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Film night: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

8th September 2016, posted in

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Roald Dahl’s adaptation of Ian Fleming’s ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ is coming to The Foxton Centre mini cinema tomorrow, Friday 9th September, 6 pm – 8.45 pm. £4 ticket fee on the door or FREE for Foxton folk!

This film is a part of British Film Institute’s #RoaldDahlonFilm season with Film Hub Wales.

Briefly about the film:

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, Lionel Jeffries,James Robertson Justice and Robert Helpmann as the main antagonist, the evil Child-catcher.

The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli (co-producer of the James Bond series of films, also based on Fleming’s novels).

The Plot:

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.

Rated:  e5f38059c4fee3cccbb9441a30097bc9  Suitable for all audiences.

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