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Top Secret! (1984) - 9 mistakes

Directed by David Zucker, starring Peter Cushing, Val Kilmer (add more)

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance

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Continuity: When Nick is singing "Spend This Night with Me", he brings up a girl from the audience. Watch the background. When it shows another girl from the audience, in the next shot, you can see a speaker that wasn't there before.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the "Straighten the Rug" dance scene, when Nick runs up the wall and does a backflip, it is clear that he is being held up by wires. The filmmakers did a good job rotoscoping the wires out against the wall, but when his legs pass behind the wires and harness, they have not been taken out at all and are visible. (Freeze-frame when he is completely upside down for the best view.).

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Continuity: Chocolate Mousse and Deja Vu are playing darts on the plane at the end of the movie. In the next shot where Hillary is hugging her father, the darts change positions.

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Revealing: When Chocolate Mousse throws the anchor with the rope attached into the air, if you watch the ground when they run away, you can see that there's suddenly a lot more rope there, revealing that it was filmed in two takes and the anchor wasn't really thrown directly above their heads.

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Continuity: When Nick races to the rescue on the motorbike, he first jumps over a barbed-wire fence in an open field. Then the shot changes to a road lined with trees (the Roadrunner Beeping scene), and then the background switches again to the open field as he swings the bike over a row of buses. Then the scene switches back to the road, to the truck with Hillary and Nigel.

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Other: The scene in the bookstore is shot in reverse, which although humorous, isn't a mistake. The mistake is the fact that what the characters say and what the subtitles say don't match up. When speaking the character's dialogue comes out all garbled, and when a name is brought up in the subtitles there is no reference to that person's name in the conversation.

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Revealing: In the video version, the cows at the prison which Nigel watches through his binoculars, jump through a twin hole in a large black screen, as the grass protuding at the bottom can be seen. This has been omitted in the DVD version.

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Continuity: When Hillary discovers the carrier pidgeons in Nigel's coat (and thereby his duplicity), she flings the coat to her right; but in the next shot, as the coat lands and spills the pidgeons, it was thrown in front of Hillary.

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Deliberate "mistake": The soles of the boots Daisy the cow is wearing have been removed to allow her to walk properly. In some shots, their lack of soles is evident.

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