Mistakes - From Russia With Love
Martine Beswicke, who plays Zora, was originally credited as "Martin Beswick" in the opening title sequence. Monty Norman's name is also misspelled Monte Norman in the credits.
When Morzeny says "Exactly 1 minute, 52 seconds. That's excellent" in the beginning of the film, his lips never move.
In the opening, the chessboard is backwards. The white square should be in the right corner, not the left.
Blofeld uses the Siamese Fighting Fish to demonstrate how SPECTRE works, with two fish fighting while a third watches and waits to fight the winner, who will be weakened by then. However, partitions in the fish tank are visible - the third fish couldn't attack if it wanted to.
During the chess tournament the white queen on the large display board is moved from F4 to E4. In the following shot it is back on F4.
When Klebb visits SPECTRE Island and first speaks with Morzeny, most of the conversation heard does not synch up with their lips, as if the actors were initially saying completely different dialog on the set. This mismatch goes on until they enter the training area.
During Klebb's SPECTRE Island visit, she and Morzeny walk through a training area. As they leave the training area we see a shot of them entering what appears to be another training area, but it is identical to the one shown earlier.
When he is being shown the briefcase by Major Boothroyd (Q) in M's office, James Bond picks up one of the magazines containing the rounds of ammunition, pressing out a handful of them before he starts putting them back in, one by one. In the next shot, 007 is no longer holding any of the bullets and the magazine is full, although he should have still been replacing the rounds.
When 007 is about to leave M's office after receiving instructions from Q regarding the briefcase, we see Bond replacing the knife in its hidden slot. In the next shot, as he is leaving, the knife is back in Bond's hand.
While Q is showing 007 the briefcase, one of
the bottom buttons on Q's overcoat is buttoned up. But as he
finishes showing 007 the items, the button is undone.
When talking to Klebb and Kronsteen, Blofeld's ring swaps hands briefly.
When Tatiana goes to see Klebb, Klebb closes the door but it doesn't shut tightly. A crew member's hand reaches through to pull the door shut all the way.
When Klebb reads out facts to Tatiana, she is wearing thick glasses. Instead of using convex lenses, she has concave lenses. Concave lenses are used to correct shortsightedness (myopia), convex lenses are helpful in farsightedness (hyperopia) or presbyopia. Using those glasses for reading is pointless. It would be easier for Klebb to read without glasses than with wrong glasses. Additionally, when we see her moments later she is not wearing her glasses, although her posture seems to suggest that she hasn't moved to remove them and is still reading.
Bond exits Istanbul Airport through the domestic terminal, despite arriving on an international flight.
The car that Bond is in, while driving to the Gypsy Camp, changes from a 1960 Ford two-door station wagon to a 1960 Ford four-dour station wagon.
Right after the belly dance at the gypsy camp when Bond thanks for the hospitality, he wipes his hands clean on his handkerchief. But in the next shot, cut on action, he is not doing so. The angle then switches back to the original, complete with handkerchief.
After Bond removes the wire to release the burning wagon, in the Gypsy sequence, he clearly fires two shots from his gun (two flashes of light) but we only hear one shot.
During the battle at the gypsy camp, Kerim Bey is shot in his right arm. You can clearly see him smearing fake blood on his sleeve with his left hand.
Bond does not turn the bathtub tap off after he meets Tatiana in his hotel bed.
Right after the belly dance at the gypsy camp when Bond thanks for the hospitality, he wipes his hands clean on his handkerchief. But in the next shot he doesn't. In the shot after that he does.
While it is true that visitors must remove their shoes to visit a mosque, Santa Sophia is an exception because it is no longer an "active" place of worship and visitors may keep their shoes.
When Bond is talking to Tatiana on the boat, their faces are both lit from the upper-right (as seen by the camera), yet they are facing each other.
While it is true that visitors must remove their shoes in a mosque, Santa Sophia is an exception because it is no longer an "active" place of worship and visitors may keep their shoes.
The words used for "pull" and "push" signs on the doors at the Russian consulate are literal translations of the corresponding English verbs ("dergat" and "pikhat"). First, it's not what is customarily written on the doors in Russia ("to" and "fro" are used), and second, the colloquial forms of verbs are used, not the written forms.
Russian consulate is placed over the Byzantine cisterns in the old city. Actually it is located in the "European" Beyoglu district.
The entrance sign at its gate identifying the Soviet consulate in Istanbul is written in Russian and, inexplicably, English - but not Turkish.
When Bond first recovers the Lektor, he does not properly close it, though he goes through the motions. It becomes closed and latched as he runs through the door.
Kerim Bey is holding the Lektor Decoding Machine as Bond, Romanova and Bey turn around from an oncoming horde of rodents under the Russian Embassy, but in the next scene it is Bond who is holding the Lektor as the three run away.
When Bond and his party board the train in Istanbul, they board the train at the rear which shows passenger coaches. When the train passes Kerim's son and does not stop at the scheduled rendezvous because Kerim has been killed, the passing rear of the train is freight cars. When Bond and Tania escape from the train, the departing shot of the rear of the train is passenger coaches again.
The agent waiting for Bond at the Zagreb train station is first seen in a reversed image with his pocket and handkerchief on the right side of his suit coat. When he is talking to Bond on the train platform the pocket has moved to the left side.
The train didn't stop at a couple of minutes past 6 (probably because of the double murder) and the train passes the two sons of Kerim who were waiting. When the train arrives at the next stop the clock on the platform shows 5.34.
During the train journey from Istanbul to Venice, some shots of the passing train show green painted British carriages, rather than the continental carriages shown in other shots of the train. The carriages are maroon in real life, the film being altered to show green. The disc signal, and the locomotive buffer beam is the give-away.
Near the end of the fight scene with Red Grant, the blood on Bond's hand disappears and then reappears.
During the helicopter chase Bond takes cover in the same small depression twice (and from the same direction) although he is always running "downslope".
When Bond is being chased by the helicopter, the Lektor and the rifle switch hands several times between shots.
In the scene just after the helicopter crash, when 007 is running down the hill away from the helicopter, another person in the same type of suit is seen coming up the hill from the right. They are hunched over, presumably trying to stay out of sight from the camera.
When the helicopter attacking Bond blows up, its skids are blown off in the initial explosion. But in the next shot it is seen crashing to earth with the skids still attached.
The flower truck changes when attacked by the helicopter. The flower truck that is first seen at the railroad crossing is a Dodge, and after 007 enters the pickup, with the villain in the cab, the truck switches to a Chevrolet.
In the helicopter chase and subsequent explosion, the cable attached to the helicopter prop (and an off-camera crane) is clearly visible as the flaming wreckage falls to the ground.
When Bond is talking to Tatiana on the boat, their faces are both lit from the upper-right (as seen by the camera), yet they are facing each other.
The flower truck changes when attacked by the helicopter. It is first seen at the railroad crossing is a Dodge, and after 007 enters the pickup, with the villain in the cab, the truck switches to a Chevrolet.
The truck hood is burned by air-bombing, then is unmarred.
In the boat chase, the director's waving hand can be seen reflected in the windshield of Bond's boat at several points.
When Bond and Tatiana are on the water being chased by the three Spectre boats, the middle boat, which is directly behind Bond's boat, has a man on the bow firing an automatic weapon at Bond's boat. But when the bullet holes appear in the drums, most are on the ends of the barrels, on the left side, and a few are in line with the direction of fire. The only way for this to happen is for someone to be shooting from the left of Bond's boat as well as from the rear, yet only one person is firing and he's firing from the rear.
There are only four drums of gasoline on the boat, but when they explode in the water, there are at least 15-20.
After Bond dumps the oil drums into the water he fires two shots from of the single-shot flare gun but doesn't stop to reload in between.
At the end of the film when Bond is examining the film taken of the two of them in the bridal suite the film is in 8mm format but when he throws it into the Venice canal it changes to 16mm.
