Continuity mistake: After fighting against the shark, Bond swims upwards and there's a lady holding a fishing rod. The position of her hands changes between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Bond meets Fatima he says he wants to fish. Her hair is behind her shoulders in the wide angle, but over her shoulders in the close-up. (00:47:14)
Continuity mistake: After Fatima dies, the position of her shoes changes between the first and second shot.
Continuity mistake: When Bond closes the door to stop the shark from entering the cabin, he uses both hands. A shot later the right one disappears.
Continuity mistake: Largo's men leave the fishing boat in full on wetsuits to recover the warheads but the men who retrieve them are wearing sleeveless wetsuit tops and wetsuit shorts, also the wrong wetsuits for the colder UK waters.
Continuity mistake: During the title sequence two villains are playing an implausible-looking chess game which includes two black bishops both positioned on black squares. Black takes white's queen. A moment later we see the player putting the taken queen aside but numerous pieces have moved, including two knights and several pawns. (00:03:05)
Continuity mistake: When the XT-70s are launched, you see Polaris A1 missiles (single warhead) being launched, In the next shot you see Polaris A3 missiles (multiple warheads) flying.
Continuity mistake: When Bond's bike is trapped in the tunnel, two white and black cars stop behind him, and two baddies with chains exit. When the angle changes, Fatima exits her car and everything's repeated: the two cars come to a stop and the baddies exit again.
Continuity mistake: During the credits Bond jumps into a window. From the outside, the window to the left of where Bond jumps through, is complete; from inside the house the window is shed to pieces.
Continuity mistake: Right before Bond grabs a bike and chases Fatima Blush, he is eating an apple which swaps from yellowish-red to fully yellow, between shots.
Continuity mistake: While riding the bike, Bond's helmet swaps from bright to matte between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Bond and Domino jump into the water from Palmyra, the Arabs are shooting at them with rifles from the wall. The submarine starts shooting at the top of the wall. But in the second shot of the submarine it is very far in the background - shooting at a point in the wall which is very very far from where Bond and Domino are in the water.
Chosen answer: Neither is a professional dancer. Having studied dancing some thirty years before does not mean someone has retained the same level of skills. As you mentioned, Connery was in his 50s by that time.
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