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). John Stears supervised the special effects. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the
Sally Ann Howes Goulet, Peter Falk, and some of her Broadway cast; it won six Emmy Awards. In 1967, Howes began the long shooting schedule for what would become a classic children's film, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). She starred as Truly Scrumptious, the beautiful aristocratic daughter of a confectionery magnate. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" did not, however, restart her film career or launch a career for her in episodic television despite several guest-starring roles in "", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "Branigan", and "The Men From Shiloh". Even the pilot "Prudence and the Chief", which was a spoof on "The King and I", did