<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7.5 million (rentals) </Td> </Tr> <P> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel Chitty - Chitty - Bang - Bang: The Magical Car . The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann and Gert Fröbe . </P> <P> The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, the regular co-producer of the James Bond series of films (also based on Ian Fleming novels). John Stears supervised the special effects . Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the musical numbers, written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman of Mary Poppins, were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood . The song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was nominated for an Academy Award . </P> <P> The story opens with a montage of European Grand Prix races in which one particular car appears to win every race it runs in from 1907 through 1908 . However, in its final 1909 race, the car crashes and catches fire, ending its racing career . The car eventually ends up in an old garage in rural England, where two children, Jeremy and Jemima Potts, have grown fond of it . However, a man in the junkyard intends to buy the car from the garage owner, Mr. Coggins, for scrap . The children, who live with their father Caractacus Potts, an eccentric inventor, and the family's equally peculiar grandfather, implore their father to buy the car, but Caractacus cannot afford it . While playing truant from school, they meet Truly Scrumptious, a beautiful upper - class woman with her own motor car, who brings them home to report their truancy to their father . After she leaves, Caractacus promises the children that he will save the car, but is taken aback at the cost he has committed himself to . He looks for ways to raise money to avoid letting them down . </P>

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