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On the Death Star, just after Darth Vader speaks to the stormtroopers, one of them, in the background, moves and looks stupidly around him while the others are straight. See more...

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Star Wars (1977) - 270 mistakes

Directed by George Lucas, starring Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Cushing, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, James Earl Jones (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-fi

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Other: In the trash compactor, after C-3PO realises that he turned off the comlink, Leia grabs the bar used to stop the compactor and her hand sinks in and puts a dent in the bar. When she loosens her grip, it returns to normal. No wonder it was useless at bracing the walls...

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Continuity: When Darth Vader is interrogating the captain of the Blockade Runner, the stormtrooper on the left behind them has his blaster at his waist but in the shot showing their legs, he has it at his chest. It's at his waist again some shots later.

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Visible crew/equipment: After the Death star, the stick that is used to move the Millennium Falcon is visible when the first TIE fighter attacks it.

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Continuity: In the Death Star, when they are running into the Millennium Falcon, Leia tells Luke to come. She is behind a piston of the door but the shot later, she is in front of it.

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Revealing: Many times during the film, when someone shoots with a blaster, the shot does not came from the gun. A good example is in the detention block of the Death Star. Luke shoots and the laser comes from 10 centimeters over the gun. Special edition.

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Audio problem: In teh French version of the film, Han Solo tells Obi-Wan and Luke to go to hangar 49. 94 is written at the entrance.

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Continuity: Luke is on the Millennium Falcon practicing with the floating orb. When he is done, he goes to shut off his lightsaber and as it turns off he jumps to the right due to a dodgy edit.

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Continuity: The first time that Luke plays Leia's message from R2-D2, he jumps back (which looks fine), but C3PO flinches and slips off the little 4" or 5" ledge between him and R2.

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Revealing: When Luke and Leia are trying to pass the pit in the Death Star, Leia shoots at a stormtrooper. The shot passes through him without hurting him.

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Continuity: When Ben says "I don't think you boys can help" in the command office in the Death Star, the red line on the radar behind him is pointing South-West, but in the next scene the line is pointing North-East.

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Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, aboard Blockade runner, a big smudge of dirt appears on top of R2-D2's, close to his square-framed lens 'eye'. This was not present a minute earlier and when the droids have landed on the desert, the smudge is gone again.

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Continuity: When Han is about to fire his blaster at the door of the garbage compactor, Chewie moves away from the door. In the next shot, he is back in his previous position, and moves away from the door again.

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Continuity: In the beginning of the first scene of the duel between Vader and Obi-Wan, their lightsabres are held in different angels between several shots.

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Continuity: Widescreen version: In the trash compactor, as Han says: "What an incredible smell you've discovered." Leia is leaning against some garbage, and then turns her head. In the next shot, she is no longer leaning against the garbage, and her head is turned another way.

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Continuity: After the dianoga pulls Luke into the water (both the first and second time), Han's blaster changes hands a few times.

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Continuity: In the trash compactor, after the dianoga roars, there's a close-up of Leia standing straight up, with her arm over the large iron pole. In the next shot, she is crouching, and her arm is underneath the pole.

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Continuity: When the Walrusman attacks Luke in the cantina, if you look carefully you can see that the alien has curved hooves instead of hands (behind the scenes photos confirm this.) When Ben Kenobi cuts off his arm, an arm with hairy paws is lying on the floor. We know it is walrusman's arm because the other guy wasn't wearing an orange jacket.

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Continuity: When the walls of the trash compactor start moving, the bar Leia uses to brace them is easily obtainable, but in the previous shots, it was partly buried in garbage.

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Other: When the stormtroopers stun Leia, if you play it in slow motion, you can see that she begins to fall before the beam touches her.

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Other: In two close-ups of Han before he jumps down the garbage chute, you can see make-up smeared on his stormtrooper suit, under his chin.

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