Continuity mistake: Alva walks Owen out of the railway office. They pass by JJ and the local manager sitting in the street having their lunch, but in a POV shot that follows, they have yet to move past them. (01:00:00)
Continuity mistake: Robert Redford's shirt is heavily bloodstained in the close-ups after he gets beaten up, but has just a couple little blood drips before and after, when Alva helps him get up. (01:09:25)
Continuity mistake: Under the shower, Alva holds the envelope Owen gave her in two different ways that keep switching, depending on which take they used in editing. (01:19:05)
Continuity mistake: When Alva is listening to Mr. Johnson's proposal to get her a place of her own in Memphis, she does it with her left arm lowered, or up like she had it in the first part of the scene. (01:20:40)
Continuity mistake: Making the hard malt liquor toast, Alva shatters the glass of Mr. Johnson, but the glass is back whole in the rest of the scene. (01:21:20)
Continuity mistake: At the night club, when Alva faces her Mama hitting her hands away as she invites JJ to dance, she has her left arm down in the wider shots, but stretched out of frame in the closer view. (01:22:25)
Continuity mistake: Alva watches a street performance by a few kids. A man is leaning against a street lamp: he has his right arm up at first, then his arms are crossed. (01:29:00)
Continuity mistake: When Owen looks down Bourbon Street the day after he found the snowglobe, there are no cars parked on the opposite side of the road and two women are walking on that sidewalk. He crosses the street and now a car is parked and the passersby are different. (01:32:05)
Continuity mistake: Alva writes the postcard to Willie with the card perfectly aligned to the drawboard in the wider shots, but across the corner in the close-up. (01:40:55)
Continuity mistake: When Mama does the fateful reveal, in the close-ups she keeps the coat open, hands on the lapel, while in the wider angle she has it closed, hands in pocket. (01:45:25)
Factual error: Alva and Owen go see the movie "One Way Passage", released in October 1932. The movie takes places in August, the year is not stated explicitly, but there's a wall calendar in the dining room at the boarding house (you can see it when Legate leaves, calling himself a fink) for 1934, and at the same time the date shown in the office (when Redford sits at the desk to decide who will get pink slips) is August 14, Friday, which would set the movie in 1931.
