Continuity mistake: The entries into Quartermain's journal are supposedly covering events during 1881 and 1882. The entries consist of a day and a date, but no month. Taken in order, they cannot fit into the 1881-1882 calendar. For example, the two entries immediately before the June eclipse can only be in August 1882.
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Directed by: Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, John Loder, Roland Young, Paul Robeson
Factual error: The date for the solar eclipse is given as Wednesday, June 2, 1882. There was a solar eclipse in Africa that year; however, the date was Wednesday, May 17, 1882.
Allan Quartermain: You know, O'Brien, there's only one kind of man that it's useless to argue with.
Patrick 'Patsy' O'Brien: And that is?
Allan Quartermain: A fool.
Allan Quartermaine: Then it is agreed we leave tonight?
Sir Henry Curtis: Yes.
Umbopa: It is not agreed - you must stay.
Allan Quartermaine: I'm in charge here! I told you that before.
Umbopa: That was in your country. You are now in mine.
