Goofs

Stewart instructs Senor Montero to hold the festivities on March 8th. His eventual invitation to the Grand Reception, however, is dated Thursday March 9th 1943.

When Col. Pugh gets up from watching the cricket match to go into the club, his drink goes from 3/4 full to half full between shots.

Roger Moore leaves GHQ, climbing into a jeep with his driver. The jeep has a radiotelephone antenna on the rear bumper. The same jeep turns into the gate of "Ministry of Economic Warfare", without the whip antenna.

The white Mercedes Pugh and Stewart use to kidnap Trompeta in, is a circa 1951 model.

The small black car Roger Moore drives to the beach is an English Ford Prefect, first made in 1948.

In the U-boat sequence at the beginning one of the officers is clean shaven. Submarine personnel on patrol did not shave until they reached their home part, and except on the outward passage, they would have a beard.

Force 136 wasn't called Force 136 until March 1944 a year after the events in the film occurred. It was called GS I(k)

The calendar page on the bulletin board in Bill's office starts on a Thursday when it should have started on a Friday in that month and year.

Underwater mines were attached to the German ships, but none of the underwater explosions set off sprays of water from below the surface of the water.

The setting of the film is WWII, but the haircut and clothes of most actors and extras are part of late-1970s fashion.

1970s cars can be seen in the parking lot at British Army HQ.

In the movie, Colonel Pugh carries a S&W Bodyguard revolver, a weapon that was not produced until 1955.

At the end of the movie, when Roger Moore is shown on the beach watching the Ehrenfels getting blown up the truck at the back is a Tata model which was not introduced until 1970s.

Amongst the vehicles the team uses at Goa is a grey Hillman Minx of a type not marketed until at least 1953.

Just after he has been shot in the left arm, Roger Moore's character, Gavin Stewart, levers himself up from the floor using that arm.

Gavin tells Lewis he "had no choice" but to kill Gupta, but he had easily disarmed Gupta and quickly immobilized him with a headlock. At that point he could have asked Mrs. Cromwell to get him something to bind and gag the smaller assailant.