Column Chronicles: More silly mistakes in serious movies

More silly mistakes in serious movies

Frank Cotolo
August 23, 2018

As I have written before, I consider myself an adept viewer of movies, having won the International Adept Movie Viewer Award for six years straight. Here are some of the mistakes I found in popular movies over the years.

In "Gladiator," Russell Crowe's character fights CGI tigers in an area. If you look closely at one of them as it lunges at Russell, you can see it is cross-eyed.

In Alfred Hitchcock's famous movie "Frenzy," where a serial killer uses neckties to strangle women, a man dressed as Gandhi drives a double-decker bus.

In the original Japanese version of "Godzilla," American actor Raymond Burr weighs 201 pounds in one scene, 213 pounds in another and 287 pounds in his final scene on screen but never changes his suit.

The scene in "Goodfellas" where Ray Liotta's character is hosing the truck of his car to wash out the smell of a dead body, he is wearing a sweater that was two sized too small for him.

John Wayne often looks to his left in the movie "Genghis Khan" because he is distracted by voices he claimed he heard in his head warning him not to look to the right.

Rita Hayworth's bra comes undone while in a scene with Fred Astaire in "You Were Never Lovelier."

While James Bond (Sean Connery) is fighting Odd Job in "Goldfinger," there is a scene where one of the director's sandwiches (lunch meat and cheese in white bread) can be seen resting upon the nuclear device near where Bond is handcuffed.

The last few of the Bowery Boys movies were supposed to take place in New York City but were shot in Peru, which is obvious by the vases on the fireplace.

Clark Gable's double in "Gone With The Wind" was a man who looked nothing like him which is only noticeable in a scene where Rhett Butler kisses Scarlet O'Hara.

In the movie "Baby The Rain Must Fall," Steve MacQueen belches in at least four scenes, none of which were in the script.

During a scene where Gregory Peck is in a rocking chair in "To Kill A Mockingbird," a real mockingbird is perched on the windowsill behind him.

"Shake, Rattle And Roll" is a movie that featured Bill Haley and the Comets, one of the first popular rock and roll bands. However, in one scene, the name on the drumhead reads The Cripples.

The first time Dustin Hoffman's character is intimate with Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," Dustin sleeps on the wrong side of the bed.

In "The Ten Commandments," Charlton Heston accidentally speaks three words in Spanish as Moses during a visit to see the Pharaoh.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.