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| 1 |
Tarantula |
Just before the giant tarantula attacks the house where heroine Mara Corday is studying, you can see several book on the library table at the big picture window. The largest book on the table keeps shifting positions in several scenes.
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| 2 |
Oklahoma |
The scene where the people are going to Skidmore for the box social, Laurie greets several young ladies on the front porch, they hear Gertie laugh and you can see the same young ladies just getting out of wagons and surries.
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Lady and the Tramp |
Lady is put in her bed and the master leaves the kitchen but he goes back in and puts a newspaper on the floor and leaves again but Lady gets out of her bed so the master comes back once more and puts her back in her bed but the newspaper on the floor has vanished.
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Guys and Dolls |
Adelaide performs her first number and finds Nathan in her dressing room. There is a pink robe draped over the partition. Placement of this robe changes during the scene without being touched.
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| 5 |
To Catch a Thief |
When Cary Grant swims to the floating dock to speak with Danielle, the ladder attached to the dock is not covering the L in hotel in a couple of shots.
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The Seven Year Itch |
When they are on the back porch, watch the Coke bottle. The level of the liquid in the bottle goes down, then up, then down, etc.
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| 7 |
The Ladykillers |
During the robbery, the taxi driven by Danny Green changes from an Austin to a Morris Oxford and back again. Both types are the same colour, but the Austin is the one with the rounded radiator grille, and the Oxford has a flat radiator.
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Rebel Without a Cause |
At the beginning of the movie at the police station and the next morning at breakfast, it at least appears to be established that Grandma lives with Jim and his parents. After all, they had just moved from another city and Grandma was there early in the morning at breakfast time. However that's the last we see of her. She is never mentioned again nor is she there after Jim comes home from school or at anytime after the trouble starts. It would be unusual for someone to sleep through all that went on; but no one ever says anything about "being quite or we might wake Grandma up." After that scene at breakfast, she is forgotten.
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| 9 |
Bad Day at Black Rock |
During the desert chase sequence, when our hero is run off the road by Ernest B. his missing arm is momentarily transposed when he steps from the jeep.
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| 10 |
Strategic Air Command |
When Jimmy Stewart is almost down to the runway during the bad weather, the aircraft exterior shots show the type of cloud tops found only at high altitude, not low to the ground.
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| 11 |
Marty |
In the very first scene when the camera pans in to the butcher shop, you can clearly see the shadow of the cameraman on the lift.
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| 12 |
The Night of the Hunter |
When Willa Harper is lying in bed talking to Harry her mouth movements are out of sync with the dialogue.
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| 13 |
Bride of the Monster |
When Cpt. Lawton is talking to the secretary at the newspaper, the pencil stuck behind her ear keeps disappearing and reappearing. It is there when the secretary is seen from behind, and is gone every time we see her face.
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| 14 |
Five Guns West |
While the Confederate captain is explaining the mission, a couple of the "patriots" are inserting cartridges into their Colt Peacemakers. A neat trick, since the Civil War ended in 1865, and the Peacemaker wasn't introduced until 1873.
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| 15 |
Ulysses |
In order to make Polyphem drunk, Ulysses and his men produce 'wine' by treading on grapes. Only thing is: without fermenting the stuff for a few months, all you get is grape juice, which is not even remotely intoxicating.
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| 16 |
Lost |
A couple cross the road to enter Victoria Coach Station, London. There is the noise of a coach braking hard and they throw themselves away from a coach just inside the entrance, which obviously was not moving at the time. They walk into the station and talk to an inspector, while the same coach is driven out of the entrance past where it is supposedly parked.
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| 17 |
The Trouble with Harry |
Right at the end, Shirley MacLaine's dress has a large spot that disappears in the following shot.
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| 18 |
The Cockleshell Heroes |
In the scene where Leslie Howard and Jose Ferrer are sharing what appears to be some port (about 50 minutes into the movie), the port decanter has a drip stopper in the long shot which disappears in the close-up shot of Leslie Howard and then re-appears in the following longer shot.
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| 19 |
To Hell and Back |
When Audie Murphy first joins up with the Third Infantry Division the Captain calls him in to talk to him. Look at Audie's chest, in one shot it is white, and in the next it is sunburned.
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| 20 |
The Far Horizons |
Sacajawea (Donna Reed) dives into the water to retrieve some important maps, which have fallen in and been taken to the back of the boat. When she dives in, the maps are back to the original area they fell into, when they should have been quite a distance from where they landed in the water.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
When William Holden is visiting Frederick March in the Admiral's cabin a boom microphone is visible near the air conditioning ducting in the ceiling. A shadow is seen, then the microphone drops down into the shot. The microphone moves a bit and then is raised.
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