Race With the Devil

Race With the Devil (1975)

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Continuity mistake: When Alice and Kelly decide to go to the library after finding the witches' rune in the back window of the RV, Alice is holding the rune in her hand, but when she turns around and puts her hat and coat on, it is now Kelly who is holding the rune.

Continuity mistake: In the shot of the RV driving on the road after the construction worker advised them to keep moving, look inside the RV and Frank and Roger are wearing their sunglasses, which they weren't wearing in the previous shot.

Continuity mistake: When Kelly realises that the tow-truck behind the RV is the one she saw at the gas station during the chase sequence towards the end of the movie, she is standing by the table top. In a close-up of Frank in the next shot, Kelly has turned around, but when we cut to Roger in the next shot, she is now looking straight ahead.

Revealing mistake: During the chase sequence towards the end of the movie, Roger throws fire bombs using to eliminate one of the cars that are pursuing the RV. If you look carefully, the car starts to flip before the explosion.

Continuity mistake: When the man has finished ripping out the patched-up window on the RV during the chase sequence towards the end of the movie, he is holding a crowbar in his left hand. When Roger shoots him, the crowbar has disappeared.

Continuity mistake: The RV is seen travelling through open fields when Roger tells Frank that the girls are getting tired and want to stop, yet before Frank finds a secluded area to stay for the night, the RV is on a bridge over water.

Continuity mistake: When the starter waves the flag to start the speedway race, there are five bikers on the starting line and you can see the biker next to Roger's left is wearing a yellow crash helmet. When Roger takes the lead just seconds later, the driver next to him is now the one wearing a red crash helmet.

Continuity mistake: When the group enter the RV after they find Ginger has been killed, Roger crouches down in front of Kelly and you can see that she is sitting upwards on her seat, but in the very next shot Kelly is now being consoled by Alice.

Continuity mistake: When the RV leaves the area after Frank and Roger intruded on the witches' sacrificial ceremony, Frank says to Alice "We saw somebody murdered!" and you can see behind Alice, Kelly is putting on her dressing gown. But in a close-up of Alice in the next shot, Kelly is nowhere to be seen.

Continuity mistake: When Roger shoots the man who is trying to break into the back of the RV, you can see there are pieces of broken glass around the edge of the window, but when we see the man falling onto the grass in the next shot, the pieces have disappeared.

Continuity mistake: When Alice turns the handle to prevent the man from pouring gasoline into the vent of the RV, the man picks up both of his pouches. But when we see a close-up of the vent in the next shot, he is now holding one pouch.

Continuity mistake: When Roger, Kelly and Alice are tidying up the RV after the first showdown with the cult members, Alice picks up two packets of food from the table top. In the next shot, she is now holding a tin.

Continuity mistake: After Roger has finished burying Ginger, he puts his spade down by her grave. In the next shot, the spade is behind Roger, and in the shot after that, it is back by the grave again.

Audio problem: When Kelly yells "Frank!" when the Satanists are breaking into back of the RV, her mouth does not move.

Continuity mistake: When Roger parks his bike after winning the race, there is initially nothing behind him, but when he takes his helmet off in the next shot, bike No. 39 has appeared.

Continuity mistake: In one shot of the speedway race at the beginning of the film, Roger and the other four bikers are bunched up together, but when Roger comes around the corner, the gap between them has increased.

Continuity mistake: During the chase sequence towards the end of the film, Roger shoots five bullets into the windscreen of the blue car. But when the car comes to a rest on the grass after doing several flips, there are no holes in the windscreen.

Continuity mistake: When Roger says "Quack, quack" to Frank after his accident at the pond, Roger lowers the visor of his crash helmet down. In the next shot, the visor is back up, and when we see Roger driving off in the shot after that, it is back down again.

Audio problem: When Frank says "Stay away from it!" whilst trying to shoot the truck during the chase sequence towards the end of the film, his mouth doesn't move.

Continuity mistake: When the librarian tells Alice and Kelly that they can't take out the reference books from the library, Alice can be seen putting her hand in her handbag and Kelly is holding her handbag by her leg. In the next shot, Alice has her handbag back on her shoulder and Kelly is holding her handbag and putting her hand in it.

Gas Station Attendant: What the hell happened to your van here? Your back window is all busted up.
Frank Stewart: I don't drive too well when I'm asleep.

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Trivia: The scene in which the blue car does several flips on the grass would later be used in the first season of the TV show "The Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors.

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