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Continuity mistake: The license plate's number of Indy's Tuk Tuk changes from 4717 to 1132 in a few shots during the Tuk Tuk Chase.

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Continuity mistake: After Baxter says "It's for you, Doctor", in the next shot, the phone on his left hand disappears. Also, the illumination of the room where Voller goes in changes between shots. (00:47:12)

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Factual error: The Major that salutes Colonel Weber next to the train, credited as Gestapo Officer, has the SS runes on his neck instead of a black square. (00:05:25)

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Continuity mistake: While the Holy Fire is killing the soldiers, in a shot of two soldiers being hit by the light, the stone wall is missing in the background of the scene. (01:47:30)

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Question: I remember seeing a couple of scenes only once. The first showed the inside of the Ark (as in the scene where the portal opens) with fire coming out of it. The second was a side shot of the Altar where you could see the fire lifting the bodies of the three main villains. Does anyone know where these scenes can be seen?

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Question: I've never understood why the three antagonists never escape and continue to scream after the ghosts have gone. Is there something horrible that they see and the audience don't that freezes them and makes them scream in fear?

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Answer: The audience sees everything they see. At first, they're transfixed by the magical apparitions around them and are marvelling at how beautiful/supernatural/awe-inspiring it is. Just as, I imagine, anyone else would. Then, the figure in front of them changes into something terrifying, and they scream in fear because they realise whatever is coming out of the Ark is, to put it mildly, not friendly. Then (again, as you'd expect), they are rooted to the spot in terror, and after that, well, it's kind of hard to escape when your face is melting off and/or exploding.

Continuity mistake: While Jake is inside the destroyed house, he watches Olive and Claire hiding from him. However, after he knocks himself out and wakes up, Claire isn't between the Peculiars near him.

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Continuity mistake: In the shot before Chattar Lal's hand and knife appear, Indy turns his head back. In the shot of the knife, he now looks at the wheel. (01:25:12)

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Continuity mistake: The shot of Pat Roach appearing at the slaves' caves, ready to fight Indy, actually seems to be a shot from the scene when Indy and Shorty are whipped by Pat and the Maharajah. This can be spotted by the tunnel and candles behind Pat. (01:28:39)

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Character mistake: In the plane, Mason says that Voller's associates killed three American civilians. But they only killed two: Mandy and Plimpton.

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Continuity mistake: During the conversation in the Tuk-Tuk, Helena's right arm continuously goes from being down to grabbing the roof of the Tuk-Tuk between shots.

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Audio problem: After Dietrich pours liquor for himself, he speaks to Belloq. One of the words of his phrase (probably monsieur or Belloq) was cut from the audio as Dietrich's lips still move but nothing can be heard.

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Visible crew/equipment: During Marion and Belloq's beverage contest, a round klieg lamp's blue light stands behind Belloq, which sometimes changes its intensity. Also, when Marion grabs the knife, behind her a moving light can be seen (like a helicopter's light), which disappears a few seconds later. This light also appears for a few seconds when Toht frees Marion's arm.

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Continuity mistake: Tey How says that she lost the transmission. The screen behind Nute Gunray is blank. A few shots later, the transmission works again, although no-one went to the bridge corridor and fixed it.

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Continuity mistake: The scene when the barrel falls on the TNT box and explodes is flipped (Panama Hat is on the opposite stairs). (00:13:44)

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Continuity mistake: After Indy shouts "What?", he and Stanforth walk through the corridor and pass a painting of Brody that wasn't there when Stanforth was walking alone before entering Indy's classroom. (00:25:45)

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Plot hole: On the dock at Geheimhaven, when the soldier discovers Indy, he stands up, coming fully into view. However, no-one sees him kicking and knocking out the soldier who discovered him (the Nazis on the dock and on the submarine are looking in Indy's direction). (01:39:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Marion arrives on the deck of the Bantu Wind, Dietrich turns to look at her. Katanga is in the background, behind the colonel. But, just before Marion hits Dietrich, Katanga appears on the opposite side from where he was and catches Marion. (01:36:00)

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Continuity mistake: Indy looks at the Wurffler through the binoculars. In the next shot, when he takes them off and looks at Katanga, the submarine has moved to the left and astern. (01:34:58)

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