Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Goofs
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Character error (2) |
Continuity (4) |
Crew or equipment visible (3) |
Factual errors (2) |
Miscellaneous (1) |
Revealing mistakes (3)
Character error
An intelligent man like Roney should have known that he wasn't heavy enough to use his weight to move the stuck crane.
Colonel Breen states with great confidence that there will be permanent bases on the Moon within ten years (1977). With luck, he'll only be wrong by about 50 years.
Continuity
At the end of the film as buildings start falling down, the debris from the buildings bounce as though they're made from Styrofoam.
The top half of a complete skeleton is revealed when the workman pulls a lump of clay away with his shovel, but during the press conference, the archaeologist says they've only found some skull fragments and lower limbs.
When the spaceship starts to come alive, you can see the wires holding up the floating debris in the tunnel.
Just before the workman begins his attempt to drill into the buried ship, as Quatermass joins him some gloves magically appear on his hands.
Crew or equipment visible
A minute or so before the end credits roll, as Quatermass is walking away from the devastation, a crew member's hand swings into the right-hand side of the frame and back out again.
When Sladden is being tossed about the martian missile, several tools are tossed about as well. Strings can be seen attached to the tools.
When Breen gets into a cab to leave Hobbs Lane, the crew are clearly reflected in the door window of the cab.
Factual errors
Colonel Breen , with a Public School and Sandhurst background obvious from his patrician bearing, is displaying the ribbon for the Long Service and Good Conduct medal, awarded exclusively to soldiers and NCOs for 21 years service. Conversely although he professes to have served during WW2, he wears no WW2 medal ribbons.
When Quatermass notices the symbol etched on the alien spacecraft's bulkhead that turned out to seal up a compartment containing insect alien bodies, he refers to the 6 circles surrounding a 7th circle as a Pentagon (5-sided shape). It's actually a Hexagon (six-sided shape).
Devil worshiping Earthlings in comparison embrace the Pentagram, a 5-sided star shape.
Devil worshiping Earthlings in comparison embrace the Pentagram, a 5-sided star shape.
Miscellaneous
The final shot of Quatermass and Barbara, playing out under the end credits, is the same twenty-one or so seconds of footage looped four times.
Revealing mistakes
When Roney and Quatermass enter the "missile", they are both wearing gloves to protect themselves against the cold surface. When they take the arthropod' body out, Roney has taken off his gloves. When they pass it over to the soldiers he is wearing gloves again.
Sladden is going back into the Underground dig site and the lights go out. He takes out his flashlight and someone from off-camera shines a light in front of Sladden to provide the appearance of light shine due to the underpowered flashlight.
(at around 84 mins) The improvised railway rails and their supporting beams bend in the way that one realizes they are made of either inflated rubber, or a foam.
