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How the West Was Won (1962) More at IMDbPro »

• Plot holes: There is no explanation of why Sheriff Ramsey is fine in one scene and wearing a bandage on his forehead in the next, immediately following. (there was a deleted or unfilmed scene where Zeb knocked Ramsey out when the Sheriff tried to stop him from going after the train robbers).
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While she is refusing Morgan's proposal, Lilith's shoulder strap is on/off her shoulder between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Tire tracks in the scene where the Indians attack the wagon train.
  
  

• Continuity: Linus Rawlings ('Jimmy Stewart') is depicted as having gray hair. The body of the man they identify as Linus Rawlings to the Civil War surgeon has red hair.
  
  
• Continuity: When Roger Morgan is testing a new whip, he has it in his left hand and then it magically appears in his right hand.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the wagon train on its way to California is attacked by Indians, it is in a mountainous area, yet the Indians are identified as Cheyenne. The Cheyenne tribe was a Great Plains tribe, and would not have been that far west.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Zebulon Prescott sees the rapids on the river, he says they must have taken the wrong fork. But they are are headed downstream. If you are headed downstream and come to a fork, you have no choice which fork to take; you take the one headed downstream. You can only make a choice of which fork to take if you head upstream at some point. In those rafts on that river, they could not have taken the wrong fork.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Linus meets the Prescott family he says he is going up stream to sell is beaver pelts. The Prescott family is going down stream. The pirates are down stream from the Prescott camp. Linus should have passed the pirates when he came upstream. He couldn't happen upon the pirates when he left the Prescott camp.
  
  

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