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A Soldier's Story (1984) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: The film is reversed during a play at second base, evidenced by the mirror-image numbers on the uniforms of the players.
  
  
• Continuity: When Davenport is interviewing Wilkie, the Captain's sunglasses start out on the desk, next to the books. In subsequent shots they are on the top of the hat where they stay until the final shot as Wilkie is leaving the room, when they disappear.
  
  
• Plot holes: When C.J. hits his home run, it has the look of a walk off, game-winning home run, and all the other ballplayers gather around home plate to congratulate him, the White fans start to leave the stands and the Black fans celebrate. However, the Black players' dugout has a "Visitors" sign hanging from it, so the game wouldn't be over after a home run from the visiting team.
  
  

• Plot holes: When C.J. hits his home run, it has the look of a walk off, game-winning home run, and all the other ballplayers gather around home plate to congratulate him, the White fans start to leave the stands and the Black fans celebrate. However, Petersen states that the final score of the game was "nine or ten to nothing."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: There are captain bars on Lt Byrd lapel and helmet when he encounters Sgt. Waters.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Sgt. Waters is shot, we hear the sound of the Army 45 being cocked for the next shot. A semi-automatic pistol cocks itself when the slide comes back after shooting the round in the chamber.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In some of the scenes, characters are being driven around the base or the town. The stop signs are red, but before the late 1950's, stop signs were all yellow.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several soldiers, and Captain Davenport in particular, are frequently shown wearing their hats indoors. Soldiers never wear their hats indoors unless they are under arms or are wearing full dress as part of a ceremony.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Cpl Cobb mixes military and civilian time when he is being deposed by Cpt Davenport. He states a time frame between "between 2120 and 930"; he should have said "between 2120 and 2130".
  
  
• Factual errors: While Wilkie is being questioned by Capt Davenport about the murder of Sgt Waters, he tells the captain that Waters received awards called the FEF and the ETO. There is no award with the abbreviation FEF, and ETO stands for European Theater of Operations, which is a geographical area, not an award.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peterson (Denzel Washington) bunts, the play is shown at second base, where the infielder attempts to tag the runner. Any decent fielder would simply force the runner by stepping on the bag. Also, the result of the play would obviously have Peterson safe at first, but when C.J., the next batter, homers, we see Peterson in the dugout clapping and smiling.
  
  

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