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Movie Mistakes blog

Best mistakes of 1973 (see this week / this month / all time)

Most mistakes in 1973

You may have noticed the "vote" buttons after every mistake on the site (and by the entries below). If you've got a favourite mistake, vote for it to help it to the top of the leaderboard, or if something's listed that doesn't deserve it, vote it down. To help with the voting, visit the quick pick page, where you can see random entries and vote them up or down.

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1 The Exorcist
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Near the beginning of the movie, the old priest is in Northern Iraq and you can see the shadow of a microphone on his hat.
2 Papillon
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In the last scene where the main character escapes, he jumps into the bay and is supported by a sack which he is carrying. Actually you can clearly see that he is supported from underneath by a diver.
3 The Way We Were
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When Barbara Streisand meets Robert Redford on the street at the end of the film, the camera shoots her from behind and her coat collar is standing up. When the angle shifts to the front, her collar is neatly in place.
4 Robin Hood (1973)
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During the archery constest, in one scene Prince John has a ring on his right paw with no jewel, then all of a sudden the jewel appears. a few scenes later he has three rings on that paw, and later he has no rings at all.
5 Enter the Dragon
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When Han is killed by Bruce Lee, and the door is spinning, you can see the belt that holds Han to the door.
6 Paperback Hero
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In the first scene where the truck drives along the road, if you look in the top right hand corner you can see the shadow of the helicopter that was filming the shot.
7 Live and Let Die
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In the scene where Kananga's henchman Adam is being interrogated by Sheriff Pepper by his car at the riverside, the boat chase arrives and two boats jump clearly over head disillusioning Sheriff Pepper and allowing Adam to make a quick getaway. However, as Adam is getting away in his car, screeches can be heard coming from the tyres, but they are on a dry dirt road.
8 The Wicker Man
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In the director's cut, there's a scene where the bar-owner is tied up to the bed. A few seconds before it cuts away, a crewmember's leg can be seen on the left hand side.
9 Breezy
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In one scene the actress is wearing a tight fitting sweater which clearly shows that she is wearing a bra. In the next shot she stands up to say she is off to have a shower, whips off her top and - you've guessed it - no bra!
10 White Lightning
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During the first moonshine run chase, and after dealing with the passing train, Gator's car alternatively does and does not have the back glass installed. This is most noticeable while in the lumber yard and afterwards. It isn't lost or damaged during the chase. It's just there, or not, at random.
11 Bang the Drum Slowly
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In some of the locker room scenes, the overhead boom microphone is visible, and clearly shaking.
12 The Day of the Jackal
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After Col. Rolland plays the tape revealing the identity of the traitor, a minister walks from the room and passes Rolland who has one hand on his forehead. Cut to a rear view and now Rolland has both hands on the tape player.
13 Jesus Christ Superstar
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During entire scene with dancing king Herod and his men, shadows on the floor are at different angles from one shot to another.
14 The Daring Dobermans
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Right at the start of the movie, the dogs go though the bank's front door, which can only be opened from the outside, which means someone had to have opened the door for the dogs.
15 Sleeper
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At the beginning of the scene in which Diane Keaton rides on Woody Allen's back across the water, she is wearing clunky platform shoes. Later in the scene, her shoes have inexplicably changed to Keds-style tennis shoes. At the beginning of the next scene, she is wearing the platform shoes again.
16 Magnum Force
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After the pimp is stopped by the policeman on the motorcycle and shot, the camera pulls back showing the pimp's arm lolling through the car window and the reflection of the camera crew moving about on the back, driver's side wing.
17 The Three Musketeers (1973)
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At one point D'Artagnan reaches the Duke of Buckingham, who is on a hunt. He has just killed a stag and his hands are covered in blood. D'Artagnan rides up and offers him a note from Queen Anne. He wipes his palms with a cloth before he takes the note, but his hands are still covered with blood up to and above the wrists. When he reads the note, he and D'Artagnan take off on foot for his castle where they go into a private room behind the walls. Suddenly it is apparent that his hands are perfectly clean right down to his scrubbed fingernails and, without explanation, the plot-heavy sequence continues.
18 Chino
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When Chino does some rodeo riding when he breaks in one of his horses we get a good view of the stuntman's face.
19 The Stone Killer
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When Charles Bronson is chasing Paul Koslo through the flea market, the rooftop mounted camera set up can be seen atop the car.
20 Charley Varrick
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Towards the end of the film when "Molly" is chasing Varrick's aircraft, the front fenders of his car have miraculously repaired themselves having been stoved in earlier when he crashed into various other cars in the scrapyard as he first went for the kill.
21 Paper Moon
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Trixie Delight's room number in the hotel is 235, but when Imogene and Addie go to Addie's hotel room, which is right next to Trixie's, the number on the door says 235, too.
22 Carry On Girls
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In the bedroom scene, Barbara Windor gets her dressing gown caught in the bed spring and has to take it off. When Sid James tries it on, he has no trouble removing it from the bed.
23 Soylent Green
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Shortly before Sol's death, Thorn rushes into the suicide center and talks to him from the control room above. When Sol pleads Thorn to listen, there's interference on the intercom. Now watch the control panel: The earphone cable on the left side dangles back and forth each time the "speaking permitted" sign flashes on and off, blatantly revealing the cheap trick they used to make the display flashing - they simply toggled the "on" and "off" frames.
24 Theatre of Blood
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The hot knives that are set up in the King Lear scene towards the end of the film are sometimes smoking and sometimes not depending on the shot.
25 Walking Tall (1973)
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When the bad sheriff tries to run Carl Pusser over, he drives off the road and the car explodes for no reason. It's in the air when it explodes, there's no way it could have exploded without hitting the ground.
26 Emperor of the North Pole
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On the night of 19 October 1933 the railroad workers begin betting whether A-One will make it to Portland on the 19. A quick closeup of the money changing hands reveals the $1's to have the Great Seal reverse (introduced in 1935) plus the motto IN GOD WE TRUST (introduced in 1957). Also, the green-seal Federal Reserve Notes and the red-seal United States $2 notes are of the types first introduced in 1934.
27 The Seven-Ups
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Scheider is honking the car's horn during the chase, but a close-up shows him pushing on the top of the outer rim of the steering wheel, while the horn switch is actually part of the center pad.
28 The Sting
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When Lonegan brings the briefcase full of money to the cage for his big bet, all of the 100s in the case are new federal reserve notes not the type of the 1920s.
29 Day of the Dolphin
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In the scene where Ka and Bee jump over the "wall" towards the end after attaching the bomb to the boat, they have nothing on their backs; but when they jump into the water, the 'holder' of the bomb is seen on their backs again and the woman takes it off then.
30 Holiday on the Buses
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When Jack goes to the surgery to take his pleasure with the nurse, he chalks on the blackboard on the door that the nurse will be unavalable for 30 minutes. When Blakey arrives, the 30 minutes note has gone from the blackboard. But when Blakey opens the door with hs passkey, the 30 minutes note has re-appeared on the door.

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