Goofs
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Anachronisms (3) |
Character error (2) |
Continuity (9) |
Crew or equipment visible (2) |
Revealing mistakes (4)
Anachronisms
The Island Police car is a 1968 Plymouth. The movie is set in 1965.
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In the sailboat scene the sail itself has a Quantum Sails badge. Quantum wasn't founded until 1996.
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When Sam and Suzy are writing letters to each other before their first meeting, the bedspread shown behind Sam features a '70s to '80s-style Formula 1 race car.
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Character error
The pilot of the plane incorrectly says the word "five" as "fiver". In standard radio phonetics, the number "nine" is pronounced "niner", to distinguish it from "five", which is not changed or pronounced "fife".
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Suzy's left-handed scissors are mentioned at least two times but after she stabs a scout with them, she's shown holding them in her right hand.
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Continuity
When Sam is eating in Captain Sharp's trailer, the serving fork changes positions in the frying pan on the table and the top layer of bread on the sandwich changes position.
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An overhead shot of the police station wagon driving across the island shows a smooth top and just the red light. In later shots, the station wagon has a rack on the top and a siren in front of the red light.
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The first shot when Scout Master Wars is recording his message, you see the recorder, a glass half full, an ashtray and a picture on the table. From the opposite angle, his hand appears over the ashtray, the glass now almost empty and the picture angle and distance from the machine all change.
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During the back and forth shots between Captian Sharp and Social Services, the wires in the switchboard change places, disappear and reappear several times.
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Captian Sharp's trailer is shown from the outside at night and the window curtains are closed, but from inside the curtains are open.
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When Scout Master Ward exits his tent the morning after his troupe leaves to rescue Sam and Suzy his neckerchief is on/off between shots.
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When Scout Master Ward asks "Who's missing?", there are nine scouts at breakfast mess and one empty chair (at around 42 mins), but there are eleven scouts in Troop 55. In addition to Sam, Lazy Eye is also missing from the mess table. He reappears (at around 15 mins) when ten scouts and Scout Master Ward peer into Sam's tent.
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When Suzy goes into the tent by herself, she is wearing a heavy layer of blue eye shadow. A few moments later when Sam enters the tent, Suzy has been crying and her eyes are nearly devoid of shadow before Sam hands her his neckerchief and she wipes her eyes. In the very next scene when Suzy is reading aloud from her one of her books, her eyes are once again fully coated with eye shadow.
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When Redford is motivating his fellow Khaki Scouts to help Sam, Redford's hair changes position several times between one shot and the next.
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Crew or equipment visible
When the "Command tent" at Camp Lebanon is flooded, and the nearby totem-pole is struck by lightning, the equipment used to tilt the totem-pole is clearly visible at the base of the pole.
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Camera shadows are visible in the lower right corner on scouts and the police chief while on the boat dock.
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Revealing mistakes
When Cousin Ben is talking to Sam and Suzy as they walk through the camp, a marching scout extra in the background can be seen looking and waving at the camera.
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When the audience is hearing the broadcast over the transistor radio, the close-up shot on the radio reveals that it is turned off.
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When Scout Master Ward enters Sam's tent at Camp Ivanhoe, he discovers that it's empty and that Sam has left via a hole in the side of the tent. The hole is covered by a map, but it's taped to the inside of the tent. If Sam had actually left via the hole, he would have no way to stick the map to the side of the tent, and if he had left via the tent door - which was zipped with the zipper-pull on the inside - there would be no reason for the hole in the first place.
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The sail position does not change when the yacht pushes of the pier and moor back. It is not possible during real sailing.
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