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Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave, and Nicol Williamson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

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Continuity

During the railroad pursuit, the sword fight atop of the carriages shifts indiscriminately from cut to cut between the roofs of the second and first coach.

Factual errors

Watson, Holmes, Freud, and the Orient Express line all refer to the train destination as Istanbul. However, Continental usage and railroad usage would have used the formal name "Constantinople" until the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Previously, although it had been referred to as Istanbul by locals, it was an informal name meaning "the city". It would never have been used thus by Holmes, Watson, Freud, or the railroad.
During the railroad pursuit, as the two trains converge on adjacent tracks, the semaphore signal for the track on which The Pasha's train runs is at "stop" (in the horizontal position).

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

When pointing out the items in Freud's study, Holmes indicates the menorah, which along with copies of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud indicate Freud is Jewish. However, it's a 9-candle menorah, which is used only during Hannukah. The rest of the year, a 7-candle menorah is used, and that's what would have been on Freud's desk. (And Holmes would have known this fact.)

This being Freud's private study, which he doesn't even allow the maid to clean, he could have a 9-candle menorah for any reason he chooses.

Revealing mistakes

When Holmes shows Watson the vanilla extract, he points to a footprint and wheel rut in dry dirt which was obviously spread there for that purpose on top of the otherwise-clean but wet cobblestone road.

Anachronisms

Freud accuses Holmes of being "egocentric". However, the use of the term ego (Latin for "I") was not used by Freud until 1920, and the psychological adjective "egocentricity" did not exist until after Freud established the concept of the ego, id, and superego in his paper "The Ego and the Id" in 1923.
During the railroad pursuit, right after the crew starts dismantling the carriage, modern high-tension electrical transmission lines are seen atop a hill running parallel to the tracks.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

Holmes tries to follow the man who debarks from The Pasha's carriage. He is rebuffed by guards and says "Saved from a profanation, Watson." However, Holmes can be seen speaking after that with no associated sound.

Crew or equipment visible

When Holmes, Watson, and Freud are attacked by rampaging horses, the trainer can be seen running behind the horses in long shots.

Plot holes

Character error

During the railroad pursuit, the trains are seen on two tracks that are about to merge. Holmes states that there are no points left to switch. However, the coming together of the two track lines necessarily involves a switching point. And, in fact, that set of points is visible soon thereafter.
(at around 1h) As she describes the way she was abducted, Fräulein Devereaux - portrayed as an Austrian actress by Vanessa Redgrave - uses the nonstandard pronunciation of the word "landau", rhyming the last syllable with "doe" rather than with "cow", which is the correct pronunciation. This mistake usually is made by those who fail to recognize the word as German, but as an Austrian, whose mother tongue is German, Fräulein Devereaux should know how to pronounce it correctly.
On the train, Watson's narrative indicates he's aware of what Holmes is doing with the satchel. But at Freud's, he seems surprised by what he finds hidden in it.

However, Watson never has the chance to see how much cocaine Holmes had hidden in the satchel until he searches it in Freud's home; his surprise comes from the great number of bottles that he finds in the secret compartment in the bottom of the bag.

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