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1941 (1979) - 51 mistakes

Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christopher Lee, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi (add more)

Genres: Comedy, War

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Continuity: As the two look-outs get on the big wheel the thin guy with the ventriloquist's dummy sits on the right. But later in the film he is on the left.

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Plot hole: When Ward's son hits the switch marked "Do Not Touch This Switch", every light in the amusement park comes on, music starts playing, and the rides all start moving. It's a funny gag, but it seems unlikely that one switch would power every single thing in the amusement park, and that everything in the park has been left on "full speed." If that's the case, when Angelo first sent the two lookouts to the top of the ferris wheel, everything else in the park should have come on then too.

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Continuity: During the scene when Wally gets hit by the soldier in the cafe, and Wally bumps into another soldier, causing him to go into a cake, take notice of how much cake is on him throughout the different camera shots. Also Pops (the owner) starts to wipe the cake off of the soldier's face. The amount of cake changes between shots.

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Continuity: After Sitarski hands Donna her doughnut there's a close-up of both his hands over the counter, yet a frame later, from a different angle, his right arm is on Donna's back.

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Deliberate "mistake": When Betty falls in the traphole, Maxine is right behind her, yet when the angle changes she's not only in front, but has turned 180º. This allows for a funnier gag, but is still a mistake.

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Continuity: Inside the plane, when Donna tells Loomis that she can't have sex, he backs out, yet a frame later he's on top of her again.

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Continuity: Before the dance contest Donna paints her lips next to a Dumbo sign. The white paper coming out of her bag disappears in the side shot.

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Continuity: When the security bar is placed on the guys sitting on the ferris wheel, the rifle appears on the back shots, but disappears on the front ones.

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Continuity: When Betty and Sitarski are in the garage, the dirt on the car and the trail of hand prints on it keep changing all the time.

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Continuity: In the barn with Ward, who is covered in dust, Wood presses the gas pedal and Ward's head bends backwards for a brief second. In that angle, his head is spotless, only to return back to dusty in the following shots.

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Continuity: When Ward is about to nail the crown on the front door, his hand is facing right. A frame later it faces upwards.

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Continuity: When the Douglas' home is sliding down the cliff, it has moved a long distance seen from sea level view, but very short from Ward's POV.

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Deliberate "mistake": Though the loose ferris wheel keeps rolling for over a mile, the guys seated on it remain in the same position all the time instead of rolling down and getting crushed by it. Furthermore, they disappear in the wide shots and the wheel appears empty.

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Continuity: After Ward enters the barn in reverse gear and comes to a stop, he is spotless, yet from a front shot, a frame later, he is covered in white dust.

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Continuity: When Ward's tank drives in reverse and destroys the barn, the mess on the door and wall differs between the outside and inside shots.

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Continuity: When Ward turns the cannon and destroys the stuff in his home, the mess differs between shots, with stuff fixing itself and relocating somewhere else.

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Continuity: When Ward's tank rampages through his home's front door, strangely enough there are two exact angles of it, one right after the other. On the first, the door falls down, but the next time it's dragged several meters ahead.

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Continuity: When the Douglas kids's bedroom plummets, the kid on the left is facing left, yet in the close-up he is facing the right.

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Continuity: After Kelso releases the sidecar's screw he makes a quick right turn, yet a frame later, from the wide angle, the handlebar and the bike are both facing straight.

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Continuity: When Kelso drives Sitarski in his sidecar, his white scarf swaps from over his chest to over his shoulder, back and forth.

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