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Live and Let Die (1973) More at IMDbPro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Quarrel was killed in Dr. No (1962), which is why Bond refers to "Quarrel Junior."
  
  
• Continuity: After Whisper shoots Bond's driver with the side-view mirror dart, Bond takes the wheel from the back seat. We see and hear the rear-view mirror on Bond's car get broken off. In the next shot of the car head-on, after Bond swerves by the Blue Cadillac, the rear-view mirror is intact.
  
  
• Continuity: When bond makes M a cup of coffee the coffee grinder is alternately empty/full between shots.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: The whole crew and spectators are reflected in the cab's window when Bond leaves the Voodoo shop.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The wake from one of the camera boats is visible in one of the boat chase scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: While Bond is in the taxi cab, asking the driver to go uptown (into Harlem), we see a hill through the rear window. In the next shot, the land is flat.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene, the voodoo priest is carrying a green snake with the snake's mouth agape, and he is holding it about 15cm from the head when the scene is on the priest. However, on the close-ups of the man tied to the stake, the priest is holding the snake right behind the head, as one might do with a poisonous snake.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Visible ramp built onto steps of building in NYC when taxicab goes up steps and then onto trash cans.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the U.N., the U.K. is shown seated next to Honduras, but countries are actually seated in alphabetical order.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Tee Hee bends the barrel of Bond's Walther PPK, a close-up reveals that the gun barrel has been pre-cut.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tee Hee is feeding the alligators, his wrist moves on the prosthetic arm. Later, in the train fight, his whole arm is revealed when his sleeve rips, and the arm has no wrist joint.
  
  
• Continuity: During the boat chase, a shot of James' second boat (gold, inboard motor) is mixed in with the first boat (orange, outboard motor).
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is en route to NY and his driver is killed the car swerves into the left lane. The next shot shows Bond telling the driver to "take it easy", but the scenery behind Bond (through back window of the car) still shows them as being in the center lane.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time we see Kananga's limousine parked outside the Fillet of Soul restaurant in Harlem, the driver's side window is rolled down. In the second shot of it, the window is rolled up.
  
  
• Continuity: When James Bond gives Mrs. Bell her "flying" lesson, the wings are torn off the plane. Yet when he asks her "Same time tomorrow?", the reaction shot of Mrs. Bell shows an intact left wing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is seated in his chair, two metal cuffs snap down on his wrists. However, the left cuff has failed to connect to the other side of the chair, as would be necessary to constrain Bond's left arm.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond fans out the tarot cards and tells Solitaire to pick one, the deck is perfectly fanned and there appear to be at least fifty cards in the deck, however as she takes a card, the deck in Bond's hand is now haphazardly arranged and there clearly aren't more than fifteen or twenty cards.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When being chased by road by the police etc, when the police cars crash, the stuntman wearing a helmet can clearly be seen behind the steering wheel.
  
  
• Continuity: After Bond burns the snake with the cigar and aftershave, he puts the cigar down and coolly applies the aftershave. Then he hears a noise, and leaves the bathroom without picking up the cigar. Shortly after, the cigar is in his hand again and he uses it to he burn the mystery hand with the gun.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is in the cab, one shot shows him heading towards the Manhattan Bridge. The following shot shows him past the Manhattan Bridge heading towards the Brooklyn Bridge. In the next shot, he is headed towards the Manhattan Bridge again.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Adam is shown speeding across the Louisiana state line on solid land which appears to be adjacent to a levee. This would suggest that the alligator farm is in Mississippi east of Louisiana. So in order to cross the state line, Adam would have had to cross a bridge.
  
  
• Continuity: Sheriff Pepper commandeers a Louisiana State Patrol Chevrolet Impala with old-style cylindrical roof lights, at the scene where his own car is destroyed by a boat. But when he arrives at the State Police road-block, he and the Troopers who drive him arrive in an Impala with more contemporary roof-lights. One of the other cars already at the road-block when they arrive appears to be the car they supposedly used to drive to the roadblock.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the taxi driver picks Bond up in New Orleans, his dialog and his lip movements don't match.
  
  
• Continuity: When the real Baron Samedi rises up from underground, the snake handler is shown among the crowd of people witnessing the "vision". He had supposedly been killed by Bond before he shot at the robot Baron Samedi.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Bond's cab driver gets killed, you can see him still driving the vehicle quite well after he is supposedly "dead" because you can clearly see him controlling the steering wheel and the gas pedal.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In order for Tee Hee to be able to break the gun, he would need to have quite a bit of strength in both his claw and his real hand equally, otherwise the gun would just slip out of his hand when he tried to bend it.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): It is totally unnecessary for Bond to kill the snake in his hotel room, as it is a non-poisonous species, not to mention the fact that the snake is far enough away when he sees is that Bond can just as easily avoid it rather than kill it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Bond destroys the fake Baron Samedi and rescues Solitaire, a man rushes towards him with a machete. Bond shoots him twice. There are two errors. The man's shoulder is already covered in Blood before Bond shoots him, and also, the second shot Bond fires appears to not hit the man, yet the man goes flying backwards as if he is shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kananga shoots the couch Whisper is sitting on with the gas pellets, the couch begins to inflate. Whisper literally disappears completely off screen when the couch explodes, and then instantly re-appears a second afterward as if he never left the couch.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kananga is slashing Bond's wrists, it appears the blood is actually on the knife and he is "painting" it onto Bond's arm.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles meet in the wild is in the Everglades of Florida, where salt and fresh water meet in estuaries. But Tee Hee's Louisiana crocodile farm is not in the wild, it is where captive crocodiles have been bred by humans.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Rosie Carver pulls a revolver on Quarrel Jr., who then points out that she couldn't have shot him anyhow because the safety catch was still on. Revolvers do not have safety catches.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bond claims the magnetic watch will "deflect bullets," though bullets are generally copper over lead, and thus nonmagnetic. It's doubtful that any magnetic field would deflect a steel jacketed or steel cored armor piercing military bullet.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the opening scene, a British agent supposedly gets killed by a snake. The snake is a Boa Canin constrictor which has neither fangs nor venom, and never actually bites him. In fact, the man appears to be alive and still breathing as the opening credits roll out. Perhaps the agent was killed later on in a different way, unseen by us.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): There are no poisonous snakes in Baron Samedi's casket. The snakes are mostly pythons and tree boas, all non-venomous. That explains how Baron Samedi is alive later in the movie.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Bond and Solitaire go underground via the grave, the guards they avoid can be heard to be running on a manufactured floor (perhaps tiled or vinyl). There is no floor in the cave at that point, just rough rock.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The final action scenes supposedly take place around midnight, yet in the background of the boat scenes, daylight is clearly noticeable, revealing the crew simply shot these scenes "day for night."
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When making the coffee for M, Bond puts the milk in the coffee and then puts the steam into the coffee, demonstrating that neither he nor anyone involved in the scene had the faintest idea how to use the machine.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Crew member reflection against window just before Bond throws Tee-Hee off the train.
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: Although the set piece where Bond tails Kananga's car from the voodoo shop in a taxi is an iconic movie moment, it actually makes no sense on two levels. Firstly, the men tailing him establish at the outset that "he's tailing", so they know that Bond is going wherever Kananga does. Secondly, Bond's taxi driver is one of Mr. Big's men - so also knows the destination. What is the point in having all of the other cars involved if everyone already knows where Bond is going, outside of the plot twist of disguising the fact that one of the tails is actually Felix's man?
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: As Solitaire is lying in bed on the train, a quick cut to a close-up shows Tee-Hee using his mechanical claw hand to short out an electrical box; a quick cut back to Solitaire shows the lights go off in the train berth that she and Bond occupy and the room is now quite dark. Seconds later, however, when Bond exits the bathroom and sees Tee-Hee (and during the ensuing fight), the room is now brightly lit again - the electric lights can even be seen burning brightly in the bathroom in several shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Obvious inflatable dummy during Kananga's death scene.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the fight scene on the train between Bond and Tee-Hee, the window breaks. But Bond eventually throws Tee-Hee out of the window, then raises the glass which is mysteriously intact.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: Kananga swallows the gas pellet, which is made of metal, and has compressed gas inside. In order for the compressed gas from the pellet to escape into Kananga's body, he would literally have to digest the metal casing. This would not be possible, and definitely would not be instant like in the movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: Since Tee Hee's claw is made of metal, and therefore conducts electricity, it should give him a nasty electric shock when he cuts the electrical wires on the train.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Kananga/Big is killed by the gas pellet, we see the scraps of his clothing falling around the room, but none of the blood, bones or guts/organs that should be there as well.
  
  

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