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Most mistakes in 1974

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1 The Man with the Golden Gun
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When Bond tries to get the golden bullet from the belly dancer named Saheeda, some angry gangsters enter her dressing room. As they start destroying the place, you can see the crew in the mirror on the dressing table very clearly after one of the bad guys is knocked into it, nudging it out of position.
2 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
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During the chase where Larry's Charger knocks a police car in the river, the '69 Charger becomes a '68 Charger in one shot, as seen from the front. The '68 has a different grille than the '69 models.
3 The Godfather: Part II
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At the New Year's party, when everybody is running out from the goverment's palace, you see the flags at the entrance are from Cuba, but the coat of arms is from Dominican Republic (the country where this scene was filmed).
4 Where the Lilies Bloom
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In the scene where the girl is driving the truck, you can plainly see the front bumper get bent, but a few scenes later it is straight again.
5 Young Frankenstein
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In the scene where Inga, Fredrick and Igor throw the net over the monster, Inga sticks the syringe of the sedative in the monster's back but does not push down on the top, yet the monster still falls over. A few seconds later when she collapses on the monster, you can see all of the fluid inside spray out.
6 The Night Porter
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This film's set in the 50's, but the actors use 20 Austrian Schilling bank notes, which were only issued in the mid 1970's.
7 The Lords of Flatbush
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One of the main characters has a Harley Davidson. The movie is supposed to take place in the fifties. The Harley had an electric start primary cover which wasn't made by Harley until 1965.
8 Earthquake
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In the office tower after the quake there is a panic and workers rush down the stairs only to find them fallen away. After two women fall to their death a man is left hanging on a girder, but falls onto a giant piece of glass. Look at the top of the frame and you will see the airbag shooting our from under it.
9 Towering Inferno
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During the scenic elevator rescue scenes, the building has moved across the downtown core and is now located next to the Transamerica Pyramid, which is many city blocks to the west.
10 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
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When Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges are being chased by George Kennedy and his partner, Bridges is driving off the dirt road down and embankment and you can clearly see that in the passenger seat is a faceless dummy instead of Eastwood or another stunt man.
11 The Longest Yard
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After Burt Reynolds hits the guard in the crotch with the football, a wide shot shows 2:29 left in the game. He hits him again on the next play, and the scoreboard shows 2:35 left. The clock in a football game, of course, counts down, not up.
12 The Front Page
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Just before Walther Matthau meets Susan Sarandon for the first time in her dressing room in the movie theater, he passes a poster for "All Quiet On the Western Front" in the hall. "All Quiet On the Western Front" wasn't made until 1930 and this film is supposed to take place in 1928.
13 Dark Star
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In the main control room / flight deck, the illuminated buttons are clearly top-down plastic ice trays.
14 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
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The swords of the animated statue of Kali are different from the swords used in the close-up fight scenes.
15 Death Wish
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When the cops are staking out Charles Bronson's apartment, one orders the other to go to a pay phone and call him. He runs towards Riverside Drive, going west, and finds a broken phone. Then he runs to a subway station and makes the call. He returns from the same direction. Well, there are no subway stations on Riverside. The nearest is two long city blocks away, going east. Even if he ran that far, he would not have returned from the same direction - he would have come from the east.
16 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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After the crazy man cuts his own hand, he laughs and waves the knife. Watch carefully and you can see the hose behind the blade the blood came through.
17 Chinatown
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Jake takes Lieutenant Escobar to Curley's house, and the flower pot on the ledge and the shades in the window move between shots after he walks up to it.
18 Murder on the Orient Express
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Hercule Poirot takes the German maid to her cabin to look for photographs. She removes her suitcase from the shelf and opens it, showing a very obvious shot of a porter's tunic with many very shiny buttons and space for the missing button (evidence found earlier by Lauren Bacall). The shot cuts away and then immediately back, by which time a porter's hat has appeared on top of the tunic covering all of the buttons previously in shot.
19 Foxy Brown
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There are a number of scenes (stable house, car, hotel) showing Claudia wearing a green harness dress. It is quite obvious that she is not wearing a brassiere in all of those scenes. In the hotel room, where Foxy and Claudia meet the judges, Claudia removes the green dress and is now wearing a bra. It would be highly unlikely that she would be putting one on, at the same time she is getting undressed. This was obviously done to cut down on nudity in the film.
20 The Year Without a Santa Claus
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When Jingle, Jangle, and Mrs. Claus pay a visit to Mother Nature, Mother Nature calls her sons beside her - Snow Miser and Heat Miser. She then turns to Snow Miser and asks him to allow a little snow fall in the South, and then turns to his brother, Heat Miser, and asks to allow just "one Spring day at the North Pole." The words are correct dialog, but she should have said each of those lines to the OTHER brother.
21 The Conversation
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Gene Hackman's character has been listening at the door of Terri Garr's apartment. When he finally enters her apartment and she tells him she feels like he's somehow listening to her, the boom mike is visible in the frame in several shots in the scene.
22 Carry On Dick
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When Jack Douglas is climbing the wooden ladder in the bell tower, his right leg gets caught in the bell rope set as a trap by the Reverend. However, when he is shown swinging, it is his left leg that is in the rope.
23 The Great Gatsby
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Right after George Wilson kills himself with the revolver, the gun is seen falling into the fish pond in Gatsby's living room. Since Wilson shot himself in the head by placing the gun to the roof of his mouth, there is no possible way the gun could have flown so far away from his body, especially without getting bloody.
24 Zardoz
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In the scene in which Zed & his fellow exterminators chase down several brutals on the beach, tire tracks from the camera vehicle can be seen briefly imprinted in the wet sand.
25 Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
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When Hadrian jumps the mustang over the upturned car, the film slows down to show the jump in slow motion. When the car lands, it hits so hard the car spins around and ends up facing the cars it jumped. The scene is then repeated at normal speed, but just as the car would be shown spinning out, a shot of the car driving away from the accident is shown.

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