Goofs

When Morris first asks Catherine to dance at the party, she is seated with her dance card in her hand. Her fan is hanging from a string around her wrist on the same arm. Cut to a wider shot as Catherine stands to join Morris, and her fan is in her hand, and her dance card is hanging from her wrist.

In the rain, Catherine takes Morris' cloak off herself and wraps it around him. After the next cut, the cloak is missing; then in the following closeup, it reappears and Catherine buttons it around Morris' neck.

When Catherine and her father have a heated disagreement and he leaves the room, Catherine is seated with her left hand in an open palm in a vertical orientation, but in the next cut shot, from the front view, her left hand is now face down on her leg.

When Catherine first comes in the study to meet Mrs Montgomery, her dress has a plain collar. When she brings the sherry tray, she has a lace collar on with a black velvet bow.

When Dr. Sloper goes into his office to examine himself because he isn't feeling well, as he opens his doctor's bag, the middle finger of his right hand is shown quite unusually extended; in the next cut shot shows it in a different position.

Technically what Catherine is doing is not embroidery; it is needlepoint. Even in those days, it was called needlepoint.

Dr. Sloper complains to Catherine that she can't pull off the color red because she isn't "fair" like her mother was. Actually, the picture of Catherine's mother on his desk shows her with black hair - not at all fair.

Dr. Sloper is saying Catherine is not attractive. He is using "fair" as in "fair of face". (Think "mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?")

In the last scene when Morris is pounding on the door after the door has been bolted from the inside, it can be seen that the keyhole has no hole in it. It is a façade.

This story takes place at the end of the 1840s, but none of the men wear the cravats--material bound around the neck and tied in either the front or back--that were fashionable in that period; instead they wear neckties and bow ties, which did not come into fashion until the late 1850s.

Morris and Catherine, on separate occasions, refer to the Rev. Lispenard's parsonage being located "on Murray's Hill". They refer to this location as if it were generally known. Therefore, it's likely that they actually were referring to a section of Manhattan (that appears on maps even from this time period), as "Murray Hill", not "Murray's Hill". This section of Manhattan is still known as "Murray Hill".