The Brain That Wouldn't Die

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

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Revealing mistake: When the blonde stripper slaps the brunette slapper, for calling her "leftovers," in the closeup of the brunette being slapped, the hand is that of a male; very rough and hairy, and not the blonde stripper's.

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Continuity mistake: In the dressing room scene at the stripper bar, the blonde stripper has a bracelet on her right wrist, but near the end of the scene when she is on the floor wrestling with the brunette, the bracelet is on her left wrist.

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Continuity mistake: After Dr. Cortner finds Kurt dead in the laboratory, he pulls his neck tie and it loosens, hanging down. In the next close view the neck tie is shown neatly tied back again, and is then back to hanging loosely.

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Continuity mistake: After Dr. Cortner has covered up Kurt's body, he goes to the closet and his sleeves are buttoned. He shuts the door with his right hand and his sleeve is unbuttoned, then re-buttoned.

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Revealing mistake: After Kurt has had his arm torn off by the monster in the closet, in various following scenes the bulge of the arm being hidden underneath Kurt's jacket is very blatant.

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Continuity mistake: Before the blonde and brunette stripper get into their scuff and wrestle, two chairs are seen in the room, one by the sofa and one by the mirror. By the time they fight, they chairs have vanished.

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Continuity mistake: Kurt has his arm ripped off by the monster which lives in the closet. He then staggers about, and smears blood over a chair by the entrance. Later on, when seen, the chair is now clean and blood-free.

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Continuity mistake: Before the brunette stripper is slapped, she is seen taking off her white glove, yet when she is slapped and she puts her hand to her face her glove is back on.

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Continuity mistake: As Dr. Cortner is preparing to operate on Jane, to give her a new body, he has rubber gloves on as he places the tape over Jane's mouth. As he sterilizes his hands the gloves are momentarily missing, then back.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Cortner and the blonde stripper enter the backstage room, there is a coat rack visible in the room, which disappears when the two strippers wrestle, presumably to give them room to roll around.

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Dr. Cortner: The Superintendent had it out with me. He thinks it's you who's been stealing those limbs from the amputee operations.
Dr. Bill Cortner: So what if it is?

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