Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Theatrical Release Date:

02/23/1996

DVD Release Date:

11/10/1998

Run Time:

142min.

Starring:

Dick Van Dyke , Sally Ann Howes , Lionel Jeffries , Gert Fröbe , Anna Quayle

Director(s):

Ken Hughes

MPAA Rating:

Genre(s):

Foreign

Plot: One of the stars of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film's composer and lyricist, Richard M.Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, in this big budget and bloodless children's fantasy musical, based on the children's book by ... Read More

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