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Joe Kidd (1972) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Joe Kidd is kissing Elma, Harlan's girlfriend, they are interrupted by one of Harlan's henchmen (Gannon). Elma turns her head to the right to look at him. In the next shot her head is turned to the left as she looks back to Kidd.
  
  
• Factual errors: Joe Kidd fires more than ten shots with his standard ten round Mauser C96 without reloading the gun once.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the shootout begins in the Mexican village, one of the bad guys is shot in a doorway, when he flies backwards into the room, the "brick" wall he lands against gives and then wobbles and shakes like rubber or card board.
  
  

• Anachronisms: In the scene where Joe Kidd is approaching town after having joined up with Luis Chama, he sends one of Chama's men to ride into town first to test if the area is covered by gunmen. As he's riding into town you can see a vehicle driving across the frame in the distance.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Near the end of the film when Joe Kidd and the sheriff are coming out of the courthouse the sheriff tries to put his gun in his holster but misses and has to try again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the early jail scene, after Joe Kidd throws the stew in Naco's face, he hits him with the empty pan. After the hit you can see the pan has no dent in it. Joe lowers the pan out of camera sight (you can hear it bump the table). When he raises it again, it has a large dent in the bottom. If you watch closely you can tell that he is changing pans out of sight of the camera.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Harlan's gang returns to Sinola, Roy tells the desk clerk at the hotel that there is eleven of them. However in the gunfight, we see the deaths of seven (including Harlan) and the surrender of two more. Two have disappeared.
  
  

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