Gert Fröbe, so chilling as Bond villain Auric Goldfinger, plays the temperamental, childish Baron Bomburst, while his baroness wife in the fairy-tale Bavarian kingdom is portrayed by Anna Quayle, who is Frau Hoffner in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. Desmond Llewellyn, who stars as the gadget master Q in the Bond movies, also plays an eccentric scrap dealer in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
In this type of story you can refer back loosely to 'the last war' or earlier, which they do in the fantasy sequence - presumably Vulgaria is a hint at a small non-specific country that was on 'the wrong side' in the last one [60s family movies rarely mentioned a specific country as 'the enemy' though there was often one or more characters wearing a pickelhauber, the 'pointy helmet', if they wanted to indirectly refer to the Great War]. Vulgaria's rulers are mocked up like something from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. There are also broad strokes, design-wise, of Dickens meets Grimm, in Austria. Because this entire sequence is fantasy, we can't use it for reliable dating.
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