Caractacus Pott Caractacus Pott Caractacus Potts is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" and its film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to Pott's character. In the original 1964 book, "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car", Pott is a Royal Navy Commander and eccentric inventor who lives with his wife Mimsy and their twin eight-year-old children, Jeremy and Jemima, on their hilltop farm. The filmmakers, including screenwriter Roald Dahl, altered a good deal of the book's details when crafting the 1968 film musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", in which Caractacus is portrayed by Dick
Bang the Drum Slowly Harris writing the screenplay. "Bang the Drum Slowly" was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by "Sports Illustrated" and is the most popular of the four books published in this series, according to the "Los Angeles Times". The last line of the novel, "From here on in I rag nobody", was ranked number 95 on "American Book Review"′s "100 Best Last Lines from Novels" in 2008. Harris played baseball as a boy and often wrote about the game and was known for writing realistically about the sport in his novels. For this novel, Harris chose