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The Long Riders (1980) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Bob Younger is thrown from his horse in Northfield, Minnesota, and in the next two shots of him as he struggles to his feet under fire, he is holding a revolver in each hand. When the shot next cuts to him, he is frantically working and firing a Winchester 1866 (Yellow-boy) rifle. Presumably this came from the boot in his horse's saddle, but he has had barely a second in which to retrieve it.
  
  
• Factual errors: The revolver Frank James threatens Rixley with and carries throughout the movie is a Smith-Wesson Schofield. In reality, Jesse carried a pair of Schofields while Frank preferred the heavier Remington New Army (the type of pistol shown carried by Cole Younger). After leaving prison, Frank James did a print testimonial for Remington referring to the Remington as 'the finest hand gun I ever carried'.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Modern day power lines visible in the scenes shot in Georgia.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: During the train robbery, when Jesse kicks open the door to the passenger car, shot from inside, a stage light is clearly visible behind him (above his right shoulder).
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the Northfield raid Jesse fires his pistol at a bank employee, and hits him right in the forehead, and the man is shown to have a wound there, just as it should have, but also, the viewer sees a splash of blood, roughly six inches, diametrically. Highly unlikely, with most any handgun that blood would be blasted out of the man's head like that, although the bullet might make it all the way through his head. Now, if this had been a frangible bullet, this could happen, but dum-dum bullets hadn't been invented then anyway.
  
  

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