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• Miscellaneous: Martine Beswick, who plays Zora, is credited as "Martin Beswick" in the opening title sequence.
  
  
• Continuity: The truck hood is burned by air-bombing, then is unmarred.
  
  
• Continuity: The flower truck changes when attacked by the helicopter.
  
  

• Continuity: When talking to Klebb and Kronsteen at the end, Blofeld's ring swaps hands briefly.
  
  
• Continuity: During the train journey from Istanbul to Venice, some shots of the passing train show "green" British carriages, rather than the continental carriages shown in other shots of the train. The carriages are maroon in real life, the film being altered to show green. The disc signal, and the locomotive buffer beam is the give-away.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is talking to Tatiana on the boat, their faces are both lit from the upper-right (as seen by the camera), yet they are facing each other.
  
  
• Continuity: The flower truck that is first seen at the railroad crossing is a Dodge, and after 007 enters the pickup, with the villain in the cab, the truck switches to a Chevrolet.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Bond exits Istanbul Airport through the domestic terminal, despite arriving on an international flight.
  
  
• Continuity: When the helicopter attacking Bond blows up, its skids are blown off in the initial explosion. But in the next shot it is seen crashing to earth with the skids still attached.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Bond removes the wire to release the burning wagon, he clearly fires two shots from his gun (two flashes of light) but we only hear one shot.
  
  
• Continuity: After Bond dumps the oil drums into the water he fires two shots from of the single-shot flare gun but doesn't stop to reload in between.
  
  
• Continuity: After the bogus Agent Nash knocks out Bond and searches his pockets, he slides 007s money clip into the left-hand outer pocket of his own jacket. Once Bond has done away with Nash, he retrieves his cash from the right inner chest pocket of his adversary's jacket.
  
  
• Continuity: The agent waiting for Bond at the Zagreb train station is first seen in a reversed image with his pocket and handkerchief on the right side of his suit coat. When he is talking to Bond on the train platform the pocket has moved to the left side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the helicopter chase and subsequent explosion, the cable attached to the helicopter prop (and an off-camera crane) is clearly visible as the flaming wreckage falls to the ground.
  
  
• Factual errors: While it is true that visitors must remove their shoes to visit a mosque, Santa Sophia is an exception because it is no longer an "active" place of worship and visitors may keep their shoes.
  
  
• Continuity: There are only four drums of gasoline on the boat, but when they explode in the water, there are at least 15-20.
  
  
• Factual errors: The words used for "pull" and "push" signs on the doors at the Russian consulate are literal translations of the corresponding English verbs ("dergat" and "pikhat"). First, it's not what is customarily written on the doors in Russia ("to" and "fro" are used), and second, the colloquial forms of verbs are used, not the written forms.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the boat chase, the director's waving hand can be seen reflected in the windshield of Bond's boat at several points.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Tatiana goes to see Klebb, Klebb closes the door but it doesn't shut tightly. A crew member's hand reaches through to pull the door shut all the way.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Morzeny says "Exactly 1 minute, 52 seconds. That's excellent" in the beginning of the film, his lips never move.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Klebb visits SPECTRE Island and first speaks with Morzeny, most of the conversation heard does not synch up with their lips, as if the actors were initially saying completely different dialog on the set. This mismatch goes on until they enter the training area.
  
  
• Continuity: During Klebb's SPECTRE Island visit, she and Morzeny walk through a training area. As they leave the training area we see a shot of them entering what appears to be another training area, but it is identical to the one shown earlier.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is being chased by the helicopter, the Lektor and the rifle switch hands several times between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond first recovers the Lector, he does not properly close it, though he goes through the motions. It becomes closed and latched as he runs through the door.
  
  
• Continuity: When he is being shown the briefcase by Major Boothroyd (Q) in M's office, 007 picks up one of the magazines containing the rounds of ammunition, pressing out a handful of them before he starts putting them back in, one by one. In the next shot, 007 is no longer holding any of the bullets and the magazine is full, although he should have still been replacing the rounds.
  
  
• Continuity: Right after the belly dance at the gypsy camp when Bond thanks for the hospitality, he wipes his hands clean on his handkerchief. But in the next shot he doesn't. In the shot after that he does.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene just after the helicopter crash, when 007 is running down the hill away from the helicopter, another person in the same type of suit is seen coming up the hill from the right. They are hunched over, presumably trying to stay out of sight from the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the fight scene with Grant, the blood on Bond's hand disappears and then reappears
  
  
• Continuity: When Klebb reads out facts to Tatiana from her information file, she mentions that Tatiana had 3 lovers. When she says this she is wearing thick glasses, but when we see her moments later she is not wearing her glasses, although her posture seems to suggest that she hasn't moved to remove them and is still reading.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the film when Bond is examining the film taken of the two of them in the bridal suite the film is in 8mm format but when he throws it into the Venice canal it changes to 16mm.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and his party board the train in Istanbul, they board the train at the rear which shows passenger coaches. When the train passes Kerim's son and does not stop at the scheduled rendezvous because Kerim has been killed, the passing rear of the train is freight cars. When Bond and Tania escape from the train, the departing shot of the rear of the train is passenger coaches again.
  
  
• Continuity: The train didn't stop at a couple of minutes past 6 (probably because of the double murder) and the train passes the two sons of Kerim who were waiting. When the train arrives at the next stop the clock on the platform shows 5.34.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond does not turn the bathtub tap off after he meets Tatiana in his hotel bed.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Russian consulate is placed over the Byzantine cisterns in the old city. Actually it is located in the "European" Beyoglu district.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Early on, the head of SPECTRE uses the Siamese Fighting Fish to demonstrate how SPECTRE works, with two fish fighting while a third watches and waits to fight the winner, who will be weakened by then. However, partitions in the fish tank are visible - the third fish couldn't attack if it wanted to.
  
  
• Continuity: While Q is showing 007 the gimmicked briefcase, one of the bottom buttons on Q's overcoat is buttoned up. But as he finishes showing 007 the items, the button is undone.
  
  
• Continuity: During the helicopter chase Bond takes cover in the same small depression twice (and from the same direction) although he is always running "downslope".
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Near the beginning of the film, Bond gets out of a boat he is sharing with a young woman to answer a beeping pager. He takes his shirt and goes to his car to call M. Shortly after he places the call, the young woman comes over and helps him with the shirt. During the call, he gets the shirt completely buttoned. The camera cuts away momentarily, and when it returns to the couple, the shirt is once again completely unbuttoned. During this time, the woman is actually trying to seduce Bond, UNBUTTONING the shirt as he takes the call. During the cutaway scene she does this. This is partly why he says "Make that an hour and a half".
  
  
• Continuity: Bullet holes in the fuel barrels during the boat chase scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond's flare causes the explosion during the boat scene, it's obviously a pre-programmed explosion effect (identifiable by the fact that the explosions on the water are simultaneous. In real life there would only be one explosion - where the flare struck the water, and the flames would spread. There would NOT be multiple, simultaneous explosions as seen in the film.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the battle at the gypsy camp, Kerim Bey is shot in his right arm. You can clearly see him smearing fake blood on his sleeve with his left hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of their fight at the end of the film, Klebb clearly kicks Bond either in the groin or inner thigh with her knife shoe. There is even a sound effect "thump". Despite this, Bond shows no effect of the blow to a very sensitive area, much less the poisoned blade.
  
  
• Plot holes: According to Bond's assassin (Robert Shaw)on the train, the whole plan was to discredit Bond by blaming him for killing the girl and then committing suicide, complete with a forged note. Yet, the assassin then threatens to shoot Bond multiple times until he crawls over to kiss his foot. Someone committing suicide would not shoot multiple times in non-lethal locations.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Monty Norman the composer of the James Bond theme is credited as 'Monte Norman' during the end titles of this film.
  
  
• Continuity: When the conductor takes Bond to the compartment where Kerim and the Russian have been killed, the shot in the corridor shows the conductor standing by the right side of the door, with Bond behind and to the right of him. But when he opens the door in the next shot, from within the compartment, Bond steps into view from the conductor's left side. Similarly, as seen in the corridor shot, the two men arrive at the compartment from what would, from the inside of the compartment, be the left side of the door; but when Bond leaves to return to his own compartment, he walks off to the right, in the opposite direction.
  
  
• Continuity: During the chess tournament the white queen on the large display board is moved from F4 to E4. In the following shot it is back on F4.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Klebb reads out facts to Tatiana, she is wearing thick glasses. Instead of using convex lenses, she has concave lenses. Concave lenses are used to correct shortsightedness (myopia), convex lenses are helpful in farsightedness (hyperopia) or presbyopia. Using those glasses for reading is pointless. It would be easier for Klebb to read without glasses than with wrong glasses.
  
  
• Continuity: The car that Bond is in, while driving to the Gypsy Camp, changes from a 1960 Ford two-door station wagon to a 1960 Ford four-dour station wagon.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the Russian Embassy scene where Bond awaits the explosion (so he can steal the Lektor machine) actor Sean Connery is clearly seen to flinch & silently say "Christ!" when the explosion occurs as if he were genuinely surprised by the effect. His lips move, but no sound of his voice is heard indicating it was not an intended piece of dialogue.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The leader of the Bulgarian assassins is called Krilenku. This name does not exist in Bulgaria. It is typical for Romania or Moldova. This is a mistake repeated from Ian Fleming's book.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the opening, the chessboard is backwards. The white square should be in the right corner, not the left.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond is about to take a shower when he hears noises, he wraps himself in his light blue shirt to investigate and ends up on Tatiana's bed. The light blue shirt is now a light blue towel wrap.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The entrance sign at its gate identifying the Soviet consulate in Istanbul is written in Russian and, inexplicably, English - but not Turkish.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double used for Bond when he is running back up the hill after the helicopter crashes and before it explodes.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the film when 007 and Tatiana are in their hotel in Venice, Italy the phone rings with a British-style ringtone - two short rings together followed by a a break for a couple of seconds then repeat again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious back projection in some scenes, like the Venice scenery behind Bond and Tatania at the end of the film.
  
  
• Plot holes: After the fight on the train when Bond kills Grant, Bond says, "You won't be needing this... old man," and takes the film out of Grant's jacket pocket, but he leaves the blackmail letter behind on the corpse.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond and Tatiana are on the water being chased by the three Spectre boats, the middle boat, which is directly behind Bond's boat, has a man on the bow firing an automatic weapon at Bond's boat. But when the bullet holes appear in the drums, most are on the ends of the barrels, on the left side, and a few are in line with the direction of fire. The only way for this to happen is for someone to be shooting from the left of Bond's boat as well as from the rear, yet only one person is firing and he's firing from the rear.
  
  

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