The order of the women entering the Study when they discover Mr. Boddy's body is missing.
In the Library, Col. Mustard's whiskey glass jumps from the table to his hand.
When they enter the kitchen to check on the cook, a pot on the stove disappears and reappears.
The ladder in the library disappears and reappears throughout the movie, as do the pots on the stove in the Kitchen.
In the first deadly scene in the study, Mr. Boddy hands each guest a weapon and turns out the lights. The room is thrown into complete darkness, despite the roaring fire in the fireplace.
In one of the solutions, Miss White strangles Yvette by waiting for her in the billiard room. In the scene before this she is still heard screaming upstairs as Yvette enters the room.
When Miss Scarlet and Prof. Plum are at the door, they never ring the bell. But Wadsworth goes to the door to greet them anyway.
At the end of the third ending when Wadsworth reveals that he is actually Mr. Boddy, Professor Plum exclaims, "Wait a minute, who did I kill?" Wadsworth answers, "My butler." Then Professor Plum says "Oh shucks." But, if you read Professor Plum's lips they say something nastier.
After Col. Mustard and Ms. Scarlet leave the lounge, one of the chandeliers crashes down from the ceiling in the hallway, yet the light level in the hallway never changes. This happens once again in the ending in which Ms. Scarlet is the killer, another chandelier in the hallway crashes down from the ceiling, yet the light levels in the hallway never change. The last chandelier was visibly on when Wadsworth shoots it.
When the guests are done searching the house, they hear Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet yelling because they are locked in the lounge with the now dead driver. Yvette runs and gets the gun to shoot the door open, she trips on her way out of the study and shoots the chandelier and it begins to spin. The camera then pans to a shot from the ceiling looking downward on the room as Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet are freed, the reflection of the lights from the chandelier are seen on the floor and are not spinning although the camera shot changes from the ceiling shot to a shot of the chandelier spinning and eventually falling. The reflection does not move although the lights themselves are supposedly spinning above.
After the cook is killed in the kitchen, Miss Scarlet drops her cigarette and kneels onto it or over it. When she gets up, the cigarette is gone.
In the third solution, it is not explained why all the murderers use an identical pair of black gloves.
When Wadsworth is going through the events of the evening he says, "I introduced Colonel Mustard to Mrs. White" but he never did. He introduced Yvette and Mrs. White and noticed that they flinched.
In the second ending Mrs. Peacock is apparently the one who turned off the electricity, but when the electricity was turned off we saw Mrs. Peacock in the cellar beating up on a pipe. When Prof. Plum picks up Ms. Scarlet on the side of the road, he turns his windshield wipers on. In the next scene (of the car moving) the windshield wipers are not on.
Miss Scarlet screams after the cook falls out of the freezer when they learn she is dead. When Wadsworth is reenacting how it was all done, the same footage of Miss Scarlet screaming is used when Wadsworth falls out of the freezer (even though she was smoking at the time, and not when the reenactment began).
When the FBI agent comes to the door near the end of the movie and begins speaking about Armageddon, the door is shut on him, and his "Genesis" banner is shut in the door and falls to the floor inside the house. In the next shot, the banner is gone.
In the scene where everyone gangs up on Mr. Boddy.
One ending includes a reference to Perry Mason. While the TV series did not start until after the setting of the movie, the radio series and books existed and were quite popular.
When all the characters run down the stairs the first time, Yvette the maid (who has been wearing black spike heels the entire time) is clearly seen wearing black ballet flats as she runs down the stairs.
In one of the endings, Col. Mustard is seen as being uninjured. Then in the next shot, he is shown holding a handkerchief up to his apparently bleeding nose.
The chandelier comes crashing down, but later disappears and reappears.
In the 1+1+2+1 etc scene, a large cardboard sheet can be seen at the bottom of the screen, on the hall floor.
When Wadsworth is re-enacting Colonel Mustard's arrival at the mansion in high speed, a microphone is visible at the bottom of the screen.
The same footage of Ms. Scarlet screaming (when the cook falls out of the freezer) is used both when the cook falls out, and when Wadsworth falls out. You can tell by looking in the background. It shows Mrs. White standing on the landing by the door next to Prof. Plum. But when the shot changes, Mrs. White is standing next to Ms. Scarlet, leaning up against a cabinet.
At the beginning of the film, Wadsworth approaches the house and feeds the growling dogs outside. Apparently, from the expression on his face combined with his slowed pace, Wadsworth steps in the dog's droppings before entering the house. He then proceeds to scrape the bottom of his shoe on a pot in front of the door. The next shot is a bit wider and shows the ground where the supposed dog droppings were, however, there are none to be found. Surely some would have remained. This is fairly important considering the smell that lingers around Wadsworth makes up a greater part of the beginning of the film.
Wadsworth was explaining how Miss Scarlet killed the cop. It then showed her killing him. You can see that she stopped the lead pipe behind his head so it wouldn't show a violent and bloody death.
In one of the first scenes in the study, Mr. Boddy hands each guest a weapon and then proceeds to turn out the lights. The room is thrown into complete darkness. Unfortunately, there is a roaring fire in the fireplace that would have illuminated the room enough for everyone to see what was going on.
When they are searching the house, look at the window at the top of the stairs after the lightning strikes, you can see a person's face in it.
In one ending, Mrs. White is responsible for Yvette's death, yet when Yvette rushes downstairs to meet her killer, Mrs. White is still heard screaming upstairs.
When a gloved hand tosses an envelope's contents into the fire, most of the papers miss the fire completely.
Towards the end of the film, when the butler is explaining 'whodunit', as he stands at the front door, quite clearly at the top of the screen a microphone can be seen following him back and forth.
When everyone is searching upstairs and Miss Scarlet and Colonel Mustard start screaming, they all come running down. Yvette has on flat black shoes, but right after the running shot is over she is back in heels.
When they are putting the cook's body on the sofa, Wadsworth walks by in the background and says "Careful, don't get blood on the sofa". This line was added in post-production. It has a different volume and quality and if you look carefully, Tim Curry doesn't actually say anything.
When they reach the study with the dead cook's body, they stop before entering and drop her half-way into the room. They proceed to look for Mr. Boddy in the room and file into the Study one at a time. In the same camera angle you see everyone entering the study including Miss Scarlet, then Yvette, then Mrs. White. Then the camera angle changes and in comes Scarlet, White and then Yvette.
When the cook's body is lowered to the kitchen floor, you can clearly see her move her outstretched arm closer to her head.
In the hallway, the camera pulls back from the dining room towards the front door. The camera pulls back too far, and on the floor masking tape and a different type of wood can be seen, indicating where the set stops.
In the scene where the cook's body is lying in the doorway, you see Mrs. Peacock squeeze in. The shot changes to somebody else, and you see Mrs. Peacock come inside again.
After they find Mr. Boddy's body in the bathroom, Wadsworth starts shouting. A candlestick then falls and hits him on the head. Look at the candlestick when it falls: you can tell it was pulled by a string or something.
In the study, when Wadsworth says that Mr. Boddy is the one that's blackmailing everyone, Colonel Mustard and Mr. Boddy get in a fight. Mr. Boddy pokes Colonel Mustard in the eyes. You can tell that he stops his fingers right in front of Mustard's eyes. Less than a second later, Colonel Mustard falls over.
When Miss Scarlet's car breaks down on the way to the Hillhouse mansion, she gets a ride from Professor Plum. He turns the windshield wipers on, and starts to drive away. When it shows the car driving away, the windshield wipers are off.
Another anecdote to Prof. Plum's and Mrs. Peacock's simultaneous disappearance from the kitchen. At the end of the movie (the one with three endings) the second ending says that Mrs. Peacock was missing when they found the dead cook. The third one states that Prof. Plum was missing when they found the cook dead. If that's true then how come neither Prof. Plum nor Mrs. Scarlet mentioned it when Wadsworth was going over the events of all murders. Also, since they were standing next to each other, wouldn't the both of them have noticed that the other one was going off to kill somebody?
Just before the chandelier falls, Col. Mustard quite visibly flinches, even though, realistically, he would have no way of knowing that it was about to crash behind him.
When they lock the weapons up they forget about the candlestick (which, as mentioned, mysteriously disappears) and leave the knife sticking out of the cook's back. Wadsworth and the others wouldn't know how many times each weapon would be used so why only lock up the four that haven't been used yet.
When Yvette shoots the chandelier the reflections of the lights can be seen on the hall floor in the high angle shots. the lights stay still when the chandelier is spinning and falling.
How much does Wadsworth forget when he reenacts the events of the evening? He completely misses the part where he was on the phone in the library and the cop was being shown the fake 'party'. During this sequence Yvette disappears (When they gather in the Hall afterward it looks like she comes from the Kitchen). He seems to be a pretty good judge of what everyone is up to when his back is turned, so why does he leave this part out. The gun could have been stolen during this time, or any of the other weapons.
When Mr Boddy suggests the guests all leave the house, he makes a pretty desperate escape attempt, leaving the group stood next to a bag full of weapons (which some of them may have known about) for at least half a minute. Depending on which ending you choose to believe there are a number of reasons why he might want to do this. It certainly made it seem as though he had something to hide or had realised his number was up. Later on in the film Wadsworth reenacts the entire evening and goes into quite meticulous detail about the order the guests arrived, where they sat, who said what etc. He also reveals his knowledge of the passages, implicating himself as a suspect. Yet he never mentions Mr Boddy's escape attempt. It turns out that no murders were comitted in this time. Wadsworth might realise this but the guests wouldn't. Considering he goes off at thousands of irrelevant tangents throughout the reenactment, you'd think something like that needed covering, if only for the benefit of misleading the guests to stop them realising that he (Wadsworth) is actually Mr Boddy. Also, there was plenty of time for Yvette to kill the Cook (even though the weapons hadn't been handed round yet, but that would've come out anyway).
When the six guests are sat around the table eating, keep watching the thing on Mrs. Peacock's shoulder (I think it's part of her coat) as it keeps slipping down her shoulder, then even when she isn't messing with it, it still moves up and down in different shots.
After the candlestick drops from the ledge above the bathroom, it mysteriously vanishes for the rest of the movie.
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