Best action movie continuity mistakes of 1976

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Midway picture

Continuity mistake: When the American torpedo bomber attacks the first carrier, it gets shot up and flies past the carrier, crashing into the sea, at which point it becomes a single seat fighter.

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Cassandra Crossing picture

Continuity mistake: When the train take off from Nürnberg, the locomotive is on "backwards". A few seconds later is it rotated 180 degrees.

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King Kong picture

Continuity mistake: When Kong is lying in the hold of the Tanker, Jessica Lange's character is leaning over looking at him when her scarf falls off. When it lands on Kongs chest, it appears to be the size of a (very) large dinner table cloth.

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Cannonball picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Cannonball is driving the Mustang and Redman is driving the Charger through the incomplete Interstate, they begin bashing each others' cars to bits. Several shots show the badly damaged cars and the results of the multiple hits taken. However, when we are shown the cars just before the bridge jump sequence, neither car appears damaged.

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The Enforcer picture

Continuity mistake: When the soldier demonstrates the bazooka on a truck, the projectile hits the front of the truck, but the explosion comes from near the back of the truck.

DaveJB

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Silver Streak picture

Continuity mistake: When Richard Pryor is ramming the police cars after saying "demolition derby", as the shot changes he is not wearing any glasses then he's wearing sunglasses, next shot no glasses, then sunglasses again, then back to none.

sheila dunn

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Rocky picture

Continuity mistake: When a particularly unfit Rocky runs up the steps at dawn, when he reaches the top and we go to a different shot, it's a lot lighter. When returning to the previous angle, it gets darker again.

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The Outlaw Josey Wales picture

Continuity mistake: When Josey was in the general store picking up supplies with the Indian man and women, Josey was handed a picture of Slim Fixin. If you watch carefully, he walks out with the picture. When you see Josey after he has walked out of the general store, he does not have the picture in his hand.

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Assault on Precinct 13 picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Napolean has saved the girl's life in the cell blocks, they go back into the main part of the police station and Napolean holds the door to the cells closed. The first time you see him holding the door closed there are bullet holes above his head but there has been no gunfire and he does not act as if the people behind the door are shooting at him. It's not until the film cuts back to him a second time (or possibly the third) that there is gunfire on the sound track, the bullet holes are focused on and his character ducks down whilst complaining that he can't hold the door for much longer.

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The Big Bus picture

Continuity mistake: When the bus is brought out of the hangar for its maiden trip, the top of the front of the bus just clears the top of the roof. When it parks outside, the rear section has a glass roof which wouldn't clear the roof without damaging either the bus or the hangar roof.

JasonWilliams

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Cop in Blue Jeans picture

Continuity mistake: The movie opens with a gang of thieves taking the luggage of several Japanese tourists distracted by a guy pretending to defecate on the lawn. One of the robbers is snatching a bright red suitcase in the first shot, which turns into a plain brown suitcase in the next. Also in this second shot one of the bags is lying on the street, while in the previous they were all on the sidewalk. (00:02:40)

Sammo

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