Best comedy movie mistakes of 1959

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Some Like It Hot picture

Continuity mistake: It is supposed to be night when Joe slips out of the hotel, but a daytime sky is visible.

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The Shaggy Dog picture

Continuity mistake: When Wilby goes into his bedroom, he takes out his PJ's from the bureau drawer, leaving the drawer open. He goes into the bathroom to put on the PJ's. When he comes out of the bathroom, the drawer in the bureau is closed.

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Carry on Nurse picture

Other mistake: Mick the orderly is Irish throughout the film, but when Nurse Dawson bumps into him and says, "You clumsy oaf," Mick's reply, "Look who's talking," is said in a London accent.

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Operation Petticoat picture

Revealing mistake: During the opening credits, as a crab descends past the periscope, the string attached to the crab is visible.

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Pillow Talk picture

Revealing mistake: Rock Hudson angrily picks up Doris Day from her bed, blanket and all, and carries her through town to his apartment. When he is walking down the sidewalk, the blanket slips and the supporting wooden board underneath Doris Day is visible. This made carrying her easier.

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Charles' tante picture

Continuity mistake: In the start of the movie Charles says that he has got a letter from his aunt in Italy. But she lives in Brazil, and you don't hear anything about his aunt being on vacation to Italy.

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Continuity mistake: When Foghorn Leghorn slips an egg under Miss Prissy's nest, you can see that there are two holes on the wall of the chicken shed, but when we see Miss Prissy dancing for joy after seeing the egg, there is now only one hole.

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Wild and Woolly Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is performing his shooting stunt in the saloon, you can see the entrance behind Sam has nothing between it. When Sam tells Bugs he's missed, we cut to Bugs who says "Wait!" and then return to Sam, and this time there are doors between the entrance.

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Uncle Was a Vampire picture

Continuity mistake: Christopher Lee looks outside his useless nephew's room and spots two hot Swedish girls. Renato Rascel has a bottle of wine in hand and walks towards him, but the bottle is gone when he tries to stop him. (00:23:40)

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I'm All Right Jack picture

Continuity mistake: When Stanley is shown around the cake factory he takes his hat off and puts it on a conveyor belt and it is carried into a machine and covered in icing. But in the scene before this with the supervisor saying "and this is the enrobing chamber" you can see his hat come into shot on the conveyor belt already. In the next shot he still has his hat on and only then takes it off and puts it onto the conveyor belt. (00:13:08)

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The Mating Game picture

Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes, the panoramic view of the Larkin homestead shows Lorenzo's "Gummint" Ford sitting with its hood up, days before he has been assigned to the case.

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Backwoods Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When Elvis hands a pair of binoculars to his pappy, you can see there is a swarm of flies buzzing around Pappy, but in the next shot the flies have disappeared.

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