Goofs in the film "Where eagles Dare" OT
nemo
film.
If anyone didn't believe me, I've just found this! And there are quite a few
I didn't spot.
Goofs for
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Anachronisms: Although helicopters weren't widely used in military
operations until well after World War II, the US and Germany had both
experimental and production helicopters, but the helicopter shown landing
inside the German compound was a Bell model 47 which did not see production
until 1947.
Continuity: When Shaffer starts the cable car and runs to it to jump on
himself, it doesn't actually start moving until he is nearly aboard.
Revealing mistakes: During the classic corridor shootout between Schaeffer
and the Nazis, the soldier who gets hit lying at the other end flies
backwards before the ricochet charges in front of him go off.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Christiansen fires at Smith through the
roof of the cable car, he fires five shots yet the pistol can be heard to
click empty on the fifth.
Continuity: When Smith kicks Christiansen in the face on the roof of the
cable car, there is already blood on Christiansen's face.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Smith shoots the radio operator twice in
the back, the second blood bag fails to go off in sync with the gunshot
Factual errors: Schaffer's firing a machine pistol in each hand
simultaneously would require almost superhuman strength.
Crew or equipment visible: When the captured German Alpine Post Bus races
throughout the airfield, Schaffer and Mary shoot several small jeeps which
flip over. As they do, the rope that flipped them can be seen being pulled
off screen.
Crew or equipment visible: When Smith leads the group across the railroad
tracks in Werfen, members of the film crew are reflected in the windows.
Continuity: When Major Smith goes into the Bier Keller, he is wearing an
officer's peaked cap. He takes it off and places it on the table and we
never see it again. (Apparently, it was stolen from the set during the lunch
break.)
Continuity: When the traitor is shot while dangling from a rope outside the
castle, the close-up shows him wearing a standard German field gray uniform.
In the next shot, as he plummets to his death, he is wearing a camouflaged
winter overcoat.
Continuity: The bullet holes in the back of the bus appear then disappear
during the final chase.
Continuity: When Major Smith drives the captured German Alpine Post Bus
toward the line of planes at Oberhausen Airfield, you can see that the
Horizontal Stabilizer (small wing at the tail) of the first plane has
already been destroyed, probably from a previous take.
Continuity: When Mary Elison climbs out of the river, her hair is
wet/dry/wet between shots.
Revealing mistakes: When the metal canisters which landed by parachute at
the beginning of the film are first seen, there is an obvious trail through
the snow leading into the far trees, indicating the canisters were placed
rather than parachuted into position.
Continuity: When they prepare to leap into the river, the cable car appears
to be over the middle of the river, perhaps even a close to the far bank.
But when they do leap, the first jumper lands close the near bank and the
cable car moves over the river once again.
Factual errors: Both Turner and Smith discuss the scandal to MI6 should the
scandal of his treason get out. However, in 1939 the Nazis exposed MI6's
networks in Europe, and the Special Operations Executive took over its
functions in wartime.
Factual errors: During the briefing, early in the movie, the team is told
that General Carnaby had been on his way to meet with his Russian
counterpart regarding D-Day plans and that the meeting place was to have
been Crete. That would be impossible as Crete had been seized in a German
airborne assault in the spring of 1941 and remained in German hands until
the war ended.
Continuity: As Major Smith and the group walk past the wood shed at Werfen
their shadows disappear between shots.
Revealing mistakes: When the Nazi car (after Smith and Shaeffer's arrest) is
pushed into the ravine, it explodes without apparent reason before touching
the ground. The same happens to the planes of the airfield being lightly hit
on the tail by the German Alpine Post Bus.
Continuity: Smith radios HQ and tells them he is..."effecting entry within
the hour." At HQ, Smith's transmission of "Broadsword calling Danny boy" is
heard at a significantly faster rate than Smith spoke it into his radio.
Continuity: After Smith and Schaffer initially climb into the Schloss Adler,
Schaffer puts on a cap and Smith doesn't have one as they walk out the door
of a room and into a hall. Less than a minute later, both of them are
walking down another hall, and Smith now has a hat similar to Schaffer's.
Continuity: The scenes showing the escape out the window shows the stunt
people rappelling normally with full rigging in the long shots, yet in the
close up shots the actors are just holding onto the rope and they were not
shown rigging the ropes for rappelling and did not show the use of any "D"
rings or other rappelling gear.
Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the corridor firefight after Schaffer
retreats into the room, a German soldier throws a grenade through the door
and in the widescreen version you can see the grenade strike the door frame
and bounce back at the actor's feet, yet there is an explosion inside the
room where the grenade would have landed.
Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the corridor firefight, Schaffer
retreats into the room and a German soldier throws a grenade through the
door. In the widescreen version you can see the grenade strike the door
frame and bounce back at the actor's feet, yet there is an explosion inside
the room where the grenade would have landed. And grenades do not explode in
a fireball as shown in this, (and other) movies.
Revealing mistakes: The tree stump of a tree supposedly blown off by
dynamite shows clear signs of being cut down with a chainsaw.
Continuity: When escaping the castle, Smith helps Mary down from the roof of
the cable car and then follows her into it. Between shots the chain blocking
the entrance to the cable car disappears.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/goofs
They didn't spot, however, that a pair of cable cars balance each other so
one car wouldn't work with the other blown up.
Well at least they did reload their machine guns now and again!
Roger the Saurus
I was in Lindos on the island f Rhodes this ummer and they showed us the
cliffs where some of the scenes were shot. There are no continuity errors in
the cliffs, they join together perfectly
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nemo
"Roger the Saurus" <ro...@bollix3stevenson.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I was in Lindos on the island f Rhodes this ummer and they showed us the
> cliffs where some of the scenes were shot. There are no continuity errors
in
> the cliffs, they join together perfectly
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Oooooooooooooh! So nature is better than film-makers. What else is new?
Roger the Saurus
"nemo" <ne...@newtylust.nit> wrote in message
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I like chips with brown gravy
Strange lad
> > "Roger the Saurus" <ro...@bollix3stevenson.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >> I was in Lindos on the island f Rhodes this ummer and they showed us
the
> >> cliffs where some of the scenes were shot. There are no continuity
errors
> > in
> >> the cliffs, they join together perfectly
> >> --
> >
> > Oooooooooooooh! So nature is better than film-makers. What else is new?
>
> I like chips with brown gravy
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> Roger the Saurus
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up the wrong mountain and the third german guard in the bunker was wearing a
timex watch not marketed until 1963.
As for the root canal work on Shaffer - this procedure was not tried until
1984 and even then only in South Efrikka mun.
All in all a shoddy film that is now more famous for the cock-ups than
anything else.
MAd DAN
Chris French
> Anachronisms: Although helicopters weren't widely used in military
> operations until well after World War II, the US and Germany had both
> experimental and production helicopters, but the helicopter shown landing
> inside the German compound was a Bell model 47 which did not see
production
> until 1947.
FWIW, the only surviving examples of German helicopters in 1968
were in museums, and none were airworthy. In fact, it would have
been nearly impossible to find *any* German acft. of WW2 vintage;
the Allies were painfully thorough with their Deading of the German
air forces.
The same applies to the Japanese forces -- the acft. seen in _Tora,
Tora, Tora_ and _Midway_ are modified North American Acft.
AT-6s.
In other words, to bring this back to TGS:
"Your can't get the aircraft, you know."
CF
nemo
I've been ordered to ABANDON CHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by the doc. (the surgery
was sinking at the time!)
A little brown gravy's still OK on spuds in their jackets though.
Try Marks and Spensive's hummous on your chips with tomato ketchup. Sounds
horrible but you'll get a nice surprise.
nemo
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Mentioning the names of the officers over the radio would also never have
happened and the set they were using only put out 600mW or so, and on a good
day might have only just reached England using CW (Morse) - and then only
with a longwire aerial fed via an ATU, not a modern Tottenham Caught
Road -type telescopic effort loosely stuffed down the side of the canvas
case! - and if it'd been sending in SSB (which that set couldn't) the
semi-Donald Duck tone would have been audible.
And he said he had to go back for the code book - and yet they didn't use
any codes. A few call-signs yes, but apart from 'All sins forgiven,' no
codes.
And if he shot the first radio operator, why did he have to creep up on the
second one and give him an opportunity to set off the alarm. And how come a
loudspeaker in a circular housing rang like a bell?
And how could those bombs work? Not enough room in the chrome case thingy
for a battery - no spring-loaded plunger to set of a cap and a fuse, just an
ordinary electrical toggle switch - and if they're gonna be blown up, why
waste money chromium plating the things? - and the explosions by bang seemed
a bit small for all those sticks of Dynamite too.
Probably designed by Spike lapsing into Eccles during the tea breaks when
they were filming Invasion Quartet.
Then there's the cable-car system where one car could carry on working on
its own - and the enormous number of controls in the motor room too. Very
odd.
RIGHT! Shall we tear Hammer's 'Quatermass and the Pit' to pieces now? (Linda
Shelley was also in 'Postman's Knock' with Spike as well too also.)
nemo
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The fact that Germany's first helicopter which had two rotors on outriggers
sticking out of the sides of it was flown around *inside* a building by a
female pilot could sporran quite a good Goon Show script as well, I should
think.
I should think, but I won't. I would have thought it'd be inappropriate for
this group - so I won't think that either!
Ain't English a daft langwidjje?
Roger the Saurus
"nemo" <ne...@newtylust.nit> wrote
> Try Marks and Spensive's hummous on your chips with tomato ketchup. Sounds
> horrible but you'll get a nice surprise.
Just after you stop eating
nemo
>
> "nemo" <ne...@newtylust.nit> wrote
> > Try Marks and Spensive's hummous on your chips with tomato ketchup.
Sounds
> > horrible but you'll get a nice surprise.
>
> Just after you stop eating
> --
really does taste good. And M&S Hummous isn't sour like some of the tinned
ones you find in Greek shops. It's really pleasant and makes a damned good
salad cream too.
Like what I'm having shortly. A nice curry, Basmati rice and a big lump of
hot Ciabatta bread and a glass or two of Retsina.
You wouldn't think wine that tasted of turpentine would taste good with
curry. It's very good with Italian nosh too. (in)Sainsbury do a good one for
£3.59. Melia in Pratt Street, Camden Town have a few good ones.
nylon.net
Anyway, dear Nemo... it is the special talent of *wives* to be able to
list every inconsistency and error committed in the past X years. Be
careful, subnautical lad, or there may be a demarcation dispute!
And - shock, horror - I believe I might have noticed a continuity error
or two in the Goon show! e.g. Bluebottle's deadings occurred more than
the traditional once. Please sit down while you recover from the shock,
dear goonfans.
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Danmed keyboatd!
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