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Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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The Last Man on Earth

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Continuity

The first station wagon Morgan has (a Chevy) turns into a Ford (look for the 4 headlights) and back to the Chevy (2 headlights). He eventually ends up with the Ford after the zombies wreck the Chevy.
The first time Morgan goes searching for corpses to incinerate, he puts a man and a woman into the back of his station wagon head first. When he arrives at the garbage dump, the woman is now lying feet first in the back of the car and has switched sides with the man.
During the flashback, when Robert returns home from the lab he pulls into the driveway and the steering wheel is on the left side. He exits the car from the right with the steering wheel on the right side as well. When it cuts back to the wide shot the steering wheel is again on the left.
In the flashback sequence where Morgan takes his wife's body in his car for a secret burial, the shots of him inside the car driving shows that it is night or pre-dawn. However, the exterior shots of the car moving along on the road show that it is already daylight.
When Robert Morgan is dumping bodies into the city dump, in the long shot, he has a '56 Chevy. The next time it cuts to a long shot, it is a '58 Ford.

Factual errors

Before mankind is wiped out, the scientists interchangeably describe what's causing the death as being a bacillus, a germ, and a virus. They are distinctly different entities. A Bacillus or bacterium is a single cell entity. A Germ is a multi-cell organism. A Virus is a solid shape (not a cell) that contains infectious material.
If Morgan is the last man on earth (besides the zombies), there is no one keeping the power on or the water running.
Morgan uses automobiles three years after the "apocalypse." BUT Gasoline goes "funny" when it ages and will not only NOT cause an internal combustion engine to operate, it will actually get it "gummy," and prevent it from operating when given fresh gasoline. So, unless Morgan is running a refinery off camera, he is using three year old gasoline to operate his automobiles, and that just doesn't work.
As Dr. Robert Morgan reviews his homemade calendars he drew on the wall, he stops to look at the year 1968. February 1st of 1968 is on a Wednesday in his drawn calendar, but in reality February 1st in 1968 fell on a Thursday.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

The newspaper headline has an apostrophe typo: "Is Europes' disease carried on the wind?" However, given the other typos ("wild fire" for either "wildfire" or "wild-fire" and "to day" for "today") the paper is clearly not very thorough in its proof-reading.

Revealing mistakes

When Robert chases down Ruth, two cars can be seen in the background moving down a street.
Just over 1 minute into the film, in one of the first shots of the deserted city a man can be seen walking backwards and forwards behind a fence.
At the beginning, when Morgan goes out searching for corpses to incinerate, after he puts a man and a woman into the back of his car, it is possible to see the two actors moving themselves to settle down in the back of the car.
You can see Virginia's breath when she talks to her husband Robert after their daughter is gone. It's like they don't have any heating in their own house, so it's clearly a cold set.
In one of the first shots of the deserted city at the beginning of the film, chimney smoke from a house can be seen, suggesting that somebody lives there.

Miscellaneous

According to Dr. Morgan, he's been living and hiding from the vampires for three years, yet as he drives around the city, all of the plant life around appear neat and not overgrown as though they had trimmed and mowed regularly.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

Most of the lines don't match up with the actors speaking them, except for Vincent Price. This is because he was the only one to be speaking in his native English. The rest of the cast were dubbed (and not very well.)
In the opening scene, as the camera zooms in through the window on Dr. Morgan, the alarm clock hammer can be seen moving between the bells before the sound of the alarm is heard.

Crew or equipment visible

When Dr. Robert Morgan talks to Ruth Collins about testing her for immunity, at approximately 1:10:09, a shadow comes over the left side of Morgan's jacket for a second, caused by a crew member moving around.

Plot holes

When Morgan returns home at night and is fighting the vampires he opens his unlocked front door and enters. The marauding vampires should have been able to enter the home, before his arrival, with the door unlocked.
Vampires, which they seem to be - killed by stakes, repelled by garlic, only coming out after dark etc. - are not afraid of mirrors, they just don't reflect in them. Dr. Morgan users a mirror to repel the marauders outside his house and we see one clearly reflected And if indeed mirrors did repel these marauders then the one on the front door would have an effect, which it clearly doesn't. And neither does the garlic..
The very first shot of Morgan, he is asleep, and the camera moves into his bedroom through a broken window, which should've made it easy for the vampires encircling his house every night to get him.

Character error

Ruth says Robert hit her, but he didn't.

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