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Audio/visual unsynchronised (1) |
Character error (1) |
Continuity (11) |
Crew or equipment visible (3) |
Factual errors (1) |
Miscellaneous (2) |
Revealing mistakes (5)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
After the crash, as the survivors spot the American ship steaming toward them, the matte line between the moving water and the sky can easily be seen.
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Character error
A nun standing on the steps outside the cathedral reverses the "sign of the cross," although supposedly belonging to the same order as the Catholic nuns.
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Continuity
Despite the explicit dialogue and written appearances of the name that make it clear that the character Scott ffolliott has no capital F, the name still appears as Ffolliott in the end credit cast list.
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Window shadow on Johnny's jacket changes while in his boss's office.
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Johnny's raincoat lapel is folded, then flat, then folded while on the steps in the rain.
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The ladder appears and disappears beside the windmill door.
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The taxi rear window view shows that they drive up the same street twice.
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When Johnny and Carol step down from the taxi in front of her house, he takes the suitcase with her left hand and changes it to the right one, to direct her with the left hand. After the taxi leaves, he is holding the suitcase in his left hand.
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In Fisher's office, Scott picks up a cigarette from the cigarette case and puts it in his mouth. The following shot shows him smoking, without apparently lighting the cigarette at all.
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The hair of Carol Fisher is wet after she completely submerges next to ffolliott after the plane crash. In the exact next shot her hair is nearly dry again.
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In the chase scene at the windmill site the aircraft circling is in two scenes a single-engine, single-tail, high-wing type, and in a subsequent scene it suddenly becomes a twin-engine, twin-tail, low-wing aircraft.
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In the scene where Jones and his new "body guard" are in the car, the body guard is on the audiences right, Jones on the left. When they get out of the car, from the left, the body guard gets out first.
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When Jones is attempting to pull Van Meer's shooter from a moving car, Jones is pushed down into the street in front of an on coming streetcar. In the next close-up shot there is no streetcar anywhere, instead a sedan screeches to a stop in front of him.
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Crew or equipment visible
During the plane crash climax, during the montage of images after the plane hits the water, the camera tilts too high up and the lights of the set can be seen.
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The streetcars are obvious dummies running on rubber tires.
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When Jones and Rowley (Edmund Gwenn) get in the taxi a crouched crew member is reflected in the side window as the cab pulls away.
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Factual errors
Most of the hotel staff that gather in Jones' room at the Europe Hotel in Amsterdam are chattering in German instead of Dutch.
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Miscellaneous
The film is reversed left-to-right during the chess game at the police station.
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At the moment the clipper crashes and the pilots are seen scrambling to get away, if the scene is paused and then moved forward very slowly, the rice paper rear projection screen can be seen tearing as the the water bursts through it.
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Revealing mistakes
As the arguing couple depart the elevator at the top of the cathedral tower, its walls can be seen to shake hugely.
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When ffolliott returns with backup to find van Meer unconscious on the bed, and the room deserted, the doorframe shakes noticeably as the actors pass through it.
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As the Purser on the ship tells John and Carol that he has no more cabins, the right side of his fake moustache can be seen sliding down. He surreptitiously pushes back in place, but as they turn back for a second try and he continues speaking, the moustache slides down again.
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During the scene where the passengers are scrambling to get out of the sinking Clipper, a man grabs a suitcase and smashes a window, leaving a lot of large, jagged pieces of glass in the frame. He then climbs through the window and sits directly on the jagged glass.
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When the headlight on ffolliott's car is shot, a different car is used. All other shots of the car's front show it having auxiliary driving lights below the headlights.
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