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Continuity mistake: Owen mentions that he's charging the guests with crimes. Cut, and you can see that there's terrible continuity; Ilona Bergen and the doctor have entirely different posture and arm position, the hands of the judge are close instead of far apart, but even more conspicuously, Frau Grohmann was facing the guests, now is facing the wall. (00:15:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the General mentions Mike Raven's "infernal noise", the Judge is looking ahead at him. He is pensive and with a hand to his chin when the shot changes and Owen begins to speak. (00:15:05)

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Continuity mistake: Once Fabian is done with his performance, General Mandrake heckles him. The cigarette in his holder is practically spent, but it was whole when the 'singer' was already down to the last little Indian. (00:15:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Fabian murders the 10 Little Indians nursery rhymes at the piano, the sheets on the instruments are positioned differently depending on the camera angle - easy to notice when Grohmann brings him a new drink; the sheets are all straight, while when his wife picked up the coffee cup one sheet was askew sticking out with a corner. (00:13:45)

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Continuity mistake: Lombard responds to the toast with a grin, saying "I hope Mr. Owen isn't lost in the snowstorm." He starts the toast in that shot picking his glass from the table like everyone else, but in the previous he already was holding it, in his lap. (00:12:30)

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Continuity mistake: Judge Cannon proposes a toast; the empty chair at the head of the table is shown; besides a blatant different in lighting (look at the shadows cast by the Indians tray, and Mario Adorf going from having his hands in the shade to perfectly visible), there is a wine glass by the tray, and Judge Cannon is holding his. (00:12:25)

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Continuity mistake: At dinner, the doctor is having a glass of water. Blore comments "Ahh, keeps the old hands steady, eh?" Miss Bergen has already put down the glass of wine, but she's on the contrary holding it in the next shot. (00:12:15)

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Continuity mistake: Blore is peeping on a shirtless Hugh O'Brian. You see the figurine on the mantle while Lombard approaches, and its shadow does not get into the framed nursery rhyme. In close-up, it does. (00:10:00)

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Continuity mistake: The butler is asked to show everyone to their room. Lombard and Ilona are looking at each other, and she has her fingertips joined as they exchange looks, but in the next shot her posture is entirely different with her arms down her sides. (00:07:30)

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Continuity mistake: As soon as he gets in the privacy of his room, Dr. Armstrong takes a shot of liquor. He uncaps the bottle and puts the lid on the bed by him, and the bottle on the nightstand. When Judge Cannon barges in, the bottle on the stand is sealed. (00:08:35)

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Continuity mistake: Lombard shows the CM suitcase to Blore; the suitcase is set on a step in the close-up, but Lombard is carrying it (and moving it around) in the previous and following shot. (00:08:00)

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Continuity mistake: Mario Adorf is walking in the hallway at the beginning, to the right, towards a large vase. The camera is on the stairs, and the vase casts a shadow to the right. In the middle shot that follows, the vase casts a shadow to the left and half of the space is taken by a shadow cast by the column that was completely absent earlier. (00:03:05)

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3rd Jun 2020

Kaiser Knuckle

Character mistake: During Lihua's ending, her newfound father tells her "You're mother was married when she was 15."

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3rd Jun 2020

Kaiser Knuckle

Continuity mistake: Just before he breaks the ice with the introductions, Oliver Reed is reading from a magazine, folded in two with just a page sticking out in close-ups. In the other shots he reads straight from the folded part, without stretching a page out. (00:05:05)

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Continuity mistake: When the 'sole' survivor walks into the supposedly empty house and spots the noose, it is placed quite high. When they walk back into the room with Owen, the noose is dangling low enough to nearly brush against his head. (01:31:35 - 01:32:25)

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Other mistake: In the flashback of the denouement, Dr. Armstrong is shown dead face down on the beach, with the feet pointed ashore and the head to the sea. Mr. Owen takes also a sip from that Armstrong's flask and tosses it in the sand without capping it. However, Vera and Lombard found a corpse face inland and feet to the sea, and a flask with its lid in place. (01:28:50 - 01:34:40)

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Revealing mistake: Mr. Owen's dramatic appearance begins with a precise pool shot. But Owen is standing behind the table in a position incompatible with the angle the ball was shot from - someone else out of frame must have performed that shot. (01:31:50)

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Continuity mistake: During the confrontation between Vera and Lombard at the beach, their hair is windblown with intensity that changes at every cut. (01:29:05)

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