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Updated this week Continuity: When Bond gets into the car at the airport he is sitting behind the driver (left side of rear seat). In the next shot, he is sitting behind the front passenger seat (right side). In a later shot he is again sitting behind the driver (left side again).

Mistake Continuity: After Bond gets picked up from the airport, evades a car, then fights with the driver, at one point he pulls back his right arm, but then the angle changes, and he hits him with his left one.

Mistake Revealing: When James Bond has a spider on his arm, one can see he's under a glass plate, and the spider on top of the plate.

Mistake Factual error: When Bond is involved in a high-speed chase on the way to Miss Taro's house, his wheels are squealing like crazy, but he's on a dirt road.

Mistake Continuity: Bond sits down by a table, puts some cards down, and pulls his gun out. He's wearing a tie, but when we see a closeup of him screwing on the silencer, his tie disappears.

Mistake Audio problem: When Bond and Honey are on the beach the hoods of Dr No come by boat. On the boat there is a guy shouting through a megaphone. As they sail away again the man waves the megaphone to his comrades and says something like 'Come on'. Yet his voice sounds identical to when he was speaking through the megaphone, though he isn't holding it to his mouth anymore.

Mistake Continuity: When Bond gets directions to Miss Taros house she gives the address as '239 Magenta Drive', but when he's in her house later on, while calling for a taxi, he gives it as '2171 Magenta Drive'. Miss Taro even nods to confirm it.

Mistake Continuity: During the car chase on the way to Miss Taro's house, we can see the same shot of the cars at the turn twice.

Mistake Continuity: When Bond kills a patrolman on the island, his shirt is dry around his shoulders right after rising out of the water.

Mistake Audio problem: In the scene when the powerboat shoots at the island, afterword, when the guy with the speakerphone tells them that he would be back later on, he then turns to the driver and tells him to move on, but when he says that, it sounds as though he's still talking in the microphone even thought the microphone is at his side.

Mistake Revealing: When Dr. No crushes the Buddha in his powerful deformed hand, watch when he first touches it. It is made out of rubber.

Mistake Continuity: When Bond goes to Miss Taro's house, as he enters, one of the blinds is turned on the door, but they were all straight before.

Mistake Factual error: Bond is worried that Dr. No has picked up the sails of Honey's boat on his radar, as indeed the good doctor has (in the movie) but radar systems cannot detect cloth or a wooden mast.

Mistake Continuity: When Bond enters the office of Universal Imports he throws his hat on the hat rack. After his meeting with M, he retrieves his hat from the hat rack, but it has moved to a different hook.

Mistake Continuity: The dashboard of Bond's car in Jamaica keeps changing colour, from read to black, and back again.

Mistake Continuity: When the black guy gets cut by the bottle he has a lot of blood on his face and the rag. The next scene he's fine with no blood.

Mistake Plot hole: When Bond, Quarrel and Felix sail to Crab Key, Felix says that it's 48 hours to the moonshot. Bond replies that they'll "Be back in 12, if not then it's your beat and you'd better bring your marines with you". We know that Bond was still on the island when the rocket took off (it's when he kills Dr. No) and yet it's only when He and Honey are sailing AWAY from the island that Felix shows up with the marines. Why did he wait the full 48 hours (longer even as the moonshot had already occurred) when it was obvious something was wrong when Bond hadn't come back after the 12 or so hours as agreed?

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Strangeways is killed by the three blind men, as well as a visible spotlight reflected in the windows of the hearse, there are at least two men visible - a cameraman and what I believe could be director Terence Young. Best viewed in slo-mo DVD.

Mistake Continuity: The hearse that was involved in Strangways death and later chases Bond is a 1937 or 1938 Lasalle,with the pod style headlights mounted on stalks on either side of the radiator. The car that drives off the cliff and explodes is a later model car, with the headlights mounted flush into the fenders.It is very easy to spot while the burning car is rolling down the side of the cliff.

Mistake Factual error: In the scene where Professor Dent tries to shoot Bond at Miss Taro's and Bond is waiting for him in the darkened room, the 'Walther PPK' that Bond is busily screwing the silencer on at the beginning of the scene does not have an external hammer, and is therefore not a Walther at all. Is Browning 1910 .32 calibre.

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