A Little Musical Toy Interlude, Plus Movie Trivia!
Prompted by this tweet from my Twitter friend @duchess_rebecca about some of her favorite childhood movies, I found this:
There is some neat trivia involved with this movie as well. See if you can figure out who played the toymaker (the guy dressed in brown who you see at the beginning of the clip). Folks of a certain age will recognize him immediately, I think, especially if they watched a little British TV in the 70s and 80s on their local PBS channel. Also, the movie has at least two ties to James Bond. Know what they are?
To be honest, I think this works as a fair use post, since it’s a small part of the overall movie, but you never know how long it’ll be there to watch. Were I Disney, though, I’d have a YouTube channel full of nothing but great clips from some of their best-loved movies. I think that letting people see the sort of film-making and acting genius that went into a movie like Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang would renew interest (and DVD sales).
And speaking of DVD sales, if you don’t have this movie, shame on you. It’s simply brilliant in every way.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Hollywood, You’ve Been Holding Out On Me…
- Well Played, Mr. Eastwood. You May Get My Ten Bucks Yet!
- I Can’t Quite Quit Michael Bay.
Category: Screen, Big and Little, Stuff I Like
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I don't want to spoil it for your other readers, but the toymaker is indeed instantly recognizable; the Bond villain took a little more effort, at least for me.
I found a third link to Bond, as well.
I believe I know a third Bond link, but I definitely don't know six of them!
And a bit of poking around IMDB brings me to a total of six Bond links, though some are quite trivial.
The most trivial one I found:
The film has a different story than the book; the story for the film was written by Roald Dahl, (author of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, James & the Giant Peach). The first Bond film to not follow the book, You Only Live Twice, also used an original story by Roald Dahl.
Now that is a cool bit of trivia, EricH.
Martin – I always thought it was a Disney production, probably because Dick van Dyke was in it.
It's not a Disney movie. I had always thought it was until I got it on VHS when my oldest son was little. It's MGM.
I miss Benny.