#Chitty chitty bang bang

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DICK VAN DYKE — Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) dir. Ken Hughes

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CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) dir. ken hughes

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CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, co-written by Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes, starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes, with songs by Sherman and Sherman, celebrated its Royal premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square theater, London #OnThisDay in 1968.

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I'm watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang right now and I have to say that the Scrungly entrants in this tournament are just a selection of prime candidates in a movie where, I put it to you, almost Every SINGLE CHARACTER is scrungly.

The whole Potts family is Scrungly

Mister Coggins (Desmond Llewellyn)? Scrungly

The nasty junkman (Victor Maddern)? Scrungly

The Baronness (INCOMPARABLE Scrungless Anna Quayle)? Scrungly

Even Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson Justice) AND his clerk, Phillips (Richard Wattis)

as a chitty chitty bang bang slut I agree

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I'm so distraught that I made a meme about it

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Nothing is better than watching old movies by yourself at night, wearing your favorite pajamas, softest socks, with the best blanket and a warm bowl of popcorn.

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Actor and singer Dick Van Dyke

Happy 99th Birthday!

Born December 13, 1925

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Truly Scrumptious is my favourite tsundere~❤️

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lives were changed (mine aged 4)

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Dick van Dyke as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968

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1969 Truly Scrumptious Liddle Kiddle "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" dolls source Liddle Kiddles Identification & Value Guide by Paris Langford photos by Kent Hardouin

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Mamma Mia:

It seems like everyone is having a blast and doing their best. Making music together and doing achievable choreography in a group is basically a drug, and they're all high on it. Both the young and older sets of 3 best girl friends are unfailingly supportive of each other. The Dancing Queen sequence makes me cry and i can't even really wrap words around why. They're living a life where the day before her wedding, the main character has a swimsuit on under her clothes and can just jump in the ocean and sail around on a boat instead of setting stuff up. It's a fever dream of sparkly water and sparkly costumes and i love it.

Chitty:

The Bombursts are so fun, we need more songs about villain couples trying to murder each other

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Sally Ann Howes and Dick Van Dyke before they started filming CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968), directed by Ken Hughes

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Propaganda

Dick Van Dyke (Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Mary Poppins)—he can sing! he can dance! everytime i watch chitty-chitty bang-bang i fall in love with him all over again! we love a funny guy. vote this guy.

George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's)—no propaganda submitted

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[editor's note: this one ended too early by accident so here it is again]

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Some friends and I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and I had forgotten how absolutely BONKERS and DELIGHTFUL this movie is.

It's an old-school Big Movie Musical adapted from a book by Ian Flemming - yes, THAT one, the James Bond author - and the first draft of the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl. It was turned into a Dick Van Dyke vehicle to follow on the success of Mary Poppins, and when Julie Andrews turned them down they hired someone who had also played the same Broadway roles as Andrews.

The whole movie is extremely silly and lighthearted, funny without being crass, and the songs are almost all really good and WILL get stuck in your head.

The remaster currently available on Amazon is surprisingly good quality, too. Aside from making a few green-screen scenes look even worse, overall it looks really sharp without looking cheap or weirdly colored.

Seriously, if you just want to turn your brain off and have a fun 2.5 hours, ideally with some friends, this is a great time.