Goofs

During the waterfalls chase, after their fall from the canoe, Abby and Chris make their way toward safety. Abby is wearing hard green and white dress shoes, but moments later she is wearing soft dark gray moccasins.

During the rapids chase six Senecas occupy each of two long canoes. Later in the chase the canoes are shorter and hold only three men apiece.

The film ends with a closeup of an engraving mounted on a door reading "Where Liberty is, There is my country - Benjamin Franklin". Franklin was said to have written these words in a letter dated March 14,1783, twenty years after the events depicted in this film.

An epilogic statement after the movie has ended is not considered part of the movie and does not need to have been originated prior to the setting of the film.

Although working as a slave, Abby has perfectly applied makeup and lipstick.

When going over the waterfall, support wires can be seen on the actors.

When the Indian is being attacked while Chris is in the tree, Chris throws a knife at him. As he falls to the ground on his back, the knife can be seen protruding from below his belt line, from an angle as the knife was just stuck into the top of his trousers.

Dan McCoy's comment, "Now that's a good Indian", about the native killed by Holden is based on the quote attributed to General Philip Henry Sheridan, "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Sherdan is supposed to have said this in 1869.

(at around 40 mins) John Fraser talks about steel production from the iron and coal to be found in the Ohio Valley area while talking about Pittsburgh. Though steel was known in 1780, it was nearly another century until large-scale steel production occurred in the United States.