Goofs for
Malcolm X (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The phone that Malcolm uses in his hotel room appears to be the correct vintage - except for the modular plug connecting the handset to the base.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Malcolm is in the jazz club with Sophia, there is a jazz ensemble with a vocalist and a trumpet soloist. The trumpet soloist is playing on a Monette trumpet. This unique line of trumpets was not produced until around 1983.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When "West Indian Archie" buys Malcolm a double in the bar, a neon sign has a modern Miller beer logo (visible in the mirror behind the bar).
  
  

• Continuity: In the "Russian Roulette" sequence when Malcolm holds the gun up to Rudy's face, the chamber to the (screen) right has a bullet in it. This is the chamber that Malcolm had just "fired" at his own head. Since the gun didn't fire, there would have been nothing but an empty chamber
  
  
• Anachronisms: Malcolm is show watching television news footage of race riots that include the March 1965 attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and the 1967 Newark, New Jersey Riots, two incidents which took place after Malcolm was assassinated in February 1965.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The New York Hilton hotel is shown with its name in red electrically lighted letters on the face of the building, but in 1965, the year Malcolm X was assassinated, the letters were blue.
  
  
• Continuity: Malcolm and Betty's ice cream sodas go from half empty to full again between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: The scene in which Malcolm and the other train porters and servers are listening to the Joe Louis vs. Billy Cohn the fight in which Louis would have cased a big stir was the June 18, 1941 fight. That means that Malcolm Little was only sixteen and two before he started working the New Haven Line. The second fight was in 1946, by that time Little was not working on the line. So it is historically incorrect.
  
  

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