Stupidity: When Elena first sees the huge honeycombs in the giant beehive, she tells Herbert that they cannot possibly be honeycombs as they are much too big. Considering she spent the morning watching pitched battles with a crab the size of an elephant and a five meter tall baby bird, don't you think she might have grasped the concept of giant animals, birds, and insects by that stage?
Mysterious Island (1961)
1 stupidity
Directed by: Cy Endfield
Starring: Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Michael Craig, Gary Merrill
Factual error: It is barely credible that a young Victorian woman like Elena would even think about wearing a goatskin miniskirt - exposing her legs in those days would be akin to walking about topless nowadays. Even if she did those bright yellow cotton knickers - gleefully visible in the scene in the beehive - are in no way from the 1860s. Her pants are a hundred years ahead of their time.
Elena Fairchild: I'm going to ask Captain Harding to marry us.
Herbert Brown: That'd be wonderful, if he were only a minister, but he's not.
Elena Fairchild: He's a captain, and captains can marry people at sea.
Herbert Brown: He's a land captain, not a sea captain.
Elena Fairchild: Well, we're on land, aren't we?
Question: Considering how relatively small the island is and how big the bees are, what kind of plants and/or flowers would have enough pollen to supply the hive to produce the honey? (01:02:00)
Answer: Since that is never shown, any answer would be speculation.
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