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When Russell Crowe and the other cop are chasing a crook through a hotel room, Crowe gets pinched in a doorway by the crook with the door. The crook starts to bite Crowe's hand, so Crowe signals the other cop to smash the crook's head through the door with a mallet. When the cop does, he uses the handle end, and in the next shot, when he's pulling the mallet out back through the door, it's coming out with the hammer-head end first. See more...

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American Gangster (2007) - 5 corrections

Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Armand Assante, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin, Russell Crowe (add more)

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

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During the beginning, in 1968, Jon Polito discusses with Denzel Washington about heroin which has the same quality as that in the film "The French Connection". While that part takes place in 1968, "The French Connection" wasn't released untill 1971. [They aren't talking about the film. They are talking about the real events that inspired that film- events that occured in 1961. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Egan.]

Edit Corrected by John W Rosa

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In one of the final scenes, when the drugs land at Newark aboard an Army plane, Russell Crowe repeatedly calls the Army official in charge of the operation 'Captain.' Judging by his highly decorated uniform and his age, this man cannot be a captain. [He has captain's rank on and that makes him a captain. The age someone looks and the age they really are differs. And his uniform wasn't that highly decorated.]

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Towards the end of the movie, Russell Crowe is looking through binoculars at the shipment of heroin being moved into white vans. In reality he's looking through a gridded wire fence, however in the movie the fence isn't seen as the camera pans across (as the view represents what is seen though the binoculars). [When you're that close to a fence, using binoculars, you don't see the chain links that close as anything more than a blur at most, and when panning the binoculars, the links won't impair the focus much. I took a photo through a screened window once, and you don't see the mesh in the photo because the lens was so close to it, the focal point was forced onto the object further away.]