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Continuity mistake: Poirot is at the hotel's reception, phone in hand, and spots Cope trying to leave. The whole counter in front of Poirot shows direct sunlight on it, but in the conversation the light of the set is entirely different and most of the counter except a couple of narrow spots is in the shade. (01:03:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot takes notes during Carrie Fisher's interview, his panama hat is at a different angle in the close-up of his writing hand than it is in the wider angle. (01:02:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot sits down with Nadine Boynton, her hat is in a different position on the table in each shot - just look at the flower. (01:01:50)

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Continuity mistake: Interviews at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. At quarter to 4 Lennox fixes his mother's wristwatch; the sunlight is much dimmed down in the shot when she waves him off. (01:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot wants to interview Lennox Boynton at the hotel, where he is having a toast with his wife. The wife leaves the table picking up her hat. Under the hat there's a plate with a napkin on it, untouched, but when Poirot sits at the table, the napkin has been used, or at least it's not resting neatly on the plate anymore. (00:59:20)

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Continuity mistake: As Poirot is attempting to leave Lord Peel's office, Miss Quinton says that she's going to visit Petra with Mr. Cope. There's a cut mid-sentence (those are never good to see), and while her position is almost flawless continuity-wise, in the background the curtains on the left window are parted and away from the wall in the second shot, were straight in the first take. (00:57:30)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot tells the doctor that if she 'put the clock back two hours' she would have protected Raymond. During the dialogue, the extras in the market on the background don't carry between cuts, or do it wrongly, like the man with a basket that walks next to the car coming from different directions. (00:52:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene at the market in Jerusalem, when Poirot tells Dr. King "Offer him five", the merchant at the stall is standing in front or behind a trinket with a large rectangular pendant, depends on the camera angle. (00:49:45)

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Factual error: Thanks to Poirot's aggressive bargain, Dr. King pays the butterfly pin 5 dinars. We're in 1937 Jerusalem, but she's using to pay a modern (contemporary to the day of the shooting) 5 Jordan dinars bill, in a country that at the time had the Palestine pound as currency anyway. (00:50:00)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot is in colonel Carbury's office to convince him not to rule the death as natural. He tells Carbury that he will tell him who the culprit is. Carbury is holding his glass with both hands, but in the next shot as he asks "Well, how long will it take?" the glass is in his right hand since the left hand is busy supporting him against the chair. (00:48:50)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot asks Sarah King if the bottle of digitalis in her bag was empty. In the wide angle his index finger is placed on the neck of the bottle, it's much lower in the close-up. (00:47:30)

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Revealing mistake: When Dr. King checks on Mrs. Boynton, the dead woman opens her eyes by her own volition before her head rolls back. (00:45:00)

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Continuity mistake: After 'behaving like a man' kissing without consent, Raymond says bye to Sarah; he says "There's something I have to say, and do, to prove you that..." The shadow cast on her chest changes as the camera angles change, on and off her necklace. (00:43:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Raymond invites Dr. King at the postprandial trek, his hand is right next a large crease on the towel, completely ironed out when the angle changes. (00:41:30)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot waves goodbye from Carbury's car as they leave for a tour of Acre. Sarah King waves back. Behind her in the background David Soul is at his own table, sitting staring ahead. Cut to Emily suggesting everyone to go for a walk; Soul is standing, wearing his hat already and facing the other direction. And it's a shot supposedly in continuity, because the same extra is walking outside the tent in both. (00:40:00)

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Continuity mistake: Raymond timidly approaches Dr. King at the buffet of the Qumran campsite. A local with a big turban walks behind them right to left to grab something behind the watermelon. Cut to a different angle for a couple seconds, and when we're back to the first, the same extra repeats the exact same movement. (00:38:45)

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Visible crew/equipment: The car with the Boynton clan nearly runs over a member of the British Parliament. Tragedy is averted, but Emily replies with a scoff and "Blaaah." In the car window, you can see behind Lauren Bacall some guy with a red baseball cap that doesn't quite fit the setting and doesn't appear elsewhere (reasonable to assume it's the cameraman). (00:38:15)

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Continuity mistake: Carol sits down with Dr. King and begins explaining what was her mother did for a living before her marriage. King listens to her with her hands on her knees, which turn into clasped hands at the cut. She then listens leaning her chin against her fist, and under certain camera angles the hand stays there even when she changes position. (00:31:50)

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Continuity mistake: Freshly arrived to the hotel in Jerusalem, Dr. King looks down from the balcony and spots Raymond eating something at the table with his family. In the next shot, he's not munching anymore, and he's already smiling at her. (00:28:05)

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Character mistake: On the way to Jerusalem, Poirot says that "that man, Weizmann, put it rather well the other day, before Lord Peel's commission", and gives a famous quote about the world being divided in 'two places' for the Jews (those where they are not allowed to live, and those they cannot enter). The movie takes place in May 1937, and Chaim Weizmann's quote is from November of the previous year. 6 months are hardly "the other day."

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