Revealing mistake: During the scenes involving heavy rocks and boulders rolling, crashing, smashing, launching, etc, it is obvious they are made of lightweight material due to their bouncing off each other, the actors, the sand, etc.
Scott215
15th Oct 2022
Masada (1981)
8th Oct 2022
Masada (1981)
Factual error: During some scenes where cavalry is used by both the Romans and the Zealots, some saddles show stirrups attached, which weren't available until centuries after the events of the Masada siege.
25th Sep 2022
Masada (1981)
Revealing mistake: After Lentius stabs Silva, the knife blade Lentius used bends and wobbles as it is thrown to the ground.
28th Aug 2022
General questions
I remember seeing in the early 1970's a children's movie about a young boy who befriends a lion and his owner, an old man. In the story, a serial killer is murdering construction workers and throwing their bodies off a cliff. At the end of the movie, the lion has the serial killer trapped between two large rocks, the lion lunges, and the serial killer falls to his death off the cliff. Yes, it was a children's movie! Anybody know of it?
Answer: Going to throw this out there, even though I don't think there was the serial killer scene. "Napoleon and Samantha" (1972), which was Jodie Foster's film debut, is about a boy, Napoleon, who adopts a lion (with his grandfather) from an old circus clown. The boy's grandfather dies and he and his friend Samantha go looking for someone. There's a scene where the boy nearly falls off a cliff, but the lion saves him. At the end, they find the man they're looking for at his cabin. When he leaves to find Samantha's parents, he leaves them with a man who turns out to be a dangerous psychopath, but he's the one who ends up saving the children.
2nd Feb 2022
Gilligan's Island (1964)
2nd Feb 2022
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: After the vampire's wife (Ginger) unfolds the couch bed, she laughs with her arms down and spread out by her sides, but the next shot shows her hands up by her face, clutching her gown.
2nd Feb 2022
Gilligan's Island (1964)
17th Jan 2022
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Continuity mistake: The Ghost of Christmas Present's right hand is resting on his right knee, then the shot cuts, showing the Ghost holding a lantern in his right hand.
17th Jan 2022
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Continuity mistake: When Scrooge sits down on the chair in his master bedroom with Mrs. Dilber, he is on the left side of the chair's edge, but the next shot shows he has pivoted in the chair further to his right.
17th Jan 2022
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Dilber delivers the news about Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit stands to the right of the lectern holding the ledgers, but the next shot shows Cratchit standing directly in front of the lectern and ledgers.
3rd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Other mistake: After David and June escape towards the hill, an alien with a silenced revolver exits the farmhouse, but there is already a puff of gun smoke in the air before he begins shooting at them.
2nd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: A bullet hole in the helicopter's window disappears and reappears in the close-ups and long shots.
2nd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Revealing mistake: The body of the alien is obviously a dummy after it falls out the helicopter.
2nd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: After David and June crawl under the fence, their clothes have dirt and twigs stuck to them, but when they meet Jeremy in the barn, their clothes are spotlessly clean.
2nd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: In the barn with David Vincent, the distance between Jeremy Mace and June changes as the shots switch.
2nd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: After Bob is shot by the aliens, his head is down against June's body, but the next view of him shows his head resting higher up, on June's left shoulder.
2nd Jan 2022
The Invaders (1967)
Task Force - S2-E16
Revealing mistake: The eyes of the corpse of William Mace blink as the ambulance medic covers the body with a blanket.
27th Dec 2021
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Audio problem: The mouth of the Ghost of Christmas Present is closed as he laughs when he tells Scrooge to touch his robe.
22nd Dec 2021
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Continuity mistake: After Clark dedicates the Griswold Family Christmas tree and it expands, Ellen's hands are on her hips, but the next quick shot of her shows her hands clasped behind her back.
26th Nov 2021
The Wild Wild West (1965)
The Night of the Turncoat - S3-E13
Visible crew/equipment: As West is swimming in the water tank that is filled with dangerous sea creatures (Hammerhead sharks, etc.) a modern day (1960's) frogman is swimming behind West in the tank.
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Answer: You're right, there was no serial killer, but he was a dangerous criminal wanted by the police. It was a Disney film. The man, the two kids are looking for, is a long-lost distant cousin of the boy. The only one he can turn to after being orphaned. When the cousin goes looking for the grandmother of the girl, the woman mistakenly believes he kidnapped the kids and calls the police. At the station the cousin sees a wanted poster of his friend, who he left in charge of the kids. He tries to convince them of this, but don't listen, he escapes and leads the police to his cabin in the forest. He finds the kids unharmed and the police take the man away. FYI, the long-lost cousin is played by Michael Douglas.