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• Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the cameraman as Jed Cooper walks into the saloon.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Jed walks into the Sheriff's Office to find the Swede after being hired as a Marshall, a shadow from the camera man is clearly seen following Eastwood on the lower left part of the screen.
  
  
• Continuity: The length of Miller's beard seems to vary considerably from shot-to-shot, especially during his fist-fight seen with Cooper on their way back to Fort Grant. He appears nearly clean-shaven, but once on the ground, his beard is quite heavy. In contrast, Cooper's facial hair never changes.
  
  

• Miscellaneous: When Jedd is hanging on the noose, you can see the film being reversed back and forth to see his feet go back and forth in the same pattern for 10 seconds
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie a piece of camera equipment can be plainly seen lying on the bottom of the gallows.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, Jed has to pick up a calf from the water and carry him on shore. However, after the calf walks off, we can see that his leggings (which should be wet) are dry.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jed is walking outside, just before entering the saloon where he will kill Reno, he has two shadows. Inside the saloon, he casts two shadows too (but this could be due to two oil lamps).
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the film, when Jed carries the calf out of the river, he places it on the ground and his chaps and pants are soaked from walking out of the water. He then turns to get on his horse and his chaps and pants are dry.
  
  
• Continuity: During the picnic scene in which Rachel tells Jed of her husband's murder and her rape, her hair is alternately wind-blown/neat between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jed Cooper is unsuccessfully hanged in the opening scenes, he is seen rocking back and forth after the horse bolts. In the close-up, Cooper becomes still and the rope stops swinging.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Jed is rescued from the noose, a white vehicle can be seen flashing quickly between the trees in the distance.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Marshal Cooper wakes up in the hotel after returning with the three outlaws, you can hear a man and woman cooing and laughing in the background, if you listen carefully, you'll notice it is on a loop and keeps playing over and over again
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: There's a ventilated electrical transformer underneath the gallows at the first hanging.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Near the end of the film when Cooper assaults Captain Wilson's house, it is guarded by a German Shepherd which didn't come into existence until 1894-1899 which is well after the time period of this film.
  
  
• Anachronisms: On the evening before the hanging of the six prisoners, a man suggests that people have been setting up tents in the "boondocks". "Boondock", derived from the Tagalog bundok is an expression introduced to English by American soldiers in the Phillipenes during World War II, well after the period of this film.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cooper is first lassoed, the rope changes position between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cooper is cut down, the short, hanging end of the rope is initially not seen but is visible later.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cooper is marched to the 'paddywagon,' one mule is seen hitched behind the wagon. It then disappears, and when the wagon moves, two mules are seen.
  
  
• Continuity: Cooper's position changes when fighting with Miller in the desert. This is when Miller knocks Cooper to the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: Number of prisoners in the wagon varies between close and long shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double when Jedd is being roped at the beginning of the film before and while he is dragged through the river.
  
  
• Continuity: After his hanging, and cutting him down, he was placed in the prison wagon. As he is entering the wagon, he is not wearing any pants, just chaps. But he is wearing pants when he gets out of the prison wagon.
  
  
• Anachronisms: As Cooper rides out of town at the very end of the film, two telephone poles can be seen between the palm trees in the top right corner of the shot over the credits.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Judge goes to visit Jed Cooper in the hotel after he's been shot you can see a painted background in the front doorway that has a shadow cast upon it that reveals the background is a one piece painting.
  
  

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