Movie news

Weekend Box-Office

News Schmews Etc!

Worthington's Crime

Up in the Air clips

Brothers dream clip

Trivia

Sean Connery started going bald when he was 21. In 'Dr. No' (he was 32 then) and any subsequent movies in which he has hair, he was actually wearing a hair-piece. See more...

Movie Mistakes blog

Popular blog posts:

RIP Michael Jackson

15 biggest Harry Potter mistake pictures

10 Twilight mistakes in pictures

50 mistakes in The Simpsons

The 20 biggest Friends mistake pictures

Bookmark

Update alerts | Exclude type?

Dr. No (1962) - 52 mistakes

These mistakes are currently being ordered by time. Entries without times will appear at the end.

Directed by Terence Young, starring Bernard Lee, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman, Lois Maxwell, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Mistakes

Trivia

Pictures

Quotes

Easter Eggs

Corrections

Questions

Submit

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Strangeways is killed by the three blind men, as well as a visible spotlight reflected in the windows of the hearse, there are at least two men visible - a cameraman and what I believe could be director Terence Young. Best viewed in slo-mo DVD.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: In the first scene, after the "3 blind men" have killed the man, there is a clear reflection of a spot light on the black car.

Mistake Revealing: When the spy woman is killed, there is a cut in the film because she moves too fast.

Mistake Continuity: At the baccarat table at the ambassador's club, Sylvia Trench has a red dress on. A piece of the dress off of her shoulder. In the first shot, this piece goes to the left about three inches from the broach she is wearing. In the next shot, the piece hangs down, covering half her broach.

Mistake Continuity: In the famous casino scene in the beginning of the film Bond smokes a cigarette, but in the cuts between him and Sylvia Trench he sometimes holds it in his hand and sometimes in his mouth.

Mistake Continuity: When Bond enters the office of Universal Imports he throws his hat on the hat rack. After his meeting with M, he retrieves his hat from the hat rack, but it has moved to a different hook.

Mistake Audio problem: When Bond goes in to see M, you can see Bond speaking just after he sits down. His lips move quite a lot, but there is no sound.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: In M's office you can see a boom light reflecting off a painting above the mantelpiece.

Mistake Continuity: Bond enters his room and spots Sylvia Trench playing golf. As they talk, she raises the golf club. When the angle changes, she holds it down and raises it again.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: At the airport on Jamaica, when Bond uses the telephone booth, you can see the lighting and crew members reflected in the glass door as he opens it to walk in and out and when Felix opens the door.

Mistake Continuity: The dashboard of Bond's car in Jamaica keeps changing colour, from read to black, and back again.

Mistake Continuity: A car chase early on has a cutaway to the speedometer of the villain pursuing Bond, of a dashboard totally and obviously different to the actual one on the car, and the director knew it, but they were low budget and had no choice, but felt that if the scene was working (it does) nobody should really be stopping to notice such things. Still.....

Mistake Continuity: After Bond gets picked up from the airport, evades a car, then fights with the driver, at one point he pulls back his right arm, but then the angle changes, and he hits him with his left one.

Mistake Continuity: When you see Bond in his hotel room for the first time, there are two bottles on the table, a clear one and a green one. When he re-enters the room and checks his traps, the green bottle has disappeared. Bond takes a bottle from a drawer but that also is clear so what happened to the green one?

Mistake Continuity: One of Bond's traps in his room is his briefcase; he puts talcum powder on it. When he is done he sets the case down on the right side of the table. To the left is a mirror and by the mirror is an assortment of perfume bottles and a shaving bag. When he returns, the contents on the table are reversed exactly, and the perfume bottles are replaced by a magazine.

Mistake Continuity: During the evening meeting in the bar we can see the band and a singer, but movement of his lips (despite that they were trying to hide them behind a big microphone) don't match what is sung.

Mistake Continuity: When the freelance photographer is sitting down with Bond, the strap is around her neck, after the cut to a close up of her, the strap is gone. Then they show Bond take the strap off her neck.

Mistake Continuity: When the black guy gets cut by the bottle he has a lot of blood on his face and the rag. The next scene he's fine with no blood.

Mistake Revealing: When James Bond has a spider on his arm, one can see he's under a glass plate, and the spider on top of the plate.

Mistake Continuity: When Bond gets directions to Miss Taros house she gives the address as '239 Magenta Drive', but when he's in her house later on, while calling for a taxi, he gives it as '2171 Magenta Drive'. Miss Taro even nods to confirm it.

Message boards

No discussions yet

Register as a member to post a message


The message boards are meant for discussing things with other users, rather than making submissions/corrections. By all means feel free to post what you like here, but for anything to be looked at properly and entered into the "official" section please use the "submit something" link in the navigation bar. Any members who post offensive content will have their accounts blocked. This is also not the place to contact Jon (who runs the site (although the members who help him check are a BIG help)) - for that, please use the contact form.