Corrected entry: In a scene where the principles are standing in front of a car, the license plate is yellow with a white sticker in the upper right corner that is for the year. However license plates back then did not have stickers for the expiration year. Those plates had the year as part of the plate itself. those plate were replaced each year. There was no such thing as an expiration sticker as we have now. And this mistake is repeated several times throughout the movie.
Gangster Squad (2013)
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Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi
Factual error: In a scene where the nightclub singer with the tropical fruit headwear is on stage, she is singing into a classic RCA 77D microphone which is correct for the period, but in a mistake often made in movies that are set in this era, the microphone is wrongly positioned. It is leaning toward the singer when in fact this type of mic is spoken to from the side, not the end. To work correctly it was always pointed away from the singer or placed in a vertical position for side pickup. (01:06:15)
Grace Faraday: Where have you been all my miserable life?
Sgt. Jerry Wooers: Drinking.
Grace Faraday: That's no profession.
Question: When the sharp shooter said to Ramirez, "That's my boy", was that meant to imply that Ramirez is actually his son?
Chosen answer: No, this is explained when O'Mara recruits Kennard. Kennard says that nobody would work with Ramirez because of his Latino heritage, so Kennard took him under his wing. And while he did that, he also taught Ramirez to shoot just as good he can, because before that, Ramirez was a lousy shot.
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Correction: Those aren't stickers. The year section was silver in 1949.