Continuity mistake: The plot is based on obtaining 3 music boxes, identical in appearance each playing a slight variation of the same tune. Throughout the movie the variations are highlighted as a message is revealed by listening to all 3 variations. Yet at the beginning of the movie when the boxes are all sold at the same auction, when each box is presented, the tune had no variations.
Dressed to Kill (1946)
1 continuity mistake
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Breon, Patricia Morison
Continuity mistake: The plot is based on obtaining 3 music boxes, identical in appearance each playing a slight variation of the same tune. Throughout the movie the variations are highlighted as a message is revealed by listening to all 3 variations. Yet at the beginning of the movie when the boxes are all sold at the same auction, when each box is presented, the tune had no variations.
Holmes: However, it's a mistake to accept something that's true merely because it's obvious.
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