Goofs

Boxcar shows 1938 date. Sentence date was 1923.

Swing (walking with Soapy and Bim) tosses a tomato from behind at a cop who just passed by. After the tomato lands on the sidewalk, the cop can be seen in the distance looking at the trio and starting to walk toward them. The next shot, however, is a closeup of the cop scratching his head looking confused as to where the tomato came from.

During the course of the final shootout, the pattern of broken glass changes.

When Father visits Rocky in prison, a chair for him to sit appears out of nowhere.

When Rocky leads Jerry out of the room and plants a gun in his back, he tells Jerry to put up his hands. Jerry doesn't immediately move to do so, but in the next shot his hands are suddenly up all the way even though he would have had no time to do that in between Rocky's sentences.

At the beginning of the film, a newspaper headline is shown announcing Harding has been nominated for President. That would be 1920. The camera pans over to introduce Rocky and Jerry as teenagers. Jerry suggests going to the movies to see "The Covered Wagon," which, he says, just came out. That film was released in March, 1923. The two events were about 2 1/2 years apart.

When Rocky tries to escape after he is walked out of the warehouse by Father Connolly and is wounded, then captured, one of the cops reveals the two revolvers Rocky had being empty. There is no reason Rocky would empty his revolvers of their spent cartridges. However, Rocky is shown emptying the revolvers after Jerry enters the building and before he reaches Rocky.

At the end of the montage showing Rocky's rise as a gangster, there is a shot of two men in a moving car throwing two bombs at a storefront. The bombs bounce off the window and back into the street just before the storefront explodes.

Rocky's head is not shaved in any way prior to his walk to the electric chair. This is a customary procedure for the placement of the head electrode.

When the man pretending to be Peterson is shot inside the phone booth, one bullet hole is already visible right before the shooting starts.

Towards the end of the film, during the scene where Rocky is shooting it out with the police in the warehouse, watch the "concrete" pillar Rocky has taken cover behind. Seconds before a bullet impact appears on the pillar, a close up reveals a slight round indentation surrounded by a lighter coloring of paint, exactly where the bullet squib, which has been embedded in the pillar, explodes moments later. An immediate cut to Rocky's reaction has him bumping the pillar with his hands, at which point the entire "concrete" pillar wobbles slightly.

As Father walks away from the gang in the pool hall, a camera shadow falls across other patrons of the hall.

In one of the newspapers headlining an article about Rocky kidnapping Frazier, the word 'Kidnapper' is incorrectly spelled with only one P.

The above is incorrect. Kidnapers is a legitimate spelling, so there is no goof in the newspaper. English trends do change over time, so the use of 2 Ps in the word is also an accepted spelling.