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• Continuity: Firefly's standing position while he's singing with his trousers up.
  
  
• Continuity: After Ambassador Trentino has announced, he steps down the stairs followed by two gentlemen and crosses two ladies before he kisses Mrs. Teasdale's hand. Next shot the two ladies are just behind him yet and the last man after him is already on Mrs. Teasdale right hand-hand side, giving his back to the wall.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Teasdale introduces Bob to Trentino and Vera, only those four are on the top of the stairs. But the next long shot shows a couple just behind Mrs. Teasdale.
  
  

• Continuity: When they meet, Mrs. Teasdale holds Firefly's right hand while he holds the cigar with his left hand. The subsequent shot shows him holding the cigar with the right hand and the deck with the left one.
  
  
• Continuity: After Mrs. Teasdale picks up a card, Firefly puts the deck in his left trouser pocket. However, when she introduces him to Trentino, he takes out the deck from the right pocket.
  
  
• Continuity: After Firefly plays the flute, it disappears and a bugle appears in his hand, though the guard behind him keeps his bugle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Firefly sings with his trousers up, he puts his left hand behind him holding the cigar. In the following shot, when he yells "My car!", the cigar has disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chicolini and Pinky get in Trentino's office, Trentino puts the lit cigar on the desk, near the twin phones. Thereafter he picks it up next the cigar box.
  
  
• Continuity: In the balcony, Firefly holds the cigar with his left hand. But after he calls Chicolini to come up, he puts the cigar in the mouth with his right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: The lemonade vendor's straw hat which Pinky throws in the fire changes position from one shot to another.
  
  
• Continuity: In Mrs. Teasdale's house, when Firefly sits down, everybody (Trentino, Vera and Mrs. Teasdale) change positions around him.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of Chicolini's judgment, Firefly changes his right arm position from one shot to another.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight with the lemonade vendor, the vendor gets squirted with lemonade and his shirt gets soaked. Seconds after, while the vendor is tussling with Chico again, we see that the vendor's shirt is completely dry.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harpo runs into the mirror, it naturally shatters. But the broken glass immediately disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: The gloves that Firefly slaps Trentino with, appear in Firefly's pocket in between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Firefly is done singing "These are the Laws of My Administration" his morning coat changes from an all black coat to a lighter coat with stripes on the sleeves and lapel.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Pinky's motorcycle pulls away from its cart, you can clearly see a string pull it along.
  
  
• Continuity: When Firefly was pulling up his trousers, his arms were behind his back, next shot, his hands were on his hips, next shot, they were at the back of him again.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first see Edgar Kennedy, a cord is visibly hanging from the back of his derby. The cord then disappears and reappears when Harpo switches hats with him.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the "Freedonia's Going to War" scene, when the four Marx Brothers are playing banjos and singing as they walk toward the camera, it is clear that Chico is only holding his banjo, not playing it.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the battle scene, the second time a big shell flies through the room, you can see the wire it's on.
  
  
• Continuity: When Firefly takes the Thopmson sub-machine gun from the violin case it has a straight magazine, but when he is firing it through the hole in the wall it has a drum magazine.
  
  

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