Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Marisa tries to save the hero by telling an old lady to move her car, the window is all the way down looking in, an inch raised looking out. (01:23:05)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: When David opens the manhole to get in the sewers for the last time for the big finale, he is wearing the same blue sneakers he was wearing at the hospital, but as he goes down the ladder he is wearing black boots. (01:19:10)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: The gatekeeper lets Marisa and David in; the position of his clipboard changes between shots, and so does the position of the other hand, quite more noticeably so since it's off the button column, then on it suddenly again. (01:17:50)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: In the humorous bit with Marisa showing up at the gates of the party, her hand is on the window frame or on the steering wheel depending on the camera angle. (01:17:35)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the party, Mr. Slade has a bunch of steak on the grill, but just two of them when he turns towards the mayor with an angry face. (01:14:30)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: At the sour ending of their 'date', Marisa throws a bunch of bills on the table. David's shadow on the wall moves between shots, but he did not. (01:07:45)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Marisa Kendall talks with her obviously arteriosclerotic mother on the phone, she holds the receiver in different ways between shots. (00:59:45)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: A guy tries to sell a baby alligator to the protagonist. He approaches it holding the lid of the shoebox in his right hand, but in the reverse shot he's holding it in the left hand. (00:49:40)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: When the kid tries to pry the phone off his drunk mother's hands before leaving to challenge it to a knife fight, the hand position on the cord changes between shots. (00:46:00)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: David is looking at the book about alligators; he holds it with the fingers at the top corner, but in the reverse shot the fingers are not visible in that spot. (00:35:00)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: When the slimeball reporter is listening to an all-too-chatty nurse, he is leaning against his own hand which is in a different position in the reverse shot. (00:32:20)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: David's boss is driving him after the visit to the herpetologist. In the middle of the conversation the passenger's window goes from all the way up to halfway open and back to closed again. (00:30:50)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: In his first trip in the sewers, Madison picks a brick; in close-up at the beginning Officer Jim Kelly has the flashlight pointed up. David drops the brick in the water; Kelly stepped forward and the flashlight is pointed down. Back to the original camera angle, and he's back holding the torch up. (00:22:35)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: The rookie holds at gunpoint the Mad Bomber; in close-up John Lisbon Wood's shoulder is bare, but in the wider angles the shirt is still up and the collar is in place. (00:19:20)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: In the scene with the crazy guy and his exploding breast apparatus, the shirt and the position of his hands and the bomb keep changing depending on the camera angle. (00:18:25)

Sammo

26th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: David helps the coroner put away in the large plastic bag a chewed human arm. A policeman calls him; he places his right hand flat on the railing, gripping it, but in the reverse shot he's leaning the closed fist on it, and tilted at an angle. (00:05:55)

Sammo

26th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Continuity mistake: David asks for advice to the store owner. The man points at him with his hand turned in a different way between shots. (00:05:15)

Sammo

26th Mar 2022

Lupin the 3rd (1971)

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