Revealing mistake: Horse tracks from previous takes are seen in the sand as Sgt.'s Troy and Moffitt enter the scene on horseback.
Scott215
28th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
28th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Continuity mistake: During the fight scene with the German captain, Sgt. Troy's hat is mashed flat, yet is in perfect condition and next to the head of the German captain's body in later scenes.
28th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Continuity mistake: Sgt. Troy's hat is nowhere near the body of the dead German captain in close up, but the longshot of his body shows the hat next to the body's head.
28th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Continuity mistake: When Hitch opens the tent flap to escape, there are 55-gallon drums outside covered by a camo net seen through the opening. The exterior shot outside the opening shows no 55-gallon drums or camo net.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Revealing mistake: When the Rat Patrol removes the protective muzzle covers for the jeep-mounted .50 caliber machine guns before a raid, the BFA's (Blank Firing Adaptors) the guns need to fire blank rounds are seen.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Continuity mistake: Bullet holes shot through the outside of the door to the radio room have a different pattern than the exit holes on the opposite (inside) side of the door.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
Revealing mistake: Through the whole show, the submachine guns (Thompson's, MP40's, etc.) do not eject spent cartridges after being fired.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
The One That Got Away Raid - S1-E18
Revealing mistake: The fresh tracks of the camera vehicle shooting the escape scene are visible in the dirt as Troy's vehicle is being chased by German motorcycle troops.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
The One That Got Away Raid - S1-E18
Continuity mistake: After Troy and his guys bust through the gate in the captured German staff car, the splinters from the gate are perpendicular to the road. When the pursuing German motorcyclists come through the gate, this splinters are parallel to the road.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
The One That Got Away Raid - S1-E18
Visible crew/equipment: The shadow of a boom mike is seen on Sgt. Troy's right side as he is being interrogated.
20th Sep 2015
The Rat Patrol (1966)
The One That Got Away Raid - S1-E18
Continuity mistake: When the German truck pulls up to the guardhouse it has a driver's side mirror that disappears and reappears in later scenes.
17th Sep 2015
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Factual error: Sgt. Bostick wears the unit patch of the U.S. Army's 4th Armored Division. The movie takes place in 1943, but the 4th Armored never served in North Africa, Sicily, or Italy, hitting the beaches of Normandy, France, on July 11th, 1944 after being stationed and training in England.
17th Sep 2015
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Factual error: Sergeant Bostick tells Colonel Ryan he is from the 113th Armored Division. The U.S. Army never had a 113th Armored Division in WW2.
11th Sep 2015
Blunt Talk (2015)
I Seem to Be Running Out of Dreams for Myself - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Harry hands Walter Blunt a cup of liquid to drink, and Walter takes it in his hand. The next shot Harry still has the cup on a plate.
11th Sep 2015
Deutschland 83 (2015)
Continuity mistake: When General Edel and Martin get in their car at the gas station, the fuel pump nozzle is still in the fuel port of the car. They drive off and the fuel pump nozzle has miraculously removed itself from the car.
11th Sep 2015
Tyrant (2014)
Inside Men and Outside Women - S2-E9
Continuity mistake: Leila places the glass carafe of water to the right of the holding chest. The next shot the glass carafe is on the right side of the chest.
27th Jul 2015
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Trivia: While filming the John Landis film "Innocent Blood", Actor Don Rickles would elicit big laughs from the cast and crew when he would call to director John Landis, "Hey, Landis! Get us some coffee." Rickles remembered John Landis when Landis was a production assistant on the film "Kelly's Heroes."
27th Jul 2015
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Trivia: One of the nuns walking through the village as Oddball's Sherman rolls by is production assistant and later Hollywood movie director John Landis.
16th Jul 2015
Fury (2014)
15th Jul 2015
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Trivia: While on set, actor Donald Sutherland contracted spinal meningitis, went into a coma and was expected to die. Sutherland made a full recovery and continued filming.
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Suggested correction: Is this actually an error? I believe the British Regiment who feature in this film are The Ninth Fusiliers. Well, there never has been a Ninth Fusiliers in the British army, either! For that matter, there never was a Colonel Joseph L Ryan, or a Major Eric Fincham, or a Major Battaglia. While this film is set in the Second World War, it is openly admitted that it is a wholly fictional story. Some Second World War films (A Bridge Too Far; The Longest Day; The Battle Of the Bulge) were made to recreate historical events, and so refer to soldiers and military units who existed. Other Second World War films like this one (Sahara, Escape To Victory, Ice Cold In Alex) while referencing actual events, and, showing sequences of events that are not beyond probability, are still stories. Since this is a fictional, imagined story, is it acceptable for soldiers to serve with fictional regiments or imaginary fighting units?
While some fictional accounts can be taken for granted and not counted as errors (even films based on true stories can have fictional characters), there are limits when setting films in the past. To have a 113th Armored Division is a valid mistake as the highest number in WWII was the 20th Armored Division, unlike Infantry Divisions that went into the 100's. This could almost be the same as giving a character an 8 or 11 number phone number.
Bishop73
The anonymous drive by hit and run "contributor" (not referring to you, Bishop73) may not have seen another post I made about Sgt. Bostick wearing a 4th Armored Division patch on his uniform: he says he is from the 113th A.D. (which never existed) but wears the 4th A.D. patch, which did exist in WW2, but did not see service until France in 1944.
Scott215