Revealing mistake: Early in Act I, Kate Reid puts a glass in the sink (below our sight line) and turns on the faucet. No water comes out, but she reaches down and produces a full glass of water.
Death of a Salesman (1951)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Laslo Benedek
Starring: Fredric March, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell, Mildred Dunnock
Genres: Drama
Continuity mistake: In the flashback scene where Dustin Hoffman is in the hotel bathroom on the floor, he puts a coffee mug on the toilet, then the view switches and when it comes back the mug is gone, never to be seen again.
Charley: A salesman is somebody way up there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.