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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - 6 trivia entries

starring Dick Van Dyke (add more)

Genres: Family, Comedy, Musical, Fantasy

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Julie Andrews was the actress chosen to play the part of Truly Scrumptious. However, Ms. Andrews had grown tired of being typecasted in playing the same type roles, ie, Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. She turned down the part.

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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."

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The License plate on Ms. Scrumptious' car is CUB 1, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli was the producer of the film....

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The car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was based on the aero-engined race cars of the very early twentieth century. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was the name of a series of three racing cars built and owned by Count Zborowski, between 1921 and 1926. The first had a Mercedes chassis with a twenty three litre, six cylinder Maybach engine which reached 100.75mph at Brooklands. The second had an early Mercedes chassis and an 18.8 litre Benz BZ series aero-engine and competed in Sahara desert races. The third had a 160 horse power Mercedes single overhead camshaft six cylinder aero engine and was tuned to produce 180 horse power, and lapped Brooklands at 112.68mph. There was a fourth version, known as the "Higham Special" was the largest capacity (27 litres) racing car ever to run at Brooklands. Its gearbox and chain-drive (also easily seen in the movie car) from a pre-war Blitzen Benz and it had a 450 horse power V12 Liberty aero engine. It set a speed record in 1926 of 170.02mph. Ironically, the count was killed driving a small 2 liter engine capacity car in 1924.

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When the soldiers bring the car to the castle, there is a black horse with the solider that runs onto the cobblestones and loses its footing, causing its back end to go down.

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Lionel Jeffries who plays Grandpa Potts, is actually younger in real life, by six months, than Dick Van Dyke, who plays his son in the film.

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