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Continuity mistake: Jerry Langford has just been kidnapped. He makes the first call to the network, but the receptionist hangs up on him. He then attempt again, but you can see him pick up the receiver twice in two separate shots. (01:05:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the country home, after Rita walks away, Jerry Langford walks Rupert out of the room, telling him he just wanted to get rid of him when he told him to call his secretary. During the scene, Jerry Lewis is leaning against the door in some shots and suddenly isn't at the cut. (01:00:05)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Other mistake: The man (turns out to be a mafia bigshot) who goes to Iris' pimp Sport asks him if she's in the usual building, and walks off, no doubt about his intentions. It's broad daylight, and it's summer. Yet Travis, who is also on booze and pills after failing to kill the senator and surely did not bid his time, arrives in East 13th Street only when it's already pitch black outside, and the john is still with Iris in the 'work' room, with them being fully clothed and with the bed made (but she's on her knees so they are 'just about to do it'). (01:37:30 - 01:39:45)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: When Travis gets hit point-blank in the arm, there's a close-up of the gun falling down the stairs, which is re-established at the end when the camera pans back through the corridor showing the mayhem. But if you look at the shot that immediately follows that close-up, you can see Robert De Niro dropping the gun, that just bounces next to him, by the wall. (01:40:40)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: The John stumbles inside the room in his dying moments and falls back with his arms spread out. In the shot from an elevated angle, with Iris screaming, you can see he is a certain distance from the radiator (and Iris' feet). In the POV shot from the door he is much closer, and when Travis is tackled by the mutilated timekeeper the dead man, Peter Savage has both arms up. (01:40:50)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: When Iris sobbing says that Sport never killed anyone, her carb-bomb made of bread, jam and pure sugar is looking quite messy, with the slices of toast not quite matching in rotation and raised. When she picks them back up from the plate though, they are all perfectly matching and pressed tightly together. (01:26:00)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: During breakfast, Iris suggests Travis that he could come to the commune in Vermont with her. De Niro is making a joker-esque big grinning smile in the two following close-ups, but there's another shot in between, with Robert De Niro visible only from the side in foreground, and he is not smiling at all in that. (01:28:10)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: During the breakfast scene, Iris has her hair suddenly underneath the shades' arms, just for a single shot. It's the one when he asks her "You call that being hip?" and when asks who's a killer. (01:25:35)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

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Continuity mistake: In the hotel room, Iris is taking her shoes off. The heart pillow next to her on the couch changes position depending on the camera angle. (01:20:10)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Travis walks in the building where he is greeted by the 'timekeeper' of the prostitute. He asks for money for the room. Notice he has just a toothpick in hand, but when the shot changes and he checks his watch, he is holding a gun. (01:19:00)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Travis witnesses one guy beating another and dragging him away while he is in his car waiting for the arrival of the young prostitute. The corner is well lit by direct natural sunlight, and you can see the pavement, the working girls and the overweight woman walking along the building, all moving in the sun. Cut to De Niro approaching the girls, same street, roughly same spot including the graffiti landmark, and that sidewalk is in the shadow of the buildings. (01:15:10)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Listening to the music program after the robbery, Travis has the gun pointed up diagonally, leaning against the top of his head. Reverse shot and he has it pointed straight up, and only after a while it leans against his head. (01:10:45)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: The robber is holding at gunpoint the store owner, arm outstretched. He turns around when Travis calls him, the arm still outstretched, straight, but when we see Travis blowing a hole in his face, that arm is bent, elbow close to the body. (01:08:50)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

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Revealing mistake: When Travis starts spelling his phony name out to the security guy, a ginger kid walks in, stares at the camera, and hides away as quick as he came. In similar fashion, another kid with a red baseball cap looks at the camera behind De Niro once this walks by evading the photographer. (01:04:20)

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13th Mar 2020

Mine (2016)

Continuity mistake: Mike and Tommy at the beginning of the movie are in the desert and have been staring at nothing for 3 months and 6 days. When Mike says this precise amount of time, and earlier when he asks "What's your point, Tommy?" the lid of his scope flaps in the wind. In the rest of the scene it stays still. (00:02:20)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: In the hotel room, Easy Andy puts on the bed the two suitcases and opens them. Look at the very distinctive gun with the mother-of-pearl grip. It points left in opening shot and close-up, but when Andy picks the 44 Magnum up, the Model 36 is now pointed the opposite way. (00:54:45)

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Other mistake: Guido runs over the brigand who just gunned down his woman (and that for some reason is eager to literally jump in front of the car despite being in perfect safety before). The car approaches the lorry driving on sunny asphalt already bearing in front of the car clear marks of the dangerous overtaking. In the next shot the marks are gone and so is the sun. (00:11:00)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: During the lengthier part of Wizard's un-Russellian rambling, De Niro is holding the cardboard box upside down compared to the rest of the scene (easy to spot because of the blue label). (00:47:30)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: While Wizard is commenting on the bit about 'f**s' in California, Travis who was still getting his order from the Belmore clerk is suddenly already midway towards them across the room. (00:45:10)

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13th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: Betsy opens the door of the taxi and tells Travis that she's already got the record. Her handbag is held up high enough to be in front of her blouse's buttons in the first shot, but not visible at all in the next close-up. (00:36:30)

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