Goofs for
The 39 Steps (1935) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Lights visible when police search the train.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Shadow of microphone visible on wood panelling in hotel room.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Professor Jordan suggests Richard Hannay commit suicide, he says "What if I leave you alone with this revolver?" when he is clearly brandishing a small-caliber semi-auto pistol.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: The serial number of the autogyro has been reversed, showing that the stock shot has been reversed for effect.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The date in the Church Hymnary that stopped the bullet is signed by Margaret in 1928, but is dated 1932.
  
  
• Continuity: The sideways shots into the car that Richard and Pamela are travelling in with the detectives uses the same view across a loch, even though the following shots show they are nowhere near water.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Professor Jordan shoots Hannay, his revolver impossibly switches from his left to right hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the beginning of the film in the scene with the Memory Man entertaining the audience by answering their questions a woman yells out, "Who is the last British Heavyweight champion of the world?". Beside her is a man who mouths the woman's words in synch with her.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Hannay gets the train from London to Scotland, but the train on that journey is seen bursting out of the Box Tunnel near Bath, which is nowhere near the line from London to Scotland.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scenes where Hannay and Pamela are hiding under the waterfall to escape the police, Hannay's free hand is in his pocket on the close ups, but against the rock behind him in the long shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Mr. Memory stops speaking and flinches before the shot is fired.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The bad guy says "suppose I left you alone with this revolver," as he holds up an automatic pistol.
  
  

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