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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see the General briefing his men. A map is spread out over the bonnet of a jeep. While he is studying the map and planning the next move a steaming hot cup of something is given to the General and is placed on the map for him. The General then takes it in his right hand and is about to drink it when someone speaks to him. The General replies to him and in the next wide angle shot there is no cup in his hand nor is it anywhere else.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where we see Frank Sinatra and other soldiers leave the hospital ward, and follow a nurse into the Colonel's office to protest about the awful meals they were given to eat. On the Colonel's desk is a revolver in it's holster. In the next wide angle shot of the room the revolver is out of it's holster on the desk. (01:10:40 - 01:11:10)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Dallas is in the bathroom there is a clothes rack on the wall. On top of it, there is a shelf and two objects possibly a red cloth and a black tin. In the wide angle shot of the bathroom they are close together and then when we get another shot of the bathroom the black tin has moved to the end of the shelf.

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Continuity mistake: In this scene we see John Wayne and others milking goats. The goats then get startled by a baby elephant and Wayne falls backwards on to the ground and you can see he takes the bowl with his right hand and the milk is thrown out of the bowl. In the next shot of him close up the bowl is on his head like a helmet when the bowl never even went on his head as he fell backwards. (01:09:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Buffalo Bill is about to take aim, his left hand is on the metal ring on the rifle. In the next close up of Wild Bill Hickok we can now see Buffalo Bill's hand has moved to another position further down from the ring and in the third shot, his hand is now covering the ring. (01:00:10)

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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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Factual error: In the scene where we see a DC-3 making a air drop over the jungles of "Burma" they fly over the ancient city of Sigiriya (a mountain fortress built around 473AD) which is actually in the country of Sri Lanka.

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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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