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When you are trapped in the only room in the house with A/C and a TV during a heat wave, you tend to do a lot of channel surfing.
So, this popped up on TCM. I watched it for the credits to see if one of the Bond directors directed the picture since it was made by Cubby Broccoli and EON pictures. It was not. But they did seem to use the bond stages for their really big sets like the candy factory.
I realized for the first time that Dick Van Dyke's name in the film is Caraccatus Potts. This sounds a lot like crack pot. Jokes!
I still hate the children in the film and Truly Scrumptious.
And Benny Hill is in the film.
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I've seen this film so many times. It was a family fav when T was growing up.
I used to call CCBB the missing Bond film. Not only was it Broccoli, Ian Fleming wrote the original book (Roald Dahl adapted it for screen), Desmond Llewelyn plays Coggins, the previous owner of CCBB and the longest-running Q, and Gert Frobe plays villain Baron Bombast - he's best known as Auric Goldfinger. Of course, the book is much different than the film, largely due to Dahl's influence I'd guess.
I will defend Sally Ann Howes for her scrumptiousness, although her song, Lovely Man, in this film must be fast-forwarded over. Same with Gert's Chu-chi Face. Me Ol' Bamboo is a Sherman & Sherman masterpiece. And I luv Posh. I sometimes hum the chorus when I'm feeling rich (which is almost never). I've often thought Hushabye Mountain might make a good talkdown song, but it doesn't hold a candle to that other Sherman & Sherman masterpiece, Stay Awake, from Mary Poppins.
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I liked the Child Catcher. I wish that was a real and official thing.
(Please spare me the Trump comments, I know, I know).
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(07-09-2018, 11:04 PM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: I liked the Child Catcher. I wish that was a real and official thing.
(Please spare me the Trump comments, I know, I know).
It is totally possible not to like kids and still be disgusted/horrified at kiddie concentration camps.
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How could I forget this? Sally Ann Howes FTW!
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I was avoiding the heat and also watched this. I had forgotten most of it. (I saw it in the theater when it first came out. It may have been the first movie I saw in a theater, or maybe Jungle Book was.) I'm a little surprised no one has remade it.
Christina thought that the costumes and makeup in the Baron's party scene was probably an influence on the rich people in Hunger Games. The sets and the cars are the best part of the movie.
I think Hushabye Mountain is a beautiful song. I'm a little surprised no jazz instrumentalists have picked it up as a ballad number. I also like the "Grow the Roses" song, and like Gene very much like The Old Bamboo and Posh. Lionel Jeffries was great, and he was also good as Cavor in The First Men in the Moon.
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Totally with you on Jeffries. He's really my fav character in this. And Grow the Roses is a great tune too. I went through a heavy Sherman & Sherman phase when Tara was in elementary. Those guys were amazing composers.
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(07-09-2018, 09:01 AM)Greg Wrote: I still hate the children in the film and Truly Scrumptious.
Still defending my gal Sally Ann Howe. She was part of the IMF. She even made out with Spock. It was a ruse of course. But she wasn't caught or killed, so the secretary didn't have to disavow anything.
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(07-11-2018, 10:34 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: She even made out with Spock.
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I love "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
I think it ignited my love for weird cars.
One of my earliest memories is my parents buying me the Corgi version of the car at The Nut Tree toy store in Vacaville. I loved that car and brought it to Show-and-Tell at school. It was stolen, and I was heartbroken.
Corgi reissued it during the 1989 West-End musical revival and I bought it in England (on our honeymoon). I still love it. The idea of a car that can fly and float still entrances me.
I had the soundtrack on LP as a kid (with "Oliver" on the other side).
Anyway my interest in cars, music, technology, steampunk etc. can be traced to CCBB
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Was just thinking about it, and I am pretty sure it was the first movie I saw in a theater. I vividly remember being really scared when they were about to crash into the iceberg and it went to intermission. (And of course there was some music for intermission.)
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