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• Continuity: In the opening scene, when Calvera is complaining about religion, he takes the cup to drink in his left hand. As he sits at the table and finishes complaining, the cup is switches to his right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: As Chris and Vin ride the hearse back from the cemetery you can see one of the tassels fall from the head of the horse on the left. In the next shot the horses are coming around a corner and the tassel is back in place.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the first confrontation with Calvera, Chris removes the loop holding his six-gun in his holster twice.
  
  

• Continuity: When Calvera gives the "adios" command to send the seven out of town, he waves his right hand and starts walking away from a pole. In the very next shot (from behind) he is shown still leaning against the pole.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Vin walks away from the craps table in the bar, the cowboy at the end of the table rolls the dice. In the very next shot the same cowboy is shown throwing the dice again without having retrieved them.
  
  
• Continuity: After Britt throws the knife into the cowboy in the rail yard, two train engineers are seen leaning out of the engine's window observing the scene. In the next shot, one of the engineers has moved to the platform between the engine and the tender car.
  
  
• Continuity: The first man Calvera kills near the beginning of the movie has no wounds on his back after being shot and falling to the ground. When the villagers run to the body to look at the man, there are two wounds on his back.
  
  
• Continuity: After Chris delivers the final line, Vin and Chris turn around and ride over the hill - Chris is riding on the right. After a brief cut away, the camera cuts back to them riding into the distance and Chris is now on the left.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: The boom shadow can clearly be seen moving from right to left as Sotero turns while addressing his fellow villagers after Calvera's first visit near the opening of the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: When Calvera and his gang first ride into town in the beginning of the movie, they are seen taking chickens and food. When they ride out of town, they do not have any of the loot with them.
  
  
• Continuity: After Calvera and his men are driven from the village the first time, there is a sequence in which three of his men start taking potshots at the villagers from the trees. One of these shots strikes Chico's hat and knocks it off his head. He even sticks a finger through the hole after retrieving it, however in a scene just a couple minutes later, Petra (the Mexican girl) is talking with Chico. We can see there is no bullet hole in the front of his hat and at one point, he turns his head 180 degrees in order to look behind him and there is clearly no bullet hole in the back of his hat, either. It has simply disappeared.
  
  
• Factual errors: Chris tells Harry Luck that the job pays a gold eagle plus room and board. But the payment offered was $20. An eagle was the $10 gold coin; the $20 gold coin was the "double eagle."
  
  
• Factual errors: In the last scene, when the three village boys put flowers on Bernardo's grave, the middle boy makes the sign of the cross from right to left, as they do in the Eastern Orthodox church. The other boys do it correctly, from left to right.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At the beginning of the scene when Vin is climbing the hill and chatting with one of the villagers, a radio tower is visible on one of the background mountains behind the villager.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final battle we see Bernardo slumping off a roof, onto a clay-tiled awning, and then crouching behind a brick wall. We next see him when he shoots a guy who is about to mount a horse. The guy ends up with blood only on the back of his shirt. If Bernardo shot him in the back we should see either Bernardo, the clay-tiled awning or the short brick wall in the background. If Bernardo shot him from any other angle there should be blood on the front or sides of the guy, not just on the back.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris and Vin begin driving the hearse up to Boot Hill, they pass the Belmar Hotel sign twice - once silently at the very start, and then again as they briefly discuss the towns they've come from a few moments later.
  
  
• Continuity: When the attack comes, Steve McQueen is seen pointing to different areas for the peasants behind him to go to. Trouble is they left for them well before he pointed.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER:After Calvera shoots the man twice in the chest who runs at him with a sickle, the man falls face down and there are no exit holes in the back of his shirt. A moment later the man is shown with two blood stains on the back of his shirt.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Harry Luck (Brad Dexter) gallops back into town to help the seven during the final battle, jumps off his horse, runs to the doorway of the building they're holed up in and is then shot by Calvera's men. "Harry" is very obviously a stuntman, as Dexter is taller and quite a bit heavier than the man in the scene.
  
  

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