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Distant Drums picture

Continuity mistake: Lt. Richard Tufts arrived at Capt. Quincy Wyatt's camp. A child walks up to him and starts checking his cavalry sword out. The position of the kid's hands keep changing between shots, and when Monk tells him he's the son of the captain, Tufts' hand is suddenly on the handle of the saber. (00:07:10)

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The Frisco Kid picture

Continuity mistake: While pointing his pistol at Matt Diggs, the Rabbi cocks the pistol's hammer. A split second later from another angle, the pistol's hammer is down.

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Against a Crooked Sky picture

Continuity mistake: When Molly dismounts her horse near the end of the movie the blanket slides off. A second later the blanket appears back on the horse.

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The Great Silence picture

Continuity mistake: Throughout the stagecoach scene (when Silence meets the Sheriff and Loco) the number of horses attached to the back of the coach changes a number of times. Sometimes there is one horse, sometimes two. (00:25:44)

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The Kid picture

Continuity mistake: The front view of Sheriff Garrett [Ethan Hawke] while he is talking to Billy shows a stone-walled well between him and the cabin door, but there's no well visible in the rear view. When Billy walks out with his hands up, there appears to be a well to his right (where the horse rail should be visible), but there is no well when Sara and Rio exit the cabin. (00:14:04 - 00:15:10)

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Old Yeller picture

Continuity mistake: When Travis finds Arliss and Old Yeller in the drinking water, he throws a rock at Old Yeller. Old Yeller is wet all over. Arliss then throws a rock back at Travis, and a chase ensues. After their mother breaks up the fight, she admonishes Travis. Travis then says something to Old Yeller. Old Yeller is lying on the ground dry as he can be. He was just in the water a little over a minute ago, yet there is no sign of wetness at all in his fur. (00:15:45 - 00:17:11)

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The Cariboo Trail picture

Continuity mistake: At the saloon, Jim brushes off Mr. Walsh and walks out on him. Walsh turns to Francie the bartender, who suddenly is holding the bottle that was undisturbed on the counter a moment before. (00:17:25)

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Bugs Bunny Rides Again picture

Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam enters the saloon, there are swinging doors behind him. When he orders "all of you skunks" to "clear outta here", the other cowboys leave but the doors to the saloon have disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning, Belle dismounts from the horse and gets in front of Mammy Lou. Her hands are lowered in the wide angle but raised in the closer view. (00:04:00)

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Continuity mistake: There is no barn to the left of MacMasters' house (otherwise, it would be visible from the front porch), but when Albert runs from the side of the porch into the open, there is a barn. When Britt got home, there was a barn but it was not where it would have been when Albert was running from Jed's gang. (00:09:10 - 00:10:18)

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Continuity mistake: Joe Bass, freshly robbed by the Indians, is asking the slave "You come a long way from home, you ran away?" In his hand is a bottle of liquor with the cork on. Change shot, the bottle is open. New change, and now the bottle is closed again. (00:08:00)

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Bite the Dust picture

Continuity mistake: Dutch's body is at an angle to, and at least a foot away from Rosemary's, when he tells her she should move. The camera switches to a front view, and they are already shoulder-to-shoulder (linearly) with her left arm through his right elbow. (00:17:00)

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The Oklahoma Kid picture

Continuity mistake: When Cagney jumps onto the train in a wide shot, the steel car at his back is visibly taller than the wooden car he is facing. In the following close-up, the steel car has morphed into a shorter wooden car, same height as the other.

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