An attractive young girl has the power to stop all kinds of machinery.An attractive young girl has the power to stop all kinds of machinery.An attractive young girl has the power to stop all kinds of machinery.
Michael Balfour
- Crook
- (uncredited)
Vincent Ball
- Hero in cinema sequence
- (uncredited)
Geoffrey Bellman
- Lorry Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe final pairing of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, which had started with The Lady Vanishes (1938).
- GoofsThe aircraft used is shown in exterior shots to be a civil version of the Halifax bomber, but the lavish interior of the fuselage appears to be much too wide for that type, and the big square windows shown in interior shots are not present on the exterior. In fact, the aircraft shown in exteriors, G-AKEC, appears to have been used for freight, not for passengers.
- Quotes
Jennifer Peters: Why do you Scotsmen leave your country if you're so fond of it.
Jock Melville: Someone's got to civilise the world. Surely you realise Scotland's chief exports are brains and whiskey.
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Planes, Train And Automobiles
Sally Ann Howes is a pretty but ordinary girl, reared by her aunt and uncle, Joyce Barbour and John Robertson Justice. What she doesn't know is in the presence of every woman in her family, mechanical machinery stops: trains, planes, automobiles, newspaper presses, it doesn't matter. When her prospective fiance, Nigel Buchanan is informed of this, he runs back to his family clockmaking business in London, and Miss Howes follows, meets Gordon Jackson, and eventually becomes a celebrity.
It's a romantic comedy with a fantasy air, a type of story that became moderately popular in print after the Second World War, with writers like Ward Moore and Jack Finney dabbling in it. The subtext was almost invariably about the fragility of modern civilization and a nostalgic hankering for older, simpler times.
19-year-old Miss Howes is quite lovely. It would turn out that she was also quite talented for musical comedy, in the mode of her father, Bobby Howes. She would replace Julie Andrews on Broadway in MY FAIR LADY, and star on Broadway for several decades. Although her film career dribbled away after CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG with the end of the movie musical, she is still around and, in her 90th year, quite lovely.
Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne are also present in the movie, not playing Charters & Caldicott, but "the mechanicals", a pair of men always present when she stops a bus, as the motorman and conductor, or a train as the engineer and stoker. They look old and worn.
It's a romantic comedy with a fantasy air, a type of story that became moderately popular in print after the Second World War, with writers like Ward Moore and Jack Finney dabbling in it. The subtext was almost invariably about the fragility of modern civilization and a nostalgic hankering for older, simpler times.
19-year-old Miss Howes is quite lovely. It would turn out that she was also quite talented for musical comedy, in the mode of her father, Bobby Howes. She would replace Julie Andrews on Broadway in MY FAIR LADY, and star on Broadway for several decades. Although her film career dribbled away after CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG with the end of the movie musical, she is still around and, in her 90th year, quite lovely.
Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne are also present in the movie, not playing Charters & Caldicott, but "the mechanicals", a pair of men always present when she stops a bus, as the motorman and conductor, or a train as the engineer and stoker. They look old and worn.
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- boblipton
- May 9, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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