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Seven Days in May (1964) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Paul Girard visits Admiral Barnswell on his ship at Gibraltar, he arrives in full daylight and demands the admiral's statement immediately. When he returns to shore it is fully dark. Since his business is urgent, this must not be long after sunset, and hence in Washington it should still be afternoon. Yet at the same time, Ellie is cooking dinner there.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Senator Clark returns to Dulles Airport, he asks Col. Henderson for a dime to call in to the White House. The phone in the booth he goes into is a paging phone, not a public phone with coin slots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the President sits down waiting for General Scott to enter his office, he does not have his hand to his chin, but in the next shot, he does.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: When the President walks into his bedroom, the camera pulls back and its shadow is seen on the wall to the left.
  
  
• Continuity: During the dance, an extra is dancing with a black-haired woman, but moments later he's dancing with a blonde.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the meeting convened by the President in which Colonel Casey, Senator Clark and others are arguing whether or not the plot is real, the pictures on the right end of the mantel in front of which Colonel Casey is standing change several times.
  
  
• Continuity: Paul Gerard arrives at the aircraft carrier and is greeted by sailors in "winter blue" uniforms, but when he leaves that evening everyone is wearing "summer whites".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One of the peace picketers' signs says "Tank God for Lyman and the Treaty" instead of the intended "Thank God for...."
  
  
• Errors in geography: Jiggs and Senator Clark are at Dulles Airport in Virginia. Jiggs leaves the airport and there are palm trees outside. It looks like the outside of LAX, not Dulles. In the next scene, they are in downtown Washington, D.C. with the Capitol Dome clearly visible.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Pres. Lyman tells Gen. Scott "All you have to do is wait a year and nine months for something called an election", he has the time frame wrong. One year and nine months from May 1970 would be February 1972. He should have said "Wait 2 years and six months", which would have placed it in November 1972, the correct month.
  
  
• Factual errors: Set in 1970, the flashing clock outside the Joint Chiefs office displays "MAY 18" and "SUN". May 18, 1970 was a Monday.
  
  
• Factual errors: Site Y appears to be staffed by units of US Army Special Forces. The patch worn on the Green Beret is known as a flash, which is in the shape of a shield, and identifies the individual Special Forces Group. It is mistakenly worn upside down in the film. All Special Forces officers in the movie are wearing the Special Forces Crest on their flashes. Only enlisted personnel wear the crest on the flash, officers wear their rank.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the introduction of General Scott at a military veterans' convention, the speaker tells the crowd that the general holds the Medal of Honor. However, there is no MOH among the ribbons on Scott's uniform.
  
  
• Factual errors: They enlisted men at "Site Y" wear uniforms with a "U. S. Air Force" tag over the left shirt pocket but wear U. S. Army rank insignia.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the teleconference between President Lyman and Air Force General Barney Rutkowski, the fighter plane model on the general's desk is a Navy Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a type which was never in the Air Force inventory.
  
  
• Factual errors: The sign for the Preakness horse race seen in Dulles International Airport gives the date as May 18th. The actual Sunday date would be the 17th.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At one point General Scott refers to Admiral Barnswell as Admiral Palmer.
  
  

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