Goofs for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
   
                   From www.imdb.com
 
Continuity: The flower on Elsa's blouse changes size when she 
is inside the catacombs.

Anachronisms: In trying to find his father, Indy goes through his 
father's mail, revealing a stamp which wouldn't have been 
issued at that time.

Anachronisms: A view from Donovan's apartment shows a 
modern building visible in the background.

Anachronisms: When the soldiers break into the room holding 
Indiana and his Dad, a rifle is thrown across the room breaking 
a lamp and an ashtray. The glass ashtray is a standard item 
manufactured exclusively by an LA glass company and was not 
made until the late '50s-early '60s.

Crew or equipment visible: Wire holding the bow of the boat 
when it's near the propeller.

Miscellaneous: In the airport lounge, two people are reading 
German newspapers dated 1918, twenty years before the film is 
set.

Anachronisms: In 1939, the truck that Marcus is kidnapped in 
displays the German Afrika Korps emblem, not introduced until 
1940.

Continuity: Henry Jones Sr.'s beard around the time the tank 
falls off the cliff.

Revealing mistakes: When the tank falls off the cliff and hits the 
ground below, the turret falls off, revealing a flat surface 
underneath on the chassis model - there's no way for the 
occupants to climb out from the body of the tank through the 
turret, as we see them do several times previously.

Miscellaneous: For a split second, when the villain jumps from 
the dock to Indy and Elsa's boat, it's clear he slid off the other 
side into the water.

Continuity: While in the catacombs, burning pieces of Indiana's 
torch fall into the "petroleum", but it doesn't ignite until someone 
throws in a match.

Factual Errors: Blasting holes through the rudder of a small 
plane will not disable it, especially when Jones Sr.'s body was 
enough to cause wind drag. Although level turning would be 
impossible, the plane could still maneuver with the wing 
ailerons, which are more critical to level flight if ever damaged.

Factual Errors: Indy and Elsa dive under the burning petroleum. 
If it was really petroleum, it would have burned their eyes and 
possibly blinded them. Even if it was only a top layer, they would 
have passed through it.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Indy is hanging from the 
gun barrel on the side of the tank as it is grinding into the side of 
the cliff, the strap of his bag is looped around the barrel. But he 
frees it when we're not looking, by unbuckling it.

Revealing mistakes: When Indy realizes the X on the floor and 
runs up the stairs the book shelves and the books behind him 
on the second floor are obviously fake.

Anachronisms: Indy & his father get on a German airship in 
1938, yet there were no commercial airship flights after the 
Hindenburg disaster of 1937.

Factual Errors: In Venice as Indy's boat is being dragged into 
the big ship's screw the wooden hull breaks away - revealing 
that there is no motor in it, in fact there is nothing, it's just 
empty!

Errors in geography: The initial scenes of the movie are shot in 
Arches National Park (which is, as is stated, in Utah), and the 
troop dismounts at Double Arch. Indy takes the Cross of 
Coronado from a cave near that arch. However, there is no train 
line for miles in any direction.

Anachronisms: In an early scene in what is now Arches National 
Park, Balanced Rock is seen - but the smaller balanced rock 
("The Chip off the Old Block") that stood beside it until 1975 is 
gone.

Audio/visual unsynchronised: The butler in the castle says 
"...and if you are a Scottish lord, then I am Mickey Mouse," but 
his mouth movements indicate something completely different 
than the words "Mickey Mouse" (in fact he says "...then I am 
Jesse Owens" and the line was altered in post-production so 
that audiences who didn't know who Jesse Owens was would 
still get the joke).

Anachronisms: In various scenes, Dr. Elsa Schneider is wearing 
the M43 (Mountain Cap) - M43 denotes the cap being 
introduced in 1943, yet the movie is set in 1938.

Anachronisms: When Indy is wearing the uniform of a German 
Artillery Officer, there is a ribbon of the 1939 Iron Cross 2nd 
class in his buttonhole, yet the movie is set in 1938.

Continuity: When Indy and Elsa enter the castle where Jones 
Sr. is being held, it is pouring with rain, and continues to do so 
while they are inside. However, when they make their escape 
from the castle and are pursued by the motorcycle Nazis, the 
sky is clear, there is almost no water on the ground, and there is 
actually quite a bit of dust being thrown into the air by the 
motorcycles.

Continuity: When the last Nazi motorcycle pulls up next to Indy 
and Jones Sr., Indy has the remnant of the staff/lance in his left 
hand. But it is in his right hand as he throws it into the spokes of 
the other bike.



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