the story was mass produced into a musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang within 1968 with a script by Roald Dahl, and songs per Sherman Brothers. It starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious. It was directed by Ken Hughes. A film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, best known as co-producer of the James Bond series of films, also based on Fleming's novels. A film run deuce hours & twenty-five minutes, making it much longer than most films aimed at children.

The stage version was produced around 2002 starring Michael Ball.

Story
Caractacus Potts is an discoverer world health organization renovates an old car (known when back so as the Paragon Panther) which was antecedently a 3-period Grand Prix winner, but got fallen around to disrepair.

When repairing the car, the Potts personal, along using Truly Scrumptious, (in the original story, Prof Potts is married; Truly Scrumptious is added as a love interest in the picture show & Potts is assumed to become a widowman) obviate to the beach for a picnic. There, Caractacus confabulates upon a story of pirates world health organization come trying to steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which becomes the central plot.

A pirates come headed by Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, who captures Grandfather Potts, will require him when surety & is chased per Potts personal.

Main cast
Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious Gert Fröbe as Baron Bomburst Adrian Hall as Jeremy Heather Ripley as Jemima Benny Hill as the Toymaker Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Robert Helpmann as the Child Catcher Stanley Unwin as The Chancellor

Songs
Memorable songs include "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Truly Scrumptious", "Hushabye Mountain", "Me Ol' Bamboo", "Toot Sweets", "The Roses Of Success," "You Two," "Chu-Chi Face," & "Doll On A Music Box." A stage version added numerous songs, including, "Think Vulgar!", "Come To The Funfair", "Vulgarian National Anthem", "Kiddy-Widdy-Winkes", & "The Bombie Samba."

Theatrical versions
The stage musical based on a book & flick was launched at the London Palladium theatre in 2002 - "Chitty the Musical". Despite the few initial problems by owning a mechanical flight Chitty utilized in the indicate, it has enjoyed a super successful rerun. The Broadway versiin of this show opened on April 28, 2005 at the Hilton Theatre within Future York City.

Trivia
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang took its title from either the pair of celebrated racing cars built and raced by Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop, in the 1920s.

Because of his comment "This will out-disney Disney", Van Dyke was banned from doing Disney productions for many years.

The picture was referenced by United States Senator Orrin Hatch during the June 23, 2004 discussion of the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, comparing illegal file sharing on P2P networks, with stealing confect under a pretense of it existence loose.

Barbara Windsor, most famous for the camp British Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, appears briefly as a married wohuman of the man subjected to Potts' automatic haircut machine.

The location for Vulgaria was Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.

a stage version practically experienced all the songs from either the film, except for "Lovely, Lonely Man."

Dakota Fanning sings a song "Hushabye Mountain" in the 2005 version of the motion picture "War of the Worlds."