Corrected entry: John Wayne is standing on frount porch of ranch house smoking a cigar and speaking to his niece who is visting from the East. He takes the cigar from his in his left hand and attempts to open a pocket watch. If you watch carefully you can see him flinch as the lit cigar burns his left hand.
Corrected entry: In the original movie and in the sequel "Beneath", it is established the ape civilization has its own alphabet. However, the peace protesters attempting to block the Ape army from leaving Ape City have protest signs written in English.
Correction: Taylor spends a large part of the first movie communicating with Zira and Cornelius in written English. At no point is it established that the Apes have a different alphabet.
Corrected entry: Clint Eastwood drives his jeep up to Telly Savalas who asks where Eastwood has been. Shot changes to over Savalas' shoulder, and look at Eastwood. At the rear of the jeep, immediately behind Eastwood and in the middle of dozens of fatigue clad GIs, a crew member in a button-down striped shirt fiddles with something for a few seconds before glancing up at Savalas and then walking out of the frame. (00:20:20)
Correction: Don't think this is crew - refugees are also walking with soldiers in background.
Corrected entry: The Prussians are shown as wearing black with the Death's Head logo. In fact they wore dark blue. The uniforms shown were worn by Brunswickers who fought with Wellington.
Correction: The Prussian 2nd Life Hussars wore black with the death head badge. Other Prussian Hussar regiments also had green and brown uniforms as well as blue.
Corrected entry: When the Dutchess and kittens meet O'Malley's gang, the floor collapses. Isn't it funny how fast the floor was rebuilt just in time for the cats to go to bed?
Correction: It's not unusal for a part of a floor to give way. there is nothing to say that the entire floor went.
I imagine it as a piano-sized hole in the floor.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Major Frank Burns is taken away, there is a shot of an American flag with 50 stars. During the Korean War, the flag had only 48 stars.
Correction: There is a scene where Maj. Frank Burns is taken away where a flag is seen flying. However, it is a 48-star flag. Every other shot of a flag in the film is also a 48-star flag. There is never a 50-state flag seen and this entry is just wrong.
Corrected entry: Just before the Battle of the Bulge sequence, Patton states that "No German army has staged a winter offensive since Frederick the Great." Either Patton or the screenwriter thus chose to overlook the World War I Battle of Verdun, which Germany launched on Feb. 21, 1916. This is quite an oversight, since many historians consider Verdun the most titanic battle of all time.
Correction: Patton is not referring to some sort of seasonal notation marked on a calendar but of actual weather conditions. The battle of Verdun was actually postponed because of winter like conditions at the scheduled start date of the attack. The Germans waited until weather improved to launch that attack.
Corrected entry: After the Opana radar operators call in their discovery of the approaching planes and are told "don't worry about it" they turn off the radar station. In the actual attack they stayed there all during the attack, and even tracked the planes returning to the carriers, thereby locating the exact position of the Japanese fleet. This information was also ignored by the command center.
Correction: They shut down the radar station at 7 am, almost an hour before the attack began, so there's no way they stayed there.
Corrected entry: Custer is shown being killed by arrows hitting him, but in reality he killed by bullets: one in the chest and one in the head.
Correction: True as that may be, this movie does not claim historical accuracy, so consider this artistic license on the part of the filmmakers.
Corrected entry: The Duke knocks the bad guy about in his ranch house. He ends up on the floor with his legs ablaze from a fallen kerosene lamp. When they walk outside after his confession the bad guy's trousers are unmarked.
Correction: In that next scene we see Sergeant Major Gorman threading a belt through his trousers. He's obviously changed his pants (although putting pants over burned flesh should have been incredibly painful).
Corrected entry: The sheriff gets a call at night in bed that makes him go to a store and look for his deputy, suspecting foul play and shows up completely dressed in uniform. If he suspected his deputy was in trouble, he wouldn't have taken the time to put on his uniform.
Correction: He still would have to dress himself before leaving, and putting on the uniform would be the same as any other clothes.
Corrected entry: In the scene on the airplane, Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are first seen sitting on the right side of the cabin, and later sitting on the left.
Correction: During the flight, as they are approaching New York, George pulls Gwen to the opposite side of the plane to get a better view of the city skyline and they sit in two empty seats on that side. They remained in those seats when they were told to fasten their seat belts. You could do such things in 1970, when strict seating assignment was not enforced and planes were often flying with many empty seats.
Corrected entry: In the arraignment scene where Cromwell charges King Charles with treason, he refers to him as "King Charles the FIRST". This title would only be used retroactively, as it pre-supposes that there was a successor also named Charles. e.g.Queen Victoria was not known as Queen Victoria the FIRST.
Correction: She most certainly was, just as the first Queen Elizabeth was referred to as Queen Elizabeth the First during her reign - and just as Charles was referred to as King Charles the First during his reign. Do you think that having had eight King Henries they hadn't worked out the rules of succession by the time someone called Charles got to the throne?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Barnabas has just been released from his coffin, he chases Daphne down the street and she gets into her car and just as she is trying to lock the passenger door, Barnabas opens that door and grabs her. There is only one problem: this is a man who only opened doors in the 18th century. How did he know how a car door opens and figure it out instantly?
Correction: A door handle is pretty easy to figure out just by looking at it, especially one which has a handle and plunger button. They also had latch-type doors since earlier than the 18th century, so he's familiar with the principle. Besides which, he could have also observed Daphne using the door to get into it.
Corrected entry: Dean Martin requests a "PAR" approach to Lincoln. The controller confirms the requested "Precision Radar Approach" whose acronym is "PRA" not "PAR."
Correction: While the acronym is PAR since the term is technically "Precision Approach Radar", the term "precision radar approach" is commonly used, even in FAA documents I found in a Google search to describe the same thing, so having the controller use that term would be appropriate and understood by all the parties. Basically, one is the system (PAR), and one is the action (radar approach).
Corrected entry: When John Voight's character has the egg in his hand and is explaining the profits that can be made, the egg is suddenly gone as he begins walking away. When Bob Newhart's character has been promoted to Major, he is in his office trying to get away from those wishing to see him, the picture on the wall behind his desk changes 2 or 3 times.
Correction: The director comments on the deliberate changing of the picture on the wall in the commentary on the DVD. I think it changes from Roosevelt to Churchill to Stalin although I'm not entirely sure.
Corrected entry: In the scene at Scrooge's office when his nephew comes to invite him to Christmas dinner, the lighting outside the front door is dimmer than the lighting coming in from the back windows.
Correction: Why is this a film mistake? There is a stronger light source at the back of the house than there is at the front. Not a mistake.
Corrected entry: The doomed playboy has a small round picture frame with a photo of the heroine. The glass is cracked with the crack running top to bottom. Later, Dracula's henchman takes the frame but the crack runs across the glass side to side. Still later, the henchman takes the frame out of his pocket & the crack is again top to bottom.
Correction: This could be because the glass is sliding around in the round frame.
Correction: Most people would flinch when burned with a lit cigar. It's not a mistake, but an example of less-than-perfect coordination, something that happens every day in real life, to real people.
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