When Frank rides to meet Harmonica for the showdown, he is riding on a white horse, a minute later the horse changes color and is a dapple gray color.
The shadows change direction between cuts throughout the gunfight scene between Frank and Harmonica.
During the final flashback ("Keep your lovin' brother happy") from shot to shot the harmonica changes back and forth from clean and undamaged to dented and dirty.
During Harmonica's confrontation with Frank towards the end of the movie, his hair appears to have grown significantly from earlier in the film; however, when he enters the house to talk to Jill, his hair is short again.
Jill's luggage is schlepped from the train - twice.
On the DVD case, Sergio Leone is quoted as saying "All of the characters in the film, except Claudia (Cardinale), are conscious of the fact they will not arrive at the end alive". He had apparently forgotten the ending.
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DVD extras: We don't accept goofs pertaining to director's commentaries, or other DVD extras.
Right after Harmonica shoots Frank, Frank dies and his body goes limp with his head coming to rest on the ground (with his face facing the camera). Fonda does a great job of keeping his eyes open and not moving them while he is "dead". BUT the living actor playing a dead man does let out a breath which disturbs two blades of grass or straw on the ground right in front of his mouth.
Meaning either 1) an eddy of a stray breeze, or 2) it was his last dying breath.
Meaning either 1) an eddy of a stray breeze, or 2) it was his last dying breath.
After just being shot in the left shoulder, Harmonica is able to physically manhandle Wobbles in the laundry while trying to get him to talk concerning Frank. Harmonica grabs Wobbles by his scarf, throws him around the laundry, puts the scarf in a clothes wringer, and with his left arm and hand, tightens it around Wobbles neck using the hand crank.
Cowboys in movies are tough.
Cowboys in movies are tough.
The train in the opening segment of the movie pulls into the station but does not take on either fuel or water. In the middle of the desert, water would be essential and fuel nearly as much so.
Frank goes to Morton's train and finds that dead bodies are scattered around. But the train's fireman appears not to be bothered. The engine's safety valve opens frequently, which means that the fireman dutifully keeps doing his job and keeps the boiler at maximum pressure. (The fireman and the driver never appear in the movie, but they must be there.)
When Sam is taking Jill McBain to the ranch, they have to go through the construction site for the railroad. Disgusted by the construction, Sam starts whipping the horses to try and speed up the buckboard. During one of the backhands with the whip, Sam accidentally hits Jill in the head. Jill gives him a "what the hell" look and says something inaudible to him which one can imagine what it was.
Near the beginning, Brett McBain is shooting birds, and Timmy (Brett's son) collects the birds and shows them to his sister Maureen. The birds are chukkar partridge, which were introduced into the United States by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the 1920s and were not present before then.
Those birds were quail, native to Utah and Arizona.
Those birds were quail, native to Utah and Arizona.
In the opening scene. Harmonica is involved in a gunfight with three of Frank's men at the Cattle Corner Train Station. During the gunfight, Harmonica is shot by Stony. When Harmonica regains consciousness and sits up, a bullet hole is visible in his coat where he was shot in the left shoulder. The bullet hole in Harmonica's coat becomes quite visible in the tavern when Cheyenne points to where Harmonica was shot with his gun and says, "And maybe faster than you." After that tavern scene, the bullet hole disappears from his coat throughout the rest of the movie.
Either the coat was mended and cleaned or he had a identical spare coat in his bag.
Either the coat was mended and cleaned or he had a identical spare coat in his bag.
When Harmonica climbs down the ladder, only to meet Frank at the other end of a .45, the ladder is shown to be electro-welded to the wagon and the steps are also electro-welded to the legs of the ladder. A rather lousy welding job, by the way! The movie takes place around 1870. Electro-welding started during the 1890s, but the method got practicable only in the 1920s and began to be commonly used in the late 1930s when the great navies (except for the Royal Navy) started to use the method for their first-line ships. The great leap forward came during WW2, when Liberty ships and many other vessels were electro-welded.
As Frank and his gang ride away from the train, tire tracks are visible in the dirt.
While preparing for the wedding feast, Brett's daughter sings a few lines of "Danny Boy". The words to this song were written in 1910.
In the opening scene at the rail station, Woody Strode's character is shown to be carrying a cut down version of a Winchester model 1892. If the movie is supposed to take place in the 1870's the rifle doesn't exist for another 20 years.
Rungs of a ladder are arc welded, but the technique hadn't been developed yet.
The handle and head of Jill's bath brush look suspiciously like black plastic.
As the speed of rotation of the wind-pump sails varies, the sound of the squeak does not. At no point does it match the period of rotation.