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From Here to Eternity (1953) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The impromptu bugle solo in the club is obviously a trumpet solo dubbed into the scene. There's no way a valve-less bugle could achieve the range of notes heard in that solo.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bar fight scene between Fatso and Maggio, Sgt. Warden breaks a bottle to use as a weapon to threaten "Fatso" and to stop the fight. Eventually he throws the bottle, apparently outside through an off stage, unseen door (he throws the broken bottle across the room). Later, the smashed bottle is visible on the table in a close-up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sergeant Warden walks over with Private Prewitt to the Supply store, we first see Corporal Leva with his hand at his ear. In the next shot, his hand is down on the table.
  
  

• Continuity: When Private Maggio is dressing and using the talcum powder, he's holding it with his right hand after the last soldiers leave and then powders his left arm. In the next shot immediately after, he's placing it on a shelf in his locker with his left hand.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When 1st Sgt. Milton Warden is walking Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt over to Supply, the shadow of the boom mic can be seen on Prewitt's blouse.
  
  
• Continuity: During Sgt. Warden's visit (pretending to look for Capt. Holmes), Karen tells him that she will phone her husband and walks to the dining room. When she stands in the doorway, we see two chairs inside, on the left. In the next shot, they both enter the room and the chairs are not there.
  
  
• Continuity: Inside the dining room, Sgt. Warden puts some rolled up sheets of paper on the table. When Karen picks them up, they are unrolled.
  
  
• Continuity: When policing the grounds on his hands and knees, the box/can is inconsistently placed.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Warden and Prewitt walk across the street from G Co.'s orderly room to the supply room, the tire tracks of the moving camera dolly can be seen in the street to their right (screen left).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the soldiers go pick up Prewitt's dead body, his stomach can be seen rising from diaphragm breathing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When we are shown a news item about Sgt Judson's murder, the last paragraph in the article bears no relation to the incident.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the close-ups of the newspaper articles about the search for Sgt. Judson's murderer, read by Warden and Lorene, it's obvious that that story has been pasted over a real newspaper article and that everything after the lead paragraph is taken from an altogether different article, since after the first paragraph none of the text has anything to do with the Judson story, and even the typeface is entirely different.
  
  
• Errors in geography: At the beginning of the scene where Pruitt stabs Fatso, we can see Fatso's breath in the evening air. This would not be possible in Honolulu because it doesn't get cold enough there.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Capt. Holmes is being upbraided for misconduct by his senior officers, one of them calls him, "General", a mistake no military man would make.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Prewitt dies, his face turns to his left-hand side. Later his face appears turned to the right.
  
  

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