Revealing mistake: During Stimpson's speech toward the end of the film, you can see that it's John Cleese himself giving his sleeve a good pull under the table, when his taped-on sleeve accidentally comes off.
Clockwise (1986)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Christopher Morahan
Starring: John Cleese, Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Jonathan Bowater, Penny Leatherbarrow
Genres: Comedy
Continuity mistake: When Mr Stimpson drives into the police car you can see damage to both cars; when the police car drives off the back end of it looks unblemished.
Brian Stimpson: We don't need a track. It's grass.
Trivia: John Cleese and Ann Way both starred in the Fawlty Towers episode "Gourmet Night", in which Cleese played his recurring role of Basil Fawlty and Way played the guest Mrs Hall.
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