Goofs

The monetary amount paid to the drivers is inconsistent throughout the film. The oil company first says they will pay "8,000 pesos to each driver". The drivers later demand double that amount (which would be 16,000 pesos). Later, when Scanlon crosses the rope bridge he boasts that the two of them will get "double shares of 20,000 a piece" (double shares would actually be 32,000 a piece). At the end, Scanlon is given a check for 40,000 dollars.

It would be futile to mount a suppressor on the revolvers because the sound still escapes through the gaps between the cylinder and barrel.

It is not possible to adjust or even measure valve play while an engine is running.

During the tree sequence, after the dynamite is lifted out of the wooden crate, it is kicked to the side and (apparently) falls off the tree. Weeping dynamite is leaking out the nitroglycerin as a liquid which will readily soak through untreated materials such as the wooden case, shelves upon which they sit and so on.

As illustrated in this scene, and earlier in the film when the boxes are being inspected, each wooden box has a lining of insulating paper, which the film shows to be watertight. When it is inspected early in the film, the worker places his hand within this paper barrier to get nitroglycerin on his fingers, and at the felled tree, this wrapping is not soaked through and is in fact strong enough to support the weight of the dynamite and liquid inside. Kassem uses a sharp stick to poke a hole in it, whereupon liquid nitroglycerin begins to flow out.

By the late 1970s, helicopters were routinely used to transport high explosives, even in Third World countries. Therefore, there would be no need to use a truck convoy.

The film explains precisely why a truck convoy is necessary. Unlike the transportation of stable explosives, the dynamite has not been regularly rotated and is thus leaking, and a helicopter would be too risky in this specific instance.

In Scanlon's first scene outside church wedding, he already has a very visible bruise on right jaw. It makes one question how he got it. It becomes apparent in the next scene that they must have filmed out of sequence. Also, his nose is obviously made up without a bridge bump, until later it's as if his natural nose is a result of the prior accident.

The bruise is only makeup, not an actual injury so they wouldn't have just happened to film this out of sequence in relation to the car accident. Just like the bride with the black eye, Scanlon's injury occurred previously and is meant to imply that he acquired it from the men he was now robbing, possibly because he and the bride were caught having an affair. The robbery was Scanlon's act of retribution.

One of the soldiers killed by Nilo is seen breathing and moving after dead.

When Sorcerer is attempting to cross the dilapidated wooden bridge, a shot of the outermost log falling away is used twice.

In the wide shots of the trucks crossing the bridge, the tow cables/anchor lines to the bridge can be seen going in and out of the water as the bridge rocks back and forth.

When the DC-3 plane lands on the dirt runway, a sound effect of squealing tires is used. Tires cannot squeal on dirt.