When they learn the car is due to be scrapped, they beg Caractacus to save it, so he demonstrates numerous unsuccessful inventions to raise money, including a disastrous attempt to market a musical hard candy ("Toot Sweets") that summons stray dogs instead.
Years later, widowed inventor Caractacus Potts is raising two young children, Jeremy and Jemima (" You Two"), who have become fond of the crashed ex-racer, housed at a local rural English garage. The film opens with a sequence of European Grand Prix races won by the same car over an instrumental version of the main theme (" Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"), concluding with the eponymous car crashing and burning in 1909. The song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was nominated for an Academy Award. Sherman, were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the musical numbers, written by Richard M. John Stears supervised the special effects. The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Barbara Windsor and Gert Fröbe. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car (1964).
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