This is a 14" x 28" Australian Day Bill poster for the 1968 Ken Hughes
children's musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang based on the 1964
Ian Fleming Novel of the same title, screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken
Hughes and starring Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts. Plot summary:
Caractacus Potts is a crackpot inventor who adapts a dilapidated Grand
Prix racer for use by his children; the children take it as a means to
go on a phantasmagorical sea, land and air adventure.
Cast and crew: Ken Hughes, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Dick Van Dyke,
Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill,
James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley, Adrian Hall,
Barbara Windsor, Davy Kaye, Alexander Doré, Bernard Spear, Stanley
Unwin
This is a 27" x 40" US one-sheet for the 1996 Henry Selick
film James and the Giant Peach based on the book by Roald Dahl
with screenplay by Kasey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts and Steve Bloom
and starring Paul Terry as the voice of James and Peter Postlethwaite
as narrator.. Plot summary: James Henry Trotter was living happily
with his parents by the sea in England and looking forward to a trip
with them to New York City to see the Empire State Building, but that
dream ended when an angry rhinocerous from the sky killed his parents
and James was forced to move in with his two abusive aunts, Spiker
[Joanna Lumley] and Sponge [Miriam Margolyes]. One day when James is
saving a spider from being crushed by his aunts, a man [Peter
Postlethwaite] gives him a bag of mysterious jumping green flourescent
crocodile tongues, tells him these magic tongues will improve his life
because he is not meant to be miserable, then disappears. James
stumbles and lets the tongues scatter into the ground, which causes a
peach in an old tree to grow to a gigantic size. His aunts start
selling tickets to see it. James crawls inside the peach through a
hole he makes and becomes friends with some very large talking insects
living inside. When they hear the aunts looking for James one of
them, Mr. Centipede [Richard Dreyfuss], chews off the stem connecting
the peach to the tree causing it to roll into the ocean and start
floating like a boat. James and the insects decide to navigate in the
peach to New York City. Spiker and Sponge follow them there but are
not able to disrupt James's happy new life. James and his friends
make themselves a townhouse in Central Park from the pit of the peach
after the children of New York have eaten the rest of it.
Cast and crew: Henry Selick, Roald Dahl, Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom, Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Miriam Margolyes, Susan Sarandon, David Thewlis, J. Stephen Coyle, Steven Culp, Cirocco Dunlap, Michael Girardin, Toney Haney, Kathryn Howell
Pictured is a 19.25" x 27.25" Yugoslavian poster made to promote the
1967 Lewis Gilbert film You Only Live Twice based on a
screenplay by Roald Dahl and starring Sean Connery as James Bond.
Plot summary: A missing US space capsule causes international tension,
with Russia as suspected abductor. James Bond goes to Japan to
investigate further.
Cast and crew: Ian Fleming, Lewis Gilbert, Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl, Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Testuro Tanba, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Charles Gray, Tsai Chin, Peter Farene Malvia, Burt Kwouk, Michale Chow
