Continuity mistake: In the scene where Trevor Howard and José Ferrer are sharing what appears to be some port (about 50 minutes into the movie), the port decanter has a drip stopper in the long shot which disappears in the close-up shot of Leslie Howard and then re-appears in the following longer shot.
Continuity mistake: When the bogus male nurse with Mrs. Carroon is outside in the rain, his coat and hair are soaking wet. But when they run to the staff entrance (a few seconds later), his hair and coat are bone dry.
Continuity mistake: When Tom is running away from Uncle Pecos, he runs into the house and slams the door. When he slams the door, you can see the little door at the top has nothing on it, but in the next shot a handle has suddenly appeared.
Factual error: The system devised to get the height right was, in the film, said to have been thought of by the 617 Sqn crews following a visit to the theater. In reality it was devised by the 'boffins' at Farnborough.
Suggested correction: See many previously posted 'mistakes' of this type and the standard correction: this is not a documentary and never pretended to be. It is a war drama and many facts were changed to fit the action.
Those correction are often made in fallacy. Dramas based on historical accounts have liberty to change small or inconsequential things, like adding a person that may have never existed, or change a relationship for dramatic purposes. Despite not being a documentary, unless it's a fantasy film, changes in historical facts are mistakes (for example, a drama can't have the Eiffel Tower in London just because it's not a documentary).
Suggested correction: This was the version given in Brickhill's book. The real story wasn't published till many years after the film was made.
Character mistake: After Cal goes to the secret lab in Georgia, he and two others go into his new lab. When they enter a cat jumps up on the counter. Dr. Adams says "This is Neutron. We named him that because he's so positive." Neutrons are neutral and electrons are negative. It's protons that are positive. They should have named the cat Proton.
Continuity mistake: When we see the paper boy holding the newspaper, you can see that the paper is entitled "Extra", but when we see a close-up of the paper in the next shot, the title is now "Times Dispatch."
Other mistake: Philip De Guard is the cartoon's layout artist, yet when we see his name in the opening credits, it is spelled "Phillip" instead of the usual "Philip."
Continuity mistake: When the stork takes the baby to Mr and Mrs Pierce, he is holding the bag in his left hand when he walks up the stairs, but when he arrives at the flat, the bag is now in his right hand.
Continuity mistake: When Bugs is horrified to realise that he was holding a picket sign, the yellow paint on his tail disappears briefly.
Continuity mistake: After the lighthouse keeper apologises to the ship's captain for not having the light on, the keeper's eyes briefly change colour from white to pink.
Continuity mistake: During the fight in the garage when Larry is fighting the two thugs a calendar on the wall shows the month of August, the next day Turk has a poster for the next stock car meeting on the 14TH May 1955 the duration of this film is not that long.
Revealing mistake: Air can be seen coming out of the creature's head at one point in one of the tank scenes.
Continuity mistake: When Butch and the other cats tiptoe past Spike at the start of the cartoon, you can see that Spike's bone is next to his kennel, but when Jerry is thrown out of the house by the cats before the film begins, he lands in Spike's mouth and the bone is now next to Spike.
Continuity mistake: When Bugs discovers that Mr Hyde fired a hole in the wood that he used to board the door up to stop Mr Hyde from entering the basement, the number of planks change between shots.
Continuity mistake: Park Ranger Donald is leading five bears to a cave, so they can hibernate for the winter. He finds a bear sleeping in a hammock and forces him to join the others. There should now be six bears but a seventh bear has appeared out of nowhere. Later in the cave, their number has grown to nine.
Continuity mistake: Before Tom is about to draw a line on the alarm clock on the blueprint, you can see on the left hand side of the clock there is an "A" and an arrow, and on the right hand side is some writing. When Tom draws the line, the "A", arrow and writing have all disappeared.
Continuity mistake: When the Coyote attempts to capture the Road Runner for the first time, he is standing on a bare patch of pavement surrounded by the puddle of glue he is spreading. In the next shot, the Coyote is now standing on glue with no bare patch, and when he realises he is about to be hit by the truck, he is standing on bare pavement in middle of the glue puddle once again.
Factual error: All the troops in the Fetterman massacre are cavalry. In fact, the majority of the detachment, including Fetterman himself, were infantry.
Continuity mistake: When the man is imitating the frog to the agent in the talent agency, he is initially holding his hat, and then throws his hands up into the air. When his hands come back down, the hat has disappeared.
Deliberate mistake: Glenn Ford strikes the window in the library door with his briefcase and it instantly shatters. In reality, a blow delivered by a briefcase to a plate glass window would have produced no more than a scratch or crack.