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Frenzy (1972) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: The (hanging) camera tracks backward, turning 180 degrees as it goes down a staircase, before going out through the front door. As it passes through an internal doorway within Rusk's house, the door frame can be seen sliding back into place after (presumably) sliding out of the way to let the camera pass through it.
  
  
• Continuity: After the camera goes back down the staircase and out the front door into the market, a man walks past with a big sack of tomatoes to cover the transition from the studio shot to the exterior. Before he passes (the studio shot), the door frame on the right is clean, but afterwards (the exterior), a greasy black stain can be seen on the right of the "real" door frame above the doorbell. Also in the exterior shot, a lampshade and the shadow of the archway over the interior door can be seen reflected in the window over the stairs when no such reflection was seen in the studio shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The level of the soup in Inspector Oxford's bowl changes inconsistently throughout the scene.
  
  

• Continuity: At the start of the movie Blaney is seen finishing the knot on his tie. In the next shot (of him coming down the staircase into the bar), he has the same tie but the colored stripes are different in the knot.
  
  
• Continuity: The two strands of the necklace on the detective's wife changes from being together and being loose while she serves the same meal.
  
  
• Continuity: As Blaney talks to Rusk at Covent Garden Market early on in the film, his cigarette repeatedly jumps back and forth between hand and mouth between shots.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Mrs Blaney's receptionist estimates Blaney's weight only in pounds. No English person would do this, and would state the weight more likely in stones and pounds, or (rarely) in kilogrammes.
  
  
• Continuity: The head on the pints of beer disappears between shots as Maisie brings them to the bar for the doctor and his companion.
  
  
• Continuity: As Blaney complains about his "large" brandy, the note scrunched up in his hand with the glass disappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the driver of the potato lorry stops after spilling his load, the locking pins on the tailboard differ between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: After he orders a triple, Blaney pays the bartender holding the bill in his left hand from bartender's point of view. The camera switches to Blaney's point of view and the same bill is in Blaney's right hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While Brenda Blaney lies dead in the chair, her stomach is moving up and down as she breathes.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Rusk takes Babs to his home he tells her he lives on the second floor. No English person would say this. From the stairway tracking shot that follows we see that Rusk lives on the floor above street level which in England is called the first floor.
  
  
• Continuity: As Rusk is leaving Mrs. Blaney's office, he takes another bite of the apple (previously shown as mostly green but ripening into red) and sets it on the desk with the green side facing the camera. At the door, as he turns to see if he's forgotten anything, the closeup shows the apple with the red side facing towards the camera when it should be facing away from it.
  
  
• Factual errors: After the police see the body in the back of the potato truck, they follow it and hit their siren. The truck driver then hits his brakes and the body falls out of the potato truck. This should not happen. The law of inertia means that any unsecured item in the truck will continue to move forward if the truck comes to an abrupt halt (which is the entire reason why we need seat belts in cars - to keep us from flying through the windshield during an accident). The body in the truck *should* have kept moving forward in the bed until it hit the partition separating the bed from the passenger cabin (or more sacks of potatoes).
  
  

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