Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical) in "The New York Times" noted that the show "naggingly recalls the cold, futurist milieus of movies like 'Modern Times' and 'Metropolis,' in which machines rule the universe" and featured songs that sounded "not unlike what you might hear in sing-along hour in a pre-K class". The production was again directed by Adrian Noble with choreography by Gillian Lynne and starred Raúl Esparza (Caractacus Potts), Erin Dilly (Truly Scrumptious), Philip Bosco (Grandpa Potts), Marc Kudisch (Baron Bomburst), Jan Maxwell (Baroness Bomburst), Ellen Marlow (Jemima Potts), and Henry Hodges (Jeremy Potts). The Broadway production closed on December 31, 2005 after 34
My Wife's Family (1941 film) My Wife's Family (1941 film) My Wife's Family is a 1941 British domestic comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Charles Clapham, John Warwick, David Tomlinson and Patricia Roc. The film is notable as one of five film versions based on the popular stage farce of the same name by Fred Duprez. There was a "previous British version" in 1931; a Swedish version , in 1932; a 1933 Finnish film "Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee"; and a British remake in 1956. A farce concerning the attempts of a naval officer to avoid a visit from his wife's overbearing mother-in-law,