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1st Oct 2014

Irma la Douce (1963)

Continuity mistake: When Nestor is Count X, Irma gives him a very-red lipsticked kiss on his right cheek. But, later, in the cafe, the redness has reduced a lot, then gets redder again, and then less, then more.

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1st Oct 2014

Dr. No (1962)

Other mistake: At the end, James and Honey jump into a small boat, and after James has dealt with the two men in the boat, Honey deals with the front tender, but no-one deals with the rear tender - we can see it rising out of the water, but somehow it is no longer attached to the boat. (01:43:50)

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Continuity mistake: While throwing clothes and lamps at each other, Vicky throws one shoe and then the next one, but, later, her shoes are back, and she throws them again.

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Continuity mistake: After Steve rushes through his softball match, so he can rush to the flat to have a quickie with Vicky, he is rushing to put his clothes on. He is wearing a long-sleeved red top, with a short-sleeved grey top over the red top. He pulls the long red sleeves down twice for both sleeves.

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1st Oct 2014

Dr. No (1962)

Continuity mistake: When Bond goes to see a fisherman, to ask him about a man's death, the fisherman walks away, saying he knows nothing, and walks into a bar on the beach. He is talking to the barman and the bar has nothing on it, until a second later, when, suddenly, there is an open bottle of beer, a glass half-filled with beer and an ashtray. (00:28:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Detective Maclean is trying to convince Matt to go with him, Matt tries to open a window, so he can escape, but the window won't open. Later, after all the gunfire, both men escape through the now-working window.

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20th Sep 2014

Irma la Douce (1963)

Continuity mistake: In Irma's apartment, the windows are covered with newspapers, to block out prying eyes. From the apartment's view, the newspapers don't cover the lower third, but from the street view, the lower third is covered.

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Continuity mistake: Ingrid Bergman is sitting in the foyer of the hotel she is staying in. She orders a martini, which arrives pronto, but in the first shot, she picks up the drink and has a sip, and in the second shot, she isn't holding the glass anymore.

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17th Sep 2014

Above Suspicion (1995)

Continuity mistake: When Fred McMurray dressed as an old man orders coffee at a cafe, as he sits next to a friend, but only the friend gets what he orders, and yet, later on, Fred's coffee is there in front of him on the bar.

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Continuity mistake: When the old man goes out fishing, after 84 days with no luck, one of his four lines catches a fish, but the fish drags the line out of the black ring, which it was tied to, but when the old man goes to the rod, the line is still there - which it shouldn't be.

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Continuity mistake: Rex Harrison is the first to buy the yellow car, but he asks for three changes, the first is to move the intercom phone to the left, but when George C Scott buys the car, the phone is on the right side, not the left.

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Audio problem: When Rex Harrison and his wife come back from a drive in the new car, a man is winding the record player so it will play the record, but as he winds, the player moves, which would surely make the record jump, but it doesn't - the sound is perfect.

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Continuity mistake: The family are at the beach, swimming. Frank is drying himself off with a towel, which he drops out of his left hand - we can't see below his waist, the camera is aimed higher - but, suddenly, the towel is now in his right hand.

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Continuity mistake: After the old man has brought his fish in - really only the skeleton, after the sharks and other fish have devoured the fish - he goes straight to bed. The next morning, the boy goes to the bar and asks for coffee, with milk and sugar. But when the boy pours the coffee into a small tin cup, it is black, not a drop of milk to be seen.

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Continuity mistake: When Shirley Maclaine goes swimming in the blue lagoon, her hair is all wet before she enters the cave, but once in the cave her hair is only wet on the ends.

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15th Sep 2014

Above Suspicion (1995)

Continuity mistake: Joan Crawford said that when she gets nervous, her right foot - due to an accident as a child - slips out of her shoe. But later on, it's her left foot now that causes it to slip out of her shoe.

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Continuity mistake: When Lucy first comes out of the wardrobe, it is snowing, and some small amounts of snow are on her hair, but, in other shots, there is either less or more. It keeps switching.

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Continuity mistake: When Clint and some other prisoners are showering, one of the prisoners approaches Clint, who quickly gives him three punches in the stomach and shoves a bar of soap into his mouth. The soap falls out of his mouth before he falls to the ground, but once on the ground, he has the soap in his mouth again.

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7th Sep 2014

Diana (2013)

Factual error: When Diana's father's surgeon shows Diana around the hospital, they end up in an operating room and they are both wearing street clothes. Problem is there are doors in every hospital where operations are performed and no-one is allowed past those doors without wearing scrubs, paper hats, booties and face masks, no matter who you are - they have to keep the operating rooms as clean as possible.

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1st Sep 2014

Shane (1953)

Continuity mistake: Near the end, when Shane walks into the saloon, wearing his gun, the gun-slinger, Wilson, moves the coffee pot in front of him off to the left, but not much later, it's back on the table.

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