Movie Mistakes blog
Popular blog posts:
Top 15 biggest Harry Potter film mistakes
The 10 biggest mistakes in Iron Man 1 & 2
15 biggest mistakes in Titanic
Other great sites
Continuity: Towards the beginning of the movie, Angel Eyes rides up to a house where he has to get information from a man inside and then kill him. After Angel Eyes kills him at the kitchen table, his son runs down some steps behind Angel Eyes in the background with a rifle in his hands. Angel Eyes pulls out his revolver, turns around quickly, and shoots him dead. Take note that the pistol is not pointing directly at the boy as he is firing it.
Plot hole: In the scene when Tuco has ordered Blondie to stand on a stool and put the hangman's noose around his neck, he orders him to tighten the noose. Just as Tuco aims his pistol to shoot out the leg of the stool, an explosion causes the entire floor to collapse. Tuco drops to a lower level but logically Blondie should have dropped also, thus hanging himself. Instead he mysteriously disappears and lives on for the rest of the movie.
Continuity: In the beginning scenes of the movie, Angel Eyes shows up at the man's house to get the name Bill Jackson is hiding under. The boy sits at the table and starts to spoon out some of the food from the bowl but his Mother stops him. He puts the spoon down on the table and leaves. The man then picks up the bowl and the spoon is now back in the bowl.
Revealing: When Blondie is to be hanged by Tuco, and saved by a extremely lucky hit by a Union mortar, you can see that the wall that will be hit by the grenade has been has been blow to pieces at least once before; the bricks have no mortar between them, and there is a large circular scorched area on the brick wall.
Other: Blondie suffers from severe sun burn wounds in the face, after the capture and dragging through the desert. The wounds look perfectly realistic, but disappear or change several times. The burns are completely gone shortly after leaving the monastery. Such burns would leave scars and traces for at least weeks.
Continuity: When Tuco is riding his horse, he encounters three bounty hunters - one fires a shot making the horse misstep, and fall, bringing Tuco down to the ground. One of the bounty hunters ask Tuco, "Hey amigo, you know that you have a face beautiful enough to be worth $2,000.00?" He has a big blade of grass between his lips as he backs away from Blondie (Eastwood), however, there was no blade of grass between his lips when Blondie and he were close to one another. As he backed away, he had a rifle in his right hand and a wanted poster in his left, and he knew that Blondie had a gun pointed at him through his overcoat, so he was not able to put a blade of grass between his lips at any point.
Factual error: When Tuco is in the gunshop messing around with the guns, one gun has the cylinder and barrel moving back and forth by manipulating the trigger guard-lever. This is a Belgian Galand & Somerville revolver, a gun that did not exist until 1868. This film takes place during the US Civil War, which ended in 1865.







