Goofs for
White Heat (1949) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: When the gang is leaving the hideout on the way to rob the refinery, the shadow of a camera can be seen on the side of the gas tanker as it pulls onto the road.
  
  
• Continuity: Roughly 33 minutes in. As Evans and Pardo drink coffee, Evans' coffee cup changes several times from a dark to a light cup.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end, Evans calls Cody Jarrett "Garrett" twice on the bullhorn when they were in the payroll office.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: In the opening railroad heist, there is a shot of a man jumping down from an overpass onto the train. When he lands the mats used to break his fall can be clearly seen.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Big Ed's lifeless body is kicked downstairs, although the scene is pulled off nicely, the moment his shoulder is shoved, his hand comes forward to protect his head during the fall. Dead bodies don't try to protect themselves.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In two different scenes, police cars pass in front of the same supermarket, though one scene is supposed to be in Los Angeles and the other in Illinois.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the prison break, the men are in their cabin hideout when the phone rings. Cody gets angry and rips it off the wall with several violent tugs yet the wire never moves. Once the phone comes completely loose, it's apparent that the phone was never hooked up to the wire in the first place.
  
  
• Continuity: The character of "The Reader" is called "Herbert" by Cody in a scene in their cell and by his lawyer during a conversation in the visitors room. Yet when Evans is listening to the police radio broadcast giving the names of the convicts who escaped with Jarrett in the prison break, The Reader's name is given as "Michael Curtin".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The gas station attendant removes the radiator cap with his bare hand.
  
  
• Continuity: The fabric marker on Ma Jarrett's car changes positions.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Right near the end, when the Feds are calling to Cody with a bullhorn, it looks like the bullhorn has "Property of Warner Bros. Prop Department" stenciled on it.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Pardo is on line to get his injection and realizes the inmate giving the shots knows him, he starts a fight to get off the line and to avoid having his identity uncovered. But starting the fight draws more attention to him than if he'd remained quietly on line, and increased his chances of being spotted and identified. Also, the inmate giving the shots was looking at the arms of those on line, not their faces, as they moved passed him.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Pardo is on line to get his injection and realizes the inmate giving the shots knows him, he starts a fight to get off the line and to avoid having his identity uncovered. But starting the fight draws more attention to him than if he'd remained quietly on line, and increased his chances of being spotted and identified. (Also, the inmate giving the shots was looking at the arms of those on line, not their faces, as they moved passed him.)
  
  

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