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Factual error: Charlie Chan claims that mixing hydrochloric acid with ferrocyanide of potassium is mixing two acids. Ferrocyanide of potassium is not an acid. (00:27:00)

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Trivia: This is the first major movie since Behind that Curtain where an Asian actor portrayed an Asian detective.

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Trivia: This is the last movie, to date, where an Asian actor portrayed Chinese detective Charlie Chan.

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22nd Jan 2015

Charade (1963)

Plot hole: When Walter Matthau is interviewing Audrey Hepburn in his "office," she is looking at a picture. She identifies various faces in the picture. Matthau correctly identifies the person without knowing which face she was asking about. Other than her husband, he could not know which of the other three faces she was studying.

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Suggested correction: I believe Matthau/Dyle handed the pictures to Hepburn and knew the order in which he had put them, and therefore who was in each pic: first, second third.., as she went through them in order from the top.

Factual error: The movie portrays Doc Holliday as a medical doctor when the townspeople expect him to operate on the wounded Chihuahua. Doc Holliday was not a MD, his title as "Doc" was for his DDS degree. He was a dentist.

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15th Apr 2014

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Factual error: The Doctor wonders how the creature can survive three billion electron volts. This is about 0.0000000006 joules. A baseball traveling a 2 miles per hour is one joule. It would take a lot more than three billion electron volts. It would take about 60 billion billion electron volts just to supply one joule. The energy hitting the monster was less than that supplied by running into a gnat.

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29th Dec 2013

Rio Bravo (1959)

Other mistake: The cell door inside the jail has the keyhole for the lock on the inside of the cell instead of facing outward. This is very convenient for the person locked inside, but not convenient for the sheriff.

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9th Dec 2013

The Undefeated (1969)

Question: Why are the Confederates in Mexico using the Confederate Battle flag and not the "official" Confederate Flag?

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Answer: Because as far as they were concerned the battle was not over, the South would rise again.

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