Goofs

For a film partly set in 1952, many of the vehicles are of a much later period. As Leo gets in his hired car at Norwich Thorpe station, a late 1950s Ford Consul saloon and a BMC 1800 saloon from around 1969 are seen. Also, the village scenes include a 1962 Austin A35 van.

After one of Marian's rendezvous with Burgess in the shrubbery, she emerges hurriedly when she is called. Her modern-day brassiere is clearly visible through her thin blouse as she hustles out of the bushes. Though women were beginning to experiment with such "radical" garments in 1900, it is doubtful that a young, marriageable woman would have known of such things.

When the parishioners are going to church, the bells can be heard ringing Plain Bob Minor, a six-bell method. But when the scene changes to the interior of the church, only four men are seen, heaving laboriously on the ropes. Change ringing requires the sally (the colored fluffy portion) to be pulled fully down and allowed to rise high up, then the rope is pulled down again by the tail end (hand-stroke and back-stroke), but the tail ends of the ropes are all knotted up. The men are only chiming the bells, not performing full-circle change ringing.

In the Tombland scene in Norwich, there is a shop window behind the action which reflects the camera crew.

Mr. Maudsley reads from the Bible at the family devotional. He reads Ephesians 5:15-18, which is past the midpoint of the New Testament, yet his Bible is open to a fairly early part of the Old Testament.