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Gert Fröbe and Desmond Llewelyn are in the film both of whom were in "Goldfinger" (1964). The first Bond novels were written by Ian Fleming who also wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." See more...

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - 37 mistakes

starring Dick Van Dyke (add more)

Genres: Family, Comedy, Musical, Fantasy

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Continuity: Dick Van Dyke is trying to show his new whistle sweet to Mr Scrumptious, the sweet factory owner. His dog is tied up to a bicycle outside. When his dog hears the whistle he knocks over the bicycle whilst trying to get free and runs up the steps. In the immediate shot following the bicycle is standing up again.

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Continuity: During the "My little choochy face" song, the Baron's wife is seen dancing in shoes with a one inch heel. Prior to being dropped down a hatch she can be clearly seen wearing flat shoes. She subsequently appears through a side door wearing the heeled shoes.

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Factual error: When Chitty Chitty Bang Bang arrives at the Potts' house, Grandpa Potts is sitting in a deckchair reading a very modern colour edition of National Geographic magazine.

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Revealing: When Caractacus smashes the tower of cups, the last one is obviously glued onto the saucer.

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Revealing: When the Vulgarian boat is chasing Chitty in the sea, Truly, Jeremy and Jemima are obviously dummies in the far shots because you can see them flopping about in the car.

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Visible crew/equipment: Right when the doors open, you can see the pulley that's pulling the far door open.

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Continuity: When they are driving down the road the man driving isn't turning the wheel, but the background shows a windy road.

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Factual error: In the scene where the spies are hanging the false backdrop off the bridge, you can see that the railway lines they cross have concrete sleepers, which is out of period (railway lines at this time would have had wooden sleepers).

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Plot hole: During the drive home back from the beach the first time while they are being chased by the spies, Mr. Potts drops off Truly at home where they say their goodbyes and she sings the song Lovely Lonely Man. The very next scene she is back in the car with Mr. Potts and the kids driving to his house just in time to see grandpa being carried away.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Chitty Chitty Bang Bang comes into the castle to rescue the family, the shot shows the car turning, but a pivot wheel under the car can be seen, and the actual tire while turning, does not match the radius of the turn nor the speed at which it should be rolling.

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Visible crew/equipment: As the Baroness is falling into the lake, there is a shot of her about 10m above it. The surface water looks like it is being blown by a helicopter. As soon as she is in the water, the lake is calm again.

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Continuity: In the "Chitty on the water" scene, when Chitty has deployed a float her wheels become horizontal. In the far way shots, the wheels aren't moving. In the close up shots done in the studio, the horizontal wheels are spinning and there is no visible raft beneath the boat.

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Revealing: In most of the shots where they are flying over Vulgaria, if you look closely you can see their shadows on the screen behind them.

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Revealing: When Chitty crashes at the car race, it jumps over a small burm and a line of fire blows up in front of it before the car hits it's mark.

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Revealing: During the "Toot Sweets" number in the factory, the cart with the candy trays move freely, however later on when they start spinning on them in circles (right after Jeremy gives Mr. Scrumptious another sweet) you can see each one is spinning due to a pole holding it. You can see it just under the bottom trays.

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Continuity: Chitty's front wheels are badly damaged in the crash, but are near perfect when Caractacus brings the car home.

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Other: In the scene when you hear Edison (the dog) blowing on the 'Toot Sweet', in the following shots his mouth is open and you can see him start to eat it so he is evidently not blowing it. Yet you can still hear the sound.

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Revealing: In the scene where Chitty is taking off from the castle, Caracticus looks down at the toymaker and Peter and says, "Bye bye". If you look closely, right in front of them, a boy runs across holding a stick he stole from one of the cavalrymen. He is waving it around and you can tell it's fake because it flops around like rubber.

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Revealing: During the "Grow the Roses" number, there are several shots of the wheels of the Baronial car, looking normal. In the final shot of the scene (when the car falls apart) square supports disappearing into the floor have suddenly appeared on the axles, as part of the mechanism to support the car when the wheels fall off.

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Continuity: In the scene where the Baroness is shot from the back seat of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, she is shown drifting through the air with her skirt serving as a parachute. In one view of her, there is a short white crinoline under her dress, in all other views there is none.

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