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• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Melissa warns Paul not to touch her Maserati. The car was sold in the US as a Citroen/Maserati SM, a Citroen with a Maserati engine. The owner would be more likely to refer to it as Maserati.
  
  
• Continuity: After Paul backs the car off of the rising drawbridge, the rear end is smashed, and the trunk lid is flapping up and down. When he drives it down to the bay to dunk it in the water, the trunk lid is securely closed.
  
  
• Continuity: There are inconsistencies with the scoring throughout the game.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Richard Kiel hurt his arm during the shoot and can be seen with his arm in a sling in some parts of the football game scenes (his character is supposedly fully fit).
  
  
• Continuity: When Scarboro is brought into the medical center, his knee is wrapped up. When he is seen later celebrating his knee is no longer wrapped and he is wearing his uniform trousers.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Paul runs the Maserati into the water, a wire holding the car in place can be seen and is attached to the back which was used to immediately lift it from the water once the scene had been completed.
  
  
• Continuity: The same red 1966 Plymouth GTX is seen in two different locations during opening car chase.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first few shots of the film, Melissa is not wearing a bra, but in the last couple of shots as her argument with Paul Crewe escalates, a bra has appeared.
  
  
• Continuity: After the first time that Crewe hits Bogdanski "below the belt" with the football, the game clock has stopped at 2:29 remaining in the game, after the second time he does it, the clock is at 2:35 remaining and running.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Crewe and another inmate are fighting (wrestling) in the swamp When Capt. Kenauer strikes Crewe on the back with a baton during the fight, the rectangular padding is visible under Crew's shirt.
  
  
• Factual errors: Near the end of the game of the Guards vs. the Mean Machine, when the Mean Machine attempts a drop kick on fourth down, the kick actually goes outside the goal posts (as can be confirmed in frame by frame scan), and should have been ruled as no good.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: Throughout the car chase, the car is seen to have a Manual Gearbox, making it impossible for Crewe to knock it into gear so that it would drive itself off of the jetty.
  
  

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