Continuity mistake: When the German NCO begins to walk up the sand dune he has a stick grenade in his right boot. Next shot half way up the dune, the grenade has changed boots.
Big Red One (1980)
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Mark Hamill, Lee Marvin, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco
Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes of the film, Lee Marvin's character is speaking with an officer, who is shaving, in an underground bunker. As the scene switches from close-ups of the officer to pulled back shots, the shaving cream on the officer's upper lip appears and disappears.
Continuity mistake: At the concentration camp, Mark Hamill opens an incinerator door, several doors along the row, and repeatedly shoots the German hiding inside. As we are looking out from inside the incinerator Lee Marvin appears behind him and says "I think you got him". The shot changes to a wide view outside but they are now looking in a different door - one of the first ones in the row.
Griff: Hey did you ever figure out what those palm trees are doing way over here in Belgium?
Zab: Yeah, that monk had a yen for 'em.
Kaiser: Did I kill the guy that killed me?
The Sergeant: Yes.
The Sergeant: You're going to live, even if I have to blow your brains out.
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