Revealing mistake: When the Parker Brothers run to the side door of the ghost-train, which is supposedly in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, you can see it's a fake set built in a carpark, because the carpark bay marking lines disappear under the wall of the ghost-train. (00:29:35)
Madstunts
1st Apr 2010
Funny Bones (1995)
1st Apr 2010
Funny Bones (1995)
Visible crew/equipment: When Jack is at the top of Blackpool Tower, a light aircraft flies by, and as Jack stands up to watch it you can see his safety cable. (00:26:20)
1st Apr 2010
Funny Bones (1995)
Continuity mistake: At no point is is shown, or even implied, that George Fawkes and Dolly Hopkins know each other. They never talk to each other, none of Dolly's associates appear to know George, and when Dolly and George appear together in the same scene at the circus, they act as if they don't know each other. Yet when George meets up with the Parker Brothers after 30 years, it's in the same room of Dolly's house that Dolly and Sharkey met in earlier in the film. (00:44:10 - 01:26:10)
1st Apr 2010
Funny Bones (1995)
Revealing mistake: When Katie is making Sharkey levitate as part of her circus act, you can see the shadow of some rigging connecting him to a nearby pillar. (01:43:50)
17th Feb 2009
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Other mistake: In the end credits, Gavin Greenaway, the conductor of the orchestral score, is credited as "Gravin Greenaway". (01:46:50)
1st Feb 2009
Carry on Spying (1964)
Other mistake: When our heroes are on the conveyor belt in the rock-processing plant, none of the rocks are larger than two feet in size - especially having gone past a set of spinning saw blades - and yet they get sprayed by two steam nozzles, the highest of which is about six feet in the air, and the lowest is about four feet in the air. Clearly neither of these nozzles would have any practical use. (01:21:10)
31st Jan 2009
Carry on Spying (1964)
Visible crew/equipment: In the first shot of our heroes being given their assignment, something, presumably a crew member, can be seen intruding into the frame to the right of Barbara Windsor and casting a shadow on the desk. (00:11:50)
31st Jan 2009
Carry on Spying (1964)
Revealing mistake: When our heroes are on the conveyor belt which carries the rocks towards the spinning saw blades, the rocks which get cut in two are seen to be cut before they reach the blades. (01:20:45)
31st Jan 2009
Carry on Spying (1964)
Revealing mistake: When our heroes are on the conveyor belt heading towards the saw blades, it's obvious that the conveyor belt on the other side of the blades is just a painted backdrop. (01:20:45)
16th Jan 2009
Carry On Cowboy (1966)
Other mistake: Johnny Finger is supposed to be a crack shot, and in his first scene he supposedly beats three guys on the draw simultaneously. However, as he goes for his revolver with his left hand, it goes off almost immediately whilst still pointing straight downwards. (00:02:45)
16th Jan 2009
Carry on Emmannuelle (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Emmannuelle first speaks to the butler at the front door, the door is ajar from the front, but completely open from behind. (00:07:30)
16th Jan 2009
Carry on Emmannuelle (1978)
Revealing mistake: When Emmannuelle and the footballer are kissing at the football ground, it's obviously supposed to be in the medic's room - you can see a couch and a set of drawers and a filing cabinet and a medics bag with bandages and things - and yet the room also has five shower heads and wall mounted soap dishes. It's really the showers. (01:04:30)
16th Jan 2009
Carry On Cowboy (1966)
Audio problem: When we see the can-can dancers perform on-stage, the music is played by a full band including brass and drums, despite the fact that there's only a pianist on-stage. (00:22:10)
Suggested correction: This error is not unique to Carry On Cowboy. It seems that in very many western movies (and TV shows) there might be a scene in a saloon, in which a singer or some dancers are performing on a stage. In nearly all such occasions they seem to be accompanied by a full orchestra which is nowhere to be seen.
This is not a valid correction. To say the error exist in other films does not invalidate this error.
Sorry, I think I got that wrong. I was not trying to invalidate the error, far from it! What I meant to say was that I agree that this is quite an obvious error in Carry On Cowboy, and that this also seems to be a common, and rather amusing, error in many other western films as well.
Unfortunately at this time, valid mistake entries are not subject to forum discussion where one agrees or discusses the mistake. Just give the mistake a thumbs up if you agree with it.
16th Jan 2009
Carry On Cowboy (1966)
Visible crew/equipment: After Johnny Finger makes his first entrance and shoots three guys, he looks over at the undertaker's shop, and reflected in the window of the shop next door is a crew member wearing a suit and tie. (00:02:55)
16th Jan 2009
Carry On Cowboy (1966)
Revealing mistake: When the stagecoach driver gets hit with an arrow, it springs up from below into a horizontal position. (00:33:55)
4th Mar 2008
A View to a Kill (1985)
Plot hole: When Bond and Tibbett break into the underground lab and find the device which drugs the racehorses, you can see that it has a large light emitting diode (LED) on the top of it. What possible use would that be, since the device is implanted in the horse's leg, and is supposed to be covert? (00:37:20)
4th Mar 2008
A View to a Kill (1985)
Visible crew/equipment: When Bond steals the taxi, you can see a boom mic and operator reflected in the rear window as Bond drives away. (00:18:50)
23rd Feb 2008
Willow (1988)
Continuity mistake: When General Kael takes the baby to Nockmaar Castle, it has an extra 'turret' on the left-hand side, which has disappeared when Willow and Fin Raziel face the castle later on. (01:31:40 - 01:41:15)
21st Feb 2008
Willow (1988)
Revealing mistake: When Madmartigan is in the cage, Willow tries to stop a horse rider from riding past. The path the rider travels on looks the same in both directions. (00:30:05)
19th Feb 2008
The Accidental Spy (2001)
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