Continuity mistake: Emily Boynton tells her lawyer to stop the affair with her daughter-in-law and leave. He threatens her (not quite clear with what) and tells her "I want those children of yours to have a chance." Notice Emily's shadow, perfectly clear under the window. Next shot, and there's no shadow. (00:19:15)
Sammo
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Dr. King approaches Poirot with the scopolamine syrup, in close-up Ustinov's hand is a bit lower on the glass, and, the woman in the background, who had her hand up, has it down; not that she has a choice, since you can tell she is forced to keep firmly her hand down her side to hold in place her skirt (the wind would otherwise make it flap around all over the place). (00:17:55)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: Nadine tells her husband Lennox that they should disappear when they hit Jaffa. Lennox asks her "What do we use for money", his left arm folded, hand up. Close-up, and it's hanging all the way down. (00:17:30)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Poirot moves across the beach volley (ship volley?) court, a girl in an ample blue skirt is moving left to right towards him, and is completely gone at the cut. (00:16:45)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: Poirot's stomach is upset by the effluvia of the 'dead duck' that some random prankster exposes in front of him. Visible fumes are in front of Peter Ustinov, immediately gone in the wider angle. (00:14:25)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Miss Quinton finds her lost cigarette case, Dr. King in the background is laughing. She changes position, but in Poirot's reaction, which should be in perfect continuity since the quarrel does not pause, she is sitting with her arms perfectly still. (00:14:00)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: Nadine reads Cope's inscription on the cigarette case in close-up. One of his fingers is on the right side of the box, and it's absent in the next angle. And when he closes it, Carrie Fisher's right hand which was lowered, is at bosom level. (00:12:00)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: Hearing that Cope is around, Nadine asks "He's not here, is he?" as she stands up from the bench. Without her handbag, that is suddenly there at the cut. (00:09:50)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: The family is sightseeing London, and the eponymous Tower. A yeomen warder points up; Nadine is looking where he's pointing assuming a different position in the two shots, with the sunlight being as well different. (00:05:45)
19th Mar 2022
Appointment With Death (1988)
Continuity mistake: After the will was read, Mrs. Boynton tells the 'children' that she has a lovely surprise. Carrie Fisher in the wide angle changes position leaning her chin against the back of her hand, and repeats the gesture in a subsequent shot. (00:04:15)
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