Continuity mistake: When the elevator is lowering Susan and the rest of the women, the amount of lit floors and the brightness of the lights on the building changes noticeably depending on the shot.
Sacha
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When water is cascading outside the building a man jumps out of a window, producing a hole in the glass. When another man jumps out of the window next to that one, the hole in the glass has a different shape and the hole is several centimeters below where it was before.
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: The light outside the building as seen from the dining hall is dusk, but from the outside it's pitch dark. This swaps back and forth all the time.
26th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When Dan dies there's a wide shot of the building with several floors engulfed in flames. When Lorrie is free-falling just two seconds later, for the scenes play in real time - the flames have disappeared. (01:04:53 - 01:06:10)
13th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: At Patty's place, she places her right arm next to her face holding a cracker. Shot changes to a side angle and her arm is lowered. Then a shot afterwards it's raised again.
11th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When the elevator is lowering the people, a wide shot shows the building on fire. Couple shots later the flames are nowhere to be seen.
9th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: A technician talks to Mr. Callahan and leaves. Callahan places both hands on the computer, but a shot later his left arm is lowered. (00:11:42)
8th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When the floor explodes and the elevator breaks, a woman in pink crouches. Shot changes and she is standing tall again.
8th Oct 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: When Roberts hands Duncan the scorched wire, the way Duncan holds it differs between the wide and the close-up shots.
28th Sep 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: The art teacher cleans her hands with a towel, but a shot later they're lowered. (00:10:49)
28th Sep 2020
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Continuity mistake: The people inside the elevator disappear in the wide angle. (01:57:21 - 01:57:51)
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