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Cool Hand Luke (1967) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After Luke cuts his chains with the axe, he ties the chains to his ankles with a strip off his trousers. He ties his left ankle but not his right, yet as he gets up and runs away both are tied on.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carr gives his famous "Night in the box" speech, just after he tells Luke he hopes he won't be any trouble, he drops the spoons with a clattering sound. In that instant, the camera cuts from a close-up to a long shot, and the cigar stump clenched in his mouth is suddenly now in his left hand.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Walking Boss shoots the snake, it appears to be a western diamondback rattler. This species is not found in the deep south where the film takes place.
  
  

• Factual errors: At one point in the movie a "white on red" stop sign is shown. At that point in history stop signs were "black on yellow."
  
  
• Continuity: While Luke's mother is smoking a cigarette, it gets smaller when the camera switches angles.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Luke enters the church to have his talk with God, he looks toward the church which is silhouetted against the late afternoon sky. In the next shot when he starts walking toward the church, it is dark.
  
  
• Continuity: During scene when Luke is cutting chains from ankles, he throws the axe off to his left. When one of the trackers arrives, the axe head is resting on the stump with the axe handle off to the right.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight scene with Dragline Luke is knocked down into the dirt many times and is covered with black soil by the end. When the long shot shows Dragline walking away towards the barracks Luke has suddenly lost most of the black soil that was covering his sweat-soaked body.
  
  
• Continuity: During the road tarring scene, the "boss" is walking in the midst of the crew shoveling sand in the close ups (he even gets sand on his shoes, which he inexplicably, doesn't punish), yet long view shots has him walking well, well behind the road crews' working area.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Just before Luke is shot in the church window, a squib goes off so that Luke is bleeding before the bullet hits him. Also, the glass in the window is blown outward even though Luke is being shot from the outside.
  
  

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