Revealing mistake: When our lead villain fires his shotgun at the cops behind the pipes, it lands in an almost perfectly square pattern instead of a more natural circle. The impacts look more like gaping exit wounds than where landed tiny pellets. The spread is also way too dense to miss the gaps that leave the cops exposed. (01:45:50)
White Heat (1949)
1 revealing mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Starring: James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly
Factual error: At the drive-in movie theater, Cody orders his wife to turn off the speaker. She twists the knob in the wrong direction (to the right, which would have increased the volume instead), but somehow the sound turns off anyway. (00:29:00)
Cody Jarrett: To me, you're a face and a number, and let's keep it that way.