Goofs for
The Young Lions (1958) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: After Whiteacre and Ackerman help Crowley across the canal, the next scene shows a long line of German soldiers and civilians seeming to flee. At one point, in the foreground, the license plate of an overturned car can be read: 769 S77. This number (which is to be read 769 S 77) is in a format that was introduced in France in 1950, the number itself was issued in 1951, 7 years later.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Noah meets Hope's father a shadow of the moving camera and operator can be seen on the church steps as they walk away from the graveyard.
  
  
• Continuity: In the desert ambush at sunrise scene the shadows cast change directions often, and rarely correspond to the plot point of the sun rising behind the Germans.
  
  

• Continuity: The same footage of the British camp in North Africa is used three times while the Germans await the sunrise.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Diestl's gun changes as he kneels directing the machine gun fire.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Hope visits Noah in the Stockade the sign says "Visiting Time limited to 10 minutes", yet Noah is told that his time is up after 3 minutes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Diestl visits Hardenburg at the Hospital the background changes as he walks into the room: a screen appears behind him after he enters the room and stops.
  
  
• Factual errors: The opening title states it's New Year's Eve 1938 in Bavaria, yet at the stroke of 12, the baby comes out with a sash that says 1938 - when it should read 1939.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the conference of German officers in the desert, the senior German officer says that they were expecting a frontal attack from the Allies at any time. From the following stock footage it is apparent that they are referring to EL Alamein. However, the Germans were completely unaware of Allied plans and were taken completely by surprise.
  
  

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