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On the Waterfront (1954) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: In the bar, Terry's arms are folded when viewed from behind and supporting his head when viewed from in front.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious dummy being thrown off the roof in the opening scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious dummy for Terry's brother's hanging.
  
  

• Continuity: The label on the bottle of "Paddy" whiskey changes orientation in every other shot when Johnny Friendly is telling Charlie to straighten out his brother.
  
  
• Continuity: Toward the end of the film as Terry is walking back into the work building, water puddles on the ground appear and disappear between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Edie's father is packing his clothes, Edie holds a cat with her left hand and moves its paw with the other hand. The next shot shows her caressing the cat's back.
  
  
• Continuity: Inside the taxi Terry's jacket zipper jumps about between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Johnny's scarf changes between shots, when Terry talks to him just before their fight.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the scene in which Terry coaxes Edie into walking home with him dissolves, it's obvious Kazan yelled, "Cut!" because before the picture has fully dissolved, Eva Marie Saint abruptly stops and turns around to head back towards the crew area near the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: When Terry is talking to Edie by the fence, Edie's hair changes from messy to neat between shots.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: In the church scene when the meeting is broken up by the thugs outside there is a long shot with the characters trying to decide which way to run and you can see a boom mic bouncing around for a few seconds at the top of the screen.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: In front of Johnny Friendly's Bar at the beginning of the film, the boom mic is visible on Charley's coat as he leaves the frame.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final scene, the large ship at the dock in the background changes between a freighter and a cruise ship.
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the end of the film when Terry confronts John Friendly at the little club house on the river, a Coke machine on the porch appears and disappears between cuts.
  
  
• Continuity: After Terry is beaten senseless and Fr. Barry and Edie go to pick him up, Terry is clearly wearing ankle high work boots. However when he is stumbling towards the loading dock the camera cuts to his feet for a few seconds and now he is wearing low cut work shoes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Charlie and Terry are talking in the taxi, Terry is seated behind the driver on the left side of the car. When the taxi pulls over, he gets out of the passenger rear side of the car.
  
  
• Continuity: The framed photo of Lee J. Cobb as Johnny Friendly glad-handing an unidentified politician or mobster shows up both in the Longshoreman's Union headquarters on the docks and also in the Friendly bar, when Terry Malloy throws his gun at and breaks.
  
  
• Continuity: When Father Barry (Karl Malden) gets hit in the head with a beer can, he gets a cut on his forehead, which bleeds visibly in the scene. In subsequent scenes, there is no sign of the cut or of a bandage to show that he had been hurt.
  
  
• Continuity: During the climactic fight between Terry and Johnny, Johnny loses his scarf at one point as he and Terry scuffle. There are a couple of shots after that showing the longshoremen and Johnny's henchmen watching the fight, but when we cut back to Terry and Johnny, Johnny's wearing his scarf again. Terry then hits him and we get a closeup shot of Johnny falling against the wall and calling his henchmen for help, and in this shot the scarf is missing again.
  
  

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