- Errors in geography: The opening scenes and epilogue are supposed to take place at Harvard, but were shot in Oxford, England. Therefore, the exteriors are architecturally incorrect; Oxford buildings are Gothic, while Harvard buildings are Georgian.
- Factual errors: In real life, James Averill attended Cornell, not Harvard.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: Despite music and a yard full of waltzing couples, several 360-degree panning shots at the Harvard commencement ball show that there is no orchestra.
- Continuity: When Ella Watson sees her birthday present, only one of her breasts is covered by the blanket wrapped around her. Whilst the shot cuts between her and Jim, the breast that is uncovered changes repeatedly between shots.
- Factual errors: The period steam engine is a coal fired engine, with black smoke. In the West, steam engines had wide, open smokestacks for burning cheap, plentiful wood, producing white smoke and live cinders. In fact, piles of logs are stacked on the accompanying tender.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: A mercenary who buys a gun in Casper later appears as one of the rapists at the bordello, and escapes. Nathan pursues him and shoots him through the forehead in Frank Canton's tent. The same mercenary appears later, in the final battle.
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