Journey to the Center of the Earth

Continuity mistake: In the beginning Professor Lindenbrook places his mountain goat horned ink well out of the way behind some scales, any other scene after that, they are missing.

jACKAROOBEAR

Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.

Suggested correction: The inkwell remains where the professor placed it. There are no good shots of it later. However, it is possible to see part of it in later shots. It remains on the shelf directly below South America on the map on the wall.

Noman

Continuity mistake: At the explosion in the lab, Jenny is blown on top of a desk with straight lines down the side. Nowhere prior or after shots is there any such desk. The next shot, Alec is picking her up from the floor.

jACKAROOBEAR

Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.

Suggested correction: When Jenny first enters the laboratory, she walks past the front row desk (there appears to be two or more additional rows behind and above the front row. The students were seated at these desks earlier.

Noman

Journey to the Center of the Earth mistake picture

Visible crew/equipment: A giant lizard grabs hold of Mason with its very long tongue. Cables can be seen around the fake tongue which are both wrapped around Mason's left leg. (02:00:10)

Larry Koehn

More mistakes in Journey to the Center of the Earth

Carla Goetabaug: Someone is walking up there. I heard footsteps, human footsteps.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Madam, since the beginning of time, all women have heard footsteps "up there."

More quotes from Journey to the Center of the Earth

Trivia: The dimitrodon, the dinosaur in the middle of the movie, is actually a real lizard (a basilisk, in fact) with a sail glued onto its back.

More trivia for Journey to the Center of the Earth

Question: When the gang explore the ruins of the city, you can hear a low pitch humming noise. What was making that noise?

Answer: It's just an added sound effect that foreshadows an ominous event (the giant reptile) that is about to happen. It's not meant to be anything naturally occurring.

raywest

More questions & answers from Journey to the Center of the Earth

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.