Goofs for
Son of Frankenstein (1939) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: On the train ride to his father's estate, the same tree passes by Baron Wolf Frankenstein's train window several times.
  
  
• Continuity: When Inspector Krogh first warns Wolf Frankenstein to use the alarm bell to summon him he has no monocle. He has it in the camera angle with the two of them together but not in the close-up of the inspector.
  
  
• Continuity: In the climactic fight with the monster, after his artificial arm is torn off the inspector draws his gun, a revolver. He then proceeds to fire ten shots in quick succession, without the chance or ability to reload.
  
  

• Continuity: When Wolf von Frankenstein is arguing with Krogh in the castle lobby (73 minutes), he removes his hat and throws it at the high-backed chair to the left of the fireplace. It lands on the floor in front of and to the left of the chair. Later in the scene, the hat switches to the right of and behind the chair. Later still, in the same location, the hat has now flipped upside down. Frankenstein's coat, which was thrown on the floor to the left of the chair also shifts position (to the seat of the chair, in this case).
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolf Frankenstein is throwing darts, the position of the darts changes between shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Inspector Krogh fires his last shot at the monster, there is no corresponding gunshot on the sound track.
  
  
• Continuity: Although the setting is clearly Germanic, Police Inspector Krogh refers to his men as "gendarmes" - which is French.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolf (and the audience) sees the sulfur pit for the first time, you can see the body of The Monster sinking to the bottom. (Obviously an unused shot recycled from the end of the film.)
  
  

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