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Quigley Down Under (1990) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: In the distant shot of Quigley tying his bandana around his wounded leg, the sun is just about to set behind a hill. Just before and after that shot, the shadow of his hat falling on his face and shoulders shows that the sun is high overhead.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the close-ups with the sun overhead, and the shadow of his hat falling on his face and shoulders, there is a second shadow of the brim of the hat on his forehead, revealing the presence of another light source.
  
  
• Factual errors: While the rifle used by Quigley fires a supersonic round, it decelerates quickly. At ranges less than 300-400 yards, the bullet would arrive sooner than the "bang", but only by a fraction of a second. At ranges greater than this, the sound of the shot would arrive before the bullet. Thus, there would never be a point where the sound of the shot would follow the bullet by several seconds.
  
  

• Continuity: When Quigley kills the man after they were dumped in the desert, there is a drastic difference between the shadow on the dead man's face between before Quigley shoots and after he shoots.
  
  
• Continuity: While the dingos are advancing on Cora and the baby in the cave, she is reloading the revolver and without any help from her the right shoulder strap on her blouse keeps falling down than reappearing on her shoulder in the proper place.
  
  
• Factual errors: Quigley and Crazy Cora are taken to a camp by the native Aboriginal people. There they chant and play a Didgeridoo. In this part of Australia, Western and Central there are no didgeridoos. The Yirdaki and Mago Didgeridoo are endemic to only Arnhem Land. In the Western part they use Mago, in the North East part they use Yirdaki. This is at the very northern part of Australia, in a small delimited area. When this scene was cited to have taken place none of the the central and western Aboriginal Australians, namely in the desert, used a Didgeridoo in playing music. Only in later times has it spread more though out Australia.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Quigley shoots the bad guy at long range (after he and Cora are dumped in the desert) he goes to cut the rope that has an unconscious Cora hog tied. As he cut's the rope, Cora falls back to the ground. Actually you'll notice that the knife slips from under the rope and the rope is not really cut.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When sailing south, the boat rises on a wave and reveals a bow thruster, not in common use on sailing vessels of that size until the 1980s. Not even invented until the late 1960s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the opening credits the sailing ship has a propeller wake.
  
  
• Factual errors: When people are hit by the .45-110 rounds from Matthew Quigley's (Tom Selleck) Sharps 1874, they are shown to be knocked off their feet and thrown through the air. While this is a popular effect in films, it has been proven a bullet is incapable of sending people airborne on impact, as the density/mass ratio isn't significant enough. The round would need to be traveling at the speed of light (which no current round is capable of even today) or need to be as heavy or heavier than the individual it is hitting.
  
  

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