Quotes
 Truly Scrumptious: Is that all you do Mr. Potts, invent things? Caractacus Pott: You`ll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious.
Child Catcher: There are children here somewhere. I can smell them.
Child Catcher: Come along, kiddie-winkies!
Jemimah: He`s awful!
Jeremy: He`s terrible!
Caracticus Potts: Not only that, he isn`t even nice!
Grandpa: Coggins? He`s so mean he wouldn`t light your pipe if his house was on fire.
Caractacus Pott: Do you think Coggins might do a deal, so much a week?
Grandpa: Coggins? That lives down the road? Sure. He wouldn`t light your pipe if his house was on fire.
Caracticus Potts: How was India, Grandpa?
Grandpa: How was India? I`ll tell you how India was. I got up this morning and I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
Grandpa, Caracticus Potts, Jemimah, Jeremy: How an elephant got in my pajamas, I shall never know.
Grandpa: You`ve heard it before.
[they all laugh]
Lord Scrumptious: Time`s up. Had your chance. Muffed it. Good morning.
Childcatcher: I don`t trust a man who makes toys in a land where children are forbidden.
Caracticus Potts: Maybe my children like running wild in the street. Had that occured to you?
Truly Scrumptious: I`ve never been...
Caractacus Pott: Spoken to like that? Well, maybe it`s about time!
Caracticus Potts: The nerve of that woman! Coming in here and telling me how to raise my children! Do I need someone telling me how to raise my children? Do I? Where is my cardigan?
Jemimah: Under your jacket.
Caracticus Potts: Under-.Yes. Self-righteous busy body. Well, she won`t be bothering us anymore.
Jemimah: But I liked her.
Jeremy: So did I. She was very pretty.
Caracticus Potts: She certainly was. Do you think your father`s a crackpot?
Jeremy: Your cardigan`s inside out.
Caracticus Potts: What? Oh. Do you think your father`s a lunatic? Wasting my time on a lot of silly inventions?
Jemimah: But they aren`t silly! They`re wonderful!
Jeremy: Nobody else can think of them.
Caracticus Potts: That`s right! That is right! Nobody else can think of them.
Truly Scrumptious: [after Potts kisses her] Well, Mr. Potts!
Caractacus Pott: What`s wrong?
Truly Scrumptious: Now you`ll have to marry me!
[they laugh as they head for the car]
Truly Scrumptious: Wh-what are you going to do?
Caractacus Pott: I`m going to carry you.
Truly Scrumptious: Oh dear. Must you?
Caractacus Pott: Well, unless you`d rather ride piggyback.
Truly Scrumptious: What`s your name?
Jemimah: I`m Jemima.
Jeremy: And I`m Jeremy.
Jemimah: What`s yours?
Truly Scrumptious: Truly.
Jemimah: That`s a very pretty name.
Truly Scrumptious: Now, where is your house?
Jeremy: Oh, we don`t live in a house.
Jemimah: We live a castle. On top of a hill.
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs] A castle? I didn`t know there were any castles around here.
Jemimah: Well, it isn`t a castle exactly.
Jeremy: That`s what Daddy calls it. He says King Alfred used to live there hundreds of years ago.
Truly Scrumptious: And does your Daddy know you aren`t in school?
Jemimah: Oh, he won`t mind. He never does.
Jeremy: Anyway, he`s awful busy.
Truly Scrumptious: Is he? Well, he`ll have to find time to see me because I have a few things to say to him.
[the two spies are thrown off the baron`s blimp and into the sea]
Second Spy: What do we do now?
First Spy: Start swimming!
Second Spy: I can`t swim!
First Spy: Then start drowning!
[the First Spy swims away]
Truly Scrumptious: What an unusual car.
Jeremy: Daddy made it.
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs] Oh? And it actually goes?
Jemimah: It`s called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Truly Scrumptious: That`s a curious name for a motorcar.
Jemimah: But that`s the sound it makes. Listen.
Jeremy: I`m so glad you came. It`s much more fun with two grown ups.
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs]
Jemimah: Truly Scrumptious. You know, even if we didn`t know your name, we could have guessed it.
Truly Scrumptious: Oh?
Jemimah: You had to be called something lovely.
Jeremy: Like Yum-Yum!
Jemimah: Or Angel Cake!
Jeremy: Or Toot Sweets!
Jemimah: Yeah, Toot Sweets!
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs] Or Toot Sweets! Oh no!
Caractacus Pott: And after that, Vulgaria became a free country and all the children laughed and played in the sunshine, and they were very, very happy. And Chitty flew high over the mountains back to England, everyone safe and sound, and...
Jemimah: And Daddy and Truly were married.
Jeremy: And lived happily ever after.
Jemimah: Yes!
Truly Scrumptious: Is that how the story ends?
Caractacus Pott: [pauses] It`s getting late. We`d better be getting back.
Grandpa: Nasty smelly things, motorcars!
First Spy: Now then, where are we?
Second Spy: I have here, a map.
First Spy: [seizing the map] I know WHERE we are, stupid!
[throws down the map]
First Spy: We are in England! But when we are in England, what do we do?
Second Spy: We play cricket.
First Spy: We play cric- no! We dress like Englishmen!
First Spy, Second Spy: A-ha!
First Spy: [dressed in an outfit that the English wore in India] Remarkable weather we are having for this time of year, do you not think so, Cuthbert?
Second Spy: [dressed in the same outfit] Indubita-ba-bly, Basil.
Grandpa: [reading a book out loud] And the big brown bear came lolloping over the mountain. `No, no!` the princess cried.
Caractacus Pott: Truly! I`m sorry about the children. I hope they didn`t embarrass you.
Truly Scrumptious: In what way?
Caractacus Pott: Why, that silly joke about us getting married. Well, you know how kids are.
Truly Scrumptious: Yes, I understand.
Caractacus Pott: Wel, I don`t think they realize how ridiculous that would be.
Truly Scrumptious: Ridiculous?
Caractacus Pott: Well, yes. Well, the factory, and your father and all. It`s a different world, Truly.
Truly Scrumptious: You know, if I said something like that, you`d call me a snob.
Caractacus Pott: What? I didn`t mean sn...
Truly Scrumptious: Goodbye!
Jeremy: Please, Mr. Coggins! You can`t sell our lovely car to that nasty man!
Child Catcher: [threatening the Toymaker] The Baroness will have your teeth for a necklace, and your eyes for earrings.
First Spy: Calacatacatus Potts... Inventor!
Baron Bomburst: [very frustrated] Dolls! Dolls! I have hundreds of dolls!
Toymaker: But this is not just an ordinary doll, Your Excellency.
[winds the music box. scooting away]
Toymaker: See?
Baron Bomburst: [talking over a comical-looking gramophone-style "morning-glory horn" loudspeaker that he lowers down to Grandpa Potts on a long scissor-link extension arm] Good morning. I hope you had a pleasant journey. In a few minutes we will be landing in Vulgaria.
Grandpa: Where?
Baron Bomburst: Vul-GARE-ee-ah. Please fasten your seatbelt, and noooo smoking. Thank you!
[starts to raise the speaker back up again]
Grandpa: Thank YOU.
Baron Bomburst: [obligingly lowering the loudspeaker again] You are WELcome!
Trivia
Dick Van Dyke`s character was named for Caractacus, the last independent ruler of England before the Roman conquest of southern England.
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# Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke`s father, despite the fact that Dick Van Dyke is actually seven months older than Jeffries.
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# Phil Collins claims he was one of the children storming the castle at the end of the film but was edited out because of a rather large and unsightly bandage on his head that was covering a cyst.
The first non-Disney film to feature songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
In addition to several partial mock-ups of the car used for the purposes of filming, one real, custom-built Chitty Chitty Bang Bang automobile was constructed for the film. It survives today, privately owned, and often appears at special events. The car is street-legal and is registered as a motor vehicle in the U.K. with the same license plate seen in the film (GEN 11).
Dick Van Dyke had appeared in several Disney movies prior to this. In a press release he quipped, "This will out-Disney Disney."
The license number for Truly`s car, CUB 1, is a reference to Albert R. Broccoli`s nickname, Cubby.
Baron Bomburst`s castle is Neuschwanstein, built between 1869 and 1886 for the Bavarian King Ludwig II, "The Mad King of Bavaria". This castle is also famously known as the model for the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, which was the symbol of the Disney Television programs "Disneyland" (1954), _Walt Disney Presents (1958) (TV)_ and Walt Disney`s Wonderful World of Color (1962) (TV)_.
The colors of the floating Chitty - purple, green, and white - were the colors of the women`s suffrage movement of that time.
Has the distinction of being the only non-James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli after the Bond series began. This is because the novel on which the movie is based was written by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.
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# The original book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was written by the creator of "James Bond", Ian Fleming. In "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" two actors from "James Bond" films appear: Gert Fröbe and Desmond Llewelyn.
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# The film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" has a different story than the original book by Ian Fleming. The story used in the film was created by author Roald Dahl, who is best known for the children`s books James and the Giant Peach (1996) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Ironically, the first James Bond film not to follow the original book was You Only Live Twice (1967), which also used an original story by Dahl.
Voted number 14 in Channel 4`s (UK) "Greatest Family Films".
Helpmann`s character has often been named as one of the scariest characters ever to be brought on screen. Not only did it make it into Empire magazine, but also onto Channel 4`s 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The Child Catcher was the inspiration for Marilyn Manson`s "Smells Like Children" EP. The title and cover art, as well as Manson`s outfit and appearance during the album, reference the Robert Helpmann character.
Director Ken Hughes reportedly hated the finished film.
Heather Ripley recalled that she did not realize until much later that Dick Van Dyke was an alcoholic when the film was made.
Seven different Chitties were built: a worn-out one, a restored one, one for the flying scenes, one for the water scenes and three partial models for various other scenes.
The musical number `Toot Sweets` took three weeks to film and involved 38 dancers, 40 singers, 85 musicians and 100 dogs.
The scenes in and around Baron Bomburst`s castle in Vulgaria were shot on location at King Ludwig II`s Castle Neuschwanstein, located at the foot of the Alps on the Bavarian-Austrian border.
When the production filmed in the Bavarian town of Rothenberg on the Tauber, some locals were used. Senior citizens were cast as the townspeople of Vulgaria, while the local university`s riding teams played the Vulgarian soldiers.
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