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Best mistakes of 1958 (see this week / this month / all time)

Most mistakes in 1958

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1 Vertigo
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In the final scene, pieces of Madeleine's hair-do come down in the struggle up the bell tower steps. At the top of the tower, before she falls, her hair is in perfect shape again.
2 The Vikings
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When Kirk Douglas returns in the viking ship to his home fjord, many vehicles can be seen on the road through the trees on the other side of the water. Vauxhall Vikings perhaps?
3 Run Silent Run Deep
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Every time we see the Nurka fire a torpedo, regardless of whether the order was "fire one," "fire two," or even "fire five" or "fire six," the torpedo is always seen leaving exactly the same tube.
4 Ice Cold In Alex
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In the final scene there is a shot which shows a Land Rover in the distance. Land Rovers were not built until after World War 2.
5 The Seventh Seal
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In the last scene of the chess game, you can see that both the Knight and Death have castled. Castling was introduced to the game of chess in the 16th century, well after the film is set.
6 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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After Maggie (Liz Taylor) goes outside to confront Brick at the car during a raging rainstorm getting thoroughly soaked, she appears a short time later in the drawing room in the same dress, immaculate hairstyle and makeup, looking like she hadn't seen a single drop of water.
7 The Space Children
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When the aliens blast off at the end of the film, the bright light causes the shadows of the actors & vehicles, etc, to appear on the painted backdrop of desert & sky.
8 The Big Country
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When McKay and Ramon are riding into Blanco Canyon to rescue Julie, you can see a diesel loading shovel with its bucket raised in the bottom of the frame of one of the scenic shots. Presumably the scene was shot in a quarry and they didn't get all the equipment out.
9 Imitation General
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Both sides (American & German) use the same tanks! The American tanks have white stars painted on them, while the German tanks bear white Maltese Crosses.
10 Earth vs. the Spider
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Joe is much too old to be in high school. He appears to be in his thirties (the actor playing him was 35 at the time).
11 South Pacific
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In the opening scene on the airplane, one of the men tells Lt. Cable, "The captain wants to know if you'd like to sit up in the cockpit with him?" Buzz Adams, the "captain" referenced in this line, is only a lieutenant. Admittedly, "captain" is a standard aviation term for the pilot of an aircraft, but it would be unlikely to be used in this situation, since the term has a specific military meaning.
12 No Time For Sergeants
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When Will Stockdale is at the Purple Grotto, at one point the cup full of liquor is at different levels.
13 Horror of Dracula
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In the final sequence where Dracula's foot has been disintegrated by the rays of the sun, his foot is seen firmly attached again seconds later as Van Helsing confronts him with a makeshift cross. In the scene Cushing, with his back to the camera, steps forward quickly from the foreground to cover the area where Lee's foot is briefly seen as having not been disintegrated.
14 A Night to Remember
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When a lifeboat is floating upside down, and people are trying to climb onto it, it is not bobbing from side to side at all, as if it was fixed to the bottom of the water.
15 Darby's Rangers
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During training, when the men are running and the two British men come out of the bushes then shoot at the ground, there are 3 rows of bullets going past but only 2 guns being fired.
16 The Badlanders
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As the stagecoach rolls into Prescott, Arizona, the road winds among hundreds of Saguaro cacti. Prescott is far beyond the northern limits of the Saguaro.
17 The Blob (1958)
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In the beginning of the movie (about 10 mins. in) Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut are driving along and think they hit an old man on the road. They stop the car and get out. There is a shot of the rear right panel of the car, two sets of "lights" are visible reflecting off the car. One single light and 4 lights in a square shape to the right of it. They help the man into their car and there is another side shot of the car and the lights are now 3 sets of 2 lights. They're in the middle of nowhere, at night, along a country road. It looks like "light trees" used to illuminate a scene at night.
18 The Young Lions
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When Diestl and Hardenburg attempt their wild dash to the coast on the motorcycle, they pass the same wrecked Kubelwagen three times.
19 Gigi
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In the scene where Isabel Jeans is telephoned by Madame Alvarez and told that Gigi has refused Gaston's advances, she gets out of bed and walks across the bedroom. As she passes a cheval (full length) mirror a pair of retreating jean-clad legs and a hand feeding out cable can be seen in the reflection.
20 It! The Terror from Beyond Space
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The interior of the ship is quite spacious, a central atrium on each level, with crew quarters and storage spaces opening off it. Yet, when the two officers take a space-walk down the length of the ship, it appears to have a diameter of less than 20 feet.

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