Creator of the audio drama Enter The House Between. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Corgi Edition)
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award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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I'm looking forward to your Chitty Chitty Bang Bang retrospective. This was the first movie I ever asked my parents to take me to. I was probably 5 or 6 when it came out. It remains a favorite film to this day.
ReplyDeleteThe James Bond connections are very interesting...the original book was written by Ian Fleming, the movie was produced by Albert Brocolli, one of the stars was Gert Frobe, Goldfinger himself, and the sets were designed by Ken Adams. Add to that Dick Van Dyke, Benny Hill and Robert Helpmann as the terrifying child catcher.
One of my fondest memories of seeing the film in the theater was getting back into the family car where my father said there was a button on the dashboard he never pushed before. Perhaps if he pushed it, wings would come out of the car and we could fly home. Of course, I was disappointed when he pressed the button and nothing happened but that memory remains as a moment where magic could possibly happen in our real world. Ah...childhood!