Character mistake: When Bond gets his Rolex he explains that by pulling out this button it turns it into a hyper intensified magnet, but he actually turns the bezel to activate it. Also, Bond repeats Q's claim that it can deflect the path of a bullet. Lead bullets, even with copper jackets, are not affected by magnetism. (00:10:50)
Revealing mistake: When Tee Hee and Bond are fighting in the train compartment, watch the right edge of the screen. In one of the shots the end of the set is visible as Bond shoves Tee Hee against the "wall", which wobbles. So much is revealed you can see the wooden framing. (01:58:10)
Revealing mistake: As "Tee Hee" (the man with the claw) escorts Bond to the alligator pond at the farm, they at one point stand next to each other. You can see that Tee Hee's prosthetic arm is much longer than his real one- about as long as you might expect it to be, if the actor is really holding a prop with his actual (and perfectly good) hand. (01:20:55)
Factual error: Clifton James' character is "Sheriff J. W. Pepper of the Louisiana State Police". A sheriff is not part of any state police organization - a sheriff is an elected COUNTY official. (Interestingly, in Louisiana, they are not called counties, they are called "parishes"). (01:30:20)
Factual error: When the camera does a close up shot of Bond in the sky in the Microlight, the fabric is far too loose for it to actually be in the sky. The fabric would be taut as the air flows over it. (00:48:40)
Other mistake: When Bond is sky-surfing on the back of the other agent's boat, you can see a shadow above the skysurfer. Why would there be a shadow in the sky? (00:48:05)
Continuity mistake: When approaching Solitaire, the voodoo priest's grip on the snake changes between shots. (01:44:15)
Other mistake: When Tee Hee strikes Bond to supposedly knock him out, he makes contact with Bond's right shoulder blade. He doesn't strike anywhere near the neck/head region, which is where you would hit if you were trying to knock someone unconscious. (01:17:05)
Other mistake: When Bond is sitting in the chair and Kananga is checking to see if he deflowered Solitaire, the metal arm restraints only cover 1/2 of Bond's arms, which would allow for Bond to easily escape by just slipping his arms out. (01:11:30 - 01:17:00)
Character mistake: When Rosie points the gun at Quarrel on his boat, she says she might have shot him. He says she might even have killed him if she had taken off the safety catch. Like most revolvers, the Model 19 .357 Magnum has no safety. (00:41:05)
Character mistake: When Rosie sticks her revolver in Bond's room and Bond flips her onto the bed, Bond incorrectly identifies the gun as a Smith and Wesson .38 which would make it a model 10 or 15. It was actually a Model 19 .357 Magnum. (00:35:40)
Other mistake: When James kills the snake in his bathroom with the flame from his cigar and the aerosol, the carpet doesn't appear even singed. (00:34:35)
Suggested correction: It was a woollen carpet. Wool is fireproof.
It would still have been singed.
It does, as it turns brown.
Visible crew/equipment: Just before James Bond throws Tee Hee out the train window, look carefully at the glass and you will see the reflection of a crew member watching the action. (01:59:40)
Continuity mistake: When Bond and Kanaga falls into the shark pool, they fall apart from each other. However, when we see them from under water, they are holding onto each other. (01:54:35)
Revealing mistake: The snake held up to kill the agent and later Solitaire is obviously not a real snake but a fake one. Look at how stiff it looks. (00:04:20 - 01:44:05)
Suggested correction: As someone who used to own a redtail boa constrictor and a regular watcher of snake channels like Chandler's Wild Life, I can tell you that this snake is very much behaving like a real constrictor would when held that way. It is stiff because it's one long noodle of muscle. And depending on how he presses his fingers into it, it can lock up even more. That's how he forces the mouth to open up by pressing into the muscles on the back of the neck below the head.
Continuity mistake: During the chase scene when several men in boats are chasing Bond in a boat, one of the bad guys steals a black speedboat from the Sheriff's brother-in-law. The bottom of the black speedboat collects white scuff marks as the chase continues, but the scuffs increase and decrease erratically, indicating that the sequences were not shot in the order we see in the film. (01:35:15 - 01:38:25)
Continuity mistake: After Bond is picked up by the taxi at the airport in New York, Whisper in the "white pimpmobile", as Felix Leiter puts it, shoots the taxi driver in the head. The car then swerves from the second-left lane on the road to the very left lane. But in the next shot of Bond's head you can see through the rear window that there is a car on the left side of the taxi, indicating that the car is still in the second-left lane. In the next shot the taxi is back in the very left lane. (00:15:00)
Visible crew/equipment: When Sheriff Pepper drives off after Adam, the camera is reflected in his car's window.
Plot hole: After Bond defeats both Whisper and Kananga, all the other red-shirt henchmen that were in the room with them seem to have disappeared. When Bond came down into that room with Solitaire, and several times during the scene down there, Kanenga's men were seen all over the room in various locations. Yet after Bond beats the two main baddies, the other guys have all gone and are not attacking Bond. (01:55:15)
Continuity mistake: While Bond is in the boat chase, after his boat engine gets shot, he beaches it into a grassy area. The men in the boat chasing him slide up on the bank all the way into a swimming pool and Bond gets out of his boat to go steal a different one. As the henchmen's boat comes to a stop in the pool, you can see them start to stand up and point their guns towards Bond. Then the shot changes to Bond driving off in his new boat and past them, and they are again starting to stand up to point guns. (01:31:20)
