Continuity mistake: At the beginning, when Chuck enters the boardroom asking about the heir, Anderson is sitting at the big table, with loads of papers in front of him. A blue pen laying on top of the papers, yet between shots the pen magically moves underneath one of the pieces of paper. (00:03:25)
Continuity mistake: When Chuck and Anderson first arrive at Mandrake Falls, the propeller of their plane is spinning around, yet in the next shot it has stopped. Although you can't see the actual propeller, this can easily be confirmed by the still shadow of the propellers. (00:05:00)
Continuity mistake: When Chuck and Anderson first arrive at Mandrake Falls, Murph approaches them asking "Are you Guys lost?" After he asks this, between shots, the way Chuck's scarf is hanginag round his neck keeps changes. In one wideshot most of the purple side of the scarf is showing, yet in the next shot the red side of the scarf is only showing and the purple is all hidden etc. (00:05:10)
Continuity mistake: When Murph first meets Chuck and Anderson, he drops his toy plane on the grass. The toy plane appears in his hand near the end of their conversation. (00:05:10)
Continuity mistake: In the pizza place, Deeds is talking to Chuck, then there is a closeup of Murph cheering "Deeds, Deeds, Deeds!" When Murph cheers, he has a Budweiser in his left hand, yet when it changes to a wideshot his hands are empty. (00:08:05)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds meets the three old women on the bench, the woman farthest to the right in the orange coat has her hands empty, yet when the shot changes she has a cup of tea in her hands. The tea then disappears in the next shot. (00:09:15)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds meets the three elderly woman on the bench, Kitty (the woman in the middle) goes from having her hands up by her chest, to having them in her lap, instantly, between shots. (00:09:20)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds is walking and talking with Chuck and Anderson, Deeds spots Mr. Wetherley slowly walking along the street. Deeds then runs over to him, and offers him a 'lift.' Wetherley is walking past a shop, and there is a bench outside the shop with a little black litter bin beside it. The distance between the bench and the bin changes three/four times between shots. (00:10:05)
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Wetherley walks off, after Deeds gives him a 'lift', Chuck is standing to the right of Anderson. Shot changes, and he is by Anderson's left. (00:10:30)
Continuity mistake: During the scene in which the homeless character portrayed by Steve Buscemi is having a conversation with Longfellow, he is eating a slice of his favourite pizza; French Fries & Oreos. In shot in the scene Buscemi takes a bite out of the slice of pizza, and there is one Oreo on the slice, toward the front of it. Then the shot goes to Longfellow for a moment, and in the next shot of Buscemi, the Oreo is suddenly at the other end of the slice. The Oreo continues moving from the front to the back of the slice throughout the scene. (00:11:25)
Continuity mistake: The pizza slice Crazy Eyes is eating while talking to Deeds through the jail window changes how much is left. In one shot, the pizza has one bite out, then it's nearly all gone, then it's nearly a whole slice, etc. (00:11:25)
Continuity mistake: Deeds hands Crazy Eyes the french fries and Oreo pizza in the box. The shot cuts to Cedar and Cecil for two seconds but when the shot cuts back to Crazy Eyes, the slice of pizza is already in his hand. No way could he have opened the box, took out the slice and have it in his hands in just two seconds. (00:11:45)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds and Emilio make the echo noises, an old man walks in and makes an echo too. Keep an eye on the man standing behind Deeds and Emilio in the elevator. Between shots he walks out the elevator twice. (00:19:15)
Continuity mistake: When making the echo noises together, the man from the elevator is standing behind Deeds and Emilio. He is wearing white gloves, but for one shot they disappear. (00:19:30)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds punches the quarterback in Chuck's office, the quarterback falls to the floor and lands by a carpet, but isn't laying on it. Yet in the following closeup, he is laying on the carpet. (00:24:15)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds hits the fake mugger to the floor and starts punching him, the street is totally visible, and is empty. Yet when Deeds finishes beating up the mugger, the red handbag that was stolen appears out of nowhere. (00:26:35)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds and Ms. Dawson join some people at their table, in a restaurant, there is a big opera singer. In one back shot, you see the opera singer lift his glass to his lips, yet when the shot changes, he is sitting normal, drink down, hands on lap. (00:31:25)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant, Deeds pushes the opera singer into a table. Between shots the mess around the table changes. In a closeup, there's plates of food/cake surrounding the table that weren't there in the previous wideshot, and the cloth and broken table changes too. (00:33:35)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds opens the coffin, and his uncle pops up. Between a wide shot and a closeup, his uncle's arm changes which direction it's facing, and the frozen expression on his face changes, too. (00:40:05)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds is eating Cocoa Pebbles, Emilio walks in with some pie with whipped cream on the top. Moments later a large scoop of ice cream appears on the plate too. (00:41:00)
Answer: Babe Bennett stole Preston Blake's journal from Longfellow Deeds. As for why she dyed her hair, it was probably part of her disguise. She was a TV journalist pretending to be someone else (as Pam Dawson) so she could get a story on Longfellow.
raywest ★