The small round table in the rail car parlor has a flip-over top, revealing a map of the area. The wine decanter and glasses all stay attached when it flips down. At the end of the show, Jim flips it right side up. None of the items move including the seemingly full wine decanter, 3 wine glasses, a miniature brass cannon, and a full cup of a dark solid. While turning upright, none of the liquids or objects move, but after the reset (to put the real objects onto the table), there is no effort in picking up the decanter or glasses, the wine is fluid & not as full, & the coffee/tea is liquid again.
In the final fight scene, Major Hazard is shot while standing on the water tower. As he falls, he apparently lands on a recessed pad, in the next shot he is above ground and being covered by the gold.
When West leaves Moseley's house with the clock, his hat is visibly sitting on what is the front of the clock (now facing up) where the pendulum used to be visible. When the clock is brought into the train car, the hat is down inside the clock, and when West removes it, there is no glass to hold the hat up, and the hat comes out easily when West takes it - so why was it sitting on top (and not down inside) when the clock was carried out of Moseley's house?
The small round table in West's railcar parlor has a flip-over top with secret maps hidden on the underside. The wine decanter and glasses all stay attached when it flips. But impossibly, when West turns the tabletop back over at the end, there's a full cup of coffee sitting on it.
In the setup Colonel Mosely uses to incinerate West in place of the Colonel, the use of the clock's minute hand, even with a sharp edge on the hand, to cut the thin rope is highly unlikely. The minute hand makes contact with the rope as if it were chopping the rope, not slicing. There would be insufficient force to chop the rope in this instance because the clock mechanism is only designed to move the minute and hour hands at the prescribed speed, which would not be fast enough to chop the rope. Also, the distance from the center of the clock face (where the clock mechanism turns the hands) reduces the force or leverage of the minute hand where it would be chopping the rope. The worst that would happen is that the minute hand of the clock would be stopped, while the hub it is attached to would continue to turn. In clocks and watches, the hands are not usually mechanically attached to their respective hubs, but merely press-fit in place, allowing them to be popped off easily (or, as in this case, allowing the hub to spin while the hand is held by the rope).
After West is drugged, he awakes and figures out the booby-trapped clock. However, the hands of the clock are mounted on the hub with simple pressure, and would not have enough leverage (even if it were razor-sharp) to cut through the rope used to suspend the weight. Even if the rope were mounted almost at the center of the clock face (very close to the hub), it is doubtful that the hand of the clock would have sufficient force to cut the rope.
The pivot point of the pendulum in the clock is well below the clock mechanism, approximately where the bottom wooden trim surrounding the clock face is. In this position, the pendulum would not be at the correct location to advance the clock mechanism properly. Also, when West shoots the pendulum (stopping the clock), in reality, there is a high probability that the clock mechanism, now free of the restraining influence of the pendulum, would actually race, and (assuming the minute hand of the clock had sufficient force to actually cut the rope) actually set the booby trap off prematurely.
The wrist manacles that are used on West and Moseley are not tight enough to hold them (they could easily slip their hands out).
During the climactic fight scene, Jim West's famously tight trousers rip apart in the crotch, amply revealing his very 20th-century white jockey briefs. A few shots later, the rip mends itself and the pants are split down the right outer seam instead.
One Of the Susquehanna men removes a stone from an arch in the sewers (which is where they had a hiding place for their documents). But arches are load bearing and therefore would be held in place by the tension of their load (which means it would have been impossible to slide it out of place. Further, to successfully remove a part of a load bearing structure would have meant that the archway would have collapsed and brought the ceiling down on top of everyone in this scene.
The lamps used underground are battery powered and not lit with fire.
At least one, if not two, of the floats are NOT being pulled by horses, revealing that instead they are being driven (undoubted) by internal combustion engine vehicles.
Jim is lead to an entrance to a sewer system underneath New Orleans. But the water table is high in Louisiana, particularly New Orleans. Such a sewer under New Orleans would have been perpetually flooded.
In the opening sequence, 20th Century New Orleans jazz is heard being played during Mardi Gras.
During the opening sequence, there are sausage balloons present, which wouldn't be invented until 1912. Additionally, it wasn't until the 1930s that clowns would be passing out sausage balloons.
During the Mardi Gras parade, a truck tire is visible under the rear of one of the floats .
Early on when West first meets Major Hazard he says to Hazard, "The job of a good soldier is not to die for his country. The job of a good soldier is to make his enemies die for theirs." This sounds like just a paraphrase of part of the famous speech given by Gen. George Patton to his troops of the 3rd Army in the spring of 1944. Actually Patton's was a re-wording of quotes dating back to 1883 (and the passage from 1883 was only slightly similar to what West says {"The muster-roll of the dead may be a monument of governmental incapacity as well as a certificate of patriotism and courage. It is always glorious for the other man to die for his country,-at least the survivor says so; but the fact that his life has been needlessly thrown away is calculated to throw some doubt on the subject. A civilized nation cannot afford to throw away a single life." - 1883 December, The United Service: A Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs, Volume 9, Standing Armies a Necessity of Civilization by Captain James Chester, Third Artillery, Start Page 658, Quote Page 664, Published by L. R. Hamersly & Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.}). Since TWWW was set in the period of 1869-77, there is a very good likelihood that West was unaware of this quote or that he thought up a quote more similar to Patton's on the spot.
This story centers around the former commandant of the Confederate Susquehanna prisoner of war camp, presumably modeled after the infamous Andersonville camp, where thousands of Union prisoners lived in inhumane conditions. However, every geographical association with the name "Susquehanna" is located in the North and would therefore be an impossible location for a Confederate camp.
Prisoner Of War camps during the Civil War were named after their location (ie Andersonville in Georgia, Point Lookout in Maryland). The Confederate Susquehanna Prisoner Of War Camp would have been named after the Susquehanna River (and therefore located near it), which starts in New York, goes through Pennsylvania, and ends in Maryland at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. These areas were well within Union territory, NOT Confederate Territory. Instead such a so named Prisoner Of War camp would have had to have been a Union camp. The writers should have chosen a Southern River for their fictitious Prisoner Of War camp, such as James (VA), Cape Fear (NC), or even St. Francis (Ark.).