Revealing mistake: In the hotel meeting scene, the Grand High Witch tells the witches they can take their wigs off. When we see the newly bald witches, it is particularly obvious that only the foreground witches are ladies with bald caps - the rest of the witches are bald men. (00:30:10 - 00:31:00)
The Witches (1990)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling
Mouse Luke pours the formula into the soup that all the witches (including the grand high witch) eat, they all turn into mice and are killed by the hotel employees. Luke goes back to the grand high witch's room and puts a mail tag on a trunk full of the money that was supposed to be used to buy the sweet shops to turn children into mice. The trunk is sent to his grandmother's house. In the middle of the night, Miss Irvine comes and turns him back into a human, happy that she is now free from the grand high witch.
Hillary K.
More mistakes in The Witches
Grand High Witch: This stinking little carbuncle has had five hundred doses! Aha, we are having Instantaneous action.
Trivia: A lot of the witches who attend the Grand High Witches meeting are actually men dressed in women's clothing.
Question: When Miss Ernst says she wants Luke to be found, she screams that he must be eliminated, causing Miss Irvine to look shocked. Why would she react this way considering Miss Ernst's plan was to kill all the children in the world?
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Answer: She probably didn't know about her master plan, just about turning kids into mice. Most likely she thought they'd be kept in locked cages and held prisoners.
During the meeting, Miss Ernst says that every child in England must be "Rubbed out. Destroyed." A clear indication that she was talking about killing the children after they get turned into mice but, Miss Irvine doesn't seem shocked or upset after hearing this.