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Thunderball: Film – Goofups

Audio/visual unsynchronised: “Q” talks with his mouth closed.
Continuity: In the casino scene, Bond can be seen in the background talking to Felix Leiter before they have met (they know each other already, of course, but the bedroom meeting is presented as the first time they’ve met for a while).
Continuity: Hand pulling on lever in “rack” sequence shown pulling lever to full position twice.
Continuity: Bond has long sleeves only in the close-up shots of him removing the wraps from Major Derval’s body in the health spa.
Continuity: Bond replaces his blue scuba mask with a black one, but is seen wearing a blue one later.
Continuity: Bond gains sneakers after swimming towards the cove.
Continuity: Bonds’ swim trunks are wet after the swim in the cove yet they’re dry as he walks from behind the wall.
Continuity: The comb in Domino’s hand when she meets Bond for the first time.
Continuity: The boat captain’s hat gets knocked off three times during the fight.
Audio/visual unsynchronised: Largo dialogue unsynchronized when he returns to the Disco Volante for the final chase and battle scene.
Continuity: When Bond and Leiter are in the helicopter at the Golden Grotto, Leiter has shorts on. The shot changes and he has long trousers on and then reverts back to shorts in the next shot.
Continuity: Image of Domino scuba diving is momentarily reversed (regulator hose momentarily switches from right to left side, along with reversal of her swimsuit pattern)
Revealing mistake: When the plane goes down in the sea, wires suspending the model are visible.
Anachronism: The Panamanian flag on the Disco Volante is upside-down throughout the film. It flew in that configuration only in 1903.
Geographical error: The ransom is to be dropped, according to the briefing officer at “Precisely 20 degrees north, 60 degrees east” off the Mergui Archipelago. A glimpse at an atlas shows these locations are actually about 2,500 miles apart.
Continuity: When Bond is shot in the calf – as he runs away, the blood is on the right leg; when he crawls onto the float, its on the left. The next day he is diving to check the plane without so much as a bandage on either leg.
Continuity: The Colonel throws a vase at Bond who is about to catch it on his right shoulder. When we see Bond from behind, the vase shatters on his left shoulder.
Continuity: When Bond is at Shrublands, and is checking out his neighbor’s room (the bandaged man), his hand jumps in and out of his pocket between shots when he hears the door open and hides behind the door.
Continuity: Domino steps on an egg spine with her right foot. When Bond takes out the spine, he does it from her left foot. During this scene, their respective positions repeatedly change between shots.
Crew or equipment visible: When the cars arrive at the mansion after attending the funeral, they enter through the front door. While it’s opening the film crew’s lighting equipment is reflected in the door.
Crew or equipment visible: After Bond has escaped Largo’s sharks, lighting equipment is reflected in the car door as he opens it.
Continuity: Bond’s Aston Martin’s boot (trunk) lid is clean when lifted to deposit the jet pack, but has a huge amount of dust (apparently from the landing) when seen a few seconds later in the view into the car through the rear windscreen.
Revealing mistake: When the Disco Volante hits the rocky island and explodes, you can clearly see an old vessel is being used as “body-double”.
Continuity: When Bond enters the room where Count Lippe is having a sitz bath, the sign on the door says “Massage”. When he leaves the room, the sign on the same door says “Sitz Bath & Heat Treatment”.
Revealing mistake: In close shots, the rear part of the Disco Volante (after splitting) is not floating and not moving in the water and is obviously a fixed stage.
Audio/visual unsynchronised: At the beginning of the film, when Bond is talking to the French woman on the balcony outside the church, he says, “As I said, later,” and then, “Come on.” The words “Come on” are out of synch with his mouth. He looks to be saying something completely different.
Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond is coming out of Largo’s Palmyra basement after seeing his helper dead, the door swings open widely, but makes no noise.
Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond is escaping from the Island after he finds the girl is dead he comes out of a basement/cellar and opens the hatch which visibly slams open hard, but silently.
Continuity: When Bond is escaping from the Island after he finds the girl is dead he comes out of a basement/cellar and opens the hatch door. He runs off without shutting it but when in the next cut his followers reach the door, it is now shut.
Continuity: During the final scene when Bond and Domino are climbing into the raft, Domino’s bathing suit has only one strap over the left shoulder from a distance and returns to straps over both shoulders during close up scenes.
Continuity: The VIP played by Roland Culver is called Home Secretary by M but in the end titles is listed as Foreign Secretary.
Revealing mistake: After Bond informs Domino of her brother’s murder, Domino’s tears make her mascara run. This is after a long dive that doesn’t mess up her make-up.
Factual error: Largo says to Bond that Golden Grotto sharks are the most dangerous, the most savage. In fact that’s false. The Bull/Zambezi shark is regarded as the most dangerous to man in all tropical waters.
Continuity: When Bond is riding in the helicopter around Palmira, one shot shows him looking out of an opening on the right side of the helicopter, with the left side being a solid wall. A succeeding shot shows him looking out of an opening on the left side of the helicopter, with a solid wall on the right side.
Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond hitches a ride with Fiona in her Mustang convertible, the engine sound that’s overdubbed comes from a smaller sports car.
Audio/visual unsynchronised: The first time we see Bond and his partner dancing in the outdoor nightclub, the band can clearly be seen behind them. There are several brass instruments playing and a soloist is clearly standing and playing a muted trumpet. The music we hear, however, is purely strings without brass of any kind, much less a trumpet. There are no violins to be seen in the orchestra.
Revealing mistake: At the end of the film when Bond and his girl are in the rubber lifeboat, the overhead close-ups of the scene reveal the bottom of a white swimming pool the raft is floating in. The depth showing the white surface at the bottom and the gentle waves around the raft show that the water is very shallow.
Continuity: The part in James’s hair reverses while he is in the helicopter talking to Felix Leiter due to a flipped shot.
Miscellaneous: Bond punches Felix as he’s about to say “007,” so as to not tip off his identity to the man hidden in the bathroom. But then Bond says it himself after apprehending the man, who is still conscious and can hear him.

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