When the newspaper "The Daily Excess" is shown near the film's start, the second sentence of the first column is repeated as the first sentence of the second column.
An issue of "The Daily Express" from October 1931 refers to Adolf Hitler as "the new German Chancellor." However, Hitler did not become Chancellor of Germany until January 30, 1933.
A gramophone record of Noel Coward's "Nina" is played in the section before World War II breaks out. Coward didn't record the song until 1945.
A television aerial can be seen on the right hand rooftops in the external shot of the hotel that Adam and Nina stay at.
Although the issues of "The Daily Express" displayed throughout the film continually give the date as 1931, the outbreak of World War II is announced on the BBC. This event took place on September 3, 1939. Approximately eight years passed in the space of several months of the film's storyline.