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Vertigo (1958) - 11 mistakes

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak (add more)

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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Continuity: In the final scene, pieces of Madeleine's hair-do come down in the struggle up the bell tower steps. At the top of the tower, before she falls, her hair is in perfect shape again.

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Character mistake: When Scottie reveals his first investigation of Madeleine to Elster in the men's club, Elster recounts the history of his wife saying that her great-grandmother was the mad Carlotta. But when he sums up the story at the end of the scene he says it was her grandmother.

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Visible crew/equipment: At the end after Madeleine falls, the camera pulls away from the church tower. You can see the shadow of the camera.

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Continuity: Directly outside Scotty's living room window is an uninterrupted view of Coit's Tower and Telegraph Hill. However, when the apartment is seen from the outside, there is a building across from where the window would be and Coit's Tower is much further to the right.

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Plot hole: In Madeleine's suicide attempt scene, the plot line gives us to understand that she drove herself to San Francisco Bay alone in her own car before jumping in. After Scottie rescues her, he places her, unconscious, into his car and takes her to his apartment. She awakens some time later, and during a telephone call between Scottie and Elster, she dresses and gets into her car and leaves the scene. There is no explanation of how her car got from the suicide attempt location to Scottie's apartment. She could have taken a taxi or thumbed a ride, but she did neither, since she is shown driving away in her own car.

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Continuity: At the point where Scottie is following Madeleine in the side-street, she enters a building and he follows. When he is inside, in one shot the light reflecting on the door window is white and in the next it is green.

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Continuity: When Scottie follows Madeleine back to his home and joins her at his porch, Scottie holds the banister on his front porch as he climbs the steps & then moves his arm to his side twice.

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Continuity: James Stewart sees Kim Novak entering a flower shop by the back door. Watch the shadows on the ground: in the very next shot, when Stewart follows Novak, the shadows are very different.

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Plot hole: In the final scene in the belltower you can see shadows from the surrounding trees. That's because this scene was shot at 3 in the afternoon. They just used a filter to make it look like it was night.

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Continuity: When Scottie (James Stewart) visits a bookshop to question its owner, the book display in the shop's window changes between the time he enters and exits the store.

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Continuity: When Scottie is reporting to Elster about his findings, there are ice cubes in their drinks, but in subsequent close-ups, the ice cubes are not there.

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