- FAIR: Although correct in saying that Jehovah starts with an ``I'' in Latin,
it is argued there should have been no ``J'' for Indy to step on in the
first place, as classic Latin does not have that letter in its alphabet. It
must be considered, however, that the temple was most likely constructed
during the Crusades, at around which time Latin had a ``J'' introduced.
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- FACT: Animated flight plan draws straight lines on a flat projection, the
actual representation should have been curved.
- CONT: Positions of the sailor and the girl in the rickshaw during the
chase.
- FACT: It is impossible for a hand holding a lit match to cast a focused
shadow on a wall.
- CONT: In the first Thugee ceremony scene, the skull in the center is
alternately lit and unlit.
- CONT: Positions of the thugees on the rope bridge.
- FAKE: Obvious stunt player when Indy is climbing up the broken bridge.
# Innerspace (1987)
- FACT: Tuck should not have been able to see Jack's entire eyeball from the
eye socket.
- CONT: When Jack turns away from the mirror the picture in Tuck's pod should
have turned with Jack's head, instead it stayed looking at Jack in the
mirror.
- CONT: State of Tuck's decorations after being beaten up in the kitchen.
# Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- FACT: Neither the sun nor the moon can be directly above Paris, hence the
bottom of the well would never be illuminated directly.
- CONT: Claudia cuts off her curls, throws the scissors down, then runs to
her room and slams the door. She then exits the room holding the scissors.
- CONT: In the Theatres des Vampires, the mortal girl's top is opened twice.
# Intolerance (1916)
- CREW: Director's assistant clad in coat and tie.
# Iron Eagle (1986)
# Iron Eagle (1986)
- CONT: Mac is suppsedly adjusting the carburettor on a Cessna 150 through the
- FAKE: In the final shots of the motorcycle vs. Cessna airplane race, the
oil dipstick access door, when in fact it is on the bottom of the engine.
plane's flaps are clearly at least 20 degrees down, showing that the aircraft
is being deliberately slowed to avoid overtaking the motorcycle.
- CONT: The MiG's flown by the enemy are Israeli F-21 Kfir fighter planes.
# Iron Eagle II (1988)
- CONT: The MIGs flown by the Soviets during the final assualt actually
US F-4 aircraft.
- FACT: When the two planes move to intercept Doug and Cooper, Doug ID's them
as MIG-29's. However, these two planes (as well as two others seen later)
are actually F-4 Phantoms.
# It Grows on Trees (1952)
- FACT: It is impossible to pass 2904 dollars worth of money in only
5 and 10 dollar bills.
# It Takes Two (1995)
- CONT: In the scene where Alyssa and Amanda meet in the woods, Alyssa's hair
repeatedly moves in front of and behind her ear.
# It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
- CONT: The talk used to distract the monster includes talk from dead
characters.
# It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- CONT: Ol' Man Gower's cigar disappears when he sends young George to deliver
a prescription.
- CONT: George Baily has a wreath on his arm one minute and it is gone the next.
# Italian Job, The (1969)
- CONT: Color of the Mini Cooper as it falls down the mountain side.
- CONT: The Coopers have only one person in them when driven through the
tunnels, when closeups show them having passengers.
# Ivan Grozny I (1945)
- CONT: Amount of coins in the bowls that are showered over Ivan at the end
of the coronation scene.
- CONT: When the people in the village ask Ivan to come back to Moscow, some
shots show people in the background standing, other shots show them kneeling.
# Jack (1996)
- BOOM: In classroom scene when Jack is being introduced to the class.
- CONT: Jack's teacher reaches for a Gummy Bear with her right hand, but in the
next shot it is her left.
- PLOT: Jack is born after his parents leave a Halloween party. Later,
Jack gives his birthdate as September 12th.
- CONT: The tissue paper on Jack's chin swaps sides when he reaches school.
- CONT: Jack's top shirt button is alternately open and closed in various shots
in the first playground scene.
- CONT: Jack's shirt turns red when leaving shool on the day of the basketball
game.
- BOOM: Visible during the scene in the cafeteria.
# Jack the Bear (1993)
- CONT: The stuffed dog on the living room floor of Karen's house.
# Jacob's Ladder (1990)
- BOOM: numerous, including reflected in a mirror.
- CONT: Jacob Singer walks from one subway car to another but when he exits
the subway, the car is not there.
# Jade (1995)
- CONT: The windshield of David Corelli's car.
# Jagged Edge (1985)
- CONT: Teddy's clothes changes several times while giving her opening
statement to the jury.
# Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- CONT: the prison number on Vince's jacket changes from 6239 to 6240.
- CONT: In the outdoor pool scene for ``You're So Square'' the lead guitarist
wears sunglasses in the long shots, but no glasses in the medium shots.
# Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
- CREW: Reflection of cameraman in passenger side window of boy and girlfriend
trying to escape Jason.
- CONT: Position of the post in the girl in the tent as it is inserted and
removed.
# Jeffrey (1995)
- CONT: When Steve shows up at Sterling and Darius' apartment, Sterling is
wearing walking shoes whereas in the scenes immediately before and
after, he is wearing black slip-ons.
# Jerry Maguire (1996)
- FACT: The Arizona Cardinals play Pittsburgh and Indianapolis in the same
season twice. This is impossible in accordance to NFL scheduling, as a team
from the NFC (Arizona) cannot play two AFC teams from different divisions
(Pittsburg & Indianapolis).
- DATE: 1996 Philadelphia eagles logo visible, but players on the field have
the old uniforms.
# Jewel of the Nile, The (1985)
- CONT: Joan's footware after leaping onto the train.
- CONT: When Ralph realizes that he is standing on coals, he turns to his
left and starts to walk. A closeup of his feet shows him turning to the
right.
# JFK (1991)
- PLOT: Jim and Lou mention ``Clay Shaw'' while looking out of the window
of the book repository, several scenes before learning that Shaw was
actually Clay Bertrand.
- DATE: The spy camera shown, supposedly be used prior to the assassination,
is a Minox ``C''. This camera was not manufactured until 1969.
# Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- CONT: Johnny throws a gun away after it runs out of ammo. In the next shot,
he can be seen still holding the gun.
- FACT: A member of the Yakuza fires an anti-tank weapon (a Swedish
recoilless AT-4) while holding it backwards.
# Johnny Tremain (1957)
- DATE: Set in the 18th century, Paul Revere uses a Magic Marker.
# Jolson Sings Again (1949)
- CONT: The headline ``Forced By Weather To Cut Radio Programs'' appears
first next to a story about 'Al Jolson' (qv) going overseas to entertain the
troops and then again, several years later, next to an article about
Jolson's successful return to show business.
# Julius Caesar (1953)
- MISC: Cassius ('John Gielgud' (qv)) offers Brutus his dagger to kill him,
but the blade of his dagger falls off as he pulls it out of the sheath.
Gielgud actor offers the hilt of the dagger to Brutus, with the (missing)
blade hidden behind his forearm.
# Jumanji (1995)
- CREW: Reflected in the metal door when Sarah is being chased out of the
Parrish home by the bats.
- CONT: After Alan Parrish has shaved and cut himself, the bits of white paper
stuck to his face disappear as he turns around from the door when Alex
accuses him of being afraid.
- CONT: The die which falls through the crack in the ground is back in the
game box in the next scene.
- CONT: The sunroof is closed during the mosquito attack, but is open soon
again.
- CONT: Carl's seatbelt when he is shocked by a vine coming into his car.
- CONT: Carl's hands become uncuffed as Alan starts driving.
# Jungle Book, The (1994)
- GEOG: When the doctor talks to several girls at the river, lemurs are
visible. Lemurs occur naturally only in Madagascar.
# Jurassic Park (1993)
- CONT: Dr. Grant's bandana as they walk into the dinosaur digging site.
- CONT: Dr. Satler puts on headphones twice.
- CONT: The amount of dust on Dr. Grant's face.
- CONT: Hammond's hand and the cloth he uses to clean the cup in the trailer
at the dig site.
- FACT: Amber found in The Dominican Republic only dates back 20 million years,
whereas dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.
- GEOG: Nedry is shown seated at a beachfront cafe behind the caption
``San Jose, Costa Rica.'' San Jose is landlocked, without any adjoining
lakes.
- CONT: Nedry's bag of money disappears shortly after it is given to him.
- CONT: Position of the helicopter's wheels as it touches down.
- CONT: Existance of the robot arm steadying the egg during the hatching scene,
plus the fragmentation of the shell.
- CONT: When broken down, the jeep is wet before it rains.
- CONT: When walking towards the triceratops, Lex is (not) holding Dr Grant's
hand after she falls.
- CONT: Grant's arm during dinner with Hammond, Malcolm, and Sattler.
- CONT: When Tim looks through the windshield with the goggles, Lex is
looking in his direction. When the shot switches to the outside, she is
looking elsewhere.
- SYNC: When Tim tells Lex to turn off the flashlight, Lex says, ``I'm sorry''
without moving her lips.
- CONT: Door left (closed) open by the lawyer escaping the stalled jeep.
- CONT: The perspex roof of the jeep is (not) broken when the T-Rex knocks it
- FAKE: The air which blows off Grant's hat comes from below, not from the
T-Rex.
- CONT: Dr Grant and Lex are shown kneeling next to the Explorer, but just
before the T-Rex spins the vehicle, they are crouching.
- CONT: Dr. Sattler, Malcolm, and Peck's body positions when they flee the
T-Rex.
- CONT: When the car falls into the tree, each shot shows the lights on top of
the car pointing in different directions.
- CONT: The goat scene shows the ground being the same altitude on either
side of the fence, but later scenes indicate a large drop.
- CONT: After rescuing Tim from the tree, Grant's boots are remarkably clean.
- CONT: The distance between the wires in the electric fence changes.
- CONT: Tim stops climbing down the fence when the green light starts to flash,
but in background shots later he can still be seen climbing.
- FACT: At the latitude of the island, tropical storm move westward, not
eastward as indicated by Muldoon and the computer screen.
- FAKE: ``Surveilance camera'' views displayed on computer monitors are
obviously video clips that are being played back from disk.
- CONT: The undamaged East Dock sign on road below Nedry's Jeep crash points
up, then left.
- MISC: Ray Arnold mouths Hammond's lines when Hammond says ``Find Nedry,
check the vending machines.''
- CONT: Direction of the arrow pointing the way to the east dock after Nedry
crashes the jeep.
- CONT: The electricity is supposedly out, but fans and their shadows can be
seen moving.
- CONT: As Dr. Satler walks out to turn on the power she puts on the headphones
for her walkie talkie. In the next scene they are coiled at her side again.
- CREW: Lights visible before Muldoon gets attacked by the raptor.
- CREW: Arm of crew member when the raptor first enters the kitchen. The
raptors were generated by computer, but the crew member was holding a mockup
for the actors to interact with.
- CREW: Shadow of crew member's hand visible causing spoons to drop when
Lex is hiding in the cabinet.
- CONT: Dr Satler's searchlight when she's being chased by the raptor in
the power station.
- FACT: Computer screens do not project focussed images.
- FAKE: When Lex is hanging from the bones, she lets go of them then suddenly
catches hold again.
# Juror, The (1996)
- CONT: Annie's hair when she is trashing her studio.
- CONT: After killing Boffano et al, the gun jumps from Joseph's hand to the
teacher's.
- CONT: Near the end when Teacher is chasing Annie in the South American
town the amount of sweat on his shirt changes numerous times.
# K-9 (1989)
- CONT: The blade of the forklift that Dooley steps gently off is seen in the
next scene to be above head height.
# Kalifornia (1993)
- CONT: In the hotel room when Adele and Carrie are talking, the sun is up
outside even though it is supposedly night.
# Keep, The (1983)
- CREW: Camera assistant visible directing a camera pan when the German
soldiers are firing into the air when the evil force is released.
# Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- FAKE: Boxes of gold bars weigh more than indicated.
- DATE: References to the ``Air Force'', at the time the movie was set, was
known as the US Army Air Corps.
# Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994)
- BOOM: Numerous shadows of cameras and lighting equipment in the fighting
ring on the floor and the fighters.
- CONT: Dead girl in the holding cell can be seen breathing.
# Killer, The (1989)
- CONT: The cars change during the chase.
# Killing Zoe (1994)
- CREW: Shadow of the camera visible on the ground during the opening titles.
# Kindergarten Cop (1990)
- CONT: During the trip to Astoria, John and Phoebe pulled off to the side of
the road when Phoebe is feeling sick. She ran to the bushes to get sick
then returns to the car and trips over a log that was not there before.
# King and I, The (1956)
- CONT: The King's earing during ``Is a Puzzlement''.
- CONT: The presence of the children when the King is praying for the success
of his banquet.
- FACT: There could have been no Scarlet Macaws (from South America) in a
Siamese marketplace.
# King Kong (1933)
- CONT: The apparent size of Kong changes from 6m to 20m. This was a conscious
decision of director 'Merian C. Cooper' (qv), who felt that Kong's size
wasn't impressive enough in New York.
- FAKE: When Kong drops a hut on a native during the village attack, the
native's wig falls off.
# King of Comedy, The (1983)
- CONT: The handkerchief around Pupkin's damaged hand disappears momentarily
after he is stabbed.
# King of Kings (1961)
- DATE: Jesus Christ wearing a wristwatch and sneakers.
# Kiss of Death (1995)
- CONT: When Jimmy finds his little daughter, he's holding her Teddy bear
with his right hand. When he is shown from another angle, he's holding it
with his left hand.
- CONT: The blood on Jimmy's face when his talking to Calvin, after fighting
with Little Junior.
# Knock on Wood (1954)
- CONT: The policeman dashes up the stairs wearing a helmet and busrsts into
the room wearing a peaked cap.
# Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
- FACT: Krakatoa is west of Java.
# La Bamba (1987)
- CONT: Ritchie's brother approaches the same bar girls twice.
# Lace (1984) (TV)
- FACT: Ice hockey was not played in indoor stadiums in Switzerland in 1960,
nor with the kind of equipment depicted.
# Lady Gambles, The (1949)
- CREW: Reflected in the bus window that Joan is on.
# Ladyhawke (1985)
- CONT: The guard misses his purse before Phillipe steals it.
- CONT: The orientation of Marquet's horse during the struggle on the ground
near the cathedral.
- CONT: Navarre drops his sword as he undresses and transforms into the wolf,
yet Phillipe has the sword with him in the barn.
# Last Days of Pompeii, The (1935)
- FACT: Pontius Pilate retired in 36 AD, not during the same year that
Mt Vesuvius erupted (79 AD).
# Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
- GEOG: Rhododendrons are common in the Carolinas, where the movie was filmed,
but relatively rare in the Adirondacks around Lake George where the story is
set.
- CREW: Diver visible at the bottom of the waterfall.
- FAKE: Gray rock-textured canvas, presumably covering modern trail
signs or graffiti, is clearly visible in final scenes. Hawkeye
bumps a canvas while running through underpass, and a larger portion
is visible as he returns to embrace Cora after Magua's death.
# Last Supper, The (1995)
- CONT: Norman Arbuthnot finishes the green bottle. After a little while
the bottle is half full again.
- CONT: Marc pours wine from the Blue bottle, then caps it. Subsequently it
is seen both capped and uncapped.
# Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- CONT: While being fired, Ben's ring is visible on is hand, despite being
stolen previously.
- CONT: The level of liquid in Ben's glass when he's packing to move to
Sera's place.
- CONT: Ben gets his beer twice at the shopping centre.
- CONT: When in the pool, Ben has a tattoo on his back.
- CONT: When supposed to be playing blackjack, Ben and Sera are sitting
at a Caribbean Stud Poker table.
- CONT: The toilet paper is folded when Sera first sits down to urinate. The
next shot of her sitting on the toilet shows that the toilet paper isn't
folded anymore.
# Legends of the Fall (1994)
- CONT: After Samuel tells his father that he's going to fight in the war, there
is a shot of him where Alfred's shoulder is barely visible behind him.
When he runs to the stairs to talk to Susannah there is a close-up of
him. Even though he has moved about five feet he is still in the same
position as earlier in the close-up, and Alfred's shoulder is still visible.
- CONT: Juxtaposition of heads when Tristain and Samuel hug after making it
back to the foxhole.
- CONT: Tristain's hand as he watches Samuel gasp for breath.
- CONT: Blood on Samuel's left cheek as he dies.
- CREW: As Tristain rides his horse on the bluff towards the cliff then stops,
his horse kicks up an orange traffic cone as he races off.
- MISC: Shot is mirror image just after Alfred tells Tristain to marry
Susannah.
- CONT: Susannah's hair when she meets Tristian in the garden when he returns.
- CONT: O'Banion draws his pistol twice when stalking Tristain in the barn.
- CONT: Disappearing blood on O'Banion's brother's cheek.
# Leon (1994)
- CONT: Length of Mathilda's cigarette when she first meets Leon.
- CONT: Mathilda's money should not be neatly wrapped as she darts away from
the detective entering her apartment.
- MISC: The grenade fired into the hotel room by the SWAT team bears the
label ``ILUM'', indicating it is an illumination grenade, not a smoke
bomb.
# Less Than Zero (1987)
- CONT: In the party with all the TVs, Blair's hairstyle changes while he is
talking to Clay.
# Let's Make Love (1960)
- CONT: Amanda's hands during her dinner with Jean-Mark.
# Lethal Weapon (1987)
- CONT: When Amanda Hunsaker is falling, she looks like she is going to hit
the windscreen of the car, and yet ends up in the middle of the roof.
- FAKE: The car that Roger is driving has the shifter in ``park''.
- CONT: When Riggs and the businessman leap off the building, they are no
longer handcuffed.
- CONT: Riggs describes his ``special'' bullet as a hollow point, but the one
he put in his pistol earlier wasn't.
- CONT: A man shot four times falls into a pool and no blood is visible.
- CONT: Murtagh opens his drink twice before he opens the package with the
video in it.
- CONT: Riggs gains white sneakers as he runs out onto the street after
freeing Murtagh and his daughter.
# Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
- CONT: On the ship, the shirt of the man who has received a bullet from
Riggs for every policemen dead is undamaged for the final shot.
- CONT: The right headlight of Murtagh's car when it is chasing the BMW.
- CONT: The car in the shipping container has pallets full of money in front
of it, yet it exits the container before the pallets.
# Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
- CONT: The blood on the white tiles in the police station.
- CREW: Steadicam and operator visible when Riggs' motorcycle falls from the
highway.
- FAKE: As Murtaugh turns from the motocycle wreck/explosion, the last several
frames of the shot show the cable supporting the motocycle.
- CONT: Leo's sling changes sides briefly.
- FACT: ``Cop Killer'' bullets have Teflon-coated pointed slugs which slide
between the woven fibres of a Kevlar vest. They would not penetrate the
shovel of a tractor.
# Life of Brian (1979)
- BOOM: [top]: in the scene where Brian's mother is buying rocks to take
to the stoning, swinging from side to side.
# Lion in Winter, The (1968)
- CREW: Wake from the boat carrying the camera and crew visible when Eleanor
is being ferried to Henry's castle.
# Little Giants (1994)
- CONT: The glass of milk when Danny is talking to the girl.
- CONT: The girl's clothes when The Giants are gathering players.
- CONT: The chalkboard behind the guys debating who would win.
- SYNC: The little girls yells ``Daddy'' without moving her mouth.
# Little Man Tate (1991)
- CONT: Fred's briefcase strap when he's talking with Eddie.
- CONT: In the scene where Jane is giving Fred that vile drink, you can
see the band-aid on his head where he got hit by the globe that Eddie would
later throw.
- CONT: The clocks in Jane's house and in the billiard room when
Fred is out late with Eddie.
# Little Rascals, The (1994)
- CONT: Alafalfa's cowlick when he is kissed by Darla for the first time.
# Little Women (1918)
- DATE: Although the film is set in the 1860s, a telegram shown reveals
the name of the then current (1918) president of the Western Union telegraph
company, 'Newcomb Carlton' (qv) (b. 1869).
# Living Daylights, The (1987)
- CONT: As he leaps out of the flying car, James Bond deploys his
spare parachute, but in a later shot is shown hanging from his main one.
- CONT: The left front tire of Bond's car is shot out, but in the jump that
follows the tire is normal.
# Local Hero (1983)
- CONT: During scenes on the beach, snow appears and disappears on the
Cuillins of Skye in the background between shots.
# Logan's Run (1976)
- CONT: When Logan and Jessica swim back into the city and pull themselves
up out of the water, Jessica's left palm does not have a lifeclock on it.
- CONT: Jessica's green stockings appear and disappear.
- CONT: When Logan lets the runner escape in Cathedral, he gives her the ankh
which he had as a token from the computer (she is then killed by Francis).
Later, as he and Jessica are entering the tunnels which require the ankh as
a key, he pulls the same ankh from his pocket to use in the lock (Jessica
has dropped hers in the pool of water at their feet).
# Lone Star (1996)
- CONT: When Col. Payne's confronts his father for the first time, the silver
eagles on his dress uniform epaulets are upside-down.
# Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
- CONT: Burns' rifle jumps from its holster on the horse's back to his hand.
# Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996)
- CONT: At the end of the film, the car's roof comes loose but is fixed in the
next shot.
- FACT: The timer on the bomb was a countdown from the time the catalyst was
injected, and it blew up at 00:00:00. The shaking of the truck would have
changed the rate of reaction; therefore, it would not have blown up right at
00:00:00.
- CONT: In the ice chase scene, the destroyed tire on the car is restored.
- CONT: Charly is slashed on her right side by Timothy, yet the bloodstains
appear later on the left side.
- CONT: Charly picks up a ``hot'' gun with bare hands.
# Longest Day, The (1962)
- CONT: The shots that kill Private Martini occur too quickly in succession
to have been fired from the indicated bolt-action rifle.
- FACT: A compound fracture of the ankle indicates blood and/or protruding
bones, of which Vandervoort's ankle had none. It also would have been
impossible to put any weight on the ankle.
- CREW: Shadow of the dolly against the smoke of battle during the invasion
of Omaha Beach. The direction of the shadow and the geography of the beach
inicate that this scene, while set at dawn, was filmed in the afternoon.
# Longtime Companion (1990)
- DATE: In the segment marked, ``July 3, 1981'', people dance to the song
``Do You Want to Funk?'', released by 'Sylvester' (qv) in 1982.
- CONT: Willy comes out with a bottle of wine and holds it at the neck,
pouring. When the camera changes for a close-up of the pouring he
then holds it by the base of the bottle.
# Look Who's Talking (1989)
- CONT: James's sunglasses while driving around looking for the missing child.
- CONT: James introduces himself to Mikey and he shakes his hand with
his right hand. In the next shot James is shaking Mikey's hand with his
left hand.
# Lost Boys, The (1987)
- CONT: Michael bursts the top of the milk carton open when he drops it on the
floor. Later, Lucy picks it up and only the spout is open.
- CONT: The phone that Michael knocks off the hook when flying around his
room rings later.
- FAKE: Shot of the approach to the cave was filmed and then played backwards.
# Lost in America (1985)
- GEOG: When the characters are supposedly arriving in New York, it
can be clearly seen from the position of the Empire State Building
that they are traveling the wrong way.
- CONT: The bite marks on the grilled cheese sandwich keep changing.
# Love Me Tender (1956)
- DATE: In the scene where Cathy Reno is at the window crying, a car can be
seen in the background.
- DATE: A Confederate soldier zips up the pants that were taken off Northern
soldiers, before zippers were invented.
# MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994) (TV)
- CONT: The second time that MacGyver lights the candle, it is obvious that
the wick had never been lit before.
# Mackenna's Gold (1969)
- FACT: Shadows move away from the sun, not towards them.
# Mackintosh Man, The (1973)
- CREW: Reflected in the side window of the truck when Rearden drives off to
meet the airplane at the airfield.
# Mad Max 2 (1981)
- CONT: A reverse angle shot of Max and another man show totally different
weather patterns.
- CREW: After the passenger-side door on the truck is ripped off, a crew
member can been seen at Max's feet inside the cab.
# Made in America (1993)
- CONT: Zora's seatbelt when she drives with Hal for the first time.
# Madigan's Million (1968)
- CONT: Phister gains glasses while being dragged up the stairs to Madigan's
office.
# Madness of King George, The (1994)
- DATE: The left side of the door has 1862 carved in it, even though the film
is set in the 1780s.
# Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
- CREW: Camera dolly tracks during the trucking shot.
# Magnum Force (1973)
- CONT: When Callahan is in the car with Lieutenant Briggs after they pick up
the bomb they drive by the 76 service station 3 times in about 30 seconds.
- CONT: In the car with Callahan, after picking up the bomb, Briggs puts his
glasses on twice.
# Major League (1989)
- CONT: Harris is said to be pitching a seven-hitter. He then gives up a hit,
but the scoreboard still shows 7 hits for the Yankees.
- CONT: When the Indians are playing Oakland in the "national television" game
and Mike Rexman (Oakland), is at the plate the sun angle changes drastically
between when Jake goes out to talk to Rick Vaughn and the last pitch of the
game.
- FAKE: At the opening game there is nobody in the stadium. A clock in the
scoreboard reveals that it is 10:40am, too early for Major League Baseball
games.
- CONT: Set in Cleveland, but the scoreboard features advertisments for WTMJ,
a Milwaukee radio station.
- CONT: The ``No Pepper'' sign that Rick Vaughn hits while practicing pitching.
- CONT: Player number 37 appears in multiple places.
- CONT: The necklace on Vaughn's chest as he's being kissed goodbye by Mrs.
Suzanne Dorn moves between shots.
- CONT: The same fan comes out of the stands onto the field twice.
# Major League II (1994)
- GEOG: Set in Cleveland, yet obviously filmed in Baltimore.
# Major Payne (1994)
- CONT: When Cadets attempt to photograph Heathcoat with Major Payne, the
first time Cadet Stone looks in, the clock shows 4:00, a few seconds
later when the rest of the Cadets enter the room, the clock shows
12:30
# Malicious (1995)
- CONT: After Doug's truck crashes, Melissa pulls the same cigarette
out of the pack twice
# Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- FAKE: San Francisco fire department have Los Angeles Fire Department uniforms
on.
- CONT: When searching for the body, Sam's handkerchief is ruffled only while
he is in the room, not before or after.
# Man About Town (1939)
- CONT: Susan's hair style changes just before she leaves the house party.
# Man in the Iron Mask, The (1977) (TV)
- CONT: Position of the sentry in the background while Philippe is talking
on the wharf.
# Man in the Wilderness (1971)
- FACT: Indian horses were not shod.
# Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
- CONT: Tom enters the burning house wearing a grey shirt, but exits wearing
a different black one.
# Manhattan (1979)
- CREW: Camera and crew reflected on passing cars while following [?] running
down the street.
# Manhunter (1986)
- BOOM: During the FBI team discussion in the conference room.
- CONT: Graham loosens his tie after running from the hospital, but it is
soon done up again.
- CONT: Cans and boxes behind Graham and his son in the supermarket
# Manta, Manta (1991)
- CONT: The Manta enters the lake facing away from shore, but is pulled out
the other way around.
# Marked for Death (1990)
- CONT: Leaves (not) on the street when Hatcher is watching the black
four-door car.
- CONT: Right parking light on the Mustang.
# Marrakech express (1989)
- CONT: Shadows of the dunes when the resuce team is about to die.
# Mars Attacks! (1996)
- CONT: In the initial attack, a media van is knocked over but is soon back
on its wheels.
- CONT: The position of the dog during the interview.
- CONT: The General hands the president a clipboard which reverses itself
when the president accepts it.
- CONT: The president's tie during his speech.
# Mary Poppins (1964)
- CONT: Mary's glove changes from white to black in the closeup when she
reads the advertisment to Mr. Banks.
# MASH (1970)
- CONT: Cars on a freeway in the background of the football game.
- CONT: Due to heavy editing, Trapper John can be heard as a surgeon in the
O.R. prior to his arrival at the camp; Lt. Dish's departure (and therefore
the suicide sequence) are later in the film than orginally intended (she can
be seen in the jeep at the chopper pad, ready to leave, when Hot-Lips first
arrives).
# Mask, The (1994)
- CONT: Stanley's tie suddenly flips over his left shoulder during the
bank account opening scene.
- CONT: Disappearing toilet roll in the prison cell.
# Matilda (1996)
- CONT: Chalk ``X'' on the blackboard changes to a straight line.
# Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
- SYNC: Conductor 71 says ``One is starved of colour up there'' during filming,
but ``Technicolor'' was dubbed for ``color'' during post-production.
- CONT: Peter walks slowly up a very wet beach, shedding his flying gear and
one boot. The camera switches to a long shot showing a line of gear and
Peter in completely dry sand, the surf a long way off.
# Maverick (1994)
- DATE: Tyre tracks are visible on the dust trail during the runaway stagecoach
scene.
- DATE: When Maverick is talking to the women from the wagon train, a truck
can be seen in the distance, travelling from left to right.
- CONT: On the steamboat, the door to Maverick's room is immovable when when
seen from within the room, but able to be budged when seen from outside.
# Maximum Overdrive (1986)
- GEOG: The image of the earth shown at the beginning of the movie is reversed.
# Medicine Man (1992)
- CONT: Dr. Bronx's harness appears on her before she dons it.
- CONT: Dr. Bronx goes to sleep in her hammock wearing shorts but wakes up
wearing trousers.
# Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- MISC: Esther ('Judy Garland' (qv)) is referred to as ``Judy'' during
``The Trolley Song''.
- CONT: In an early scene you can see feathers and down floating all over the
set, left over from the upcoming winter scenes.
- CONT: Color of Tootie's slippers during ``If You Like-a Me''.
# Memphis Belle (1990)
- CONT: Number of blades on propeller of first wounded B-17 returning to base.
- DATE: Features P51 Mustangs in May 1943, several months before they were
introduced into the European theatre.
- PLOT: Set in May, a farmer can be seen harvesting crops, normally done in
late summer.
- FACT: The final mission was to Wilhelmshaven, not Dresden. The Memphis Belle
took no damage, none of the crew were injured, it had no trouble finding the
target, and did not crash land.
- FACT: Numerous errors to do with bombsight aiming and timing, and course
corrections.
- CONT: The plane that lands still has the ball turret.
# Menace II Society (1993)
- CREW: Reflected in the security mirror as O-Dog drags the lady into the
back room.
- CONT: Sharif raises his hands to ward off blows, despite them being cuffed
behind his back before he was put in the back seat of the police car.
# Mermaids (1990)
- DATE: Mentions of AstroTurf (introduced in 1967) in 1963.
# Michael Collins (1996)
- DATE: One of the sailing vessels pictured in the background as Collins,
Boland and Kitty Kiernan walked along the pier in the Dun Laoghaire Harbour
is a Dublin Bay Sailing Club Mermaid. This class of 3-man racing dinghy was
designed in 1932, 9 years after Collins' death.
- DATE: Collin's personal car has the registration ``15 D1;; which is the format
of registration adopted in the Republic of Ireland in 1987.
# Midnight Express (1978)
- CREW: boom man visible chasing [?] as he climbs a path by the prison wall.
# Midnight Run (1988)
- CONT: The hand that Walsh's cigarette is in when he is about to let the Duke
out of the bathroom on the train.
- CONT: When Tony Darvo gives Jack his phone number, he can clearly be seen
writing it on a matchbook cover in pencil. Yet when Jack refers to it
later, the writing is in blue ink.
# Midway (1976)
- DATE: Utility poles are visible in the scene of the Japanese aircraft carrier
launching planes for the first attack on Midway.
- CONT: Garth's spectacular crash is in a Hellcat, not the Wildcat that he
should have been flying.
- CONT: Utility poles are visible in the scene of the Japanese aircraft
carrier launching planes for the first attack on Midway.
# Mighty Ducks, The (1992)
- CONT: Annoucer states: ``Number 99, Adam Banks, on a breakaway!''. Shots
of teammates cheering include Adam Banks.
- CONT: After Coach Bombay puts a jersey on Tami Duncan her hair is under her
jersey, yet when she yells at her brother in the next moment her hair is
out.
# Mio min Mio (1987)
- CONT: Mio is claimed to be a mare, but can be seen to be a male.
# Mirror Crack'd, The (1980)
- DATE: Set 1953, Marty Fenn drives a 1959 model car.
# Mirror Has Two Faces, The (1996)
- CREW: Camera operator visible when Rose rejects Alex.
# Misery (1990)
- CONT: Orientation of typewriter when Annie first brings it in.
- CONT: The soup changes from red to orange when Annie throws it on Paul.
- CONT: Bottle of whiteout is (not) there when Annie first brings the
typewriter in.
- CONT: Can of charcoal lighter before Sheldon picks it up.
# Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
- CONT: Sergeant O'Hara's shirt is wet with sweat as he leaves the radio tent
but dry as he exits.
# Missing (1982)
- FACT: Chilean taxi cabs are black and yellow, not white.
- FACT: Chilean taxi cabs are black and yellow, not white.
# Mission: Impossible (1996)
- CONT: The waiter that gets blown out through the window in the exploding
fishtank scene at the restaurant should be visible (lying on the ground)
when Ethan Hunt comes running along in that direction.
- CONT: Hunt's arms are completely stretched out whilst dangling just above
the floor, however he is able to catch a drop of sweat (palm facing upwards)
before it hits the floor.
- FACT: ``max@Job 3:14'' is an illegal email address
- CONT: Max's email address changes from ``max@Job 3:14'' to max@Job 3:15''.
- FACT: The TGV uses an overhead power cable system, which would have made
a helicopter interaction impossible.
- FACT: The train which runs through the Chunnel is the EuroStar, not the TGV.
Also, trains travelling in opposite directions in the Chunnel do so in
seperate tunnels.
- FACT: Many (MANY) physics problems with a helicopter following a train into
a tunnel, even withoug having to avoid another highspeed on-coming train.
- CONT: When Ethan first sticks his head above the train, he is facing the
rear of the train, yet the wind distorts his face as if he was facing
forwards.
- FACT: Hunt puts the explosive chewing-gum at the surface of the
helicopter's window; however, when it explodes, the tail explodes first.
# Mister Cool (1995)
- CONT: The food on Peaches' plate changes several times in the breakfast
scene.
# Mitchell (1975)
- BOOM: Behind Mitchell as he is eating dinner.
- CONT: The red car's headlight during the chase scene.
# Moby Dick (1956)
- DATE: Jet contrails visible in the background when Starbuck plans to shoot
Ahab.
- CONT: Blood/holes in Mody Dick change when Ahab stabs.
# Money Pit, The (1986)
- CONT: Walter pours water into the bath but when it falls through the floor
and shatters below, there is no water anywhere.
# Money Train (1995)
- CONT: Amount of beer in the pitcher when John and Charlie are talking.
- CONT: Lady in white coat gets knocked over, then is back on her feet again.
- PLOT: The New York City train system relies on several different track types
and electrical sources.
- CREW: Reflected in the rear window just before the collision.
# Moonraker (1979)
- CONT: Pilot's parachute (in prologue segment) lacks leg straps.
- FACT: The pods of the space station are shown at all angles to axis, but
rotationally produced "gravity" is always away from axis. Also, gravity
would not change intantaneously when going from one corridor to another.
- SYNC: When Drax is playing the piano, notes can be heard when none of his
fingers are on the keys.
# Mortal Kombat (1995)
- MISC: During the fight between Johnny Cage and Scorpion in the plantation,
a car can be seen in the background.
- CONT: During the fight in Scorpion's tomb, a hole in the rear of Johnny's
pants disappears.
# Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
- CONT: After losing a hubcap in high-speed cornering on the way to the
hospital in the driver training car, all four are on the car again in
subsequent scenes.
- DATE: Portland did not have traffic diverters until the early 1990s.
- SYNC: Trumpet players are obviously keying not matching what they're playing.
# Mr. Wrong (1996)
- CONT: Martha turns off the TV twice in her office when Walter walks in.
- CONT: When Whitman takes the picture of Martha, only one of her legs are in
the car, but in the developed picture, both legs were in the car.
# Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
- GEOG: While eating lunch, in successive shots Connie and Bill move from
Boston Common to Paul Revere's House to the Public Garden, then back to
Revere's House; while the Garden and the Common are adjacent, Revere's house
is much farther away from them than implied.
# Murder in Coweta County (1983) (TV)
- DATE: Courtroom scenes show Georgia flag incorporating Confederate battle
flag. Movie takes place in 1947; this flag wasn't adopted until 1956.
# My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
- CONT: Position of the professor's assistant behind him when Jeremy confronts
him.
# My Blue Heaven (1990/I)
- FACT: The Witness Security Program is under the jurisdiction of the
Marshals Service, not the FBI.
# My Bodyguard (1980)
- CONT: Juxtaposition of red-haired friend and Linderman.
# My Cousin Vinny (1992)
- PLOT: Lisa manages to fake Vinny's curriculum even though she didn't know
the false name that Vinny was using with the judge.
- CONT: The hand that Judge Haller hands Vinny the book on court procedures
with.
- CONT: The measuring tape is loose in some scenes and taut in others.
# My Girl (1991)
- CONT: The hook falls out of fish's mouth twice.
- DATE: 1980s cars visiblein the background.
# My Girl 2 (1994)
- DATE: Set in 1974, shows a Blockbuster Video store before VCRs were widely
available (1979).
- DATE: Set in 1974, a California Highway Emergeny cellular phone site is
visible.
# Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, The (1991)
- CONT: Atmospheric conditions between the baseball stadium and the city
in the background change rapidly.
# Naked Prey, The (1966)
- DATE: Set in the 19th century, a car can be seen through the bushes after
Wilde gets some food after being chased.
# Name of the Rose, The (1986)
- FACT: Bernardo Gui died at the castle of Lauroux, and wasn't killed by an
angry mob in an abbey as shown in the movie.
# Narrow Margin (1990)
- CONT: State of repair of windshield after car hits a low branch.
# National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
- CONT: Mustard on Bluto's toga vanishes and reappears in toga party scene.
- CONT: During the lecture on Milton, the handwriting for the word ``Satan''
on the chalkboard changes from scene to scene.
- CONT: The letters on the balcony change from ``DXT'' to ``DTX'' and back
again while the house is being gutted by the authorities.
- DATE: Set in 1962, features the song ``Louie Louie'', released in 1964.
# National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
- CONT: Number of people in the truck in the chase scene.
- CONT: Eddy's motorhome is visible in the driveway before he arrives.
# National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
- FAKE: Oil rigs near Chicago.
- CREW: visible in the reflection off the side of the car, when Colt takes
Ms. Demeanor away after the interrogation.
- FAKE: Ellen can be seen wearing underwear in the shower at the first motel.
# Natural, The (1984)
- CONT: Blood on Hobbs' uniform before he hits the home run at the end.
- FACT: Hobbs goes to play the Chicago Cubs at their home (Wrigley Field).
In first inning when he bats, the scoreboard shows the Cubs up 1-0, however
the Cubs should not have batted already because they are at their home field. When he hits the home run in the ninth inning, the crowd leave the stadium,
even though it must be the top of the ninth inning, with the Cubs still
with a chance to bat.
- CONT: Glass in the resturant scene.
# Necessary Roughness (1991)
- CONT: Krimm's name on his helmet when he is at tryouts is completely
unreadable before he hits the sled and then is in perfect block lettering
after hitting the sled.
# Net, The (1995)
- CONT: There is no scar on Jack's face from the cigarrete on the boat.
- CONT: Angela's trip is to Cozumel, but a beach towel and a sign in the lobby
say ``Crystal Cancun''.
- CONT: When Angela first meets Jack, he suddenly gains sunglasses.
- FACT: Angela says words to the effect of ``It looks like a regular
web page'', to describe a piece of software that is obviously not.
- FACT: The Macintosh virus Angela found would not be able to infect
a mainframe computer.
- CONT: Angel autodials a phone by pressing the release button.
- FACT: Typing ``WHOIS alias'' will give the name and address of anyone,
this even works for ``WHOIS villain-boss''.
- CONT: The scar on Angela's forehead does not appear in the mugshots.
- CONT: Angela is at the Ferris Wheel at 7pm, when it it pitch dark, despite
later in the film when the radio indicates that it is summertime and hence
should be twilight.
- CONT: Angela is told that Dr. Champion had a reaction to penicillin and was
intubated, yet was clearly not.
- FACT: It is not possible to determine the position of a cellular phone,
even if you know the posisiotns of the two repeaters.
# Never Say Never Again (1983)
- CONT: When spying on the yacht, Felix enters the water without a mask, but
emerges from the water with one.
- CONT: Fatima Blush skis with one ski, but when she skis into James' arms,
she has two.
# New Adventures of Tarzan, The (1935/I)
- CONT: Bouchart tells Tarzan that he was flying with d'Arnot when his plane
crashed and bailed out shortly before it struck the earth. Later, in the
same chapter (#1), Ula Vale explains that her fiance, David Brent, was
in d'Arnot's plane when it crashed and was killed. Both agree d'Arnot
was flying the plane. All shots of the plane, however, show a simple
open-cockpit two-seater.
# New Jack City (1991)
- CONT: The length of Nino's banana when talking to Frankie Needles.
# Newsies (1992)
- FACT: By 1899 'Joseph Pulitzer' (qv) was blind and ran his newspapers by
telegram from a yacht.
- FACT: The real 1899 New York newsboys' strike failed.
- SYNC: In the beginning song ``Carrying the Banner'' when Crutchy sings there
is an unsychronized voice/mouth movements.
# Night Hunter (1995)
- MISC: Police Swat member undergoes a complete change in clothing while
driving at high speed from one scene to another.
# Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
- BOOM: hitting Shannon on the head.
# Night of the Twisters (1996) (TV)
- CONT: In the first scenes at end of bike race, Dan has an earring - til
he and Arthur go for ride, from then on, it is missing.
# Night Rhythms (1992)
- CREW: Honey's latex crotch shield is visible when she makes love to Nick
West.
# Night Shift (1982)
- GEOG: Bill says ``this is my stop'' and gets off the subway, while
Chuck stays on. But the sign next to him says the train is the
Times Square - Grand Central shuttle, which makes no intermediate stops.
# Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)
- CONT: The door to the basement opens in different directions, depending
on the scene.
- CONT: Nancy is seen walking past a tree holding what seems to be tickets she
will be given in the next scene.
- CONT: When Nancy checks her watch she is wearing a short-sleeved nightgown,
but the closeup shows a wrist with the end of a long blue sleeve on it.
- CONT: The part in Nancy's hair swaps sides in the scene where her father is
talking to get about Tina.
# Nikita (1990)
- CONT: State of repair of the window that Nikita punches out.
- CONT: Nikita's leg gunshot wound heals quickly without a scar.
- CONT: Nikita turns off the movie in her call when Bob comes in for a talk.
As he leaves, the end of the movie is playing.
- CONT: During the fire-fight in the resturant, Nikita only has
two clips of ammo, yet, she fires about 3 or 4. That particular weapon only
holds a maximum of 8 rounds/clip.
# Nine Months (1995)
- CONT: Samuel's earing swaps sides at the party.
# Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
- CONT: Holes created by ninja stabbing through police car roof.
# No Way Out (1987)
- CONT: The Poloroid camera used by Susan to take Tom's picture made the sound
of an SX-70 model's auto eject, but was indeed on older model with a manual
film extract.
- CONT: When running away from the assasins in, Tom slide down the handrail
of an escaltor, which gets dirt on the seat of his pants. As he turns to
run further, the dirt has suddenly disappeared.
- GEOG: Tom escapes two assasins while running along the C&O canal in
Washington D.C. by ducking into a Metro station (there are no Metro stations
on the C&O Canal), and getting on a Baltimore Metro train just as it leaves.
- PLOT: The Pentagon is one of the largest buildings in the world, with
17 miles of corridors alone. For a single group to search it in two hours
is impossible.
# Nobody's Fool (1994)
- CONT: The snowblower in the back of Sully's truck.
# North (1994)
- FACT: All married Amish men have beards.
# North by Northwest (1959)
- FACT: The car's rear wheel was over the cliff, thus wouldn't have been
able to drive away.
- CONT: The knife that Thornhill pulls out of Lester Townsend's back.
- FAKE: Many backdrop tops and light reflections.
- FAKE: In the cropdusting scene, a sign marking the highway as US 41 is on the
wrong side of the highway.
- FAKE: Wobbling trees as the ambulance passes.
- CONT: Thornhill's suitcase disappears from under his arm while getting off
the train.
- CONT: The little boy wasn't looking at Eve when she draws the gun, hence
he would't have known to put his fingers in his ears.
