Deliberate mistake: Riccardo is a stowaway on the ship, but he was standing on the dock when it pulled away.
A Night at the Opera (1935)
1 deliberate mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Starring: Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Harpo is climbing out of the brig and goes to the open window of the famous aviators, he is shown climbing in the room from the outside with the rope he's climbing on draped across his chest. When he gets into the room the rope has disappeared!
Otis B. Driftwood: That's the fire escape. And, uh... that's a table, and this is a room, and there's the door leading out, and I wish you'd use it, I... I vant to be alone.
Henderson: You'll be alone when I throw you in jail.
Otis B. Driftwood: Isn't there a song like that, Henderson?
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