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• Factual errors: It is impossible to fly a helicopter with both hands on the stick, but Bond may not know this.
  
  
• Continuity: Rapid change from night to day when Bond attacks Kristatos' warehouse with Coulombo's men and then emerges from the tunnel.
  
  
• Errors in geography: James Bond and Melina first meet in a house which is supposed to be in a mountain area near Madrid. There are women wearing bikinis and a swimming pool. In the meantime, some farmers are harvesting olives near there. Olives are harvested in December-January, when temperatures around Madrid are around 5 degrees Celsius.
  
  

• Errors in geography: The ski jump and bobsled run are nowhere near each other in Cortina, Italy, as depicted in the film.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When James Bond and Melina are walking in the streets, some salesman hands them two figs to eat, and Bond says "Parakalo" (which means please or you're welcome) before receiving the figs. He says it after the man gives it to him, which should be followed by him saying "Efharisto" (thank you). The only reason it would make sense for Bond to say "Parakalo" afterwards is if he said it to Melina as a way of inviting her to try a fig, but he says it directly to the salesman.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The camera and crew are visible in the window reflection of the car where Emil Locque is talking on the car phone at the ski jump.
  
  
• Continuity: After Bond has seized control of the helicopter, in the pre-title sequence, at one point he can be seen wearing a set of headphones.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Bond and Melina are chased by cars in the mountains near Madrid, Spain. Yet when one of the pursuing cars falls down a cliff and into a net where olives are being harvested, the farmers can clearly be heard swearing and talking in Italian, not Spanish.
  
  
• Continuity: In the downhill car-chase, the cars pass the same spot several times.
  
  
• Continuity: During the dinner scene at the Casino, Bond closes his menu twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and the countess are being chased on the beach, one of the dune buggies loses its passenger side headlight. Moments later, as Bond foot kicks the gun out of Locque's hand, the headlight that was dangling from the car moments before is now securely back in place.
  
  
• Continuity: As Locque speeds away from the exploding warehouse, Bond shoots two bullet holes in his rear window which disappear and reappear in subsequent shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond races through the ski chase with only one ski pole (the other was damaged by the sniper chasing him). The remaining pole was used to clothesline one of the bikers following him, but he has it again in the later shot when he first approaches the bobsled track.
  
  
• Continuity: The Mercedes-Benz that Locque flees in after blowing up the warehouse is an older model S-Class, which becomes a newer model after it enters the tunnel.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the very end of the film, when the parrot drops the wristwatch in the water you can clearly see the wire that the watch is attached to as it is sinking.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Near the beginning of the movie, when Bond and Melina are chased from the pool party, a near perfect reflection is shown in Melina's window of a crewman holding a yellow pole with equipment on top and wearing a short-sleeved tan shirt and black glasses. A few frames later he waves his hand between the backseat window and the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: After the car is kicked off the cliff, a dummy (representing the character inside) falls out of the car window when it lands. After Bond says his line, we cut back to the car, this time from above. The car is in a different place with the dummy where the car should be.
  
  
• Continuity: As Bond climbs up through the forest to the pool party, the guard is distracted by a woman with long curly brunette hair and a red flower over her right ear; she is wearing a blue bikini and a long cover-up. After Bond passes her and the guard and proceeds up the hill to spy on the pool party, this same woman is now seen dancing at the party in the first shot seen through Bond's binoculars; she could not be in both places at once.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The third time the ATAC officer reaches for the destruct switch, his thumb catches the destruct charge and flips it up about an inch, despite the fact that it's supposed to be fastened by a very strong magnet.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "umbrella escape" from Gonzalez's Place, a bullet hole appears in the umbrella before the guard fires at it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Again at the baccarat game, Bond has the same cards for both the first and second hand; the queen of spades and the five of diamonds. While this is, strictly speaking, not impossible (several packs are mixed together to fill the shoe from which the cards are dealt) it is blindingly unlikely, and the fact that these cards are initially erroneously described as giving a count of nine (court cards and tens count nothing in baccarat, while number cards count for their respective number of pips) makes it far more probable that the close-ups of Bond's cards are in fact both taken from the second hand played.
  
  
• Continuity: When the mountaintop monastery guard is struck by Bond's piton, the blade enters his chest dead center, a few inches below the adam's apple. Yet when the body lands on the ground, the blade has moved to the man's left shoulder.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the car chase after the Gonzalez assassination, when the first thug's car tumbles off the road, a man in blue can be seen standing among the trees as the car passes in front of him.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bond and Melina are to do the deep dive Bond mentions that they must use a mixture of helium and oxygen but when they communicate through the helmet radios there voices sound normal not high pitched like it should be.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Lisl was hit by the dune buggy in the beach scene. As Bond takes her hand acknowledging that she's dead, her eyes flinch as he kicks up some sand into them.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lisl is hit by the dune buggy on the beach, the windshield breaks. When the dune buggy stops, the windshield is not broken.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gonzales is killed by the arrow, the angle of it does not correspond to the perceived trajectory in which the arrow came from.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and Melina are dragged under water behind Kristatos' yacht, in one shot Melina's swimming suit has slipped down showing her naked bum. In the next shot it is back in place while her hands are still tied so she couldn't have done it herself.
  
  
• Continuity: During the downhill chase when one of the Peugeot 504s begins to bump into Bond's 2CV, We see a close-up of the driver and there are no vehicles visible on the road behind him. In the following shot when Bond is pushed off the road the second Peugeot is almost directly behind him.
  
  
• Continuity: In On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Blofeld was paralyzed. In Diamonds Are Forever (1971), he was inexplicably no longer paralyzed and could walk fine. Now, in this film, when he appears, he is paralyzed again.
  
  
• Continuity: After Erich Kriegler drives through the barn and crashes the front tire, the bike is clearly OK. A second later, when he picks it up and throws it after Bond the tire is completely twisted.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Bond is flying though a building, the pole the Jet Ranger helicopter is supported on is clearly visible, certainly in the new DVD release aspect ratio.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bond says the ATAC charge is a "transmitter with a thermite charge" - Thermite is an incendiary weapon, and not an explosive charge that would blow a hole through the diving suit of Kristatos' henchman as it did.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and Melina exit the sub, the beam in their flashlights is red. When they get into the sunken St Georges (another set) the beams are clear (white). When they return to the sub, a brief view of the flashlight beam as the light falls to the ocean floor again looks red.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the opening sequence after the man in the wheelchair, presumably Blofeld, kills the pilot, the helicopter goes into a brief nosedive. But the sound effect that accompanies this dive is that of an airplane going down, not a helicopter.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When James leaves the sunken ship after escaping from the attacker, you can see that his dive helmet suddenly has an inner black mask attached, covering his mouth and nose. It's a stunt diver. (Those dive helmets usually have an inner mask preventing CO2 poisoning - but obviously you wouldn't have been able to see the actor's faces then)
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is climbing up the rock towards St. Cyril's, he anchors his rope to a spring-loaded camming device, and subsequently drives pitons into the rock as he goes. When the henchman has dislodged all the pitons so that Bond is swinging from one final anchor - the first one he placed - that anchor has changed from a spring-loaded camming device to a piton.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The number plate of one of the vehicles in the "Madrid" scene ends with a single A. The other one has just numbers and no letters (apart from the M, standing for Madrid). These are very old number plates for 1981 Madrid cars (at least, 15-20 years old) and the looks of both cars are way too new to accept they had such numbers. Most likely, they would have plates ending in two letters (in 1981 the plate letter series had gone already as far as EP).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Bond kills the man on the cliff and he falls to his death, the camera shows the anchor pulling out of the cliff. It is obviously stop motion photography because rocks disappear and shadows move very jumpily.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Colombo calls St. Cyril's an abandoned monastery, yet it has a modern helicopter pad. He says Kristatos has made it his personal retreat. Obviously it has had electrical power, the basket winch and helipad installed when the villain converted it to his fortress home, along with bringing in items such as a gym for Bibi.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond's/Columbo's infiltration team surprises the dorm full of off-duty guards at St Cyril's, a blond man seen briefly rising from a bed on the left is the same guard the team already dealt with on duty outside - he was last seen tied up and gagged after being shot with an arrow, then knocked unconscious in the basket room a few minutes earlier.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Melina removes her scuba helmet after diving for the device, there is a release in pressure. Her air tube had already been punctured by the bad guy, so the pressure was already released and therefore no sound should have been emitted.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Sir Timothy Havelock is referred to (by people who should know better) as "Sir Havelock" instead of "Sir Timothy".
  
  
• Continuity: When Gonzales gets hit with the arrow, this scene is filled with errors. First of all, when he hits the surface of the water, it plays the sound effect of him getting hit by the arrow, but there is no arrow in his back. It cuts to the next shot, and not only is the arrow in his back (in the wrong spot nonetheless), but there is also dried blood. If he just got hit, it makes no sense for there to be dried blood already, especially underwater.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the chase scene, Melina's driver's side mirror gets blown out. Soon after, it looks like Melina is looking attentively at her driver's side mirror, even though it has been blown out.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the car chase, Bond says "Take the low road." Melina's car gets flipped over, with Bond and Melina inside, Bond says something like "not THAT low." However, his mouth keeps moving as if he is saying something else, but no words are coming out.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount and placement of damage to Melina's car changes many times during the chase scene. For example, at one point, the entire front hood of the car is smashed in pretty bad, but near the end, the front of the car is only mildly damaged.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Bond and Luigi are walking along, discussing Columbo. Luigi says something like "He runs a fleet of inter-coastal freighters in the Aegean" but his mouth is not even moving.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond tells Bibi to get her clothes on. He peeks out into the hallway for a few seconds. He turns around, and Bibi is fully dressed already.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kriegler picks up the bike over his head and throws it towards Bond, it is all in one piece. When the bike lands, it is missing a wheel. A few seconds later, the wheel is thrown separately.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight in the ice rink, one of the hockey players tries to kick Bond with his blade. He puts his foot through the wall. When it cuts to the next scene, there is no damage to the wall in that spot.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the fight in the hockey rink, Bond climbs into the Zamboni and "hits" the last hockey player. These machines are very slow, and don't get powered up very quickly. When you look closely at the footage, it seems more like the hockey player literally skates head-on into the Zamboni on purpose.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is standing under the arch, and shooting at Locque's vehicle, he fires one shot. A bullet comes out and hits the windshield. A second later, another bullet hits the windshield, but there was no sound of a second bullet being fired from Bond's gun.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and the diver are fighting over the ATAC, Bond is holding onto it with his left hand. The diver sends Bond crashing through a glass window, and it cuts to the next shot. Bond is now holding onto it with his right hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond and the diver are fighting over the ATAC. Bond gets pinned underneath some type of machine. The diver reaches down and cuts Bond's elbow with his claw. If you look closely, Bond's elbow is already cut and bleeding before the claw even makes contact.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond reaches the top of the cliff and the man "kicks" Bond in the face, it doesn't even come close to making contact, yet, Bond reacts as if it connected.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Melina pulls the arrow out of the chest of Kristato's henchman, it comes out a little too easily.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lisl is struck and killed by the dune buggy, she collapses and her dress flips up, exposing her bikini bottom. The dress covers her bikini when Bond finds her moments later.
  
  

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