In 1968, Disney released the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke. The plot revolved around an English inventor with two precocious children and an unreliable flying car. Was Julie Andrews his girlfriend? I don’t really remember the details—I was not quite four. What I do clearly remember was the villain: a child-catcher. The child-catcher literally had a big…
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