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Anachronisms (2) |
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Factual errors (2) |
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Revealing mistakes (2)
Anachronisms
Ives says "I reached Denver that spring ..." (presumably in 1847), but Denver wasn't founded until 1858.
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When the men discover the cave you can see a few tree stumps in that are that were sawed off flat. Since they are days away from civilization it would have been impossible for someone to have come and harvested timber from that part of the wilderness in that time period.
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Continuity
The orientation of the knife changes between Colonel Hart slamming it into the table and Captain Boyd using it.
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In the final fight scene with Boyd and Ives, Ive's hand holding the knife cuts from being under Boyd's arm to being above Boyd's arm and back again.
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Factual errors
While Captain Boyd was lying in the hole after falling from the cliff the phases of the moon were shown to illustrate the passing of time. It was clearly a waxing moon on the northern hemisphere (The "arc" was on the right side). But the moon was becoming thinner in time just like a waning moon.
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The surname of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is misspelled at the beginning of the film as "Nietzche".
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When Boyd and Reich enter the cave, Ives remains outside with hands tied. But, mysteriously, when the movie cuts back to Ives his hands are free and he is gesturing madly. The next time the movie cuts back to Ives he's holding a big knife in his hands, he could have dug up the knife from the dirt and used it to free his hands, although the rope is not on the ground by the hole.
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Revealing mistakes
At one point when the soldiers are in search of the rest of Ives' party, one of them kicks a patch of snow which folds over showing it to clearly be a piece of white cloth.
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The sprung trap clearly wobbles when supposedly crushing its victims in a way no real trap would.
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