Stand By Me

Corrected entry: In the scene where the boys are running from the train, River Phoenix calls Teddy "Corey" (the actor's real name). He says "Move it, man, Corey move" while they are running.

Correction: River Phoenix says, "hurry" not "Corey".

Mark English

Correction: Not only that but Corey Feldman wasn't running from the train, he was watching with River.

Correction: He did this on purpose. After writing his story, he realised it was too special to him to share. Alternatively, he just turned off the monitor.

Corrected entry: Just a spelling mistake. In the film, the dead kid the group find is called 'Ray Brower' and if you want proof, put the film on subtitles. In the DVD of the movie, in the small booklet, where the scene selections are listed for chapter 25 it says 'The rest of Ray Bower.'

Correction: A spelling mistake in the DVD booklet is not a film mistake, not even a minor one.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: When Gordie climbs up the rope ladder into the tree house, the radio announces that Rockin' Robin is the next song. In the next shot he's already up and relaxing, playing cards with Teddy and Chris, even though the song on their radio hasn't skipped forward.

Correction: This is the same technique used later in the film when the gang is listening to "Lollipop" on the radio, and then when they cut to the boys in the forest it is still playing. The makers wanted a hipper, more 1950's way of music, so the radio broadcaster announces the song, and then it becomes part of the movie's soundtrack. This is intentional artistic license.

Corrected entry: For most of the movie, Teddy wears black army boots, but in the scene when they cross the bridge he is wearing white shoes, and its impossible for him to have brought another pair of shoes on the trip, since you can't see him carrying them any other time.

Correction: He isn't wearing white shoes, his boots are covered in dust. Before the train comes they do a close up of his boots and you can see that his boots are covered in a light almost white dust.

Corrected entry: When Gordie accidentally shoots the garbage cans and he and Chris run away, they are well out of sight before the waitress comes outside. In the next shot Gordie says, "That Tupper babe saw me." First, how does he know who she is, and second, why does he think she's seen him if they were well around the corner?

Correction: He knows who she is because they live in a small town, where most people know each other by sight. And she did not necessarily see him, but Gordie is slightly panicky at this point and deathly afraid that she saw him with the gun, so he is just expressing his fear.

Twotall

Corrected entry: In the Lardass Hogan story scene, Lardass pukes up blueberries and so do the other contestants, obviously, because they are scarfing down blueberry pie. But when the whole audience starts puking, everyone is puking up blueberries. Why?

Correction: Because it is just a story, it's the boy's version of what he heard, not an actual fact.

Correction: It is a bake-off and pie eating contest. The bake-off part makes it likely that everyone in the audience had consumed pie.

Corrected entry: When they find the body it is extremely windy (you can see it in the trees) then suddenly it is not windy anymore.

Correction: Factually the wind would actually stop and start anyway.

Corrected entry: When Vern loses the comb through the tracks and it falls into the river, its obvious there is a wire or a mechanism to pull it out of his pocket because it slides forward really fast when he's barely moving.

Correction: Actually, there was no trick used here. You can see that every movement Jerry O'Connell makes pushes the comb out of his pocket a little further, but with no help from wires or strings.

Jazetopher

Corrected entry: When the boys are on the bridge running from the train, the locomotive is making large clouds of smoke. If the engine was really braking as indicated, it would hardly make any smoke at all.

Correction: It's a steam locomotive - and they don't douse the boiler fire when stopping. They would engage the clutch and then the brakes, but putting out that fire would take far, far too long to do any good and would immobilise the train for hours.

Correction: Converse was founded in 1908. Converse All-Star basketball shoes came out in 1917 and Chuck Taylors came out in 1932 (although Taylor changed the design of the All-Star before then).

Bishop73

Corrected entry: During the campfire, the boys all ask each other random questions. Vern says, "If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life, it would be cherry flavored Pez." In 1959, Cherry flavored Pez did not exist. The only flavors that existed were the originals: strawberry, grape, orange and lemon.

Correction: Not really a mistake. Perhaps Vern is wishing there WAS a cherry flavored Pez and if there were, he'd eat it for the rest of his life.

Damian Torres

Corrected entry: The Topps baseball card in Denny's room was not available until after the film was set.

Correction: The only baseball card wholly visible in Denny's room is the Mickey Mantle 1958 Topps card. The film is set in 1959. See http://www.hotcornercards.com/bb_singles_picture.asp?InfoID=1472.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

Corrected entry: When the boys sit down on the railroad to count their money, some of the boys drop their sleeping rolls and bags down, and in the next shot they put them down again differently.

Correction: Actually Vern and Gordie are the only ones that throw their bags down first. Then when the shot changes Teddy and Chris put their bags down. Watch carefully, there is no mistake.

StandByRynn

Corrected entry: When Vern and Gordie and running from the train, Gordie is behind Vern and pushes him off the tracks when they jump at the end. He jumps after Vern, and logically would land on top, but then in the next shot Gordie's landed underneath him.

Correction: Simple explanation. Even if they had jumped onto flat ground, the impact would have made them tumble a little bit, but they jumped onto a steeply inclined hill, which would cause them to roll down it a small distance together, with Gordie ending up underneath Vern.

Jazetopher

Corrected entry: In the scene right before the boys come to the railroad bridge, the Chordettes "Lollipop" song is announced on the radio, and the song begins playing. The movie is set in 1959, that particular song is listed as being recorded in 1960.

Correction: The listed recording date is wrong. "Lollipop" was released in 1958, so its inclusion in the movie is appropriate. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordettes for confirmation.

Corrected entry: How does Gordie know what Billy, Charlie and everyone else was doing while he was walking down the railroad? He wasn't there, and I doubt people he hates would just tell him.

Correction: As seen in the end, it is an older Gordie who writes the story. Some things, like the mailbox-baseball, he could have heard about from other residents in Castle Rock, and the rest is him taking some artistic license with what Ace and co. were doing.

Twotall

Corrected entry: When Gordie faints after finding a leech in his pants, the boys hop over to him with their pants around their ankles, Teddy has his glasses on, which then disappear.

Correction: When the boys hop over to Gordie, Teddy doesn't have glasses on. He never does at any point in the leech scene.

Hamster

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, where Teddy, Chris, Gordy, and Verne are in the treehouse, Chris and Teddy are playing cards. Chris is wearing a T-shirt with a cigarette package rolled up into his sleeves. Throughout the scene, Chris's cigarette package suddenly disappears.

Correction: the reason why he has no cigarette package in his t-shirt is because he takes one out. you can see that he has a cigarette that hasn't been used yet in his mouth and his shirt is all wrinkled from where he has rolled it up. :).

Corrected entry: In the scene where Chris first shows Gordie the gun he took from his father, the gun is silver, but at the end of the film where Gordie is threatening Ace with it, the gun is black.

Correction: The gun is black from the beginning.

Continuity mistake: When the boys are dunking each other in the swamp Gordie starts to wade away, when he passes the camera his hair is dry but when he reaches the bank it's wet again. (01:04:56)

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Teddy: Look. You guys can go around if you want to. I'm crossing here. And while you guys are dragging your candy asses half-way across the state and back, I'll be waiting for you on the other side, relaxing with my thoughts.
Gordie: You use your left hand or your right hand for that?
Teddy: You wish.

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Trivia: During the production of Stand By Me, director Rob Reiner did not want the film to be called The Body (the same name of the short story by Stephen King). He believed that if he did, people would confuse it with a documentary on body building, a porno film or another Stephen King horror novel. It was changed to Stand By Me because while thinking of a title, it was considered to be the least unpopular name.

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Question: In the train dodging scene, why didn't the loco crew brake at all? They definitely saw the boys in front. I know that trains have very long stopping distances compared to road vehicles, but still. And why didn't the boys try to signal the driver to stop? I get it that they panicked, but still wouldn't that be the first thing coming to one's mind in such a situation?

Answer: No, it wasn't that big of a train. He didn't even attempt to get off the throttle. That's all it would have taken for the boys to make it fairly easy. It was a straight-away track, no chance of it derailing by hitting the brakes. Like the man said above, if trains derailed that easily, we wouldn't be using them.

Answer: Throwing on brakes that heavily gives the train a chance of derailing and the train still wouldn't stop in time.

LorgSkyegon

Answer: To add to the other fine answers, and as mentioned, any attempt to make a sudden stop could have resulted in derailment. The conductor knew the train was about to go over an elevated track, and if it derailed, it would have plunged into the deep ravine, killing the boys anyway, as well as those on aboard. The best he could do was blow the whistle, gradually slow the train, and hope the boys survived.

raywest

Can't agree with the arguments about derailment. If trains derailed so easily, they would derail all the time. The train had only 4 or 5 cars. It would not have needed miles to stop. Simply reducing the throttle would have resulted in significant slowing. Plus, they did not stop to determine if anyone was hurt. That is criminal behavior.

Answer: A train that size would have needed miles to stop, and rapid braking could have caused derailment. The engineer was blowing his whistle so he saw the boys; there was no need for them to signal. The engineer and the boys knew their only chance was to get off the bridge.

Brian Katcher

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