Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Gandil and his men leave the cage as Chaney and Jim Henry begin their fight. The weasely bookie grabs the cage above the thick horizontal bar in one shot, but his hand is below the bar in the next shot. (00:49:25)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Chaney sends one of Pettibon's guys flying over the pool table, Pettibon is standing dumbfounded with a beer in hand holding it at different height between shots. Likewise, the man that is hunched to the right of the screen casts on the wall a shadow in a different position between shots. (00:37:55)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Pettibon angrily throws his hat seeing his man got KO'd, the reactions and positions of the people around him change noticeably between shots - look for instance at the lanky aide who walks towards the fallen fighter and how he begins to walk at different times, being in different positions. (00:35:25)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Chaney and Speed and his girlfriend drive to the country festival where the fight with Pettibon's guy will take place. When they come out of the car, you can see it's exceptionally dusty. Practically covered. However, when they drive away after being effectively robbed of the fight purse, the car is clean - you can spot the contrast looking at the back of the car when they drive away; it's all grimy when the gangsters are laughing them off, and it cuts to a spotless trunk. (00:32:00 - 00:36:00)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Henry and Chaney struggle for position with Chaney's arm under the brute's chin, Robert Tessier's right hand is grabbing the cage much higher at first, then head-high. (00:51:45)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed and Poe crash the fancy party to set up the bet for 3 grands. James Coburn chews up a toast (and the scenery) saying he'll take Chick Gandil's odds. He chewed the toast whole, but at the next cut the toast reappears in his other hand, previously free. (00:43:35)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Chaney beats up the gangster who attacks him in the bar brawl and sends him over the pool table - he does it twice with different timings in two separate shots. (00:37:45)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed arranges on the phone Chaney's first fight in New Orleans against Mr. Pettibon's man. The people you see walking through the doors of the barbershop never carry over from one shot to the next. (00:30:00)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Chaney gets his cup of coffee at the diner where he spots Lucy Simpson for the first time, the cup turns on its own between shots, as shown by the position of its handle The cup faces away from him again at the end of the sequence when he decides to go be a manly man and molest her. (00:14:50)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Chuck is taking a beating after failing to corner his opponent, look at the guy in a red tie cheering by them; out of nowhere has a cigarette pops in his mouth, he chews it with a De Niro-esque underbite, and it disappears suddenly at the cut. (00:06:35)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Chaney says momentarily goodbye to Speed Weed and Gayleen Schoonover at the New Orleans station, the passengers walking off the train and behind Bronson change with no consistency between shot and reverse angle. (00:12:25)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: At the 'champagne breakfast', Lucy asks Chaney how does he "make money." Her purse's handle is up, then down. It happens again in the same scene when Chaney makes the joke about him "feeling better" than the other guy when he is not the one getting KOd. (00:00:42)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: During the bar fight, the balls change position on the billiard table multiple times depending on the camera angle. (00:00:37)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Wisely Chaney points out that two years in medical school don't make a doctor. James Coburn's hands are out of his pockets in one shot, and abruptly inside the pockets at the cut. (00:24:55)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed goes fetch his friend Poe in the Pentecostal church, and the two walk down the road of the cemetery. Time certainly passed between takes, as shown by the shadows of the tombs, which change greatly in the length. (00:24:20)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Jim Henry mockingly urges the resident samaritans of the dock to 'help the kid up', said kid gets up on his own sporting a bloody lip and nose. Just in that close-up though; he steps in to keep fighting and gets whooped, but his face is clean throughout it. He only gets bloodied again when the dude begins to swing his head at him with the strangest headbutting ever. (00:21:50)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed is on the balcony when he hears someone ringing downstairs. You can see on the table a packet of smokes and matches. Speed then tosses the newspaper on the table, gets the door, and when he returns to the balcony with Chaney those objects change position. (00:17:05)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: In a hint to his gambling habits, we see Speed at home marking on the newspaper some of the races. He is wearing a shirt. Cut, and he's sitting in his tank top, the shirt is on the back of the chair. (00:17:00)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)