Continuity mistake: When the old man goes out fishing, after 84 days with no luck, one of his four lines catches a fish, but the fish drags the line out of the black ring, which it was tied to, but when the old man goes to the rod, the line is still there - which it shouldn't be.
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17th Sep 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
16th Sep 2014
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Continuity mistake: Rex Harrison is the first to buy the yellow car, but he asks for three changes, the first is to move the intercom phone to the left, but when George C Scott buys the car, the phone is on the right side, not the left.
16th Sep 2014
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Continuity mistake: The family are at the beach, swimming. Frank is drying himself off with a towel, which he drops out of his left hand - we can't see below his waist, the camera is aimed higher - but, suddenly, the towel is now in his right hand.
16th Sep 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Continuity mistake: After the old man has brought his fish in - really only the skeleton, after the sharks and other fish have devoured the fish - he goes straight to bed. The next morning, the boy goes to the bar and asks for coffee, with milk and sugar. But when the boy pours the coffee into a small tin cup, it is black, not a drop of milk to be seen.
15th Sep 2014
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Continuity mistake: When Shirley Maclaine goes swimming in the blue lagoon, her hair is all wet before she enters the cave, but once in the cave her hair is only wet on the ends.
15th Sep 2014
Above Suspicion (1995)
Continuity mistake: Joan Crawford said that when she gets nervous, her right foot - due to an accident as a child - slips out of her shoe. But later on, it's her left foot now that causes it to slip out of her shoe.
Continuity mistake: When Lucy first comes out of the wardrobe, it is snowing, and some small amounts of snow are on her hair, but, in other shots, there is either less or more. It keeps switching.
7th Sep 2014
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Continuity mistake: When Clint and some other prisoners are showering, one of the prisoners approaches Clint, who quickly gives him three punches in the stomach and shoves a bar of soap into his mouth. The soap falls out of his mouth before he falls to the ground, but once on the ground, he has the soap in his mouth again.
1st Sep 2014
Shane (1953)
Continuity mistake: Near the end, when Shane walks into the saloon, wearing his gun, the gun-slinger, Wilson, moves the coffee pot in front of him off to the left, but not much later, it's back on the table.
21st Aug 2014
Just Cause (1995)
Continuity mistake: The first time Sean Connery goes to see Ed Harris in jail, to leave the room, he had to press a buzzer. But the second time, he just pushed the door open and left - no buzzer this time.
21st Aug 2014
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Claire is in the bath, paralysed from the drug Norman gave her, and the water is rushing in, her head changes position: At first, her head is below the waterline, and then it is above the waterline - then Norman slips and hits his head - and then her mouth, nose and eyes are below the waterline.
21st Aug 2014
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Claire hears her neighbour crying, she calls out to her, and the startled woman dashes off to the left, so Claire (of course) dashes off to the right, but, when we next see the neighbour, she is at the right.
20th Aug 2014
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Norman puts Claire, who is paralysed, into the bath, her right arm is underneath her, but as the water fills the tub, her arm comes free.
20th Aug 2014
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Lee and Scott are in the hot tub, Lee's champagne glass is in his left hand, then it's in his right.
20th Aug 2014
The Guardian (2006)
Continuity mistake: When the new recruit and the teacher go into the water together, for a rescue, at one stage, one of them is going straight ahead to the cave, like he's supposed to, but the other one is heading right, which is completely wrong; but then, somehow, they're together again.
20th Aug 2014
Man of Steel (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Clark first wears the Superman costume, he steps out onto the ice and his cloak wraps around his right leg, but, a second later, his cloak is billowing behind him.
20th Aug 2014
Man of Steel (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Lois and Clark are in the desert, facing each other, Lois's hair is in a ponytail, with two wisps at the front free. From the front view, her left wisp is far behind her ear, and in the behind shot, the wisp is covering her ear.
8th Aug 2014
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Continuity mistake: The female teacher who is reading the poem by Wordsworth, which has the line 'splendour in the grass' in it, has her glasses in her hand, which then suddenly appear on her face.
8th Aug 2014
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Continuity mistake: At the end, Norman and Claire are in the truck, which smashed into the river. Norman has less blood on his face than in the next shot, where he has a lot.
7th Aug 2014
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Continuity mistake: Oren is in the back of a limo, with all six motorbikes ahead of her, after the final two have moved up from the back to the front, but when we see a shot of Oren, in the limo, there are four headlights behind the limo, the way it was before the bikes moved up.
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