Quadrophenia

Continuity mistake: During the scene where Spider returns to the club and the Mods are off hunting, John Altman is seen leaving the club and riding on the back of a scooter. Second shot, he's dancing.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jimmy is run over by the post office van, his scooter changes, from an Li150 Lambretta, which he has been on all the way through, to an SX style Lambretta, which has the hexagonal headlamp, not the round headlamp as found on the Li.

Continuity mistake: In the party scene, the Who's Quick One/Sell out album is in a different position the second time it's shown.

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is riding along the cliff, the GS Scooter has a fly screen on the handle bars. When he rides back to take the long run up before jumping off the cliff, the fly screen disappears only to re-appear a couple of seconds later.

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy meets his old school pal Kevin Herriot at the public baths, Kevin's hair is quite short, but in the cafe after his bath his hair is long and bushy in a DA style.

Factual error: In the Brighton street scenes the parading air cadets are wearing service issue pullovers. These were not introduced as part of the uniform until the mid seventies. During the sixties air cadets would have been wearing battledress tunics.

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Steph: Going to be one of the faces?
Jimmy: What do you mean going to be? I AM one of the faces.

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Trivia: A lot of the cast of Quadrophenia also appeared in the film Scum which was made the same year.

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Question: Is it just me or is Jimmy shown driving 2 different scooters in the final scene at the cliffs? One has a window shield; the other doesn't.

Answer: Yes, you're right! The last scene shows a scooter with no windscreen.

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