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Best mistakes of 1972 (see this week / this month / all time)

Most mistakes in 1972

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1 The Godfather
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When Sonny is punching Carlo under the spraying fire hydrant, he misses an audible punch by at least six inches.
2 Jeremiah Johnson
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Although the film is set during the aftermath of the Mexican War (1848-50), the mountain vistas display some lovely radio towers and fire ranger stations.
3 Nearest and Dearest
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After the opening sequence, Hylda Baker goes into her house carrying a natural straw shopping bag. When she appears inside the house, the bag has turned into a bright red patterned one.
4 High Plains Drifter
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In the scene where Eastwood is watching "the city of Lago volunteers" training,he is drinking a beer. The first time he lifts the glass to drink, it is about half empty. After he says something to the man with the knife, he lifts the glass for another drink and it is nearly full.
5 The Poseidon Adventure
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Just before midnight when the band is playing "Morning After" the camera pans out for a wide shot of the dance floor - the dancers are dancing MUCH too fast for such a slow song - and you do still hear the song.
6 The Valachi Papers
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At the conclusion of a car chase, in the beginning of the movie, one of the cars is shown going into the river, with the New York skyline in the background. Most prominent are the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Since the chase took place in the 20's, theres no way the Towers should have been there.
7 The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid
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In the shot where the men are playing a game of baseball, if you look carefully in the background you will see that cars are driving down the highway. Considering that this movie was supposed to take place in the 1800's...
8 Superfly
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The protagonist is weilding his karate skills against the crooked cops in the final fight scene. One of his foes is wearing a white fishing cap. Superfly belts him and knocks of the cap, there is a cut and then the cap is on again. The cap is on and then off again twice more in the same fight scene.
9 Last Tango in Paris
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At her wake, Rose blinks when Paul leans in to clean her face.
10 What's Up, Doc?
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In the early part of the chase scene, when the person hanging the banner swings into the pane of glass, you can actually see it start to shatter before he touches it.
11 Deliverance
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In the scene where Lewis and Ed are in the canoe after setting up camp and Lewis is bowfishing while Ed is drinking beer, Lewis shoots a trout. You can clearly see the arrow hit the fish just behind its head in a close-up shot. When Lewis pulls the fish in, the arrow is through the middle of the fish's body.
12 1776
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Near the end of "The Lees of Old Virginia," Richard Henry Lee is seated on a water fountain, and then stands up. In the following shot from behind, he is back on the fountain and stands up again.
13 Frenzy
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Watch the bar scene about ten minutes from the start of the film. The barmaid is holding 2 pints, but note how the froth disappears when the shot changes as they are placed on the bar.
14 The Last House on the Left
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The Collingwoods' mouths don't move, when we hear them speak after finding Mari's body.
15 Cosa Nostra
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At the very beginning, just after the flowers are delivered, a boom mike drops in from the top of the screen.
16 Sleuth
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In the scene where Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine are playing snooker, Olivier pots the black. There is then a wide shot, with the black visible again on its spot. The next shot is a close up of Olivier picking the black ball from the pocket and replacing it on the table.
17 Dracula A.D. 1972
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When Johnny Alucard stumbles into the bathroom you can see that the bath hasn't got its plug in, yet when he falls into it and turns the shower on it rapidly fills up with water and drowns him.
18 Carry On Matron
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When the new student nurse arrives and Arthur says, "Over to the desk girls", his mouth is not moving.
19 Nybyggarna
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In one of the first scenes, when Karl Oskar is taking the family to the new settlement, the boom mike is visible in the upper left corner for the entire shot.
20 Cabaret
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When Sally and Bryan are in the street, we can see, at their back, election posters. These posters appeared in 1932, one year after the movie is supposed to take place.
21 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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When McDonald is in the tunnels and is called to pick up the phone, he picks up a red phone. It is a standard Bell TouchTone desk phone. To make the phone look more futuristic, there was no cord and it was disguised as a cordless phone. The port that the cord would plug into is covered by a piece of colored tape. This also can be seen in the operations center of Ape Control when the worker picks up the phone.
22 Mutiny on the Buses
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When Stan is in the safari park driving the bus with the monkey on the steering wheel the scene outside the bus is obviously background projection and at times it runs backwards giving the impression that the bus is in reverse when all the time it is going forwards.
23 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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When the White Rabbit falls into the small vegetable hutch, after seeing Alice's arm out the window, some of the slats which get broken, reappear intact, and some intact slats suddenly break between shots.
24 Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
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When Tintin and the two kids are escaping from the submarine lair, the water level keeps changing. It's supposed to be more and more high, but it's lower in some shots.
25 Play It Again, Sam
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As Allen is preparing for his blind date, he knocks almost everything off the second shelf of the medicine cabinet, while trying to control the hair dryer. When the camera changes position, however, it's all back on the shelf.
26 The Chinese Connection
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When Bruce Lee finishes fighting with the Japanese school using a nunchaku and is going to fight with the fat man, his nunchaku suddenly disappears from his hand without the camera even changing its angle. Maybe he let it fall to the floor, but the sound of it touching the ground couldn't be heard.
27 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
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A boom mike is visible at the very end of the "What's My Perversion" segment.
28 Joe Kidd
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When Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is shooting his 1896 Muster Machine pistol, with the long barrel, even though he fires numerous shots the hammer remains fully cocked and does not move.

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