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From the United Artists Pressbook Crackpot inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) buys a dilapidated car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and drives to the seashore with his two children Jeremy (Adrian Hall), Jennifer [Jemima] (Heather Ripley)--and Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), the beautiful daughter of Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson Justice). On the beach, Potts tells a pirate story, weaving into it a tugboat that appears on the horizon. It is not a tugboat, he says, but the yacht of evil Baron Bomburst (Gerte Frobe), who has come to steal the car. Mistaking the children's eccentric Grandpa (Lionel Jeffries) for Potts, the Baron kidnaps him.
It has, of course, been one of Potts' daydreaming tales for the children. When it is over, he and Truly realize that they are in love and decide[d] to marry. Not as scatterbrained as he seems, Potts tells the children it is fine to have dreams, adding, "Just because you dream something up doesn't mean it'll come true." With that, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang slowly rises into the sky and they fly off over the hills and out of the movie...
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