Goofs

As Maverick leaves his room in the saloon he locks the door behind him. When he returns, he opens the door with his hands full and keys in his mouth.

On the steamboat, the door to Maverick's room is immovable when seen from within the room, but able to be budged when seen from outside.

As the stagecoach nears the women that were robbed, the horses switch from jogging to loping between shots.

Annabelle gives her dealer a $1000 chip in the poker tournament before the final table. This is common in cash games in which money is won after each hand. Unlike cash games however, tournament chips have no money value and cannot be exchanged for cash.

That scene was played for laughs.

When Maverick (Mel Gibson) wins his last hand of poker at his table (prior to the final round) the dealer stands up and shakes his hand. As he stands up, the chair is stuck to him. As he shakes Maverick's hand, he knocks the chair loose. He then turns and goes off camera, shaking his head and starting to laugh. This is clearly a blooper and there would have been a retake; the editor appears to have used the wrong take.

If it wasn't a comedy, that would be correct, but this was deliberately left in for laughs.

When Maverick is out in the desert about to be hung, you can see the rope goes over the branch of the tree and then comes down and is tied lower on the tree, as it would be normally. Seconds later when the branch breaks Maverick is free and the rope is no longer attached to the tree.

Obviously it broke. The trailing end is seen behind Ollie, Bret and the branch as they walk along.

In the first steamboat scene, while first traveling to the poker event, there is banter between Maverick and the other two main characters. The port steamboat paddle wheel is visible. Between supposedly continuous shots, the wheel's speed changes from very slow to quite fast. It happens several times.

That's steering. Same principle as a skid-steer. A quicker response than using the rudder. They could about-face if they could reverse one of the paddle wheels.

Before the campfire confrontation, Maverick agrees to give Annabelle forty percent of the reward money but after they capture the robbers she reminds him he owes her thirty percent.

They re-negotiated the split so many times, they both lost count. Besides, thirty percent of nothing is more than forty percent of nothing, so she came out ahead.

During the runaway coach sequence, the sky repeatedly changes from being overcast and cloudy to clear blue between shots.

At around 24:50, just after Bret has retrieved his wallet, the scene changes to a mirror image of the establishing shot of the town.

The playing cards used at the tournament have rounded corners as modern decks do instead of the period correct sharp corners

Contrail visible in the sky behind Joseph while the missionaries, Coop and Anabelle are watching Bret parlay with the Indians.

While Maverick is climbing over the runaway stage coach toward the dead driver, a car is visible in the upper right corner.[widescreen only]

When Maverick is talking to the women from the wagon train, a truck can be seen in the distance, traveling from left to right.

Cable marginally visible as Maverick flies over the edge of the cliff.

During the runaway stagecoach scene, another set of reins can be seen coming out from underneath the driver's perch. The hands of the hidden driver are sometimes briefly visible.