Factual error: Contrary to what the movie states, priests can be elected Pope - they are simply elevated to the rank of Bishop before taking the office.
William Lanigan
15th May 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
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Suggested correction: Him being only a priest was simply an excuse not to elect him. Those who did not want him to be pope were trying to find any reason to keep it from happening.
Any baptized Catholic male can be elected pope, although it has only happened once. Pope John XIX in the 11th century was a layman, ordained after his election.
27th Jul 2005
How the West Was Won (1962)
Corrected entry: When Linus Rawling's son comes home from the Civil War, his brother shows him their parents' gravestones, and says something to the effect that "Paw isn't really buried here, I just set up a marker." However, the ground in front of Linus Rawling's gravestone is raised into a rectangular mound. If there is just a gravestone with nothing buried under it, the ground in front of it should be flat.
Correction: It is possible that an empty coffin was buried in the grave. This is not unheard of in other cases.
Linus was killed at Shiloh which took place almost exactly 3 years before the end of the war when Zeb obviously comes home. Coffin or no, after 3 years the mound would no longer look fresh if indeed there would be much if any mound left at all.
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