Movie Banter 6 - The Undiscovered Podcast 

Login

Movie news

Meet Robosapien

Kingsley Expendable?

Seven sequel update

Spoilery T4 toys

Super Troopers 2

Movie Mistakes blog

Best mistakes of 1969 (see this week / this month / all time)

Most mistakes in 1969

You may have noticed the "vote" buttons after every mistake on the site (and by the entries below). If you've got a favourite mistake, vote for it to help it to the top of the leaderboard, or if something's listed that doesn't deserve it, vote it down. To help with the voting, visit the quick pick page, where you can see random entries and vote them up or down.

Rank Film Mistake  
1 Battle of Britain
votemap vote up vote down
It is 1940. Two pilots come out of a house - one of them has just lost his wife and family in the London Blitz, the other is an RAF Squadron Leader. The door they come out of has a modern electric bell push - a post 1965 version, white rectangular box with a round button.
2 Krakatoa, East of Java
votemap vote up vote down
Krakatoa is west of Java.
3 Carry on Camping
votemap vote up vote down
During the infamous scene where Barbara Windsor loses her bikini top, Hattie Jacques is shown several times, but her hat disappears in one shot, reappearing in the next, and so on.
4 The Italian Job (1969)
votemap vote up vote down
When the 3 Minis are pushed off the coach, if you look carefully there is view shown briefly of the cars interior, which has red door pillars. When the shot reverts to the external view the cars colour is white.
5 The Wild Bunch
votemap vote up vote down
Sykes is shot in the right leg, in the thigh area, by the bounty hunters. We see the blood clearly on it when he sits on a rock and holds his leg. Later, when he returns to Aquaverde where he meets Robert Ryan, we see as he sits on his horse that his left leg is bandaged.
6 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
votemap vote up vote down
In the opening scene, Bond sees the women in the ocean and drives his Aston Martin on the beach to rescues her. When he stops, we hear screetching tires, but he is driving on sand.
7 True Grit
votemap vote up vote down
In the scene where Rooster is going down inside the well to bring up the girl, he draws and shoots a rattle snake. When he gets to her he is not wearing a gunbelt, and when he gets back to the top, he is wearing it again.
8 Marooned
votemap vote up vote down
Early in the film Gene Hackman tests a rocket-powered backpack outside the space station. He slowly spins sideways through a complete circle, but instead of each side of his body being lit up in turn as it's pointed towards the sun, the light stays constant throughout the maneuver, showing that the makers just took a photo of Hackman and rotated it.
9 Take The Money And Run
votemap vote up vote down
When Woody Allen cuts out a piece of glass out of a shop window, the camera, dolly, some crew members and a crowd of spectators can be seen reflected in the glass.
10 Oh! What a Lovely War
votemap vote up vote down
At the end of the 'Goodbye' the men all board a train which leaves along a track on a seaside pier. The shot changes from this stylised vision to a shot of an Edwardian Lady alone on a railway platform. In the background is a 1970s, ie. modern, diesel train.
11 Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
votemap vote up vote down
In the opening sequence when Sundance shoots the gun belt off the card player, the film was cut to make the quick draw appear faster. You can see Butch's image jump across the screen in the background.
12 Moon Zero Two
votemap vote up vote down
Bill Kempt rigs the sapphire asteroid with rocket motors to divert it toward the Moon. The motors are old and cranky, and to ensure that they fire on time he must, at some risk, lash himself to the rock and manually start the ignition. Upon lighting the engines he has several seconds to cut himself free, but in the scene he's shown swinging weightlessly as he snips the cable. If the asteroid is accelerating, he ought not to be weightless, but rather should be hanging behind the rock on his tether.
13 Carry On Again Doctor
votemap vote up vote down
Miss Fosdick searches in her filing cabinet, but there are no files visible only the file holders.
14 Paint Your Wagon
votemap vote up vote down
In the scene where the town is collapsing, there is a shot of Ben in the bathtub falling into the river, if you look closely, you can see the strings that are keeping the tub steady and upright.
15 Winning
votemap vote up vote down
Lou Erding qualifies his car (42) in third, yet prior to engine startup, the famous "position pole" shows 42 as starting in 20th.
16 The Oblong Box
votemap vote up vote down
In the scene where the grave robbers are loading Edward's coffin onto their cart, the coffin lid can be visibly seen bouncing up. Yet in the next scene where Christopher Lee is attempting to open Edward's coffin, he has to use force to open it.
17 Mosquito Squadron
votemap vote up vote down
After crashing, the pilot jumps from his burning plane with the back of his jacket on fire. The flames are extinguished but after a short dialogue, the pilot is seen walking from the scene from behind with not even a scorch mark on his jacket.
18 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
votemap vote up vote down
As director Ronald Neame himself points out in his commentary to the DVD, immediately after Sandy has been heating a piece of bread in the fireplace, she grabs the end of the fork on which it is placed and does not burn herself.
19 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
votemap vote up vote down
In the restaurant kitchen scene, Carol Sanders takes hold of the waiter's left hand. In the next shot, she is holding his right hand.
20 Till Death Us Do Part
votemap vote up vote down
During the celebrations for the end of World War II, cars can be seen in the background that were made long after 1945. Also in this scene in the shot of Piccadilly Circus, the BMC {British Motor Corporation} rosette logo can be seen among the adverts. BMC wasn't formed until 1952.
21 Midnight Cowboy
votemap vote up vote down
When Dustin Hoffman dies at the end of the film, if you look closely at his chest you can see him breathing.
22 My Side of the Mountain
votemap vote up vote down
After finding a large hollow tree to serve as a shelter, Sam proceeds to chip away at the interior with his hatchet, to make the space larger. But the sounds of the hatchet don't even come close to coinciding with the actual strikes of the blade.
23 Anne of the Thousand Days
votemap vote up vote down
As Anne is about to be executed for adultery she begins recalling the important events of her life since meeting Henry VIII. She counts each of the wooden stakes numbered "100 Days" and recalls various events involving she and Henry. There should be 10 to account for the 1000 days but there are only nine.
24 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
votemap vote up vote down
Frankenstein buys a sprig of freesias as a buttonhole: two yellow flowers and a purple. The sprig immediately changes into two purple flowers and a yellow. When Frankenstein meets Mrs Brandt and they go into the drawing room, the flowers are two purples and a red with yellow centre. Once in the cellar to see Mr Brandt, the red goes, and a yellow is back with two purples.
25 The Undefeated (1969)
votemap vote up vote down
When the Confederates enter the plaza to be greeted by the Mexican authorities, the Stars and Bars are raised below the Mexican Flag. However, during Maximilian's reign, the Mexican Flag was completely different from the flag shown.
26 The Bridge at Remagen
votemap vote up vote down
When Hartman's men raid the farm, they are fired at by one (and I mean, one) Panzerfaust gunner. The shots come in a much too rapid succession for just one single gunner using a one-shot anti-tank weapon, even with a quick assistant.
27 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
votemap vote up vote down
In the scene where the shipwreck survivors are being rescued by Captain Nemo's divers, Nanette Newman is barefoot as she is carried into the submarine. In the shot immediately following, she is being carried into the sub by a diver and she is wearing full length black boots.

Submit this page to:

reddit Facebook What are these?