When John is in the grave, Tonto wipes some sand over him after he knocks him out. Moments later, when Tonto and the white horse are standing over him, the sand is gone. The sand returns later, when the white horse is swiping over John's badge.
The sheriff and his deputies ride up to the train station on one set of horses. After the runaway train goes through the station, they ride off on a different set of horses.
During the confrontation in the railroad car where Cole and the Ranger are each trying to persuade Captain Fuller, Cole walks forward saying slaughter of the innocents, their blood on your hands, until he is right next to the Ranger's gun. Next scene he is no longer next to the Ranger's gun but further away.
In the final train scenes when Tonto is standing on the last silver car it collides with the braking engine and Tonto falls back, inertia would have caused him to fall forward.
In the first runaway train, when they reach the end of the line the train grabs a wire spool and it shows the wire being torn from the first pole which should have started a chain reaction of wire being torn from the poles away from the train, however, in the next scene it shows the wire being torn from the poles running toward the train.
The Wendigo is from the legends of the Algonquian nations, which the Comanche are not part of.
Although the hymn "Shall we Gather at the River" is an homage to John Ford's use of it in so many of his Westerns, it is inconsistent with the church woman's declaration that, "We are Presbyterians". This hymn was written by Baptist Pastor Robert Lowry, in 1864. It is extremely unlikely that a hymn that pays tribute to the Baptism of adult believers by submersion would be sung by Presbyterians that believe in infant Baptism by sprinkling.
On the roof of the runaway train, John and Tonto are confronted by an outlaw, so they swing on their chain around a trackside pole, and return to hit a second outlaw. The man was only one car behind, and the train was traveling fast enough that he should've been well out of reach.
During the locomotive chase scene several times the actor pushes forward on the throttle to speed up the steam engine. Steam engine throttles work the opposite way. You pull the throttle to speed up and push forward to slow down.
In the early run away train (as well as other RR scenes) the railroad ties are the current type, cut to uniform length\width and treated wood not the plain logs that were used at the time period of the movie.
Although the plot is inspired by the construction of the first trans-continental railroad in the U.S., the film is clearly not meant to be an accurate representation of the event. Therefore artistic liberties were taken, such as creating the fictional "Transcontinental Railroad Corporation" and relocating the point of completion to Texas rather than Utah.
The setting for movie is supposed to be Texas, yet it shows Monument Valley which is in Utah. This is an allusion to the John Ford movies which frequently used this valley as a "stand-in" for old Texas.
The dead crow's head and neck fall back limply when Tonto picks it up. They should be stiff with rigor mortis.
CORRECTION: Not so. Rigor mortis is from the body's muscles firming up from chemicals released. This reaches the peak in 12 hours and dissipates in about 48hrs making the body limp again.
CORRECTION: Not so. Rigor mortis is from the body's muscles firming up from chemicals released. This reaches the peak in 12 hours and dissipates in about 48hrs making the body limp again.
A man dressed like the Lone Ranger shoots Collins dead, saving Rebecca and Danny. In the next scene Tonto and the Lone Ranger are looking for Rebecca and Danny. However, later the man is revealed to have been Cole, not the Lone Ranger.
At the street market, Rebecca looks at herself in a hand mirror, but the reflection does not look back at her.
As the slow-motion bullet is tumbling toward John, you can clearly see there is no primer in the cartridge.
When the Ranger and Tonto are buried in the sand, the Ranger says Worse, how could this be worse, its obvious the sand is attached to some form of backing.
After Silver pulls John Reid out from being buried next to Tonto in the Indian village, Reid mounts Silver from the right side. Though this may be occasionally done, most horses, as explained to Strother Martin in "McLintock!", are mounted from the left.
When the army captain shoots at Tonto on the roof of the train carriage and then later at John Reid on the other train, he fires more than fifty shots from his two revolvers without reloading. Similarly, John Reid returns the captain's fire, firing more than six shots from his revolver, without reloading. This is likely a tribute to classic westerns where weapons had an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.
In the opening scene at the fair, the young boy dressed as a cowboy is eating peanuts and putting them in his mouth right out of the bag. Fairs and carnivals do not sell shelled peanuts, as evidenced at the 2:54 mark when he is startled by the Indian coming to life and drops his bag of peanuts to the ground, revealing them to, indeed, be unshelled.
After Tonto puts the cartridge with the silver bullet into his single action revolver and spins the cylinder putting the cartridge in position to be fired when he pulls back the hammer, he then releases the hammer and moments later re-cocks it. This would then put the silver bullet cartridge no longer under the hammer when should the trigger be pulled.
At the mine when Cavendish gets cut with the cut-throat razor, the wound doesn't drip blood.
Twist-up lipstick was invented in 1923.
The American Flag had 37 stars in 1869, not 50.
Texas was under reconstruction in 1869, and the Rangers had been disbanded. They were re-organized in 1872.
A character refers to "Oklahoma". In 1869, it was known as Indian Territory.
This movie is set in 1869, but numerous characters carry Colt 1873 Army Revolvers, Winchester 1873 Rifles, and Smith and Wesson 1875 Model #3 Revolvers.
The manhunt scene shows a raven in flight, followed by the sound of a crow.
The vultures in the burial scene are a European species not found in North America.