Midnight Run

Corrected entry: In order to find out where Jack is, Marvin calls up the credit card company to find out where Jack last used his card. How did Marvin know the company he called would be the company that Jack has a card with?

Correction: He has the card number - of course he knows which card Jack has. It is clear from the script that the two men know everything there is to know about the other.

Corrected entry: There is no way Agent Mosely could not know that he didn't have his identification, he would need it to get in and out of FBI headquarters as well as it being standard procedure to show his identification when announcing that he is an agent.

Correction: Mosely never reaches for it when he meets the pilot. It's possible he knew it was missing off screen and figured he just misplaced it. Only after the pilot tells him that Walsh used his name does he and the other agent figure out where it really went.

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Plot hole: At the end of the film Mardukas reveals that he has been wearing a body belt packed with cash - "in the neighbourhood of three hundred thousand dollars" - ever since Jack detained him in New York. Are we to assume that Jack Walsh, an experienced, hard-bitten ex-police officer, now a bounty hunter who routinely chases down violent and armed bail absconders who would kill him without a second thought, didn't even perform a perfunctory search of Mardukas when he detained him? This man used to work for the Mafia! What if he was carrying a weapon? A body belt with three hundred one thousand dollar bills in it would be uncovered by even the most casual pat down.

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Suggested correction: He was using $1000 bills. That's 300 bills in the belt which spread evenly absolutely could have been missed near his waist as part of his clothing.

Rubbish. I specified $1,000 bills as that would be the smallest package he could have secreted about his person, and it would still be instantly detectable. If he used $100 bills the package would be ten times larger, and he would have to carry a rucksack under his shirt.

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Jimmy Serrano: Don't say a fucking word to me, Sidney. Don't you say a fucking word, or I will get up and bury this telephone in your head.

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Trivia

Trivia: Director Martin Brest has a cameo as the airline ticket clerk who asks Marvin if he would like a smoking or non-smoking seat.

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