The film was directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. The film stars Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts, Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts, James Robertson Justice as Lord Scrumptious and Robert Helpmann as the Child catcher. The song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was nominated for an Academy Award. The film's script was written by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes and its songs by the Sherman Brothers. It was made into the 1968 British musical film on the novel. It was the last book he wrote and did not live to see it published. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co. Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engine racing cars called "Chitty Bang Bang", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. American edition of the classic childrens book by Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond books and films.
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