Goofs

In the bar room, shortly after Whip McCord tells The Oklahoma Kid to give him back the Indian money, the Kid shoots Curley in the belly. A few moments later, Curley walks out as if he had never been shot. The Kid shot the gun out of Curley's hand, yet he can be seen holding it when he walks out the door.

While trying to catch the judge's stagecoach, the Oklahoma Kid is shown riding past or stopping beneath the same distinctive rock formation (Lone Ranger Rock at Iverson Movie Ranch) multiple times and from multiple angles, even though it is meant to depict a chase over many miles.

When the Oklahoma Kid flings open the door to room no.6 there is no one and nothing in front of the door. However, in the next cut when he yells and gets the men to start stampeding out, there are now a few men with their gear in front of the door.

When the men start bolting out of the room, there is a cowboy wearing a dark hat, dark pants, and boots who throws down a bag and then jumps over the railing. However, in the following cut which is a long shot, the same cowboy is jumping over the railing again.

Tulsa was founded by Native American tribes in the early 1800s, more than half a century before the Oklahoma Land Runs. Every element of the plot, including the statement that the city would be formed at the end of the same day of the start of the Land Run, indicates that the movie is really about the birth of Oklahoma City, not Tulsa.

When the Oklahoma Kid first arrives in Tulsa, he sees a wanted poster on the wall behind the person of whom he asks directions. Wanted posters were not - as is common in westerns - publicly posted but simple information circulars distributed to law enforcement with descriptions of who was being sought (height, weight, eyes, hair, identifying marks, aliases, known associates, etc).

Also, in the 1890s, it was possible with a very specialized and expensive process to print halftone screened photographs as shown. It is inconceivable anyone would have gone to the effort to get a photo of the Oklahoma Kid, then print a handful of posters using such an expensive process.

When The Oklahoma Kid is strumming his guitar to soothe the baby, it is a flat top-style acoustic, much too modern for the time period of the movie.

During his exile, the Oklahoma Kid reads a newspaper and it is clearly offset lithography, not letterpress which pushes the printed areas into the paper, leaving distinct marks, not just the impression of the ink. This shot is close enough to tell the newspaper is on excessively white, heavy paper printed with modern (1930s) offset technology.

When the Kid visits Jane, he ties his horse to the hitching post in front of the house. A short time after that, Ned arrives, searching for the Kid. When Jane tells Ned that the Kid is not there, he believes her without asking about the horse, which he must have seen when he arrived. Later, when Ned's attention is distracted, Jane tosses the Kid's hat behind a chair. After Ned leaves, the Kid retrieves his hat without looking for it or being told where it is.

The Oklahoma Kid, who should sound like someone from Oklahoma, has a New York accent.

After the Oklahoma Kid gets the men involved in the Land Rush to race out of the hotel room, one of the actors first tosses his bag onto the hotel desk and then climbs over the railing onto the desk. However, he forgets to grab the bag and leaves the hotel without it.