Towering Inferno (1974) - 12 mistakes
starring Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, O.J. Simpson, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen
Factual error: The device used near the end of the movie for ferrying people to another building is repeatedly referred to as a "breeches buoy." It is actually a bosun's chair. A breeches buoy was an earlier, more primitive device that was basically an oversized life preserver with a pair of large canvas trousers (breeches) sewn to it.
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