Goofs

When Hannay escapes though a window, he jumps onto a lorry full of hay bales. Later there is a shot of the same lorry which contains sheep and no bales.

The car following Hannay in Scotland starts off as a grey Ford Zephyr/Zodiac, as the rogue policemen arrive at the school, the car turns into a Ford Consul. Later as the car has a flat tire it is once again a Zephyr.

The label on Miss Fisher's case on the train referred to "St Catharine's" with two "a"s as did the notice board within the school advertising The Winter Lectures. The sign outside the school and the Roll of Honour board outside the lecture theatre said "St Catherines" with only one "a"

Hannay's journey to Scotland starts at Kings Cross Station where the clock shows it is 11.10 am. When he gets off the train at Edinburgh to stretch his legs the station clock shows it is 10.35 am and, a few minutes later as it pulls out of the station the outside clock shows it is 2.15pm.

The oncoming ambulance that arrives presumably to assist Nanny after the "accident" speeds off-screen to the right and skids to stop in a relatively impossible time.

As Hannay and Nanny are about to depart from the Palace Theatre, Mr. Memory is asked how many US Presidents were assassinated. He can be heard in the background saying just two - Lincoln and McKinley, omitting Garfield.

On the train to Scotland the schoolgirls had a capital letter "K" on their berets yet the school was St Catherines beginning with a "C"

Police escort a tea wagon with refreshments for the farm workers into the field where Hannay is hiding. They would be out helping with the search for Hannay not doing escort duties.

Hannay gets a train from Kings Cross in London which eventually stops at Edinburgh where he gets off to stretch his legs and a wedding party is seen passing through the platform gates to get on the train which is seen backed up against the buffers which it wouldn't be as there are no dead end tracks at Waverley, Edinburgh Station.

The copyright year in Roman numerals displayed near the beginning of the titles is malformed. If the correct copyright year is '1959' then the correct Roman numeral would be: 'MCMLIX'. However, the displayed Roman numeral is 'MCMLVIX' which is nonsensical. The displayed number would be: '1950+5+9' if it were valid. It is surmised that the designer thought '50' and added a '5'.

When the tyre blows on the Zephyr/Zodiac the two 'detectives' are seen laying on the floor trying to jack the car up at the rear of the vehicle. The jacking points were, in fact, on either side of the vehicle.

While filming was underway in Scotland, astonished tourists watched a convoy of lorries drive into a field of tall wheat unaware that the film company had bought the crop to film Kenneth More hiding from the enemies and that the farmer would get all that was left when the sequence was completed.

The props were so realistic that even producer Betty Box didn't know what was real and what wasn't as at one point she stopped a tourist going into a telephone box explaining that it was only a prop. While she was talking, a reporter covering the film went into it and made a call to his paper. Another reporter, insisting to his paper that he was in a place called Glenkirk because he was there and could see the name on a signpost, had to be told by an assistant director that it was all fake.

After hiding on the Forth railway bridge, Hannay evidently descends and is seen on the jetty leading up to Main Street on North Queensferry as he prepares to continue his journey. The bridge stanchion that he would have made his way down from is on Battery Street on the opposite side of the harbor.

"Nanny" Robinson is murdered at Hannay's flat on Thursday 6 September 1958 (the date on the theatre tickets where he meets her). Two days later, when it would be Saturday, the sheriff arrests Hannay for "the murder of a woman at Oswell Court, London, on Tuesday last". That same day, as Hannay goes into the school, the notice board for the lecture gives the date as Wednesday.

Richard Hannay is clearly middle-aged, yet he is referred to several times as being a young man.

The first two thirds of the film are all about Richard Hannay ( Kenneth More) having to hide , sneak, disguise himself, lie and steal to make his way to Scotland to find the HQ of the villains, with the Police and the villains all hunting him. No sooner has he convinced Miss Fisher ( Taina Elg) that his story is true and he is innocent, than they then apparently manage to travel back to London on the same day, despite still being hunted by the Police.

When Hannay is on the train to Scotland he is described as having brown hair and grey eyes. However when giving his description to the inn-keeper he states that he has brown hair and hazel eyes.