Robert Helper, "The Childcatcher", almost suffered a horrible accident during filming. His wagon overturned, and he could have fallen to terrible injuries, but his training as a ballet dancer allowed him to make a nice leap and land on his feet. He was a well trained and expert ballet dancer.

I was born in 1954. We were supposed to have flying cars by the 21st century. I'm still disapointed.

@scottmessenger8639

2 ай бұрын

Yes, I am a little younger born in 62 but I thought by the 2000s life would be much cooler than it is now!

@victoriafelix5932

Ай бұрын

Not just any car, but half-car... half-boat... half-plane... car-boat-plane! I'm super-serial about this!

This movie was shown annually on TV when I was growing up in the early/mid 70s. The Chuchi Face scene was always one of my favorites because I thought it was hilarious. That's how kids saw it.

There are no pirates in this film; the people on the boat are the Baron Bomburst and his loyal subjects.

@Tygerhart

2 ай бұрын

The boat is a "Pirate Yacht". You're welcome.

@garrettbays6942

2 ай бұрын

@Tygerhart Listen again. He says "private yacht".

The cinematography in this film was truly phantasmagorical.

The fun is that it was a child's story written by a former spy and adventure writer.

@HuntingViolets

2 ай бұрын

Truly Scrumptious would not be out of place as a Bond girl name.

So glad I wasn't the only one who hated the child catcher, and who had some nightmares of him.

My favorite song was the "clockwork doll" song.

@Tygerhart

2 ай бұрын

"Doll on a Music Box". I love that duet too.

@danweckerly4204

Ай бұрын

@@Tygerhart One of the true highlights in an otherwise (to me, at least) dreary film.

The castle used is actually the real castle of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, in southern Germany. This castle was built in the 1800s as kind of a whimsical retreat by "Mad King" Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was long after such castles had any military usefulness and was just sort of an exercise in romanticist whimsey. Ludwig was later deposed as people considered this and other similar projects to be just wasteful follies and signs of his madness.

@bearcatXF

2 ай бұрын

The amount of tourism money that Neuschwanstein has raked in for Bavaria paid for the castle many times over ultimately proving Ludwig wasn't so "mad".

@DamonNomad82

Ай бұрын

@@bearcatXF That's true! I visited Neuschwanstein Castle in 2004 and bought a book about its history. In the book, the author laments the fact that Ludwig didn't reign longer "or else we might have one or two more lucrative King Ludwig castles in Bavaria today"!

@bearcatXF

Ай бұрын

@@DamonNomad82 I was near there in the 90's. My priority was getting to the top of the Zugspitze that day and crawling over to the cross - which I did. Then I barely made the last gondola ride down. Back in the valley I thought about trying to visit the castle... I looked at it and thought "I can't take any more crowds", ate the roast beef sammich my friends in La Forêt Noire had packed for me at the side of the road and called it a day.

Just found your channel and I like your style so far! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Oddly enough, watching the movie as a kid, the Child Catcher didn't scare me as much as the burly customer that Potts attempted to give a haircut with his "haircutting machine" invention, only to have the invention fail miserably (hence Potts having to hide from him, leading to the "Me Ol' Bamboo" dance number). I don't know if it was the freaky mess the "invention" made of the guy's hair, or what, but I found him scary. When I re-watched the movie as an adult, decades after last watching it as a kid, it hit very differently. The disgruntled haircut customer at the fair was funny instead of scary, the Child Catcher was "Stranger Danger: the Movie", and in the intervening years I had actually been to Neuschwanstein Castle and the village of Rothenburg ab der Tauber, which were used in the movie as the locations for the Baron's Castle and its adjoining village.

Fun fact...both "Grease" and "Kim Possible" did a take on the ending, with the two "heroes" driving off with the car leaving the ground.

It's the Australian dancer/actor Sir Robert Helpmann, lead dancer of the Sadlers Wells and English National Ballet who used his ballet skills in straight acting roles. We kids were made of sterner stuff back then. It's Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) and not really a children's story. It was always a PGR film. As was normal back then Chitty was referred to as she, it's in the song. Enjoyed your video.

Caracticus Potts = Crack Pott. All songs composed by the Sherman Brothers, who also wrote the songs for Mary Poppins and The Gnome Mobile.

Benny Hill was the toymaker in this movie?!?! It's unfortunate that you didn't even recognize him!!

The woman's name is "Truly Scrumptious?" Was this written by Ian Fleming or something?

@AngryTheatreMaker

2 ай бұрын

Yes, it was.

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" would be a good name for a laxative. So would "Toot Sweets."

Excellent review of a brilliant movie. Well done. I had a Corgi model of the car, and the wings would come out if you pressed the brake lever. Very cool toy. Also, if you don't mind me saying so, Audrey, you have beautiful knees.

It's a lovely film

Baron Bomburst was portrayed by Gerd Frobe, who also portrayed Goldfinger in the famous Bond movie.

OH MY!! You could totally cosplay a perfect Truly scrumptious , does any one else see that? This movie is my childhood it was amazing and it’s stuck with me ever since chitty will always be my fave movie car , probably one of the most underated famous movie cars in film history

This channel needs more followers and views just based on this one video

10:28 That's not a cow. Such a fun movie. I was old enough to see this in theaters when it came out. Such memories. And yes, the Child Catcher was scary for kids.

28:10 That mashup of the Child Catcher with Tiny Tim music fit too well and I hate it XD

I smile because you used the Tiny Tim version of "Tip Toe Through the Tulips".

The child catcher TERRIFIED me as a kid

28:16 "And then he'll snatch me up with his triple axel, and then he'll triple axel his way back to his carriage" 😭💀😅 As a ballet dancer and figure skating fan who was also emotionally scarred by this movie as a kid, this took me out completely LMAO

So Desmond Llewelyn is not the only Bond actor Gert Fröbe played Goldfinger. In American Dad episode "Black Mystery Month" Stan tells Steve "If a child gets less than 8 hours of sleep their boy glands emit a pleasant berry scent that attracts pedophiles”

Well done , Love this film !

People have noted that this film is a bit much for kids since it was brand-new. I've read a review from when the film premiered in which the reviewer mentioned that within the first 5-10 minutes of the movie we witness a near-accident (twice) where a little girl (and dog) and then two young children are almost run down by a car. Dark stuff indeed. I first saw this as a young kid on television, probably the TV premiere, in the early 1970's. It was the big scary guy with the bad haircut that really frightened me. Now I must watch it about once a year. It's the score by the Sherman Brothers that I love best about it.

The Child Catcher remains me of Pennywise

In the grand scheme of things, aren't we all chasing the outhouse in the sky?

@garrettbays6942

2 ай бұрын

It's a hut, not an outhouse. Frankly, I don't know what he sits on in there; you never see a chair during the Posh number.

And written by the same Ian Fleming who wrote the James Bond books.

13:40 Bulgaria? The country in the movie was called Vulgaria.

I loved this movie as a child. I doubt that as an adult I would revisit watching it again, but to me at the time it was just magical. With a child's eyes I don't think I found the story disturbing at all as you knew everything would be alright in the end as with any fairytale.

I find most movies today 100% more disturbing than anything seen in CCBB. It's fun musical romp, Well, yeah, the child catcher is "scary" he is a villain, he is suppose to be. Mission accomplished.

Pirates? WOODEN BARQUE THROUGH THE ENDLESS SEA TONS OF RUM, BRING THE BOOZE TO ME WE'RE ON A SHIP, TO THE WINDS WE BOW ALL RENEGADES WE'LL OVERTHROW - Storm Seeker.

It’s Benny Hill !

Benny Hill is the Toymaker. That's Benny Hill.

Well, that answers it, I just looked it up and Robert Helpmann who played the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was in Powell and Pressburger film The Tales of Hoffmann.

Now you're a Robert Helpmann fan, see his best film, The Red Shoes! Liked your reaction.

@garrettbays6942

2 ай бұрын

He is especially creepy in Powell and Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

I noticed somthing about the ending when Truly and Mr Potts thats different. Before the end credits happened when Mr Potts and Truly fly off, I noticed that there were wings on it this time. In the vhs version I had growing up, there were no wings in that same ending scene

I hated that movie as a kid. It creeped me out. I never showed it to my son. I hope no one ever shows it to their children.

Yeah, if only bad people were always as obvious as the Childcatcher.

That one car that can go 120mph… They basically built the 1950s equivalent of an F1 car. FOR A MUSICAL WHAT THE FUCK

The car's name was not Chitty. At least not until AFTER the children's father finds a way to buy it, fixes it up, and when they are trying to come up with a name for the car, the car itself tells them by the sounds it makes. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I don't know why you are saying this is truly disturbing. I saw this when it came out, and I was 5 years old. I was 3 when the Sound of Music came out. I was sufficiently scared for both movies (the Nazis were scary in the Sound of Music), but not terribly scared and I wasn't disturbed by it nor did I have nightmares. I could see how absurd everyone was and I knew it was a comedy - even at 5 years old. Probably because I was the youngest of four and my siblings weren't wetting their pants or screaming. I also loved W2001: a Space Odyssey when I was 5 years old. Although it seemed a little long and boring,, one would assume it was over my head - it would have been, but somehow I understood symbolism, so when it was explained to me, I understood it. My favorite part was watching the woman walking in space and entering a room upside down, but once in the room, she was right-side up. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I was not aware how cold, rude, and arrogant Mary Poppins was until I was older, thought. The movie that made me cry was Bambi, when Bambi's Mother is killed. But, my favorite character in Bambi wasn't Bambi, it was Thumper. Pinocchio is pretty scary and scandalous for a kid's movie.

Children actually do have a distinct smell, HOWEVER. .. "i smell children" is probably the creepiest thing that any person could say. The first time i heard it was probably in The Witches and then later in Hocus Pocus, but it was always kinda funny back then. KINDA. The first time the quote actually frightened me was when i saw a Marilyn Manson album in a record store in the late 90s titled "Smells Like Children". Just evil and menacing for no reason. Having said all that, i have never been disturbed by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. If anything, i was mostly bored. 😆

You buried the Benny Hill appearance 😮😮😮

If I told you you loved your creation, 007, more than me and you nicknamed me 003 1/2. :(

Baron BomBAST. Not burst. Bombast is "high-sounding language with little meaning used to impress people," according to the Oxford Dictionary. Also the fantasy country is Vulgaria, a portmanteau, presumably, of /vulgar/ and /Bulgaria/. Last, DVD's character name is Caractacus Potts (ka-RACK-tick-us), a hint at him being a crack-pot. That said, I've never been a real fan of this movie, even as a kid. The goal -- to mimic the fantasy (and box-office power) of "Mary Poppins" -- is never even remotely reached. The running time is WAY too long; the kids are shrill; the focus of the movie is an inanimate object, which is not all that engaging; the child-catcher looks like he landed in Vulgaria from a much more adult, much more terrifying movie; the baron's sidekick villains are godawful Laurel/Hardy clones; the SPFX are clunky; and the screenplay erases the prior x number of minutes by backtracking that it was all a story. Maybe a remake is in order, tightening all this up for a new audience? Or .. Maybe not.

What’s with the old fashioned British names being Greek

Talks about sacrifice with the children of in rituals like Wonka, engulf with cuteness, satanic movie.

Wasn't "Truly Disturbing" the cousin of Truly Scrumptious?

@DamonNomad82

Ай бұрын

If the Child Catcher had a sister, "Truly Disturbing" would be the perfect name for her...

Vulgaria. Yes...I got it...even when I was just 9 years old.

I wanted to have a family with you ;)

The book is better

@forrestdupre87

2 ай бұрын

@@nager1997 yes it was actually written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. The book is a lot different from the movie however. The Child catcher wasn’t in it.

@CeridwenKeeley

2 ай бұрын

The book has the brownies recipe in the back.

ST JOHN 3:16! ❤ JESUS IS RETURNING SOON! HALLELUJAH! ❤️✝️❤️

How the child catcher looked in the movie should of been in horror movies.

@DamonNomad82

Ай бұрын

He was probably the inspiration for a few horror movie characters, if filmmakers saw this movie as kids.