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• Continuity: The man who leads the assault on the control room and gets killed can be seen alive later entering the submarine. When James Bond is captured and brought to the control room, the guard behind James is clearly one of the scientists from the beginning who are killed in the helicopter.
  
  
• Continuity: The dirt on Major Amasova's dress suddenly appears in the middle of the scene by the ruins in Egypt.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The ruins where Jaws tries to kill Bond are actually from two different locations on opposite sides of the Nile.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: In the car chase scene with the white Lotus (just before it runs into the ocean and transforms into a sub) the helicopter can be seen firing its machine guns directly into the ground, but there are no impact plumes or sound effects as in previous scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: Just as Bond is about to get up from his seat to follow Fekkesh, a jump cut makes several members of the audience change position.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the boat blasts out of Stromberg's hideout and lands in the water, dummies are clearly visible riding in it. It is obviously a small miniature, also.
  
  
• Factual errors: During one scene Bond honks the horn on his white Lotus before passing a truck on the cliff side road. Bond presses the center of the steering wheel when the Lotus horn is actually the lever on the left of the steering wheel.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the Lotus Esprit drives off the pier and enters the water, we glimpse the exposed underbody of a normal car. After it enters the sea the underbody is sealed (as any good submarine car should be).
  
  
• Continuity: In the underwater sequence, right before Bond fires a torpedo on a diver, he steers left, but the sub turns right (although this could conceivably be an idiosyncrasy of the sub's design).
  
  
• Errors in geography: When James Bond first arrives by boat in Sardinia, we can see some donkey carts. These carts are modeled upon those used in Sicily; they are not used in Sardinia.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Bahamian fish in the Sardinian sea.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: It's obviously a joke, but... as Bond drives his Lotus Esprit out of the sea, he hands a fish to a person on the beach. If there was a hole large enough to allow a fish to enter the car/submarine, they would surely have drowned, or at least got very wet (although a leak did occur in the roof of the car just before it emerged from the water).
  
  
• Continuity: Jaws's position under the magnet changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: On the train, the wine spill on Jaws's jacket disappears in one shot and is inconsistently dry in others.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Wires can be seen holding Jaws to the magnet.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening sequence showing the English sub surfacing before the credits, there are bubbles coming from beneath the model submarine.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: There is very little down draft from the copter disturbing the water as it hovers above the Lotus/sub.
  
  
• Continuity: In the initial chase where Bond is being pursued by Anya's KGB-agent boyfriend, the boyfriend is wearing ski goggles when he starts the chase. However, after Bond shoots a round into his chest from the ski pole and he falls, his goggles are off.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When 007 returns to Atlantis to rescue Anya; after he first arrives on the dock, he is asked by Stromberg to board an elevator. As the elevator starts upward, for a split second a member of the crew appears to be walking on a walkway behind the open metal shutters to the left of the elevator shaft. And a split second later his shadow is visible.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As the Liparus is exploding around them, the captain of the American submarine gives the order to load the torpedo tube with a Mark-46 torpedo when he should have said "Mark-48". The Mark-46 is about 10 feet shorter than the torpedo seen being launched in the film.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bond's trusty Walther PPK is a "double action/single action" pistol. The first shot cocks the hammer automatically for the second and subsequent shots. When Bond shoots the bad guy through a tube under the table, he fires two consecutive shots, both double action.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond first looks for Fekkesh, he enters his house with a buttoned jacket. He is met by a woman. Bond then looks away, the camera catches him from behind. When Bond turns around, his jacket is unbuttoned. We never see him unbuttoning it.
  
  
• Factual errors: On Major Anya Amasova's shoulder rank boards there is a star and a single red stripe in the middle. The rank board of a Soviet Army Major is supposed to have a star between two stripes running along the length of the board.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): XXX has already stolen the blueprints for the Lotus Sub/car, but does not recognize the actual car until Bond jumps it off the dock.
  
  
• Continuity: As Bond and Triple X are rising to the surface in Stromberg's escape pod, the pod is shown with a long appendage extending down from the bottom of the craft. When the British surface ship opens it's stern door the pod floats into the cargo hold upright which it could not do with that appendage.
  
  
• Continuity: The Lotus goes underwater, and "transforms" into a submarine. The bottom of the car changes without explanation. The tires get pulled in, they are each replaced by a completely flat white panel. It cuts to another shot where the panels are not flat at all, but have retractable "fins." It also becomes clear there would not have been room enough for both the tires and the retractable fins in the same wheel well.
  
  
• Factual errors: As the end credits roll out, it says that the next Bond movie will be For Your Eyes Only. The next Bond movie that came out was actually Moonraker (1979).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is in the desert in Egypt, there's one scene when he peeks around the corner, and you can see he is not moving, revealing that it is a still image super-imposed onto the screen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: There's a scene in the phone booth area, where Jaws supposedly bites a man to death. If you look closely, Jaws does not even bite the man. He makes the motion like he's about to bite him, but the man faints before he gets the chance. He doesn't break skin or draw blood or anything. Yet, the man dies from being "bitten" by Jaws.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the Lotus car is underwater, the license plates on the front and rear are different colors. However, the majority of UK cars have a white front plate and a yellow rear plate.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the ski chase at the beginning, right before James Bond goes over the cliff, the long shot shows a gentle slope to the edge. Then the closeup scene cuts to a steep dropoff which wasn't seen in the long shot. In addition, as he skis down to the edge you can see ski tracks which are obviously from previous takes.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Barbara Bach's phony Russian accent slips several times in the movie. At one point, she yells "Don't move!" and it sounds clearly very American.
  
  
• Continuity: When major Amasova enters the bar in Cairo, the slit on her dress shows her thighs. When she and Bond are stalking Jaws in the ruins, the dress is clearly longer.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bond and Amasova are on the speed boat going to see Stromberg, the underwater lair is super-imposed on the horizon, rather than midway. This would make the lair 50 miles high.
  
  
• Errors in geography: On the globe in the control room of the Liparus, both submarines as well as the Liparus are shown being in the Atlantic ocean. Stromberg and Anya could never have made it to "Atlantis" (which is supposed to be somewhere near Sardinia) in time, using the small escape vessel.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the opening credits, the last girl who is doing flips supposedly on the end of the gun barrel pulls down the actual bar during rotation to the point where it shows under the gun barrel (blue; during director credit).
  
  
• Factual errors: When the two nuclear submarines are programmed to destroy each other, it has blips of the missiles being launched on the globe map. They travel a curved path on the map. If these missiles were traveling the shortest path, then they would appear to travel a straight line on the map, otherwise if this was the path of travel then they would be going thousands of miles out of the way and wasting tons of fuel. This is most likely because the blips on the map are incorrectly represented as if from a side-view perspective rather than an overhead perspective.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bond and Jaws are fighting on the train, he breaks a lamp, and uses the live wires to "electrocute" Jaws. Since Bond and Jaws are struggling and their bodies are making contact, Bond would get shocked equally as much as Jaws does.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: In the end, when Bond shoots Stromberg there is no flash from the gun.
  
  

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