Continuity mistake: When Chuck is taking a beating after failing to corner his opponent, look at the guy in a red tie cheering by them; out of nowhere has a cigarette pops in his mouth, he chews it with a De Niro-esque underbite, and it disappears suddenly at the cut. (00:06:35)
Continuity mistake: When Chaney says momentarily goodbye to Speed Weed and Gayleen Schoonover at the New Orleans station, the passengers walking off the train and behind Bronson change with no consistency between shot and reverse angle. (00:12:25)
Continuity mistake: At the 'champagne breakfast', Lucy asks Chaney how does he "make money." Her purse's handle is up, then down. It happens again in the same scene when Chaney makes the joke about him "feeling better" than the other guy when he is not the one getting KOd. (00:00:42)
Continuity mistake: During the bar fight, the balls change position on the billiard table multiple times depending on the camera angle. (00:00:37)
Continuity mistake: Wisely Chaney points out that two years in medical school don't make a doctor. James Coburn's hands are out of his pockets in one shot, and abruptly inside the pockets at the cut. (00:24:55)
Continuity mistake: Speed goes fetch his friend Poe in the Pentecostal church, and the two walk down the road of the cemetery. Time certainly passed between takes, as shown by the shadows of the tombs, which change greatly in the length. (00:24:20)
Continuity mistake: When Jim Henry mockingly urges the resident samaritans of the dock to 'help the kid up', said kid gets up on his own sporting a bloody lip and nose. Just in that close-up though; he steps in to keep fighting and gets whooped, but his face is clean throughout it. He only gets bloodied again when the dude begins to swing his head at him with the strangest headbutting ever. (00:21:50)
Continuity mistake: Speed is on the balcony when he hears someone ringing downstairs. You can see on the table a packet of smokes and matches. Speed then tosses the newspaper on the table, gets the door, and when he returns to the balcony with Chaney those objects change position. (00:17:05)
Continuity mistake: In a hint to his gambling habits, we see Speed at home marking on the newspaper some of the races. He is wearing a shirt. Cut, and he's sitting in his tank top, the shirt is on the back of the chair. (00:17:00)
Continuity mistake: When Chaney walks up to the stranger at the diner's, Jill Ireland 's pose as well as the bartender's change entirely at the cut where Bronson is moving along the counter. (00:15:00)
Continuity mistake: Chaney wraps his first fight up very quickly. As he does, the jacket in James Coburn's arms changes position between shots. (00:10:45)
Continuity mistake: The not-so-friendly waitress tells Chaney he has to pay a nickel for his third refill of coffee. During this bit, the newspaper on the counter keeps changing position between shots; open, folded one way, folded facing the opposite direction. (00:03:45)
Continuity mistake: After the cage fight, Chick Gandil gives Speed the money putting it in his right hand. Next shot and Coburn pulls back...his left hand. (00:53:40)
Continuity mistake: In the fight at the dock where Robert Tessier makes his first appearance, he repeatedly hurts his young opponent letting him hurt his hands punching his bald dome. He parries a kick and knocks the youngster down with a cross. Pay attention to the guys by the donut on the boat; the guy in the mustard coat has his hands on/off the railing between shots. The group of four by that life preserver changes position even more noticeably a few seconds after when Henry gives a proper beating and yells "Somebody help this kid up." (00:21:30)
Continuity mistake: Speed is having oysters after the losing effort with his first combatant. He glances back at his table and spots a smiling Charles Bronson suddenly there. Notice the position of the towel; when he gets back to the table with his refill of mussels a moment later, the towel changed position. (00:08:05)
Continuity mistake: Look at Charles Bronson's sideburns in his close-ups on the moving train at the beginning of the beginning of the movie. The hair grows longer when it gets closer to the hat and to the top of his ear. When he hops off the train, his hair appears to have a much closer shave, evened well above the ear. (00:01:35)
