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Manhunter (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: A large pool of blood disappears from around killer's body.
  
  
• Continuity: Graham loosens his tie after running from the hospital, but it is soon done up again.
  
  
• Continuity: Cans and boxes behind Graham and his son in the supermarket.
  
  

• Continuity: A cigarette appears in Graham's mouth while on the street with Crawford.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Dr. Lektor has the operator make a phone call for him, he gives a Maryland area code (301) and gets a University of Chicago operator.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the final raid on the house, the elastic bungee cord used to propel a policeman is clearly visible against the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: When Francis rips through the painting with a shotgun.
  
  
• Continuity: White object (pen?) on the ground in front of National Tattler security guard in parking garage disappears in next shot.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During Will Graham's conversation with Crawford at his home that starts the movie, there is a shot where Graham's chin is obviously moving, as he spoke some dialog, but no words are heard.
  
  
• Continuity: After Graham tackles the jogger, his arms are shown holding a gun on the jogger's prone body as SWAT members race toward him. In the next scene, he pulls his pistol and points it toward the camera (the jogger's POV).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dollarhyde is killed, as he is lying on the kitchen floor, he can be seen swallowing in the last second before the shot changes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The movie implies that Will Graham uses a Charter Arms Bulldog .44 special pistol. If this were true, then Will could not shoot Francis Dollarhyde six times. A Charter Arms Bulldog only holds five rounds. Graham actually shoots the gun seven times, but two of the shots are repeated; the first and second shot that we see are actually the same one, as are the six and seventh. Thus, he only actually fires five bullets, which is the number that the gun can hold.
  
  
• Factual errors: Graham is told that the films of the families have been transferred to 1/2-inch VHS, but the tapes appear to be 3/4-inch.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: FBI man Will Graham attempts (sucessfully) to play a 3/4-inch video tape in a VHS machine.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Wires for a squib charge visible on kitchen floor when Dollarhyde shoots at the glass bottles.
  
  
• Continuity: Moonlight coming from different directions (as shown by shadows) when Dollarhyde is watching Reba go into her apartment building.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Graham's house number changes during the film. When Dr. Bloom's secretary gives it to Lector, it's 3680. Later in the movie, when Crawford mentions it, it's 3860.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Graham walks through the woods toward the house in the final scene, the dolly tracks for the camera are visible on the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: When the St. Louis police officer is throw into the windshield of his car, the glass is already damaged before his head hits it.
  
  
• Factual errors: In Lecktor's cell, the hinges are on the inside. Prison doors swing outward, so the prisoner can't compromise the hinges.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the St. Louis police pull up Dollarhyde's drivers license, it says he lives in "Chester, MO 64101". 64101 is a Kansas City, Missouri zip code, and Kansas City is 250 miles from St. Louis.
  
  
• Factual errors: There is a discussion of Graham's Charter Arms Bulldog .44 being loaded with Glaser Safety Slugs for added lethality. Glaser Safety Slugs are designed to fragment on impact and release their loads of tiny shot pellets into the wound cavity, creating massive bleeding and near-certain death. When Graham shoots Dolarhyde, each round is shown to penetrate Dolarhyde's body, spattering blood on the wall behind him. Glaser Safety Slugs would not penetrate a body this way. An exit wound would be very unlikely.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Towards the end of the movie, just as Dollarhyde is throwing Graham into the refrigerator, a person can be seen in the lower, left-hand corner. He is wearing a blue shirt. The victim is wearing a pink shirt and is later shown as still being on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: In Graham's interview for the National Tattler, the interviewer sets the tape recorder down on the table next to Graham. In the next shot it is in the interviewer's hand and he sets it down a second time.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One of the headlines shown on the Tattler is "FBI Persues Pervert". "Persues" should be spelled "Pursues".
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Graham and Crawford argue over the videotapes and The Tooth Fairy, you can first see the boom pole, then the boom mic itself, very clearly. This has been corrected on the DVD version.
  
  
• Continuity: In the end of the movie when Dollarhyde is firing the shotgun, he fires at least 10 rounds. Without a magazine extension, the most rounds he would be able to fire without reloading would be five.
  
  
• Continuity: Merchandise behind Will Graham in grocery store during conversation with his son.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Will Graham hears the answering machine in the master bathroom of the Leeds murder scene, he walks out of the room. As he passes by, a crew-member's forearm is revealed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the flaming Freddy Lounds comes down the parking ramp, the last few frames are the wheelchair hitting the Plexiglas wall through which they are filming the sequence.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dollarhyde is shooting out the lights in his kitchen, the second shot (towards the wall lights) is a poorly executed effect: the lights just go out, with no obvious shot damage, and there is a perceptible delay between the shot and the lights being extinguished (making it obvious that they are simply being turned off, roughly in time with the gunshot effect).
  
  
• Continuity: Obvious editing shows where Will Graham jumps through Dollarhyde's window in the climactic sequence: the pose that William Petersen is holding when he jumps at the window in slow motion is clearly not the same as that of his stunt double who actually falls through the window (following the cut between shots).
  
  
• Continuity: The son removes a box of Folgers from the middle of their display, as they walk away the empty space moves to the end of Folgers display.
  
  

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