Continuity mistake: Poirot enters his bathroom to freshen up. There's a brush on the left side of the sink, placed on top of a box. When the cobra sticks its head up, the brush rests directly on the sink. (01:25:40 - 01:26:05)
Sammo
7th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
7th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Jane Birkin is talking to Poirot in French, David Niven is leaning against the back of her chair with his hand. Cut, and he's watching her with his arms crossed. (01:22:05)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Poirot and Race enter the doctor's room to check on Simon Doyle, they find him unconscious on the bed. There's a shelf behind the bed with a few books and amongst them the cable of the bedside lamp switch, all tangled up. They revive Doyle, and the cord with its switch dangles off the shelf, on the pillow. Throughout the whole scene now, the cable and switch keep getting on/off the shelf. (01:19:50)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Jacqueline moves towards Poirot at the end of the interview with Bowers; her vest is open in the first shot, but in the second, consecutive shot she has her hand in her pocket and her other arm across to keep it closed. (01:17:40)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When the doctor leaves Linnet's room saying he's outraged by Poirot's allegations, the cabinet to the left is closed, but in the reaction shot on Poirot and Race (and in the rest of the scene) the cabinet is open. (01:11:35)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: In the longshot where the maid approaches Mrs. Doyle's cabin, the shadows of the deck above reach just the highest part of the starboard cabin doors. When she shouts and runs to get help, the shadows cover the whole louvered top half of the doors. (01:06:50)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When the doctor creepily shuts the door behind him to have a tete-a-tete with Linnet, in the side view his hands are in front of his belly, in a stance entirely different from the front view where his arms are down his sides. (00:53:25)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Mrs. Ottenbourne is in the background while her daughter and the mysterious marxist are getting acquainted. She begins at one point shouting, putting an end to the conversation as Rosalie rushes to her. The rambling shout happens across two shots, and Ferguson's hand is in a different spot on the book. (00:44:00)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Poirot and the other tourists are walking in the section of the temple of Karnak with the ram statues, they cast shadows towards the right of the screen, their left. The action focuses on Salome extolling the priapic virtues of the beasts, and the shadow she and the professor cast is at their back. (00:42:30)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Poirot and race play checkers while Pennington tries to swindle Linnet, a single piece lies at the side of the board in the wide angle, but in the closer views you can count 3. (00:36:05)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Pennington sits at Linnet's table and begins putting down contracts to sign. David Niven in the background looks at him, closed fist below the nose, but in the next shot he's staring at him stroking his temple and moustache, and at the following cut he changed position again. (00:36:20)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Poirot tells Jackie "Turn your back on the past", Mia Farrow is wiping her neck, but in the next shot her handkerchief is pressed against the cheek instead. (00:23:25)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Ferguson says that he's "observing the decline of the capitalist system", he holds 'Das Kapital' at the top corner. His hand moved from the position in the previous shot, which was at the bottom of the same side, and changes again at the cut and switches back and forth as the angles alternate. (00:17:15)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: On the Neter Menkaura pyramid, Linnet shouts; "She's following us about, deliberately" in a close-up with all the hair in front of her shoulders, contrasting with the previous angle, where her hair was behind the shoulders. (00:12:55)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Linnet and Simon reach the pyramids, their horses change abruptly position as they dismount to tie them to the stone, and change distance again at the next overhead shot. (00:11:00)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Mia Farrow begins running towards her friend Linnet holding a box of sweets in her left hand. The next shot shows her holding it with both hands, and then she switches to just the left. (00:04:50)
6th Mar 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: In the denouement, Kindaichi hands the two pictures to the cameraman and Jinmochi. When he asks if he then changed on a whim, he's still holding the photo himself. (00:12:20)
6th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: Jennifer is reading the fax page using her flashlight; without moving her hand, she holds the sheet by the top corner at first, then in the bottom half. (00:44:25)
6th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: Stone falls face down in front of the entrance, his arms raised forming (very roughly) right angles. When Dewey screams to the others to get inside, Stone's left-hand touches his head. (00:43:45)
6th Mar 2022
Scream 3 (2000)
Continuity mistake: Steven Stone picks a few coins from Dewey's counter. You can see that there are 5 left in the wide shot, but only 4 in close-up. (00:42:10)
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