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Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Beatles are in bed sleeping, and Ringo is getting pulled out of bed by the ring, he falls out of bed, and brings the blankets with him. In the next shot however, the bed clothes are back on his bed.

Continuity mistake: The scene where the wheel falls off the car is obviously not the first take as the bottom edge of the rear wing is already damaged from where it hits the ground. It wasn't damaged in the previous shot, when George is undoing the wheel nuts.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where John, George and Ringo are about to take their seat in the restaurant, look closely at the mirror on the wall. You can see Paul dancing with Ahme. However, when John then asks, 'Are you eating too, Paul?' and the shot cuts to Paul, the original belly dancer, not yet replaced by Ahme, is the one dancing.

Deliberate mistake: When Ringo sprays his assassin with orange juice, it doesn't reach as far as the sofa. But it still splashes over the inch-high Paul. Even if it had flown that far, Paul is on the far side of the sofa and the angle is impossible.

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Continuity mistake: At one point, John and Ringo are in a lift, a super-mega-magnet is turned on, and a bunch of stuff flies out of John's pockets and sticks to the wall. When the super-mega-magnet is tuned off, the stuff is automatically back in John's pockets.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ringo is with the scientists and they are trying to shrink the ring, the door behind Ringo's left shoulder is red. However, when Ahme enters the same door later on in the scene, it is now green.

Continuity mistake: Ringo is kidnapped then wrapped in an orange blanket and put into the boot of a car. Part of the blanket is trapped in the boot lid and is visible from outside. But as soon as his captors drive off the blanket cannot be seen.

Continuity mistake: When the two captors drive the car under the tree branches to try and knock George off the back, they come to a stop up against the tree trunk. When they drive off after having trouble starting the car after stalling it, they drive off forwards.

Continuity mistake: In the first shot of George removing the wheel nuts off the car three nuts have been removed and George is removing the last one, but in the next shot there are three wheel nuts on the car, one of which George is removing.

Continuity mistake: When the Beatles are coming out of their house and getting into the Rolls Royce, the parked vehicles in the street behind the Rolls change between shots.

Revealing mistake: Near the beginning of the film, when Clang is outside the Beatles' flat on his delivery bike, you can plainly see the rope tied to the front of it giving him a pull as he starts to ride off. In the next shot the rope is gone.

Superintendent: So this is the famous ring?
Ringo: I'm in fear of me life, you know.
Superintendent: And these are the famous Beatles?
John: So this is the famous Scotland Yard, eh?
Superintendent: And how long do you think you'll last?
John: Can't say fairer than that. The Great Train Robbery, eh? How's that going?

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Trivia: At many points in the movie, the music playing in the background are slightly different versions of the song "A Hard Day's Night." This was the title track from the Beatles previous movie.

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