Best drama movie continuity mistakes of 1972

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The Godfather picture The Godfather mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Sonny is shot at the toll booth the front windshield is torn apart by bullets yet when the bodyguards arrive thirty seconds later, the windshield is intact. (01:53:20)

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Suggested correction: Look again, the broken windows you are seeing are from the side windows, the windscreen was shot out entirely.

The screenshot shows the windscreen is intact after being shot out.

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Continuity mistake: Near the end of "The Lees of Old Virginia," Richard Henry Lee is seated on a water fountain, and then stands up. In the following shot from behind, he is back on the fountain and stands up again.

Cubs Fan

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist is weilding his karate skills against the crooked cops in the final fight scene. One of his foes is wearing a white fishing cap. Superfly belts him and knocks of the cap, there is a cut and then the cap is on again. The cap is on and then off again twice more in the same fight scene.

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Continuity mistake: Burt is lying at the bank with broken leg flesh dangling. Next shot different angle, not dangling, then dangling again.

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Continuity mistake: After Bruce Lee kills Chuck Norris, he walks back and picks up Chucks Gi and Obi (karate shirt and karate belt). The belt is hanging and dragging on the floor but as Bruce walks from behind a column, the Obi appears to be folded properly.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the film when Oliver Reed is in the Range Rover and ramming the Hillman Avenger, watch the number plate of the Avenger. It switches repeatedly between a 'K' suffix and a 'J'.

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Continuity mistake: When Weasel and Sadie are chasing Phyllis through the woods, Sadie takes off her jacket and throws it on the ground. It later reappears and then disappears again.

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Continuity mistake: Jeremiah Johnson acquires two horses at the beginning of the movie, one completely black, and one almost completely brown. A few minutes later, Jeremiah Johnson is seen riding a horse that is different than the two he just acquired. The new horse is distinguished by his near entirely white face. (00:07:20)

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Continuity mistake: During the song "Money, Money", Sally (who is singing with the Master of Ceremonies) has nail polish on. This changes color throughout the song, and in the close-ups this becomes more obvious. At the beginning of the song we see that it is green. Later, while we hear, "You can take it on the chin" we see that it has changed color to red. In the end of the song, while "It makes the world go round" it has returned to green.

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Continuity mistake: When the soldier finds the other soldier dead, having been hanged from a tree by Indians, he panics and flees. Between shots the halberd weapon he was holding vanishes. (00:22:59)

Jack Vaughan

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Continuity mistake: When T and Texas Blood are playing pool, the balls would move around after the stopped. Most notably after T makes the 1-ball. The cue ball is on the opposite side of the dot than the 8-ball and the other two balls are on the other end. In the next shot, the cue ball is on the same side as the 8-ball and the other two balls are now close to the cue ball.

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Continuity mistake: During the opening credits, Peter Boyle is seen loading luggage into a red Ford convertible with a rear license plate reading 677 EIY. When he parks in front of the Community Legal Services office, the car's front license plate reads 185 ENV. A few moments later, when he goes to meet Robert Redford, the front plate reads 772 DYD.

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Continuity mistake: When KC Carr visits her mother, daughter, and son she's shown leaving in a taxi. Later she's shown driving her own car. That car seems to vanish when she joins another derby team who travels by bus. Surely the other derby teams she was on had buses.

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Continuity mistake: The mafioso with the rainbow scarf hands his boss a drink, extending his arm. The next shot begins with his arm bent, and the third mafioso acting as barista is also in a position inconsistent with the previous shot. (00:15:00)

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