Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Continuity mistake: At night, Boone tells Ben the reason of his presence in that part of the country. As he is about to leave and Ben calls him by name, he is holding the ladle in opposite directions between shots. (00:19:35)

Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Continuity mistake: Once the coach crashed into the fence, the right arm of the dead driver changes position between shots. (00:12:30)

Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Continuity mistake: Mrs. Carrie Lane puts some respect in the rough cowboys with her rifle. As Boone moves towards her and asks for Ben Brigade for some moral support, the horse Billy John is on moves away from the other horse quite a bit. The horse is back in line at the cut. The natural light also changed. (00:11:05)

Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Chaney takes care of the 'in-betweens' at the end of the movie, the light is different in the separate angles with James Coburn holding the money, and so is the angle the bills are tilted at. (01:29:20)

Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Before the final fight, the bad guys come out of the room at the top of the oyster plant office building. They release Speed and he walks towards the stairs. The evil enforcer Street comes out of the door in the first shot, walks a few steps, then in the next wider angle we see Speed walking down the stairs but Street is still inside and comes out only a moment later. (01:20:35)

Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Speed has the loan shark at his neck. The night after they damage his car, he is waiting Poe and Chaney at the dock. There is a car behind him, and the people by the vehicle change between shots. (01:04:05)

Sammo

13th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: When Poe is trying to impress his rather unflappable date referencing the more famous eponymous Edgar Allan, she holds the glass of wine at different height when she sighs that she surely will hear about it, and Poe's gesticulating leaves his finger raised or lowered depending on the shot. (00:55:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, Irwin Ingham's big scarf is wrapped around his neck in ever-changing fashion as it can be spotted looking at the striped area being at different height each time. (00:03:40)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Sammo Hung just left the bus to ride the bike with his cousin Jenny. They ride talking about Stallone and the USA, and the boxes of Nike shoes are tied to his bike differently when they arrive compared to when they started. (00:23:00)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Hard Times (1975)

Continuity mistake: Pettibon's fighter tries to cheapshot Chaney at the very beginning, but Chaney has none of it and counters. Cut to a longshot, and you can see that Gayleen who was clinging to Speed's arm is nowhere near, and Speed himself holds the coat and hat in a much different way. (00:33:55)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Dark Glasses (2022)

Continuity mistake: The protagonist is puzzled by the sight of many people looking at the sky. When she decides to pull over and figure out the reason, the kids that were playing soccer in the lawn have changed position between shots. A much bigger inconsistency happens a minute later, when the eclipse obscures the sky (with a rather lo-tech effect that borders on being a revealing mistake itself), the kids have stopped playing ball, but in a longshot they are still shown playing. (00:03:00 - 00:04:15)

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

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