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Continuity mistake: When Halloran sets the barn on fire to distract the Germans he lights up some straw with a match. All of a sudden you see flames flickering up at various places which could not be caused by the fire he made. (01:32:45)

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Continuity mistake: The informant who calls the Germans when Halloran and Sellinger hide in the barn is wearing only a shirt when he is seen behind the curtain. A moment later, when he makes his call, he is wearing a jacket and a hat. Why would he put those on just to make a phonecall? (01:30:00)

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Revealing mistake: On their escape in the jeep from the Gestapo headquarters the two protagonists are shot at directly from the front. One bullet makes a hole in the windshield right in front of Sellinger's chest and should have hit him. (01:27:15)

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Factual error: At the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon Halloran and Sellinger come to a room with a sign "Dokument Zimmer". German is notorious for its enormous composite words, and the sign should have been "Dokumentenzimmer" or better "Dokumentenraum". (01:18:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam comes to visit Lucy at her foster home for the first time he comes walking down a rather steep road. Shortly before he stops close to the house he is suddenly walking uphill, and when he turns around there is only a low-lying area behind him. (01:32:20)

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Question: Can 7-year old children be put under oath? (01:06:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam and Lucy escape by bus from the custody hearing Lucy's hair changes from shot to shot. (01:02:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Rita comes to Sam's workplace her car gets towed away. The time it takes from leaving the car till it actually hangs on the hook is exactly one minute - unbelievably fast even for traffic police as efficient as in the States. (00:53:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam meets Rita at her office for the first time she kicks a bowl with candies from a coffee table. The way this bowl is balanced at the edge of the table before she kicks it changes from shot to shot. (00:37:10)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Lucy reads to Sam and refuses to read the word "difficult" her hair is tucked behind her ear in at least three different ways in different shots. (00:26:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam takes Lucy home after she was born he is sitting in the bus with the baby on his lap. One can tell from the baby's eyebrows that it not the same as as the one used in the delivery scene and the following scene at home. (00:05:00)

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Plot hole: When Schaeffer, McFee, and Fergie drive to the Lapp farm to kill John, the car stops on top of a hill. Then it reverses a bit to be out of sight from the farm. But then the formerly careful guys get out and walk down the open road, sporting their guns like in an Italo western. (01:28:30)

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Continuity mistake: On the boat trip the king's daughter's collar is standing upwards. When she gets off the boat the collar has a nicely ironed crease in the middle.

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Continuity mistake: When the knife fight starts only the boss of the prisoners stays seated. All others are lined up along the wall. But during the fight you can see for a moment the legs of someone else sitting astride on a bench. (01:14:35)

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Revealing mistake: When John and Lacey brand a calf it doesn't even wince when the iron hits the skin. It looks as if in Mexico they do branding under anaesthetic. (00:30:55)

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Continuity mistake: When John and Lacey approach the Rio Grande, both horses have long, brown blankets hanging in front of the saddle which they didn't carry with them before. (00:11:45)

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Continuity mistake: Alejandra's father arrives at the hacienda in his private plane. When Alejandra leaves the hacienda in the same plane it's painted differently. (00:54:10)

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Revealing mistake: When Alejandra comes to John's room the first time you see distinct t-shirt marks on John's upper body, his arms as tanned as his neck and face. This in spite of the fact that he wears long-sleeved shirts throughout the movie (except, of course, during his nightly encounters with Alejandra). (00:49:30)

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Revealing mistake: When they break in the mustangs you see in at least one shot that stuntmen do the rodeo riding. Matt Damon's is wearing different shoes. (00:34:50)

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Continuity mistake: After the breaking-in job John gets off a white horse that stands still when he walks off. In the next shot the same horse comes trotting from the direction where John is heading. When John reaches the gate the horse stands again at the same place where John left it. (00:35:45)

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