Goofs for
Ed Wood (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: Bela says he hasn't "worked in four years" when in fact he had made two films, Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) and Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952).
  
  
• Factual errors: Bela says he is 74 years old. When he died he was 73.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bela's morphine addiction becomes apparent, he starts rolling down and buttoning his sleeves so he can put his coat on. He only rolls down the right cuff. The next time the camera is on him, his left sleeve is rolled down, buttoned, and his coat is on. There was not enough time between to accomplish this task.
  
  

• Factual errors: There are numerous other inaccuracies between the movie portrayals and the biographies of the various people involved.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: At the premiere of "Bride of the Monster", a man can be heard shouting "Mr. Landau!"
  
  
• Continuity: Lugosi's two dogs disappear and reappear in his lap while he and Ed are watching Vampira's movie.
  
  
• Continuity: During both scenes where Ed Wood is resting on the bench at the sanitarium, the same car drives down the street as seen through the window in the back.
  
  
• Continuity: In a screening room, Ed calls back to the projectionist to show the footage again. At which point, the projector (the same projector) immediately restarts although the film has not been rewound and rethreaded.
  
  
• Factual errors: Ed Wood is depicted as the first to approach pro-wrestler The Super Swedish Angel (Tor Johnson) about appearing in movies. In fact, the real Tor Johnson had been appearing in numerous films since the 1930s.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The film depicts the premiere of "Plan Nine From Outer Space" as taking place at the famous Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The preview was actually held at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles.
  
  
• Continuity: Dolores' hairdo changes between the time of her fit at the party and the time she's outside and Ed is running after her.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At Boardner's in 1948, when Ed's play is reviewed, a 1955 Chevrolet is parked at the front door.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ed is shooting his last footage of Lugosi outside of his house, when the camera is on Lugosi there is a walkway, but when the camera is on Ed, there isn't one. This is only visible in the fullscreen version.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The sign on the "Screen Classics" building is designed in the Chicago font, which was designed by Apple Computer in 1983, thirty years after the film takes place.
  
  
• Anachronisms: A 1956 Nash Rambler Station Wagon goes in the opposite direction on the way to Bela Lugosi's house in 1952.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Although "Glen Or Glenda" was made in 1953, both a 1955 and 1956 Ford can be seen in the background while they're shooting the film, as well as a 1956 Dodge, and other late-'50's cars.
  
  
• Factual errors: As a sight gag, during the premiere of Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), Tor Johnson is shown sitting with his wife and two very chubby children. In reality, by the time "Plan 9" was made, Tor's son, Karl, was an adult working as a police officer. Karl had supplied the uniforms and police car for the production of "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
  
  
• Continuity: Dolores hits Ed on the left side of his head for accepting Loretta, but Ed subsequently has an ice pack on the right.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Ed Wood first meets Bela Lugosi they are shown in a convertible and as they are driving you can see very modern, steel high tension utility poles along with mercury vapor street lamps that were not in common usage until at least the late 1960s.
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the world war two theater production Ed can be seen miming the dialog in the background, however when the camera moves to a close up position of him, his left hand has changed positions.
  
  
• Continuity: Ed and Bela are watching a 1958-1960 Philco Predicta television, but when we see the movie they're watching on the TV screen, it's a mid-50s Packard-Bell television.
  
  
• Factual errors: The camera used during dialogue scenes is a Mitchell NC using a notoriously loud 'coffee-grinder' motor. Normally, for dialogue scenes, this camera would have been placed inside a sound-proof 'blimp' housing and used with a sync motor.
  
  
• Continuity: In the movie when Ed is filming Bela at the house, the door is on the viewers right. In Plan 9 the door was on the viewers left.
  
  
• Continuity: Dolores' hair is shorter and in a different style when she runs out of the wrap party.
  
  
• Factual errors: Ed and Bela are shown watching the movie "White Zombie" on "The Vampira Show" on Halloween. According to the IMDb, that episode ran on 6/5/54, almost 5 months before Halloween.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the time, "Plan Nine from Outerspace" was filmed, Orson Welles was very fat and had a chubby face, but Vincent d'Onofrio's interpretation of him looks much more slim.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the first meeting between Ed Wood and George Weiss where Ed is trying to get funding for Glen or Glenda (1953), Weiss mentions he did a movie entitled Chained Girls (1965), which came out after "Glen or Glenda".
  
  
• Continuity: When Ed visits Bela Lugosi's home, sidewalk outside his house appears and disappears depending on whether camera is aimed at exterior of house or is depicting Lugosi's view from front door, indicating two different houses were used for scene.
  
  

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