Continuity mistake: When Thornhill is served a Martini in the train, check the toothpick and you'll see it keeps moving around between shots.
Sacha
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Other mistake: At the train station, the same red-haired woman in a green dress with two distinctive suitcases appears three times in different places despite her walking the opposite way. Sometimes she has a hat and others not.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill makes a call at the train station the cord of the phone is curled in the wide angle but straight in the close-up.
17th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When the CIA meets, the paper next to the professor changes positions between shots and a matchbox appears and disappears randomly.
15th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill is at the Plaza with his friends, a man grabs a drink and takes a sip while he places his left hand on the table. A shot later the glass is on the table and his left hand not.
15th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: Amount of people walking on the street changes drastically between the moment Thornhill is in the cab with his secretary to when he gets out.
13th Dec 2022
Goldeneye (1995)
Visible crew/equipment: At Q's lab, when Bond opens the car door a huge round stage light is reflected, which wans't there before in the previous opposite angle.
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Visible crew/equipment: When the crop duster and the truck are about to explode and the truck drivers run away, one can tell it's not Cary Grant watching the havoc but his stunt double because of his rounder face and slightly different hairstyle. Also confirmed by actress Eve Saint-Marie.
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Thornhill watches the road from the crop field, the way he holds the crop and how the leaves bend, differ between the front and back shots. Also, his hands disappear and the leaves swap between dry and green.
11th Dec 2022
North by Northwest (1959)
Continuity mistake: At the field, the first time Thornhill throws himself on the floor there's just a road with gravel. When he stands up there's suddenly hay everywhere.
6th Dec 2022
Commando (1985)
Continuity mistake: After Jenny is abducted and Matrix chases the bad guys, the windshield in his car swaps between very dirty and dusty in the wide angles to spotless in the close-ups. (00:15:10)
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the car park, when Bond activates the car-camera the phone screen shows the car next to Bond and the black and yellow column, but not Bond, despite him being in sight.
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Bond finishes testing the remote car he and Q stand close together in the front angles. In the wide angle from behind they stand half a meter away from each other. This swaps back and forth.
28th Nov 2022
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Bond is about to fire at the car park metal door there's no-one next to it. A shot later two guards can be seen in front of the door, running away.
28th Nov 2022
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Continuity mistake: Bond tells the kid he'll pay him 20,000 bahts if he manages to start the engine, which he does. Shot changes and the kid spreads his arms wide and smiles with joy. Back to the wide shot and his arms are closer together, and he has a worried look. (01:00:30)
28th Nov 2022
A View to a Kill (1985)
Continuity mistake: While Bond is holding the rope attached to the Zeppelin a cop car crashes, its rear window rolled up. A shot later it's rolled down.
27th Nov 2022
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Continuity mistake: After Luke's snowspeeder crashes on the snow, right before he exits, there's no damage on the right window. From the outside shot it's broken all over.
27th Nov 2022
Star Wars (1977)
Continuity mistake: When Leia comforts Luke after Obi-Wan's death, the blanket on his back folds different between shots. (01:30:48)
26th Nov 2022
Ten Commandments (1956)
Continuity mistake: When Bithiah brings the cradle ashore the way the towel on the left is folded changes between shots.
26th Nov 2022
Ten Commandments (1956)
Continuity mistake: When Moses is left alone in the cradle Miriam's left-hand keeps changing positions between shots.
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