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Three Days of the Condor (1975) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: As Condor opens the desk drawer of the dead receptionist to grab the gun, the 45 automatic moves too quickly when barely tapped by his fingers to be an actual gun made of "heavy" wood and metal, revealing it as a balsa wood prop.
  
  
• Continuity: When Turner pushes Atwood into his chair, the lid on the console stereo slams shut. The lid is then open again in two subsequent shots and closed after that.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Condor is getting soaked by rain on his way to lunch, everyone immediately around him has umbrellas. There is a man in the distance to the right of the police officer, obviously oblivious to the rain and walks as if he is beyond the reach of the rain machines.
  
  

• Continuity: When Turner is given the report from Langley saying they found nothing to be concerned about in the book he read and reported on. Turner folds it and puts it in his right rear pocket. When he tries to remember the section chiefs name the morning after at Kathy's apartment, the morning the mailman comes, he retrieves it out of his left rear jeans pocket.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Early in the film some packages are delivered to the office in which Redford works. The security guard counts 5 of them, and says "Roger, fiver." The international phonetic alphabet uses "niner" for 9 in order to differentiate the sound from "fi-yiv" for 5. No retired military man, as the guard is supposed to be, should say "fiver."
  
  
• Factual errors: The NYPD Lieutenant who is interviewed in the alley by a TV crew is incorrectly listed in the credits as "Alice Lieutenant". This is probably a typo of "Police Lieutenant".
  
  
• Factual errors: In the CIA office scene where various clocks are displaying the time zone, Winnipeg is misspelled as Winipeg.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Condor is in Kathy's apartment, they watch a news report about the shooting in the alley. The reporter has a channel 7 microphone and identifies himself as being with Eyewitness News, the name of WABC-TV's news broadcast for decades. When the report is over, we see the logo for channel 9 instead of channel 7.
  
  
• Continuity: Joubert's phone switches from dial to push button
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In Kathy's apartment Turner asks Kathy the area code for Washington D.C., and what time the news hour is. Two peculiar questions for a CIA member who reads and knows everything.
  
  

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