Continuity: Stuart Sutcliffe talks in a Liverpool accent throughout the film. However, unlike the other Beatles, Sutcliffe didn't have a Liverpool accent. He was born in Scotland and raised in Lancaster. He didn't come to Liverpool until he was 16.
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Near the end Stuart opens a package containing the Beatles' first single. When it shows a close up of the record you see a cigarette in his right hand, but when it cuts back to the shot of Stuart he doesn't have a cigarette. See more...
Backbeat mistakes
Continuity: Near the end Stuart opens a package containing the Beatles' first single. When it shows a close up of the record you see a cigarette in his right hand, but when it cuts back to the shot of Stuart he doesn't have a cigarette.
Continuity: In the scene where Astrid tells John at the airport that Stuart is dead he cries and hugs her. In reality he began to burst into laughter . Astrid herself said: "He never cried. Not once. He went into this hysterical laughter and couldn't stop. It was his way of not wanting to face the truth." (Lennon- The Definitive Biography, by Ray Coleman).