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In the Line of Fire (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Orientation of the bullets hidden by Leary in his keyring.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The light bulbs in the elevator blow out before Leary hits them
  
  
• Continuity: Mitch's arms when he is lying dead.
  
  

• Continuity: When Horrigan breaks into Leary's house, he breaks out the top window but he climbs into the bottom pane of the window.
  
  
• Continuity: When they first meet in the White House, when Watts leaves the room, John Mahoney crosses his legs; the shot changes and he crosses them again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Horrigan breaks into Leary's house, he punches the window glass and some of the glass falls inside the house. When he climbs through the window, there is no glass on the floor.
  
  
• Factual errors: Lilly's gown during the party scene would be inappropriate for a female Secret Service agent, as it would prevent her from performing her duties should there be an attempt on the President's life. In those situations female agents instead wear dress pants and more practical shoes. (With the gown, there is also the problem of where to hide the service weapon.)
  
  
• Continuity: The pay phone has the off-hook sound when Frank goes down to look for Leary after hearing the fire truck in the phone, but Leary and Frank should still be on a live line.
  
  
• Continuity: Position of the dog's leash (in the bank clerk's home)
  
  
• Continuity: The paramedics, who rush to Frank Horrigan because of a report that he had a heart attack, never leave the office after it's discovered that it was a joke, yet they disappear.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Horrigan jumps across a roof, the harness and karabiner holding him to the wall are clearly visible several times.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Mitch bangs his head on the door frame as he leaves the house after killing the women.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Horrigan is hanging from the ledge, the cut in the pipe can be seen before it breaks off.
  
  
• Continuity: When Frank and Lilly are disrobing on their way to the bed, you see all of their gear fall to the ground piece by piece and then their clothing. Lilly turns out the lamp, wearing pants, then lies down wearing a slip.
  
  
• Continuity: Frank discovers that "Skellum" is a phone number, equivalent to 753-5586. However, when he dials it (on the pay phone at the airport), the last 2 digits he dials are 9 and 6.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final elevator scene, Frank's earpiece disappears and reappears several times.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Frank and Al are meeting the counterfeiter early in the film, two conversations (Al mentions dropping his child off at school, and the counterfeiter asks Frank if he'd like to get an omelette) suggest that the scene takes place in the morning. Behind the sailboat looks to be the ocean, and since the film takes place in Washington, DC we can assume this is the Atlantic. But the sun seems to be setting from the other direction, which would be the west, which would suggest afternoon, not morning.
  
  
• Continuity: When the agent is checking the pack of photos against guests arriving for the dinner, Mitch's photo is a single frame. He then looks at Mitch, doesn't recognize him, and shuffles the now two-frame photo to the bottom of the pack.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Mitch Leary assembles his composite-based gun at the Presidential Dinner, it is obvious that the thumbscrew is a painted metallic piece that would have been caught in the metal detector as he entered the event.
  
  
• Continuity: Frank and Lilly eat ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the late afternoon. The east-facing steps are shown to be completely in shadow in long shots from the front and rear, but in close-ups their faces appear to be sunlit.
  
  
• Continuity: After Lily steps away from Frank as he's playing piano, she walks across the room, exits the bar, then crosses the lobby to elevators. All the while Frank's piano playing continues. Once it stops, he clears the same distance in less then three seconds.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where Leary goes through security screening before entering the dinner, his keys (with the rabbit's foot containing the bullets) are shown to set off the metal detector. The keys are placed in an ashtray while Leary walks through again, and he then collects them on the other side. In reality, the Secret Service sends such items through scanning devices to check for weapons.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where the Secret Service counter-snipers attempt to get a site on Leary, it is reported that it is too dark for them to see inside the elevator. Secret Service counter-snipers are equipped with night-vision goggles to allow them to see targets through darkness.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the airport as Air Force One is about to depart, the same small crowd of people has been duplicated seven times, via digital effects.
  
  
• Continuity: The check Leary (as James Carney) writes to the Presidential Re-Election Campaign it is check number 025. When it is removed from the register, the next check is also 025.
  
  

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