Other: In the scene where Leslie is fighting the soldiers, one soldier hits a second soldier with his rifle. The rifle can be seen to bend around the soldier's body and then straighten again.

Deliberate "mistake": Professor Fate's auto, when it raises itself off the running gear, has no means of propulsion. The drivetrain is not connected to the drive axles by either a driveline or chain.

Continuity: This takes place at the beginning of the race, right after Prof. Fate's car breaks down. Maggie Dubois drives up, then she gets out of her car to take a picture of Prof. Fate and Max. After Maggie takes the picture, she goes to her car and sends a bird off. Then when she climbs back into her car, the camera is conveniently folded and lying in her car, although no one ever put it back.

Continuity: In the movie the race goes through a town called Boracho. While both Prof. Fate and Leslie are in Boracho there is a celebration at the local pub (Silver Palace). In the pub there is a singer who is singing about her ex boyfriend, or someone of that nature. Well, she goes up to Prof. Fate, who is in disguise, and blows foam from his beer in his face. When you see her going up to him, his beer glass has little to no foam in it, she blows and the glass is mostly all foam. When she turns away the glass is practically full again with beer.

Continuity: This takes place at the beginning of the movie, in the balloon scene. When Leslie is hanging from the balloon, we see the balloon soaring over the land very quickly. However, when Leslie climbs up to the balloon to parachute out, he is still right where he started.

Continuity: You can clearly see TV antennae on the Eiffel Tower ... supposedly in 1908.

Continuity: At the beginning of the pie fight, Jack Lemmon says, "You wouldn't dare." and George Macready hits him with a pie. Very little of it sticks to Lemmon's face; most of it falls off. There's a quick cut to a shot of Tony Curtis, then another cut back to Lemmon, whose face is now totally covered with pie.

Revealing: In the shot of Prof Fate evading the Indians while heading into Boracho, the long view shots show his "smoke screen" encompassing the car. In the close ups (obvious blue screen type shot) there is no smoke in the car.

Continuity: During the pie fight in one of the shots Hezekiah has lots of pie on his pants but in the next shot his pants are almost totally clean.

Other: The closed-captioning (or subtitles) do not follow the dialog in the movie: (1)cc: "They said I never could" vs. the spoken dialog "Fate the Magnificent" and (2)cc: "what's more" vs. dialog "What's it for?" (the rope and grappling hook).

Continuity: When the Leslie Special is rolled out to be presented to the Great Leslie the red carpet in the front view starts at the building alignment. The arial shot as seen from Professor Fate shows a wide gap between the building alignment and the red carpet.

Deliberate "mistake": Professor Fate tries to use a shortcut by following the train tracks. The RR crossing sign says (vertically) "Look out for the Cars" (rather than watch for trains).

Continuity: After Professor Fate and his assistant arrive in Boracho first and learn that the townsfolk expect him to wait for their celebrations and gasoline, they both get back into their car, with Fate carrying the ceremonial key they were presented. As they try and get away, the Mayor calls out to stop them, and Fate hits him with the key, breaking the end quite noticeably. But when the Great Leslie arrives soon after, the key has magically repaired itself (it's not the sort of key that you usually carry a spare of.).

Visible crew/equipment: When Prof Fate sends the torpedo after the Great Leslie at the water speed record attempt you can see the wire just under the water pulling the torpedo towards Prof Fate's car when it detects his cars' exhaust explosions.

Continuity: This takes place during the blizzard scene. When Prof. Fate and Max are in their car, you can plainly see that Prof. Fate's mustache is frozen. However, when Fate falls out of his car into Leslie's car, all the ice is off of Fate's mustache.

Continuity: In the scene where Professor Fate tries to bomb the Leslie Special at its unveiling, his dirigible is directly over the car. When the bomb gets stuck on the dirigible's wheel and subsequently explodes, the people on the ground look up, wondering what has happened. The dirigible is now in shreds, and falls straight down. Wouldn't it then severely damage the car beneath it on the ground that it was directly over just moments before?

Continuity: When the lady is singing in the bar in Boracho she wraps her hands around herself, but in the next shot they are down at her side.

Continuity: After Fate and Max have left Boracho, having destroyed the remaining gasoline stocks there, they are seen on railway tracks, where we learn that this will cut 15 miles off their journey. They travel around a bend in the track facing forward, but when the train comes towards us with the car now being pushed back the way it came, when we cut to a close up of Fate and Max in the car, the train is now pushing the car from behind (not from the front as it should).