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Continuity mistake: We see that Calamity Jane is behind the counter of a bar in a saloon. A man comes over and puts his hat on the counter at the base of a machine that mixes drinks and he orders an egg and sherry mixed. In the next shot there is no hat to be seen. As the machine begins mixing, the hat is back, and a short time later it disappears. Again as the camera angle pans back, we see the hat has moved from the original position it was in earlier on, to being further away from the base of the mixing machine. (01:32:15)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Buffalo Bill is about to be ambushed by Indians, he has a light coloured hat. In the close up shot of him he has a black hat.

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Continuity mistake: Before the ambush with the Indians, we see Buffalo Bill on a horse - only it's not him, but a stand-in. In the next shot we see Buffalo Bill closer up, and comparing the profile and facial structure of both shots, it's a different person on the horse to the actor that portrays Buffalo Bill. (Stand-ins were often used in older films when the actor was not available for filming for whatever reason.)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see the cavalry ride in before an ambush, Buffalo Bill has four buttons done up on his jacket and in the next close up shot of him, there are only two buttons done up.

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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok in a shootout with the Indians. Hickok has a belt with bullets over his shoulder. The bullets start with nine from the top of the shoulder down, then a space of three then six more bullets. As the gun battle goes on he uses more, then we see a closer shot and now there are fifteen bullets from the top of the shoulder going all the way down the belt.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Louisa Cody moves from the railing of the boat and stands at a doorway and looks into the room, to see her husband Buffalo Bill Cody is sitting at a table with others. In the very next shot she is back at the railing of the boat and looking back into the room.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok leave the town by stagecoach, the horses are all a dark colour, then when we get another shot of them travelling along a roadway one of the horses has changed to a white horse.

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Continuity mistake: Louisa Cody's left hand is on the railing next to a pole with a rope attached to the railing, but in the next shot she has moved and her hand is about half a metre from the pole.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see Steve McQueen in a jeep waiting for the plane to taxi, he is chewing gum. He then he takes the gum out and sticks it on the top part of the windscreen frame of the jeep. In the next shot the jeep arrives where the plane is and there is no sign of the gum on the windscreen frame.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Caine is in a storm there is no number '18' on the side of the bow. In other shots of the real Caine there is a very distinctive No. 18 painted in white on both sides of the bow. (01:16:05 - 01:20:20)

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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see Calamity Jane's left hand is on her hip. Then in the next shot her hand is on her gun, which is tucked into the middle of her gun belt on her waist.

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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see several Government Officials talking in a room. One of them, while talking, is playing a game. The game is to balance the lid of an ink bottle on the end of a ruler and over the ink bottle. When the ruler is flicked rapidly gravity would do the rest and the lid would fall into the ink bottle. Things don't work to plan and the lid falls on its side. In the next wide shot, the lid is right side up and a little distant from where it fell earlier.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where (end of film) Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen are riding away McQueen is on the left and Brynner on the right then in the next shot Brynner is on the left and McQueen on the right. (02:02:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Robert Wagner and Buddy Ebsen are in a fox hole note the position of the bullets in their boxes. One lot is further away from the pole holding the shade canopy and in a closer shot it's now changed position and closer to the other bullets. The shot then changes again and the bullets are back to their original position as seen earlier. (01:19:25 - 01:20:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see some men resting in a room, there is a lit candle in a metal pan on a barrel. On the right side of the metal pan is a purple object possibly a small candle. In the next shot we get a closer look and Glen Ford reaches out for the candle and pan to light his cigar and the purple object is not there.

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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see the man who is resting his head on a sack has nothing in his right hand and then when we get a closer shot of him we see he is holding the barrel of his rifle.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see the room from a wider shot there is no rifle leaning against the barrel. We then get a closer shot of a man talking and there is now a rifle leaning against the barrel.

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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see the pan with the candle is placed on some papers where as in the long shot there is no evidence of anything under the pan.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where two Marines swim up to a Japanese boat on a recon mission they are in t-shirts and shorts. They then get back to land to report to their Commander and amazingly their clothes are dry.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see school children leaving the building and are going home we see two children go over to the see saw to ride on it. Buffalo Bill is talking to a little girl just outside the doorway and when it cuts in for a closer shot of the girl, you can see in the background there are now four children on the see saw; then again when the little girl starts walking home its back to the original two children who were on the see saw earlier on.

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