Witness corrections

Harrison Ford was very taken with the Amish and the beautiful scenery in which Witness was filmed. Mr. Ford is a supporter and contributor to the Lancaster Farmland Trust, which helps save and preserve precious family farmlands. The Krantz' farm (where Witness was filmed) was saved and preserved by this trust fund. See more...

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Witness (1985) - 5 corrections

Directed by Peter Weir, starring Danny Glover, Harrison Ford, Viggo Mortensen (add more)

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Two general observations: Elderly Amish men seem to favor glued beards, and many of them speak their ancient German with an American accent which is not typical for a mother tongue preserved over generations in a foreign country. [The dialect of German spoken by most Amish people in this day and age is not the the "correct" German as spoken in Germany, but rather a "Platt Deutsch", with some elements of Swiss, Dutch, and yes, American English, mixed in. The German dialogue in the film, (most of it) is correct for the region in which the movie took place. How do I know? I'm Amish myself.]

Why and how could Eli and Rachel carry the injured John up to the 2nd floor, after they had such trouble to even load him onto the cart? [Who is to say they didn't get help from someone else? This portion of the film is never shown...not necessarily a mistake.]

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There is a scene in the kitchen where Kelly Mcgillis opens the cabinet and you see Campbell's Soup inside. No self respecting Amish wife would have Campbell's soup in a can. [Some Amish do use Campbell's soup. I know several Amish families that eat soup and other canned goods.]

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During the scene when Samuel witnesses the murder in the train station toilet, he hides in one of the cubicles. Danny Glover goes along the line of cubicles pulling the doors open to see if anyone is hiding in them. All the doors open outwards yet when he gets to the locked cubicle Samuel is in, he kicks the door inwards. Only the door lock breaks, not the hinges as you would expect if a door was forced the wrong way. [Virtually every public toilet stall I've ever been in has a door/hinge that WOULD swing all the way through, both directions, if not for the latching mechanism in its way. It's very unusual for them to be built with a jamb or any breakable hinge.]

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Near the end of the movie, before Rachel kisses John, you see a very un-Amish electric lamp that even dims while Rachel takes off her bonnet to prepare for the kissing. [This is incorrect: it's actually a gas lamp. In the VHS version, listen carefully to the sounds. Rachel turns it off, and the lamp hisses as the gas runs out and the light dims.]

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