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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: The doctor offers a glass containing a mild narcotic to Mrs. Rogers. She looks at her husband, who nods to indicate that she may take it. Without anyone near, the bottle of sleeping powder changed spot on the drawer. (00:37:20)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: The fateful "Swan song" record begins to play, and the doctor is the first to be called out. He is smoking with the cigarette in his left hand, but when he bolts up, the cigarette in foreground is held by a right hand. (00:34:00)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Vera and Emily are having coffee after dinner. When Miss Blake tells Vera that her school must not be a particularly good one, Vera is picking up or putting down the cup depending on the shot. (00:33:30)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Marston asks the General which battles has seen his involvement. Lombard's cigarette loses an inch in the space of a cut. (00:32:15)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the seething confrontation between Armstrong and Marston, several small continuity issues happen; Marston is looking or not looking towards Sam Neil, and when he mockingly extends his hand over the table, Toby Stephens' is on or off the table. (00:31:00)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Marston asks the doctor if the Owens are "the fun-loving type", his hand is off the glass, but he's playing with it in the next shot. The mistake is confirmed by subsequent shots; he always has his glass when the camera is to his left, never when the camera is to his right. (00:30:00)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: While Mrs. Rogers is cutting the roast, Wargrave is entertaining Miss Claythorne with his jokes. She takes a sip, lowers the glass, but in the next shot she's doing it again. (00:27:30)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: General John MacArthur starts commenting, off-camera, that he knows the poem by heart. Notice his hand and how the index is on the rim of the glass. He is not even holding it in the next shot, and Marston's and Brent's hands are lower. The mistake repeats itself seconds later when Emily Brent gets in Vera's face with the comment about the 'poem'; McArthur is drinking from the glass if we believe what we see at the edge of the frame when she speaks, but he's not doing that in the other shots. (00:26:30)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the dinner, Dr. Armstrong tells Judge Wargrave "We met before, you know?" Vera Claythorne picks up her glass twice in two separate shots. (00:26:05)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Dinnertime; the door opens, and some guests (the doctor and Davis) have different positions (elbows / hands on/off the table) they switch back and forth on matching under specific camera angles. (00:25:40)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Sam Neil flinches looking at the rhyme in his room, the shadow he casts on the door is obviously different from shot to shot. (00:16:25)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: As the guests enter the house for the first time, Doctor Edward Armstrong in his white suit is amongst the first ones to go through the door. Philip Lombard is right behind him, and he walks past the door when the doctor reaches for his hat - but in the next shot, the doctor already has his hat in hand when Lombard hasn't gone past the door yet. (00:12:45)

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: The unsuspecting group is on their way to the mansion. The ferryman goes back to his boat leaving the luggage he was carrying in the middle of the meadow. Judge Lawrence Wargrave asks "Davis" to take his suitcase. Davis picks up the judge's black suitcase in his right hand, switching his brown one to the left hand. Next shot and it's the other way around; he carries the judge's in his left and his own with his right. (00:12:20)

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Continuity mistake: During the dinner quickly interrupted by the record. Anthony Marston raises his glass to Vera, but his hand was nowhere near the glass in the previous shot - not even on the table. (00:14:30)

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Plot hole: Spoiler; Under the pretense to help catching the murderer, the Judge goes through great lengths to enlist the help of the doctor to fake his own death. In this adaption it's made moot by the fact that the murder happens in the living room, his body needs to be carried upstairs and we even see that happen, with all the remaining survivors hauling the 'corpse' in their arms. One thing is faking with a little make-up (literally a paste-on red dot) to be shot in the head, with just the accomplice examining the supposed corpse, and the others at distance and with bad lighting. But with everyone carrying the body, including a police inspector and a PI who are accustomed to violence and real murder, it's plain impossible.

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Continuity mistake: Mr. Owen is playing billiards on his own when the last survivor joins them; at the very end, it turns out that the tray with the Indian figurines is on the pool table too too, but it was not there and nobody could have added it. (01:24:50 - 01:29:10)

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Continuity mistake: Spoiler; During the confrontation between the two last Indians, there is a clear position switch; her hair is in front or behind her shoulder when she says "This is how it hands." (01:23:05)

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Stupidity: Like in a previous movie adaptation (and unlike the novel), Lombard finds out way ahead of time that only another 'Indian' is left besides him, and knows they have the gun, but he lead them to the last body turning their back and leaving the gun to them, against any logic and declared purpose. It makes even less sense in this version than in the 1945 version, given the outcome. In the novel, the gun is stolen from him.

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Plot hole: Lombard is able to deduce that the doctor died hours before because there are no footprints around him, canceled by the snow that fell through the night. If that's so, then the doctor himself should have a considerable quantity of snow on his back and hair, and instead he has none. (01:22:40)

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Other mistake: There are heavy winds and persistent snow in an alpine resort, snowing every night, but throughout the whole movie even when Lombard goes to check the open door at night there's no hint of breath cloud on anybody.

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