Best movie corrections of 1966

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Fantastic Voyage picture

Corrected entry: When a crew member of the miniaturised submarine is eaten by the blood cells, the fact that his atoms will return to full size at the same time as the rest of the crew and the submarine (which provides the suspense, such as it is) is completely ignored.

Correction: It is made clear in the book and the movie that the molecules/or atoms ARE NOT shrunk the space between them is reduced - anything left behind would be absorbed by the immune system one atom or molecule at a time.

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El Dorado picture

Corrected entry: The bartender's (Robert Mitchum's brother John) character's name is Elmer. When JP goes to the bar to get Jason, Elmer makes a move for a gun behind the bar. JP shoots the bar, resulting in Elmer getting a fist full of splinters. JP says "I told you Elmer..." At the end when JP runs through the bar, he points the gun at Elmer and says "stay right there, Johnny."

Correction: He says "Freeze it right there, Johnny!" but the shot is focused on him and there's no indication he's talking to the bartender. There a a number of Jason's men in the saloon. One of them must be named Johnny.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly picture

Corrected entry: During the scene where Blondie and Tuco are wiring the bridge with explosives, Tuco suggests they tell each other their part of the secret. As Blondie is replying, you can see a car drive by in the background. The movie takes place in the 1860s.

Correction: Yeah I see it now too. In the forest.

Correction: I have watched this scene several times and what you say never happens, there is NO car driving by in the background.

When Tuco says "you go first", there's a car in the far background driving down a road. At first the trees are kind of blocking it, but then there's a clearing and the car is more visible. Look to the right of Clint Eastwood's hat.

Bishop73

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! picture

Corrected entry: At the end of the story the Grinch has blue eyes except for one shot - when he becomes shocked seeing the sled full of Christmas things begin to slide off the mountain - where they're momentarily red again.

Krista

Correction: This is not a mistake, it is done deliberately. It could be because of the stress/shock of losing the sleigh.

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The Professionals picture

Corrected entry: When Chiquita gets shot and hits the ground,her gun ends up on the ground quite a distance away. Burt Lancaster holds her up, and she now has the gun and tries to shoot him.

Correction: You may have a bad copy or different edit. The version I have shows Chiquita crawl toward her gun while Bill (Burt Lancaster) is looking toward Raza. She grabs the gun and hides under her body.

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Our Man Flint picture

Corrected entry: When Lee J.Cobb goes to Coburn's apartment, there are 2 dogs by the door. Neither dog is a German shepherd. When Coburn opens the door, a German shepherd appears from nowhere and escorts Lee J. Cobb in.

Correction: The German Shepherd doesn't "appear from nowhere." He enters from off screen. We never see that side of the lobby. There may be a door leading to another room, or the dog may have been sitting there all the time. The two dogs flanking the elevator are there throughout the scene.

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Grand Prix picture

Corrected entry: In almost every scene of Garner in the Yamura, the roll bar does not clear his helmet, a flagrant violation of safety regs. This was because James Garner was so tall that even after removing the seat cushion, forcing him to sit right on the metal body pan, he still didn't sit low enough.

Correction: In 1966, the year the film is set, the regulations did not require the hoop to be higher than the driver. This is amply proven by looking at contemporary race footage and photos. This weakness in the regulations mostly defeated the purpose of having rollover hoop at all, but that is what was the case.

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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken picture

Corrected entry: When Luther and Alma are eating chicken noodle soup together in the restaurant, Alma's boyfriend comes in and begins making fun of Luther. He gets angry and storms out, telling the cashier to put the bill on his tab. She replies that he doesn't have a tab, and he begins to feverishly dig for money in his pocket. If you watch as the scene begins to fade out, Don Knotts stops searching for the money and acts calm really quick, like the director just yelled "cut".

Correction: I have observed this scene many times, and as the scene ends, Knotts' hand is dug deep into his pocket, and he approaches Ollie and Alma as if to sheepishly ask for some cash to cover the cost of his and Alma's meal.

Scott215

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Batman picture

Corrected entry: Batman and Robin enter the Batboat at the jetty, yet moments later, when they are on the ocean, there is no sign of land behind them whatsoever. (00:19:40)

Correction: The shots are not continuous time.

johnrosa

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Carry On Don't Lose Your Head picture

Corrected entry: In the scene where, Désirée Dubarry and Citizen Camembert are in the bedroom looking at the dresses in the wardrobe. Citizen Camembert says "would you like me to get it out for you", Désirée replies "Yes Kenneth" as in the actors real name - Kenneth Williams. (01:11:30)

Mr Manchester

Correction: Désirée actually says Camby, in reference to Williams' character.

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Torn Curtain picture

Corrected entry: When Paul Newman and the girl were in the theater, he screamed "fire" to make the room chaotic so the policemen wouldn't see them. But why would Germans understand English?

Correction: All he would need is for a handfull of people to understand and start to flee. That would cause a commotion in itself. Lots of German people have at least a basic knowledge of English, and it was only one word. And anyway, the German for fire is feuer, which is not pronounced so diferently that they couldn't guess what 'fire' means.

J I Cohen

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One Million Years B.C. picture

Corrected entry: Is it me or does anyone else find it odd that all the women have perfect hair, teeth, skin an make-up. Surely they couldn't shave their legs or brush their teeth.

Correction: True, they didn't have Lady Shavers or Max Factor in those days, but then they didn't have dinosaurs, either. The glamorous bikini-clad cavewoman is just part of the fantasy. Besides, in one million years BC 'humans' were about five feet tall at best, covered in fur and looked like they'd had a good hiding with the ugly stick. Who would go and see a film with Raquel Welch looking like that?

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Fahrenheit 451 picture

Corrected entry: In all the book-burning scenes, there is always plenty of fire, but never any smoke.

Correction: Do you think they invented a new kind of fire just for this film? That's real fire, not a computer effect - that's the way books burn in real life. Paper generates very little smoke.

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The Ugly Dachshund picture

Corrected entry: Officer Karmody catches the Garrisons speeding on a city street and missing a stop sign, and writes a citation. Several weeks later, he tells Mr. Garrison that he's now a sergeant and is no longer on "highway patrol." Highway patrolmen cover only the freeways and highways and can not issue citations on city streets.

Correction: He was on highway patrol, not a highway patrolman. Besides that, this movie was made in 1966. In 1971, four highway patrol officers were killed in a restaurant parking lot in California while investigating a report of someone waving a weapon. Obviously, at that time at least, they were not limited to covering only highways and freeways.

rswarrior

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The Blue Max picture

Corrected entry: At the end of the 'bridge' sequence in which Bruno and Willy attempt to outfly each other, Willy's plane strikes a stone tower beyond the bridge and crashes in open ground. In the next scene, where Bruno is confronted by his commanding officer as to the circumstances of Willy's death, Bruno responds that he 'flew into the trees.'

Correction: Bruno was obviously deliberately lying in order to conceal the true facts of Willy's death, ie. that they were trying to outfly one another.

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Django picture

Corrected entry: In the parlor scene at Candieland in Django Unchained, a bust of Nefertiti sits on a table. While the movie scene occurs in 1858, the bust on which the one in the movie is modeled was not discovered until 1912 and is housed today in the Neues Museum in Berlin.

Correction: This has been submitted for the wrong film.

MasterOfAll

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