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• Continuity: When Porter is hit by Pearl and her group of thugs' car, he shatters the windshield upon impact. Several frames later the windshield is completely intact.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter is hit by Pearl and her group of thugs' car he is shown shooting his revolver, usually a 6 shot, 13 times and possibly more off camera, but he is shown actually pulling the trigger and the hammer dropping 13 times in frame.
  
  
• Continuity: The prostitute's hair changes style during the scene in the cafe with Porter.
  
  

• Continuity: The prostitute's hair on her left shoulder when she is talking to Porter in her apartment.
  
  
• Continuity: The camera shows Ford keys dangling from the ignition and then Porter drives off in a Cadillac.
  
  
• Continuity: When Val is threatening Rosie on the floor of her apartment, shots of her show the gun solidly under her chin, while shots of him show the gun hanging loosely inside of his knee.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of the fold in the picture of Rosie and Porter changes during the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: The money porter puts on the bar when talking to the bartender disappears when the phone is placed on the bar.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rosie hugs Porter in the hall outside her apartment the ring is on her left ring finger. A minute later when she's lighting the cigarette it's on her left middle finger.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter and Val start driving down the alley towards the Chow's car they are initially in a 1970 Chevy Nova (round headlights, no front indicator lights, and no Chevy emblem on the grill) but just before crashing into the Chow's car it becomes a 1973 Chevy Nova (different grill, squared off lights, Chevy emblem on grill) when the two cars impact, the side shot is of the '70 Nova.
  
  
• Continuity: Rosie's apartment door has 404 on it, visible when she greets Porter the first time and when Resnick ambushes her. Resnick sees a bloody mark on the call button for 403.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter is in the back of the limo with his apartment exploding in the background, the door sill of the limo is visible showing that the door is open. But the next exterior shot shows all the doors closed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Val meets Stegman at Varrick's, Stegman is shown sipping his beer but never really takes a drink.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter gets hit by the car, the windshield is destroyed. But when they show him rolling on the ground afterwards, the windshield is undamaged.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter meets Carter he punches the two bodyguards and kicks the gun out of the hand of one but in the next scene he takes the gun from the knocked-out bodyguard's hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter is tied to the chair towards the end of the movie and he is being beaten by Fairfax's thugs there are several shots from behind that show Porter's shoes are on and that his legs are not tied. When Bronson comes and starts to question him these same shots are shown. Before they hit him with the hammer his shoes have been removed and legs tied with no one ever doing this to him.
  
  
• Continuity: When Porter is in the cab stand, the cop's badges are on their right side. When Porter and Stegman are talking outside you see the cop looking at them from the window, his badge moves to his left side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The frontal views of Porter aiming his revolver clearly show that there are no cartridges in its cylinder.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Stegman points a revolver at Porter in the car, it is clear from the frontal camera angle that there are no cartridges in the gun's cylinder.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Porter enters Mr. Fairfax's office with his semi-automatic pistol aimed at Fairfax. But he incorrectly holds the gun tilted 90 degrees to the left. Such a hold does not allow proper sight alignment, and could also jam a semi-auto pistol during firing. Nobody familiar with basic pistol operation would grip one in this manner.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After entering Mr. Fairfax's office with his pistol drawn, Porter orders Fairfax's two bodyguards to extend their arms straight out while holding their boss's suitcases (one in each hand). The ease with which the men hold the suitcases this way over a period of time clearly indicates that they are empty.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Val attempts to calm Lynn down after they betray Porter, the cigarette jumps from Val's mouth to his hand between shots.
  
  

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