Corrected entry: Thomasina refers to the navigator as her granddaughter, yet at the end, the navigator refers to Thomasina as her great-grandmother.
Corrected entry: When Frank-N-Furter is singing and slowly walking out over the swimming pool in the mist just before jumping in, you can see him carefully feel for the edge of the platform with his foot. (01:20:50)
Correction: There is no reason why Frank-N-Furter should not need to feel for its edge, so he can jump in. Not a movie mistake.
Corrected entry: At the point when the Orca breaks down, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are stuck out in the ocean with the Shark, Robert Shaw goes back into the boat to get some life jackets, as he comes out he throws the life jackets to the others. If you turn up the sound very loudly at this point you can hear Robert Shaw fart. You can only hear it if you turn up the volume, Robert Shaw then walks off the edge of the boat with a smirk on his face, he shouldn't be doing this when it is clearly now do or die for the three of them.
Correction: There's an indistinct rasping sound, at best. It could be Shaw's rubber soled boots on the wet deck. Quint is smirking at the inexperience and lack of skill of Brody.
Corrected entry: In the French castle scene, when the Frenchmen are exiting the castle to get the wooden rabbit, one of the Frenchmen has a hole in his armor between his legs.
Correction: In reality Mediaeval armor was wrought with imperfections, okay, this imperfection was of a humorous nature but that does not necessarily make it a mistake.
Corrected entry: The narrator is telling ('According to a report in the Saint James Chronic...') that Lady Lyndon's father, Charles Lyndon (played by Frank Middlemass), died at Spa, in the Kingdom of Belgium. There's no year mentioned in this scene, but at the end of the movie (a few years later), when Lady Lyndon signs a cheque for Barry, we can see on this cheque the year 1789. The Kingdom of Belgium did not yet exist in 1789: Belgium became a Kingdom in 1831 (21st of July to be exact). (01:37:00)
Correction: Belgium was in theory already a kingdom few after it's independance in 1830. The oath of the first king took place July 21th 1831. before that date there was a regent, the baron Surlet de Chokier. Belgium was already a kingdom, however, no suitable king had been found so far.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Eastwood and Kennedy are climbing in the desert during training, at one point if you look above Eastwood's head while the camera is above looking down you can see bootprints in the sand on a small ledge. Later Kennedy tells Eastwood that he was the first person to ever scale that particular peak.
Correction: 1. Kennedy is lying - entirely within character. 2. The person who left the print didn't reach the peak - they didn't "scale the mountain". 3. Kennedy was talking of long past exploits - he was the first, others followed.
Corrected entry: Billy is found lying in a pool of blood. However, it's impossible that only seconds after he slit his throat the flow of blood has stopped completely. (01:56:10)
Correction: If Billy cut deep enough to sever both the jugular vein and the carotid artery, and his heart rate was very high (after his emotional outburst), he could have exsanguinated in the 1 and a half minutes required. He is still gushing when Nurse Pilbow screams, as evidenced by the blood spray on her, and the blood could have just stopped by the time we see him. Also notice the spray of blood on the walls, indicating he was losing blood hard and fast.
Corrected entry: About 20 minutes into the film, a female reporter is asked who she works for. She replies, "BBC," and when asked what that stands for replies, "British Broadcasting Company." The correct name is "British Broadcasting Corporation".
Correction: I wouldn't call this a mistake. As the movie progresses, that particular character's back story becomes questionable, i.e., it's quite clear by the end that she does not in fact work for the BBC.
Corrected entry: At the end of the Christmas scene, the camera zooms in on little Tommy's eyes. They are brown. Next we see the face of the grown up Tommy. His eyes are now blue
Correction: Many people's eyes change color as they age.
Corrected entry: When Brannigan asks if he should call Swann "sir", the commander says that the title was handed down from some ancestor. However, a knighthood from the British Monarchy is not hereditary. It dies with the holder.
Correction: Swann states that it is a military courtesy title handed down from an ancestor. That opens the possibility of Swann inheriting a Baronet title, since they are addressed as 'Sir'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baronet http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/HnrSystm.html.
Corrected entry: When the stripper arrives in her car at the camp site, she is greeted by Major Leep. But when she appears to do her act, it is a totally different woman.
Correction: It is the same actress, Jenny Cox, who drives up in the car and then does the striptease.
Corrected entry: Michael Caine met his future wife, Shakira Baksh, on the set of this classic movie.
Correction: After seeing her in a commercial for Maxwell house coffee Michael contacted Shakira through a friend and the two of them were eventually married in January 1973 so it is highly unlikely they met on the set of this film made in 1975.
Corrected entry: Director Jack Starrett claimed he hired real-life Satanists as cult-member extras.
Correction: Word for word copy from IMDb.
Corrected entry: In the aftermath of the hotel fire, how come Popeye Doyle wasn't arrested and charged with arson and attempted murder? He did, after all, torch the place in a fit of rage.
Correction: There are plenty of times when a person isn't charged because the police either don't have enough evidence, or they know the circumstances surrounding an event, and figure public sympathy would be too great for a conviction.
Corrected entry: It is quite obvious, in all the scenes in which it appears, that the titular "giant spider" is, in reality, an automobile (to be specific, a Volkswagen Beetle).
Correction: It is not at all obvious what the "spider" is made from. One see's no wheels, or parts of the spider that even closely resemble or give away the vw bug with the exception of the headlights doubling as eyes. Unless you knew this info before viewing the film I doubt that you'd guess what it was made from. (I've seen the spider up close and personal and can attest to this - even off screen you cannot tell what's underneath it.).
Corrected entry: The final game between New York and Houston is said to not have a time limit. However, we are treated to a number of shots of the scoreboard counting down.
Correction: I studied this movie in my English class during my senior year in high school, and my teacher, who has watched it multiple times, said that they have the time on the scoreboard for statistics; to show how much time it took.
Correction: This is a character decision. My own great-grandmother refers to me as her 'grandson' and not her 'great-grandson'.
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