Goofs for
Hold That Ghost (1941) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The candle in Camille's room is repeatedly shown to be no more than a stub. When she takes it out into the hall it is nearly a full candle again.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase and gun battle with the police, after Moose Matson is shot, you can hear him say, "Pull over, will ya?", but the actor's lips are clearly not moving. Also, he's firing at the police (and they are firing at him) through the back window of the car, but when he's shot he's crouching behind the back seat and under the level of the window.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Towards the end of the film, when Abbott and Costello are talking, there's a mirror in the top right-hand corner of the screen in which the reflection of a crew member can be seen pacing around.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Near the end when Costello is sitting at the desk and the left candle is sliding across the table, and the right candle is moving up and down, the strings used are clearly visible.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Harry Hoskins, the driver of the car that is to take everyone to the hotel, is introducing Camille Brewster to the pair, he indicates the wrong man as he says each of their names.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ferdie leaves his bedroom to go out into the hall to see who was knocking at his door, the door slams behind him. He turns around, tries the handle and pushes the door, yells, "It's locked!" and runs across the hall to Chuck's room. However, when he initially pushed on the door it clearly opened several inches; he pulled it shut, turned the handle one more time and it again opened an inch or two. It was then he yelled "It's locked!" and ran off.
  
  
• Continuity: When Moose Matson pulls up to the gas station that Chuck and Ferdie work at, his front license plate is of a white color. But when the police are chasing him in the same car, the license plate is clearly black.
  
  

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