Cheyenne Autumn

Continuity mistake: When Wyatt Earp is playing cards, a man comes to the table and pounds his fist saying, "You have to listen to this, Marshal." The stacks of money on the table are knocked over by the impact. The camera then looks at only a head shot of Wyatt's disturbed expression at the man bothering him. When the camera looks at the table again, the money is properly stacked again, all within a few seconds.

Continuity mistake: Just after Wyatt Earp finishes removing the bullet from a cowboy's foot, his white suit jacket does not show the burn hole seen earlier.

Factual error: The movie takes place in 1878. The Indians are all armed with Winchester repeating rifles. Indians of the period were more likely to be armed with old obsolete rifles (Civil War vintage) including some muzzle loaders with prehaps a sprinkling of Winchesters. Also, Indians were very proud of their rifles and usually decorated them with items such as brass tacks; no such decorations are to be seen.

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Deborah Wright: Dull Knife, the old chief is much too sick. He'll never make such a trip. Listen.
Dull Knife: If he lives to ride even a mile closer to home, he will die as a man should. There will be no more dying in this place.

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