Continuity mistake: During the final fight between Street and Chaney, Chaney's shirt rests on the car's front in different ways between shots; you can tell for instance when they struggle by the car (a moment before the shot when Speed yanks Poe out of the way). The shirt shows its buttons; a minute later they are back fighting by the car and the shirt is folded the other way. (01:24:45 - 01:25:40)
Continuity mistake: When Speed tells Gandil that he's always going to smell like fish, the moustached henchman in the background is holding the coat with one arm, but at the cut he is holding it over both crossed arms. (01:21:50)
Continuity mistake: Chaney walks away from Street, Gandil and Jim Henry turning down the fight offer; the balls on the billiard table change positions between shot and reverse angle. (01:10:35)
Continuity mistake: When Speed proposes a toast to "The Napoleon of Southern sports"; Bronson is looking at him with his shoulders straight, but the next shot shows him leaning back to the railing. (00:55:30)
Continuity mistake: The good guys are celebrating at a club after winning the fight with Gandil's man. Speed says "Hey, Chaney." Bronson and Jill Ireland are sitting down normally, but in the reaction shot on them, Jill Ireland suddenly has her arm on the back of the seat. (00:54:35)
Continuity mistake: When Gayleen looks at Speed gamble away his winnings, her hand is on, then off the table. (00:56:50)
Continuity mistake: When Chaney takes care of the 'in-betweens' at the end of the movie, the light is different in the separate angles with James Coburn holding the money, and so is the angle the bills are tilted at. (01:29:20)
Continuity mistake: Before the final fight, the bad guys come out of the room at the top of the oyster plant office building. They release Speed and he walks towards the stairs. The evil enforcer Street comes out of the door in the first shot, walks a few steps, then in the next wider angle we see Speed walking down the stairs but Street is still inside and comes out only a moment later. (01:20:35)
Continuity mistake: Speed has the loan shark at his neck. The night after they damage his car, he is waiting Poe and Chaney at the dock. There is a car behind him, and the people by the vehicle change between shots. (01:04:05)
Continuity mistake: When Poe is trying to impress his rather unflappable date referencing the more famous eponymous Edgar Allan, she holds the glass of wine at different height when she sighs that she surely will hear about it, and Poe's gesticulating leaves his finger raised or lowered depending on the shot. (00:55:35)
Continuity mistake: Pettibon's fighter tries to cheapshot Chaney at the very beginning, but Chaney has none of it and counters. Cut to a longshot, and you can see that Gayleen who was clinging to Speed's arm is nowhere near, and Speed himself holds the coat and hat in a much different way. (00:33:55)
Continuity mistake: Gandil and his men leave the cage as Chaney and Jim Henry begin their fight. The weasely bookie grabs the cage above the thick horizontal bar in one shot, but his hand is below the bar in the next shot. (00:49:25)
Continuity mistake: When Chaney sends one of Pettibon's guys flying over the pool table, Pettibon is standing dumbfounded with a beer in hand holding it at different height between shots. Likewise, the man that is hunched to the right of the screen casts on the wall a shadow in a different position between shots. (00:37:55)
Continuity mistake: When Pettibon angrily throws his hat seeing his man got KO'd, the reactions and positions of the people around him change noticeably between shots - look for instance at the lanky aide who walks towards the fallen fighter and how he begins to walk at different times, being in different positions. (00:35:25)
Continuity mistake: Chaney and Speed and his girlfriend drive to the country festival where the fight with Pettibon's guy will take place. When they come out of the car, you can see it's exceptionally dusty. Practically covered. However, when they drive away after being effectively robbed of the fight purse, the car is clean - you can spot the contrast looking at the back of the car when they drive away; it's all grimy when the gangsters are laughing them off, and it cuts to a spotless trunk. (00:32:00 - 00:36:00)
Continuity mistake: When Henry and Chaney struggle for position with Chaney's arm under the brute's chin, Robert Tessier's right hand is grabbing the cage much higher at first, then head-high. (00:51:45)
Continuity mistake: Speed and Poe crash the fancy party to set up the bet for 3 grands. James Coburn chews up a toast (and the scenery) saying he'll take Chick Gandil's odds. He chewed the toast whole, but at the next cut the toast reappears in his other hand, previously free. (00:43:35)
Continuity mistake: Chaney beats up the gangster who attacks him in the bar brawl and sends him over the pool table - he does it twice with different timings in two separate shots. (00:37:45)
Continuity mistake: Speed arranges on the phone Chaney's first fight in New Orleans against Mr. Pettibon's man. The people you see walking through the doors of the barbershop never carry over from one shot to the next. (00:30:00)
Continuity mistake: When Chaney gets his cup of coffee at the diner where he spots Lucy Simpson for the first time, the cup turns on its own between shots, as shown by the position of its handle The cup faces away from him again at the end of the sequence when he decides to go be a manly man and molest her. (00:14:50)
