The top mistakes in Mississippi Burning http://www.moviemistakes.com/film843 en Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:55:05 +0000 23691 In the barber shop scene at the end of the film, Agent Anderson terrorises Deputy Sheriff Pell (who has a full head of hair) with a razor blade. Anderson throws him across the room, but the person being thrown across the room has a mostly bald head. 11627 Anderson (Gene Hackman) visits Clinton Pell's wife and she's talking about Genesis 9, verse 27. In the first shot he's standing right behind her. In the next shot he stands on her left side. Then again right behind her. 98770 In one shot, during the lynching, the noose comes undone from the character's neck while he is hanging. 69825 In the scene where the FBI agents are transporting Lester Cowans in a car and telling him all his friends have confessed, for about three seconds the scenery goes by backwards. For some reason, the shot is played in reverse. 88943 When Gene Hackman is shaving Brad Dourif he cuts him on the right side of his face. Once Dourif is out of the chair, the cut is on the left side of his face.