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Raising Arizona (1987)

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• Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of camera operator and vehicle while Hell's Angel is cruising down the highway.
  
  
• Continuity: When Glen comes back with a neck-brace the curtain on the window of the trailer door changes to a Venetian blind, and then when H.I. goes back inside the louvers change from closed to open.
  
  
• Continuity: The light that H.I. and Gale (don't) smash while fighting.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: Dolly track visible on ground as H.I. and Glen discuss wife swapping
  
  
• Continuity: The "Thrush Muffler" trademark tattoo on H.I.'s arm switches sides when he is chasing the babies around on the floor in the initial kidnapping scene. (flipped shot?)
  
  
• Continuity: H.I. smashes a lamp while being swung around on Gail's back. When it hits the floor, it is whole.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the Full Frame or Pan & Scan version, when H.I. is in the Arizona house kidnapping the baby, one of them "jumps" out of the crib and onto H.I. In the shot where the baby lands on him, a person's hands can clearly be seen at the top of the frame holding the child.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While Leonard Smalls is back-handing H.I. in front of the bank, his arm swings back and hits the camera causing it to shudder for a moment.
  
  
• Continuity: When H.I. first enters the Arizona house to kidnap a child, one child's hair length is inconsistent while H.I. is carrying him.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the FBI is questioning Nathan Arizona as to what the kidnapped child was wearing, Arizona says the child was wearing jammies even though all five babies are shown wearing just diapers.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nathan Arizona confronts the couple returning Nathan Jr, he puts his revolver in the crib to pick up the baby. Later on, he puts Nathan Jr. back in the crib but does not get his revolver back out of the crib.
  
  
• Continuity: When preparing to get back the baby, H.I. puts a revolver in the front of his pants and an automatic in the back. Before shooting Smalls, he pulls the revolver from the back of his pants.
  
  
• Continuity: When Glen and Dot visit, everybody sits down for a picnic lunch. One of their kids (a little girl with her head wrapped in a bandage) starts throwing the green Jello salad on to H.I. But when they cut to the shot of Edwina and Dot, the Jello salad is in the middle of the table untouched.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ed picks up Hi in back of the grocery store the right outside taillight is out, but after Hi grabs the bag of Huggies the light is working.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hi goes into the Short Stop the parking lot is wet with puddles. The police car comes over the wet bridge and stops in the dry parking lot. Then the roads are wet again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ed & H.I caught up with Gale just after he robbed the bank, they were in Ed's police car; but shortly thereafter when they encounter the Biker, they instead are in their regular family car.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the brothers are escaping form prison, Gale pulls his brother out of he hole by his feet. As he pulls him up past his hips, you can see a section of mud holding foam on the edge of the hole.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The grocery store manager is clearly seen putting two shells in a double-barrel shotgun, but then fires at H.I. several times in rapid succession. (Intentionally done by filmmakers to illustrate how H.I. can never catch a break.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As HI and Ed approach in their car for the final showdown with Leonard Smalls, shots of HI's face through the windshield show that the shift lever is up in the Park position, even though the car is moving. Since the background looks real, the car must be on a trailer.
  
  
• Continuity: After escaping from prison, Gale and Evelle steal a 1973-78 Ford station wagon (back-up lamps at the bottom of the taillights), but after the bank heist, they're driving a '71 or '72 (back-up lamps in the center of the taillights). After the dye pack explodes, there is a shot of the front of the car, and it's a '73.
  
  
• Continuity: During the wild chase scene, H.I. commandeers a pick-up with driver. The vehicle shown is a 1964 to 1966 Chevy pick up. However, there are a couple scenes from inside the cab over the hood which clearly show the vents and contours of a Dodge pick-up of similar vintage.
  
  
• Continuity: In the aforementioned picnic scene, when Dot and Ed are talking, Dot is spreading mustard on the sandwiches; the mustard bottle's label is clearly blocked out (i.e. to avoid product placement). But, when she places the bottle back on the table, part of the label on the other side of the bottle is visible, clearly identifying it (to someone in the Midwest, or someone who has actually used that brand, anyway) as a Plochmann's bottle. They then switch to a shot of H.I., then back to Ed and Dot; the bottle has turned back to hide the label.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gale and Evelle are in their getaway car and the paint bomb explodes in the car, Gale hits the brake to avoid getting in an accident, and later gets out of the car. He never put the car in park during this whole moment.
  
  
• Continuity: HI and Edwina's Chevy alternates between a 72 Impala 4 door post sedan and a 1974 4 door hardtop quite blatantly throughout the film.
  
  

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