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Continuity mistake: In the cave, Raymond turns his back to Poirot casually saying that his mother was "pretty upset." Notice the sweater he threw on over the shoulder. Cut to a couple seconds-long flashback with his mom hilariously overreacting, and when we see him again the sweater is on his shoulder in a completely different way, as you can see from the decorations. (01:09:55)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot and colonel Carbury are going up a flight of stairs when the Belgian poses to his positively baffled friend a few questions. Before the camera cuts the first time, Carbury takes in his right hand the baton he was carrying under the left armpit, but in the next shot it's back exactly where it was. (01:06:10)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot is at the hotel's reception, phone in hand, and spots Cope trying to leave. The whole counter in front of Poirot shows direct sunlight on it, but in the conversation the light of the set is entirely different and most of the counter except a couple of narrow spots is in the shade. (01:03:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot takes notes during Carrie Fisher's interview, his panama hat is at a different angle in the close-up of his writing hand than it is in the wider angle. (01:02:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot sits down with Nadine Boynton, her hat is in a different position on the table in each shot - just look at the flower. (01:01:50)

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Continuity mistake: Interviews at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. At quarter to 4 Lennox fixes his mother's wristwatch; the sunlight is much dimmed down in the shot when she waves him off. (01:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot wants to interview Lennox Boynton at the hotel, where he is having a toast with his wife. The wife leaves the table picking up her hat. Under the hat there's a plate with a napkin on it, untouched, but when Poirot sits at the table, the napkin has been used, or at least it's not resting neatly on the plate anymore. (00:59:20)

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Continuity mistake: As Poirot is attempting to leave Lord Peel's office, Miss Quinton says that she's going to visit Petra with Mr. Cope. There's a cut mid-sentence (those are never good to see), and while her position is almost flawless continuity-wise, in the background the curtains on the left window are parted and away from the wall in the second shot, were straight in the first take. (00:57:30)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot tells the doctor that if she 'put the clock back two hours' she would have protected Raymond. During the dialogue, the extras in the market on the background don't carry between cuts, or do it wrongly, like the man with a basket that walks next to the car coming from different directions. (00:52:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene at the market in Jerusalem, when Poirot tells Dr. King "Offer him five", the merchant at the stall is standing in front or behind a trinket with a large rectangular pendant, depends on the camera angle. (00:49:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot calls the doctor's testimony "irrelevant", the doctor's left hand is on his leg, but he's holding his clock's chain in the next shot. (02:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot says "That's not quite right" in rebuttal to Race's frustration, he raises his index finger. The same gesture in the reverse angle has him with both index and middle finger raised. (01:46:10)

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Continuity mistake: Poirot has a chat with Jackie before dinner after the murder. She says she is ashamed, holding the railing. Poirot tells her that now he, Simon, is available to her again, and Mia Farrow has just the back of her fingers against the railing. (01:40:45)

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Continuity mistake: Inside Pennington's cabin, Poirot finds the document they were looking. He shows it briefly to Race, who is holding a file with a black binding on the right side (so he's holding it the wrong way). George Kennedy shows up in the next shot, and Race is standing there holding the file this time the correct way, and facing the other way after a further cut. (01:38:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Poirot accuses madame Otterbourne repeating the "can't libel the dead" phrase, Angela Lansbury is staring him down with her left hand nowhere in sight. Reverse angle, and she is clutching her pearls with that hand. (01:35:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Van Schuyler mentions a "popping sound", David Niven's position is different in the two takes; first his hands touch, then he suddenly has one hand on the armrest. Similarly, when she mentions "an indifferent champagne" her hand is on her embroidery, but she was gesticulating away from it before the cut. It's then Peter Ustinov's turn to be inconsistent; Niven asks "Could it have been a small pistol" etc. and Ustinov is fingering his moustache, but in the next shot he isn't. (01:29:00)

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Continuity mistake: Race hears Poirot's morse code and grabs his mighty swordstick; look at his tie. When he's inside Poirot's room, his Royal Green Jackets tie is styled different; in his own room the small end reach approximately the second-to-last red diagonal stripe of the wide part, while in Poirot's room the small end reaches barely the third-to-last stripe. (01:26:40 - 01:27:15)

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Continuity mistake: Dealing with Tully, Annie Potts says one rather oddly foreshadowing line to Harold Ramis about his death, and then clings to him. Ramis puts a hand on her shoulder, and the position is different in the next shot. (01:02:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Venkman is in Dana's bedroom the quantity and quality of light coming through the window changes between shots; look at the side of the window when he is counting down, for instance. (00:58:30)

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Continuity mistake: During the scene with the possessed Dana in bed with Peter, the pillows rest at different heights against the bed's headboard. (00:57:30 - 00:58:40)

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