Goofs

In the opening scene, Sheriff Pangborn comes to the door of the "Dot" Restaurant. He has a band-aid around his index finger. When he gets inside of the restaurant, the band-aid has disappeared.

When Brian Rusk takes the box of apples to the Jerzyk farm, there is a purple liner under the apples. The liner is gone in the next shot of the inside of the box.

Brian throws apples at the windows of a house. The fifth apple breaks the top pane of a window. It is the same window that was broken by the kid's second apple, and is a re-used shot.

Brian Rusk throws apples at the windows of a house. There's a shot of the boy from inside the house and there are three small flowerpots visible on the window sill. When the apple smashes the window and knocks the pots off, the pots are different ones. One is much larger and the other is a glass jar.

There are inconsistencies in how Polly's arthritis is portrayed. When she introduces herself to Mr. Gaunt, she says she doesn't shake hands; later, she is unable to put on the silver charm; and the degree of her pain is frequently alluded to in dialog. However, she is shown carrying a nearly full coffee pot, carrying a cup and saucer, holding a phone receiver: a person with advanced arthritis would be unable to do any of those things.

When the sheriff goes to Gaunt's shop in the rain, we hear the sound of the car coming to a stop. It's dark outside and the car would have been travelling with headlights. However, no headlight glare is ever seen on the shop. When the sherif walks past the hood of the car, the hood is "popped", making it obvious this car was not driven in.

This is not a factual error on the part of "Polly" or the director(s) of the film. People with arthritic hands very often won't shake hands due to the unpredictability of the grip used by the other party. Squeezing the knuckles together, as is done in a handshake, can be excruciatingly painful to the arthritic and has no bearing on whether that same person might be able to lift and pour coffee from a pot.

Original post: There are inconsistencies in how Polly's arthritis is portrayed. When she introduces herself to Mr. Gaunt, she says she doesn't shake hands; later, she is unable to put on the silver charm; and the degree of her pain is frequently alluded to in dialog. However, she is shown carrying a nearly full coffee pot, carrying a cup and saucer, holding a phone receiver: a person with advanced arthritis would be unable to do any of those things.

When the shop explodes at the climax of the movie, Reverend Rose and Father Meehan take shelter behind a gravestone in the churchyard. The stone wobbles back and forth when the priest's shoulder bumps it.

During a flashback sequence that takes place in 1955, teenagers are driving around in a convertible as Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls Of Fire" blares from the car radio. Lewis recorded, and released the song October 8, 1957.

One man buys a first edition, signed copy of "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. In later scenes, he and the little girl who stole it refer to the title as "Huck Finn" by Mark Twain. In the video and DVD release, his words are dubbed over to correct the mistake. On the television broadcast, the mistake was not corrected. This is an audio mismatch and a continuity error, depending on which version you saw.

When Danforth "Buster" Keeton grabs Norris Ridgewick's ears in the police station, he yells, but his mouth doesn't move.

In the first scene with the Mercedes-Benz 300 old-timer, the (brake) lights of the filming car is visible in the chrome of the bumper.