United States[2]
Language
English
Budget
$10 million[3] or $12 million[4]
Box office
$7.5 million (rentals)[5]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall. The film is based on the 1964 children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming, with a screenplay co-written by Hughes and Roald Dahl.
Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music for the film based on songs written by the Sherman Brothers, Richard and Robert, and the musical numbers were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. At the 41st Academy Awards, the film's title song was nominated for Best Song – Original for the Picture.[6]
^"CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 18 October 1968. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
^ ab"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1969)". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
^"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)". FlickFacts. Archived from the original on 18 August 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
^Advertising: First Bang of a Big Bang Bang
By PHILIP H. DOUGHERTY. The New York Times 30 April 1968: 75.
^"Big Rental Films of 1969". Variety. Penske Business Media. 7 January 1970. p. 15. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
^"About Ian Fleming". Ian Fleming Centenary. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
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