Continuity mistake: At the beginning, Gregory Peck is in bed, tied down, when a storm opens his windows and blows out the candles. But when Ava Gardner walks in and closes the windows, the candles are alight again.
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1st Feb 2014
The Great Sinner (1949)
31st Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Damian goes to visit his mother in her apartment, the bed is on the right side of the front door, but when he leaves, now, suddenly, the bed is on the left side of the front door.
27th Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Regan is in the hospital, to calm her down the doctor gives her an injection in the arm. In one shot her gown is up high on her shoulder, but in the next the gown is down around her upper arm - the doctor can hardly find room to inject her it's so low.
27th Jan 2014
Hellboy (2004)
Continuity mistake: Manning and Hellboy are in the tomb tunnels when Manning brushes the back of his hand against the blades in the walls, but later he shows the wound to Hellboy and this time it's on the tip of his finger,.
27th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: When the big palm tree is being installed, Laura is giving instructions from down below, but depending on the direction of the shot - from down below or up above - Rosemary is missing half the time.
27th Jan 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: The girls are driving when they see Karen driving the van Martina. Problem is: when the girls stopped, there was a stop sign, but when they drive on, the stop sign is missing.
27th Jan 2014
Kinky Boots (2005)
Continuity mistake: In the arm-wrestling scene, one second their arms are to the side, but then, from above, their arms are in the middle, above the line, but then their arms are to the side again.
19th Jan 2014
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Continuity mistake: In the car, after the laundromat, Larry and Owen are talking, and Larry's laundry is in the passenger seat in a basket that is not seen until a minute later, when it is suddenly very visible.
16th Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: During the exorcism, the first time, the wardrobe door is cracked, but later it is solid.
16th Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: When Regan throws up green vomit over Father Merrin's purple sash, Damien takes it and his glasses to the ensuite, to wash them, but when he gets there, the glasses are no longer with him.
16th Jan 2014
The Exorcist (1973)
Continuity mistake: The first time Father Merrin enters Regan's room, Chris is wearing a fur coat, because Regan's room is so cold, but when Damien closes the door, Chris's fur coat is gone.
16th Jan 2014
Clear And Present Danger (1994)
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, a Colombian drug lord is hitting baseballs. He stops to wipe the sweat off his face and hair with a towel. Then he starts hitting baseballs again, and his hair is shiny clean. But in the next shot he's instantly all sweaty again.
13th Jan 2014
Flight (2012)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Nick tells Kip, her drug dealer, that she hasn't used needles in weeks, she's lying as she has a track mark on her left arm that is definitely not weeks old. When she does inject, that track mark disappears.
6th Jan 2014
Patriot Games (1992)
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, a woman goes into an antique bookshop and hands the man who works there a battered book. At first, the book is the right way up, but when he puts it down it's suddenly upside down. When we see the book again, now it's the right way up.
6th Jan 2014
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Danny calls Billy from Hawaii, Billy's phone is on the bedside table to his left, but then the phone is on the bed to his right.
6th Jan 2014
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Alex goes to see Dan in his office, Dan in the first scene is sitting with uncrossed legs, then his legs are crossed, then uncrossed again.
29th Dec 2013
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Continuity mistake: Just after George's brother comes home, George is walking across the street and a man is approaching him, but it's then a woman that passes him, not the man.
26th Dec 2013
Ensign Pulver (1964)
Continuity mistake: When Bruno goes to the Captain, to ask for leave so he can go to his daughter's funeral, he places his cap on the desk in front of him. It slips to the floor, but a minute later his cap is magically back on the desk.
22nd Dec 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: When the girls are loading the truck with plants for the second time, they are told that the big palm tree will be delivered tomorrow. But there are 4 smaller palm trees that magically appear - the girls didn't take them in their truck and they weren't delivered, but they're there.
20th Dec 2013
Mister Roberts (1955)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes, Mister Roberts is sitting on the deck of the ship with a folded piece of paper in his hands, but when Doc approaches, the paper is now unfolded.
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