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Visible crew/equipment: When Bullitt is in the restaurant, you can see a crew member telling people to get away from the filming.

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Trivia: The final party scene was filmed over a three night period at the real Palace Hotel. To save money, the same food was used all three nights, which stank up the place for days.

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Trivia: When Jim Carrey auditioned for the film, he did not do any scenes from it. He did his Las Vegas Elvis show. Eastwood and others in the room could not stop laughing.

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Continuity mistake: In the funeral scene, at the start Liam Neeson has a pony tail hair extension on, half way through it is gone and at the end, it is back on.

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Revealing mistake: When Harry and Samantha are shot at in the elevator you can see a number of the dark marbles that were used for the effect rolling on the floor.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the film when Bartleby is giving his rant in front of the church, there are a number of dead bodies behind him, but every time the camera comes back to him, the bodies are gone.

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Trivia: John Ford after seeing True Grit said "Harry (Hathaway) didn't know if he was going to do a comedy or a western, so he did both. No one ever talked like that in the real west."

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Trivia: The scene where Crockett and Bowie and others go into a church and find gunpowder and rifles was filmed by "guest" director John Ford. He had shown up and was asked by Wayne to do a number of scenes.

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Trivia: The scene with Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden was all adlibbed. Only Hayden had learned his lines, but Sellers did not and all his lines were made up on the spot. One only has to look at Hayden's face that he has no idea what is coming next.

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Revealing mistake: When Bowie's freed slave falls on top of Bowie to protect him from being killed, you can see the rubber bayonets stab him in his back.

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Trivia: In the night scene that was filmed in North Beach on Broadway you can see Hoffman almost get into a real fist fight with drunks who were not members of the cast.

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Trivia: Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be much older than Ben. In fact Anne Bancroft was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman.

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Trivia: When the school boy is slapped on the bus, it is director Don Siegel's hand we see.

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Trivia: The famous shoot out at the Acron took six hours to film. The real SFPD received 20 911 calls from people around that area who thought a real shoot out was going on.

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Factual error: The last battle is fought in daylight. In fact in was still dark out on March 6. By dawn all the defenders were dead.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the background just before the final battle a number of modern day trucks can be seen on the hills.

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Trivia: The final battle took four days to film in December of 1959. It cost was 2 million dollars.

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Trivia: Lisa Dickerson is played by John Wayne's real life youngest daughter Aissa, who was 3 in 1959. When she had to say hello or goodbye to Davy Crockett, she kept saying "Hello Daddy" or "Goodbye Daddy." Her lines had to be dubbed in later.

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Trivia: Jimmy Stewart was not the first person picked to play Lindbergh. Stewart at the time was in his mis-40's. The first person at the time the same age that Lindbergh was at the time in 1927, But the actor had been fired by the studio a few days before filming began. His name was Clint Eastwood. Stewart had to lose 25 pounds of weight and dye his hair light brown.

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Factual error: In the film, Lindbergh is trying to get some sleep the night before the flight. But in fact he was up partying with friends most of the night.

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