Directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Bernard Lee, Charles Gray, Desmond Llewelyn, Donald Pleasence, Lois Maxwell, Mie Hama, Sean Connery (add more)
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In the car chase, just before the villain's black sedan is lifted off the road by helicopter, to be dumped into the Tokyo bay (that was before environmentalism) there's a shot from behind inside Bonds sports car. They race madly....with the speedometer needle clearly showing zero! [See similar mistakes in Die Another Day and Sideways. While in reality this means the car is mounted on a wheeled trolley for filming, in this fictional universe it means the car's speedometer is broken.]
It adds to the drama at the end of the movie that Bond, in the control center, can see images of SPECTRE's "rocket-capturing rocket' opening up, but how is that possible? Those pictures are from the outside at a fair distance. Did SPECTRE send a second rocket up with a camera to film the first or something? [Already submitted - see page 1.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
When Blofield's base is exploding, external shots are shown which blatantly show lava flowing down. This is video of a real volcano erupting. [Blofeld sets off an explosion so intense that it re-activates the volcano to destroy all traces of his lair. Knowing which real volcano eruption they used would make an interesting trivia entry, but the volcano eruption in the movie is part of the plot - not a movie mistake.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
How could Blofeld have kept an efficient operation in Japan when he personally killed his own top two officers, 4 and 11, over such trivial matters as whether they succeeded in killing Bond? After all, when 4 was being killed, Bond was already in his custody, so exactly where did Osato fail? doesn't that leave a big power vaccum at the top? [Character choice, not a movie mistake. Many possible explainations. He is after all, quite evil.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
Bond is 'killed' in the teaser in the hide-away bed. When the local police who respond to the situation open the bed, revealing Bond's 'dead' body, one of them remarks "That's the way he would have preferred it." Clearly making reference to Bond's proclivity for sexual escapades during dangerous situations. But how could any random, local gendarme possibly know about the personal habits of such a 'secret' agent? [Quite simply because he knew Bond from previous 'escapades'. Bond may be a secret agent, but he still has to work with other agencies such as local police. Also, the whole thing was a set up and there's every chance the local police were in on it.]
At the end of the movie when the remaining ninjas and Bond are escaping, aren't they using the tunnel that was filled with poison gas earlier in the movie? Notice that they are all swimming with their heads above water. Shouldn't they be dead? [The presence of poisonous gas in the cave is not natural nor permanent, but a defensive device designed by SPECTRE and operated from the volcano base. As the volcano base is being destroyed, the gas-feeding system logically stops functioning, and whatever gas then remains in the cave soon disperses.]
In the scene of 11 flying Bond in the Navion single engine airplane, it doesn't make sense that Bond would get in the plane and sit in the back seat while 11 is wearing a parachute on her back and goggles on her head. Bond's not particularly observant, is he? Either that or he can't put two and two together. [Character mistake.]
Near the end of the movie when the Ninjas are attacking the volcano compound, one of them shoots through the wall of Blofeld's supposedly impregnable control room. Apparently the noise and smoke that was produced to shoot the scene scares the hell out of the cat in Blofeld's arms. It is hilarious to watch the poor cat try to get free and its all Blofeld can do to try and restrain the animal. [So? Any cat in real life would do the same thing, and the owner of said cat wouldn't want it to go and get killed in the firefight below. It being a movie makes no difference. Trivia, at best.]
When Bond is being chased at the docks, he reaches the top of the stairs with the Asian girl and a man with a submachine gun starts shooting at him. Bond fires back, the man throws his arms up in the air and screams. In the very next shot with the camera looking up, a second gunshot is heard and he comes flying over the edge. Given that the first gunshot caused a serious injury, how does he suddenly have the strength to hurl himself over the edge (the bullet would not have enough momentum to do it for him)? [Just because he screams doesn't mean its a fatal or even serious injury. It could just have been really, really painful, leaving him plenty of strength to hurl himself over the edge.]
When Bond and Kissy climb to Blofeld's volcano, it takes them from early morning to evening to complete the trip. However when Kissy gets reinforcements, the double journey merely takes minutes rather than hours. [When Bond and Kissy go up the first time, they are careful - the volcano could be active or they could be spotted if going up too quickly. When Kissy returns it could be assumed that SPECTRE agents are otherwise preoccupied and wouldn't notice anyone coming up the volcano.]
Corrected by Andy Benham
When the SPECTRE vessel attempts to intercept the second U.S. capsule, the Air Force launches several intercept aircraft. But jet engines require an oxygen atmosphere to produce thrust, and the capsule is beyond the stratosphere and thus beyond any usable atmospheric concentrations for them to work. Also, the tracking sensors of their light AA missiles (also considering it was the 60s when the movie was made) would also be useless for hitting something in orbit, because their lock-on range would be far too low. [The US aircraft are not attempting to intercept the capsule. After both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have lost a capsule, each side blames the other. The Americans make it clear to the Soviets that if anything happens to the next American capsule, they will be at war. The planes are taking off because they will be attacking the Soviet Union if the American capsule is harmed. the Air Force general warns his troops that the codeword which will start the war is "imminent". After the SPECTRE capsule explodes, he recalls the Air Force and advises them that the codeword is "not imminent". This was the whole point of SPECTRE's plot, to set the two nations at war.]
Since part of the volcano's interior consists of rough and porous rock, James' suction cups wouldn't have been able to give him a secure grip all the way down as he infiltrates the volcano base. [The inside of the base is lined with smooth metal.]
When we first see Aki (right after Bond arrives in Japan and is seen walking down the sidewalk), she
has short flowing hair with navy blue and red bands tied around her waist. But in the next shot, when Bond enters the Sumo wrestling building, a totally different looking woman with tied back hair and a yellow band around her waist rounds the corner in pursuit of him. [This lady is not Aki, she is just another Japanese agent who is reporting on Bond's movements.]
In the scene aboard the Navy vessel where Bond is given a burial at sea, the wrapping around his supposedly dead body is bright white, but after he is dumped into the ocean, picked up by the divers and brought aboard the submarine, the wrapping is now tan. [It is wet. It has now darkened from the water like most material when they are damp.]
Inside the sub when Bond is talking with "M", he is handed the address of where he is to go on a small slip of paper, and after looking at it he burns it using his lighter. The paper almost immediately burns up as he holds it (normal paper would burn more slowly), which means that it must have been made of a material that burns faster (as you can tell by the red glare the flames give off). [So MI6 uses special paper that is easily destroyed when handing over confidential information. It is a good way to ensure that an enemy agent cannot reconstruct the info from the ashes, and a good way to destroy the secret info in a hurry. This isn't a mistake, it is the point of that scene.]
Near the beginning, Bond meets Henderson and whacks him on the leg, which is artificial. H says that he lost it in Singapore in 1942. A few moments later, H says he's been in Japan for 28 years. The film was released in 1967 and is set at about that time, or a year or two earlier. So H would have been in Japan since the late 1930's - right through WWII. I really doubt they would have let him out during the war to go to Singapore. [It is unclear if you mean that England wouldn't have let him out of the service. (In which case what better place for a british spy to be during a war with Japan) or if you mean the Japanese gov't wouldn't have let him move about freely. (He was a spy with access to corrupt and bribable or blackmailable officials that could help him to do his job.) Either way, there is your answer.]
It appears that the set of the inside of the volcano with the forced perspective volcano hole high above, is the same set used in the beginning of Goldfinger where Bond sneaks into the side of metal tank and emerges into a plush room to spread plastic explosive on the tanks of nitro. If you notice, the high ceiling of that room with the round hole in it has the same forced perspective look as the inside of the volcano. [This stage was built especially for this movie. It was so big that it had to be built on a Pinewood backlot, instead of inside a sound stage as in all previous Bond movies.]
After Henderson is killed, Bond has a scrap with the killer - you can clearly see he has dark shoes on. When he gets to the Osato chemical place he has white shoes on. [You see him remove the assassin's shoes/spats and other clothing to disguise himself prior to getting into the getaway car]
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