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Factual error: In reality, Captain Bligh was never on board the HMS Pandora, and he was not present at the trial of the mutineers who stayed on Tahiti. At the time he was halfway around the world on a second voyage looking for breadfruit plants.

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Trivia: In the film, the 100 meter bronze medalist is a fictional character named Tom Watson. The real medalist was Arthur Porritt of New Zealand, who asked his name not to be used.

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Trivia: Hitchcock's cameo appearance, a signature feature of his films, takes place near the end. He is seen outside a phone box when Jack is making a call.

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Continuity mistake: When Conrad is at the swim meet, he has on a red plaid shirt under a gray sweater. When he arrives back at his grandmother's house, he has a white with thin blue stripes shirt and a beige sweater, and there is nothing to indicate that he stopped along the way.

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Continuity mistake: During the restaurant scene, the straw in Karen's hands starts unwrapped, then becomes wrapped, and then suddenly jumps into the Coke.

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Continuity mistake: When Karen goes to leave the restaurant, the Cokes have suddenly disappeared from the table.

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Continuity mistake: When Conrad visits Dr. Berger's office for the first time, and he is in the elevator, his hair changes length and style between shots.

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Trivia: Writer Paddy Chayefsky has a cameo as "Leo", who appears in the back of the car when Marty is approached by his friends.

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Trivia: This film marks the final silver screen appearance of Joan Crawford.

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Continuity mistake: When Bond examines Della's 'dead' body, her mouth goes from being open in one shot to closed in the next.

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Trivia: This film marks the big screen debut of Tom Selleck, who has a small part as one of Letitia's "studs".

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Factual error: When the air hose on the truck is severed, the brakes release. In reality, on an air-braking system, if the air hose is severed, the brakes lock on as a safety measure.

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Continuity mistake: When Truman-Lodge is shot by Sanchez, he falls off to the side of the road, but when Bond makes his escape through the fire, Truman-Lodge's body is shown lying in the road.

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Factual error: When Bond and Amasova are on the speed boat going to see Stromberg, the underwater lair is super-imposed on the horizon, rather than midway. This would make the lair around 50 miles high.

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Revealing mistake: When the boat blasts out of Stromberg's lair and lands in the water, it's obviously a miniature and the people inside are obviously dummies.

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Deliberate mistake: As the Lotus drives off the pier and enters the water, the exposed underbody is that of a normal car. After it enters the sea, the underbody we see is completely sealed, which it needs to be to allow the car to submerge.

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Factual error: At the beginning of the opening title sequence, the Union Jack fluttering in the background is upside down.

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Continuity mistake: In the underwater sequence, just before Bond fires a torpedo on a diver, he steers left, but the sub turns right.

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Visible crew/equipment: The wires holding Jaws to the magnet are visible.

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Continuity mistake: On the train, the wine stain on Jaws' jacket disappears for one shot and then reappears. It then changes size and shape repeatedly.

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