Revealing mistake: A second martian saucer crashes but it is the same as the first but reversed (look at the striped awning to the store window for both shots). (01:23:25)
Larry Koehn
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Continuity mistake: A hatch opens-up to the martian saucer showing a very weak, limp martian arm moving slowly and lying against the door. Next scene shows a wide angle view of the people and the arm but the arm is now touching the belly of the craft. Another scene change has a close-up of the arm again resting on the hatch. (01:22:45 - 01:23:45)
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Visible crew/equipment: Near the end of the movie, a martian saucer crashes into a telephone pole. The wires holding the saucer up starts pushing-up against the wires of the pole causing the pole to move and break before the saucer even touches it. (01:21:35)
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Visible crew/equipment: A reflection of the film crew can seen in Sylvia's bus window. (01:10:30)
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Visible crew/equipment: A shadow of a mike boom can be seen to the upper-left of a window in a laboratory following a professor who is about to give a demonstration. (01:00:00)
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Revealing mistake: The tri-lens is now facing the movie camera and not facing down towards the table top when Barry attacks the Martian. (00:52:25)
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Continuity mistake: The tri-lens of the Martian camera becomes detached from its casing after Gene Barry pounds it to death. When he picks it up and puts it on a table, it rocks forward and comes to rest, facing down, on the table: the tri-lens is now firmly attached to its casing. (00:51:30)