Child Catcher was voted "the scariest villain in children's books", despite not actually featuring in the original book. He was created for the film by co-screenwriter Roald Dahl, who specialized in creating colorful villains in his books. In 2008, "Entertainment Weekly" called Helpmann's depiction of the Child Catcher one of the "50 Most Vile Movie Villains." Child Catcher The Child Catcher is a character in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and in the later stage musical adaptation. The character did not appear in the original Ian Fleming book. The Child Catcher is employed by Baron Bomburst and Baroness Bomburst to snatch
Baron Munchausen popular and much-quoted catchphrase, and by early 1933 "The Jack Pearl Show" was the second most popular series on American radio (after Eddie Cantor's program). Pearl attempted to adapt his portrayal to film in "Meet the Baron" in 1933, playing a modern character mistaken for the Baron, but the film was not a success. Pearl's popularity gradually declined between 1933 and 1937, though he attempted to revive the Baron character several times before ending his last radio series in 1951. For a 1972 Caedmon Records recording of some of the stories, Peter Ustinov voiced the Baron. A review in "The