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| 1 |
The Exorcist |
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.
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Papillon |
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.
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The Way We Were |
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.
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Robin Hood (1973) |
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.
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Live and Let Die |
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.
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Bang the Drum Slowly |
In some of the locker room scenes, the overhead boom microphone is visible, and clearly shaking.
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The Three Musketeers (1973) |
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.
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Magnum Force |
After Callahan removes the bomb from his mailbox, he looks up at a man on the nearby stairs. As a car drives by on the street, the lights from it cast the shadow of the boom operator onto the wall.
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Paperback Hero |
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.
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| 10 |
Charley Varrick |
Swapping his dental x-ray records with his deceased partner won't convince anyone that Varrick is dead - then (as now) the patient's name appears on the x-ray.
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| 11 |
Sleeper |
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.
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The Daring Dobermans |
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.
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White Lightning |
After Gator's car hits the police car and drives off, the police give chase. Despite both cars being in a corn field, Gator's tires squeal as if on pavement when he drives off.
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The Sting |
When Lt. Snyder breaks the phone booth window with his gun and points it at Hooker, Hooker's hat falls off. Yet in the next shot over Lt. Snyder's shoulder you can see that Hooker's hat is back on his head.
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Chino |
When Chino does some rodeo riding when he breaks in one of his horses we get a good view of the stuntman's face.
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Emperor of the North Pole |
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.
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| 17 |
The Stone Killer |
When Charles Bronson is chasing Paul Koslo through the flea market, the rooftop mounted camera set up can be seen atop the car.
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The Wicker Man |
While Sgt Howie (dressed as Punch) is being chased by the women, you can see autumn leaves on the grass, though the story is set on the 1st of May.
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Jesus Christ Superstar |
During entire scene with dancing king Herod and his men, shadows on the floor are at different angles from one shot to another.
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| 20 |
Breezy |
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!
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| 21 |
Carry On Girls |
When Barbara Windsor is fighting Margaret Nolan in the Hotel Lobby, they jump onto a sofa and it falls backwards. If you look carefully, the lady seated on the sofa can be seen helping it fall backwards with her foot.
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| 22 |
Theatre of Blood |
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.
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| 23 |
That'll Be the Day |
The records played in the fairground sequence "Sealed with a kiss" by Brian Hyland and "Runaway" by Del Shannon date from the early sixties, while this part of the film is set 1n 1959.
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The Seven-Ups |
Halfway through the big car chase, just after a black-and-white police car also joins in, you will see the cars navigating through an S-turn, heading toward the river. On the far sidewalk is a camera and crew filming the same sequence, and the shots from that camera, showing the same S-turn sequence as the cars approach, immediately follow.
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The Day of the Jackal |
Inspector Lebel's level of grey hair colour varies quite markedly back and forth during the movie.
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Walking Tall (1973) |
In the final scenes where Sheriff Pusser drives a police car to the Lucky Spot, just before he arrives, in the long shot of him driving down the highway, the patrol car has red lights on it's roof. When he arrives and drives the car through the bar, the car has blue lights.
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Holiday on the Buses |
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 unavailable for 30 minutes. When Blakey arrives, the 30 minutes note has gone from the blackboard. But when Blakey opens the door with his passkey, the 30 minutes note has re-appeared on the door.
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