BLOOPER BUCKAROOS!!!
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Even John Wayne movies had mistakes. Most often they were editing errors, or mistakes made at the technical end of the business. Listed are some of the most obvious 'BLOOPERS' found in a few John Wayne films.
You too can be a "Blooper Buckaroo"!. The next time you watch a John Wayne Movie, see if you can find a blooper. Report them to me and they will be added here. You will receive name credit for your submission and become an officical "BLOOPER BUCKAROO!!
Please try to be accurate. I no longer can check them all and some that have been submitted have been too vague to post. Anyone who has previously sent a BLOOPER that is not posted, please let me know.
THE ALAMO
WILLIAM BROWN JR. FOUND THE FOLLOWING
In one of the initial scenes, Col. Travis (Laurence Harvey) is speaking
with Gen. Sam Houston (Richard Boone). Houston tells Travis that he has never liked
him, but he is one of the few men to whom he is willing to trust the future of Texas. (or similar
words) In that scene, Travis not has only a semi-crew cut hairstyle, but, a Southern accent. However, every scene thereafter in which Travis has dialogue, he now has longer hair, and, HAS LOST HIS SOUTHERN ACCENT! He speaks with Harvey's British-esque accent.
Other reported bloopers are:
While Wayne and Colonel Travis (Laurence Harvey) talk in the cantina, a Tennessean punches another Tennessean. This causes the second Tennessean to fall down by a fireplace. In the next scene, the Tennessean disappeared from the fireplace area as Wayne starts to speak.
After the women and children are evacuated from the ALAMO, the first attack begins. Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) fires his seven-barreled rifle. Widmark raises his arms too high and the wire going to the rifle stock, causing the simulated gunfire, is seen as the rifle is fired.
When the final attack begins, an explosion occurs and some stuntmen are suppossedly blown off the wall. Obviously the stuntmen fall onto mattresses to break their fall. The mattresses can be seen in the background of the shot.
When Colonel Travis is killed, he falls to the ground. As the Mexican soldiers run over his body, he moves his arm so his hand won't be stepped on by the running actors.
As the battle comes to a culmination, Mexican calvary jump over a palisade to make entry into the Alamo. Yet in the next scene, the Mexican Cavalry is still shown approaching before the entry.
As Crockett, Wayne is killed by being stabbed with a lance. Yet before he is killed, a blood stain appears on his shirt. The stain was from a previous take of the shot.
During the climactic attack, Wayne as Crockett throws a torch in front of a stack of powder kegs. The resulting explosion, however, clearly comes from behind the kegs.
KEVIN JOHN SIMON TELLS ME:
During an explosion that occures on the wall in the final attack, you
can clearly see that one of the people who blow up is in fact an almost
scarecrow-like figure with a hat...not a stunt man or actor.
During the firing of the cannon in reply to the surrender demand.
Laurence Harvey's touching off of the cannon startles the Duke and
Richard Widmark totally, and the recoil of the cannon lands one of the
huge wheels on Harveys foot....OUCH!!!! With a smashed foot, the actor
finished the scene stoically.......after Duke yelled "CUT!!!!!" Then
everyone realized that he was in a considerable amount of pain.
(From John Wayne's The Alamo.)
From BOB DISCHNER
Another for your list (I've seen this film so many times, I think I know 'em all!) During first battle sequence, Crockett and the Tennesseans rise together at the palisade to fire in a volley...in the background, the lower right window of the chapel is scorched and sooted from fire...the window is later shown clean, since the fire that scorches it doesn't occur until the final
scenes...shot was obviously done after the main battle scenes were filmed...
Dee Lyda caught this language blooper
"THE ALAMO"
As Frankie Avalon rides into the edge of Sam Houston's camp, he is
stopped by a guard, then allowed to proceed. One of the Texans comments
that Avalon looks hungry and he should get some "frijoli" beans.
"Frijoli" is a Mexican word for "beans". The guard is essentially
saying "beans, beans."
ANGEL AND THE BAD MAN!
DALE ZINK SPOTTED THIS:
In The Angel and The Bad
Man, John is standing in a field leaning on the plow when Harry Carey Sr. enters. John's gun has problems. At one point it is in a gun belt. Then it is in his belt, and then back again in a gun belt.
THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA
John Wayne fights a large Japanese hoodlum. As the last punch is thrown, the click of a 35 mm camera can be heard in the background as someone on the set took pictures.
BIG JAKE
After saving a sheep herder from hanging, a rider approaches Wayne with a message. The scene shows the rider come up and almost hand him the message. Yet in the next scene the rider is shown approaching Wayne again.
ALEXANDR A McDANIEL caught this inconsistancy
In the night scene where his son, Christopher Mitchum, is demonstrating his shooting ability, the son says that he'll shoot the broken branch off of a tree. John Wayne says, "Son, that's over 400 yards.." How could he see that far, because in the movie he had bad eyesight. My name is Alexandra McDaniel and my dad is really the John Wayne fan, I just noticed the mistake.....thanks, bye!
We'll make a John Wayne fan out of her yet
Patrick Wayne, playing Waynes son, has his shirttail outside his pants after fighting with Wayne in the famous "Daddy" scene. After the fight, another actor approaches Wayne after Wayne falls in the mud. At this point Patrick Waynes shirttail is tucked in again. However in the next scene, showing Patrick, the shirttail is out again.
In the scene where BIG JAKE confronts his other son (Chris Mitchum) after crashing on his Motorcycle and playing dead. Wayne slugs his son for scaring him out of 10 years of life. In the background, numerous 35 mm camera shutters can be heard clicking.
CRAIG GILLETTE CLAIMS:
Big Jake the train station.
Just before the Daddy scene, there is a cleat nailed to the platform to
holds the loading ramp. It miraculously disappears for the motorcycle
scenes! (anybody else see this one?)
THESE TWO SUBMITTED BY DARREL LACKEY
In the "Daddy" scene, behind John Wayne Maureen Ohara is standing on the train deck several feet away from the edge. "Dog" is laying nearby on the bench. The camera cuts to a closeup of John Wayne and then back to the original scene. However, now the dog has vanished and Martha is standing right on the edge of the dock.
In the scene where John Wayne takes the trunk of money from "Martha" to deliver it to the kidnappers, he begins to walk towards the door with the trunk behind his shoulder. When the scene cuts to Wayne walking through the door, the trunk is now on his shoulder.
THIS ONE SUBMITTED BY MONTE LAMER
Just after the "Daddy" scene, Big Jake mounts a horse and gets thrown off because his other son shows up riding a motorcycle which spooks the horse. Wayne lands in a mud puddle and is covered with mud. The scene cuts away and cuts back showing Wayne without Mud, then cuts away and back again, finding Wayne muddy again.
Cody Popson notes:
In one seen his dog is a black color and in the next the dog is a yellowish color, and in
the next the dog is black again.
THE BIG TRAIL
JOE MANTELLA FOUND THIS ONE:
In the final scene when JW is running toward the girl his rifle is slung on
his sholder. When he kisses the girl the rifle is gone . After he kisses the
girl, the rifle is back.
CAHILL U.S. MARSHAL
TOM REPORTS THIS:
Next time you watch Cahill US Marshall look close at scenes around the boys fishing. You
will notice JD riding up to Lightfoot, look at the background close. Then the boys are
leaving, JD and Lightfoot are watching them over a cliff, notice the trees in the
background while they are doing the distant shot, but pay close attention to the closeup
shot next, looks like the same background as it was while they was watching the boys fish.
CHISM
DAN FARMER NOTICED THIS ONE !
I was watching "Chisum" the other night and I noticed in the scene where John Simpson Chisum and Pepper have hunted down deputies Morton and Baker in the saloon and there is a confrontation resulting in one of the deputies knocked-out on the floor - Pepper throughs
a pail of water on the deputy and the floor is made of some nice tile. Now I am a home contractor and I find it hard to believe that a saloon of that time would have such a floor. It looks more like the floor of a studio commissary or something.
THE COMMANCHEROS
RON AND LORRI NORRIS SPOTTED THIS ONE JUST RECENTLY IN 2006
This may be trivial, but in The Commancheros where Jonh Wayne has Regret dig up the rifles after he kills Crow and leaves town. When he tells Regret to fill the hole, if you look, there is no dirt laying around, that had to have been displaced from the hole. Where did all the dirt go?
My wife Lorri Norris should get credit if you find it is worth listing.
In the first Bloopers anyone has sent me in several years, ED RISKO found two both in the Commancheros. Note there are quite a few found in this movie!
In the scene where Regret wacks cutter with the shovel, watch the shovel carefully at that part of the scene. When it strikes cutter's head it wobbles, showing it to be rubber and it does so again when Regret drops it. I'm not sure, but I also thing Cutter's body is out of position from where he dropped when he wakes up during the rain, but I'd have to watch it again to make sure. - Ed Risko
Watch when John Wayne pulls up to the hotel in the wagon during his undercover stint as Ed McBain. When he gets out of the wagon he isn't wearing spurs. He walks into the hotel and registers and then walks up the hotel stairs. At that time, with no logical intervening event, his spurs are back on. -- Ed Risko
Dustin and Clayton Doss strike again!
In the gunfight with the Comancheros at Schofields ranch Stuart
Whitman goes to get the rangers. When he returns he jumps from his horse to the
grain bags by John and Patrick Wayne. After he crawls up closer to the grain bags
he reaches for his pistol . There is no holster or pisol there but , in the next scene
he has a gun in his hand and a holster on his waste.
DUSTIN and CLAYTON DOSS found another one too!..These Buckaroos are dangerous!
Hi, This Is Dustin. I and my brother found some more bloopers in
Comancheros. In the part where John Wayne brings Stuart Whittman back to
Schofields ranch when he gets off the wagon and walks over to
Tobe (Patrick) he has a cigar in his hand and Tobe has a medicine bottle in
his hand. Directly in the next scene the cigar is in his mouth and the
bottle has dissappeared.Then after a few words Tobe asks Who's That? The
bottle is back in his hand.
JULIAN THOMPSON SPOTTED THIS ONE:
In The Comancheros, during the final wagon run up the hill Michael Ansara
falls out of the wagon. His handS are tied behind his back. You can see him
use his hand to break the fall and then move them back as he stands up.
DAN BOSTOCK SAYS:
In the "Comancheros" after Wayne has arrested Stuart Whitman, they are
shown camping the next morning in what looks like Texas Big Bend
Country, at least 300 miles from galveston where the arrest took place!
OLIVER SPIVEY FOUND THESE:
In the Commancheros when tommy crow (Lee Marvin) and Jake Cutter (Wayne) are
having the fist fight in the saloon, Marvin after punching Wayne through a table grabs a
bottle of whisky in his right hand. The next scene shows Wayne and then goes back to
Marvin who is now holding the bottle in his left hand.
Also during the Commancheros, when Cutter (Wayne) and Paul Regret(Stuart Whitman) are
in the wagon searching for the Commanchero's hide out. Before they spot commanches
wayne picks up his Winchester rifle. Then the scene shows the Commanches then goes
back to Wayne. But he is holding the reins of the wagon not the rifle. (if you look
closely, the rifle Wayne has next to him at the begining of the wagon trip is an 1861
Henry repeating rifle. But in the blooper scene I just wrote about he picks up a 1873
Winchester model rifle, and when they arrive at the Commanchero hide out it is the
Henry rifle. Note that many of the guns in the movie are historically incorrect for the
time period that the movie is set in, which is the early 1840's.)
DAVE CROWE REPORTS THIS ONE:
In the scene where Wayne and Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) encounter a ranch burned out by indians; You see Wayne bury the dead family and turn his back on Regret, who hits him over the head with a shovel. You see the shovel fall with the handle facing up and away from the camera. In the next scene, as Wayne wakes up, the shovel is turned around.
During a Commanchero attack at the weigh station, a wagon is pulled onto its side. Wayne uses the wagon for position. As he goes to the wagon, the wheels are all still. In the next scene, when Wayne shoots, one of the wheels is now spinning as if the wagon had just fallen over.
At the films conclusion, as Wayne and group flee the indian camp, Wayne is seen firing his rifle to kill a sentry. In the first scene of Wayne firing, he is holding the rifle right handed. However in the next scene, a film reversal shows him using his left hand. The next shot shows the rifle back in his right hand again.
DONOVANS REEF
Robin Allison caught this
In Dononan's Reef, after the fight between John Wayne and Lee Marvin
ends up in the pond behind the saloon, Jack Warden is dressing them down
for their long standing feud. John Wayne is standing on the right and
Lee Marvin on the left (facing the camera), but when they all walk back
in to the saloon Wayne is on the right and Marvin on the left (walking
away from the camera). An obvious switch in positions even though this
seems to take place in the same film loop with a short pan to Warden and
back again.
EL DORADO
JOSH GERTH NOTICED THIS!
In El Dorado- when Mississpi dives under the horses you can see the film
change over. Obviously it was two different filmed parts rolled into one. As
you see Mississppi shoot at the men on the horses you can tell it's a screen
background with moving horses. Watch it and pay attention and you'll
understand. Remember God Loves John Wayne!!!!!!!
JACK RUDDER CAUGHT THIS ONE!
In El Dorado, in the scene where Mitchum walks
across the street to the jail house, clutching his stomach is a obvious blooper. The
double that takes Mitchum's place is not nearly as broad shouldered and has on the
wrong hat!
several of you confirmed this one for me..Thanks-Jerry
OLIVER SPIVEY notes:
In the scene where Thorton (Wayne) and J.P. (Robert Mitchum) come out of the
washroom at the begining of the film, if you watch Wayne tying his bandanna on, he is
tying it from the front. When he starts to walk away, the next scene shows the
folded part of the bandanna on Wayne's shoulder (while he was tying it, the
folded part was in the back.)
Also, after Wayne brings Luc Mcdonnel's body back to the
Mcdonnel ranch and he rides away, he next rides by a stream when he is shot by
Joey Mcdonnel. When he falls off his horse "Cochise" you notice that his body has
fallen parallel to the stream. The camera goes back to the Mcdonnel girl as she
goes to check on him. In the next scene you see Wayne's body pointing towards the
stream. (also if you look closely you can see Wayne's head lift up briefly before the
Mcdonnel girl gets there.)
Amanda noticed this.
If you look at the scene in El Dorado when John Wayne is returning the McDonald's dead boy, before Joey shoots him, he is holding his arm just the way he does later in the movie when his hand is paralyzed. I guess that what comes from not shooting a movie in sequence!!
FLYING TIGERS!
Julian Thompson caught this!
FLYING TIGERS
WHEN JOHN CARROLL BRINGS IN HIS DAMAGED AIRLINER THE WHEELS DROPS ON THE
LEFT WING (THE ONE ON FIRE). wHEN THE PLANE FLIES OVER THE AIRPORT, THE
WHEEL IS DOWN ON THE RIGHT WING.
FLYING LEATHERNECKS
Terri Royea found this one:
I found a blooper in the movie last night! Flying Leathernecks: when
Charlie the Navajo is shot down during one of the dogfight/air battle
scenes, it shows him being shot in the right leg/knee area. It cuts away to
other parts of the battle, outside shot, then back to him and suddenly
*gasp* it's his left leg that's all shot up.
GENGHIS KHAN!
Believe it or not Elizabeth Wolfe
actually took the time to watch this movie and find a blooper! Here is what she found:
This one may not be a popular enough film for many people to watch, but
it's a blooper all the same. At the end of Genghis Khan, when the Tartars
and the Mongols are galloping toward each other for the last big fight,
watch the top of the hill as the Tartars go by. The horsemen on top are
actually US Cavalry; you can see the flag and troop guidon at the front if
you look closely!
THE GREEN BERETS
LARRY POZZUM RONNOW POINTS OUT THE FOLLOWING
(this one is widely reported by vets..Thanks to all who have mailed it in)
One of the worst JW bloopers I've seen is at the end of the Green Berets where Big John
is trying to console the little war orphan who just realized his buddy Jim Hutton will not be
coming back. They are walking along a beach and the only beach in Nam is along the
country's east coast. However, we clearly see the sun setting over the ocean, i.e. setting in
the east. It can't be sunrise since all the previous scenes occurred in broad daylight!
CPT. Lee Clark-2nd Infantry noticed:
In the scene where COL Kirby and CPT McDaniel are watching the Airborne
training at the beginning of the movie, they are then shown walking into
the tree line and watching the Special Forces Gabriel Demonstration.
U.S. Army Airborne school is at Ft Benning,Ga., where the movie was
filmed, and the JFK Special Warfare School is at Ft Bragg, N.C. John
Wayne was the toughest individual in the movies, but I don't think even
he could have walked from Georgia to North Carolina that quickly and not
messed up his class A uniform. The other really obvious blooper was
when his helicopter crashed when the VC were attacking the base camp.
The wires holding the airframe were really obvious.
On the other hand, a slight disagreement by WO1 Huemoeller:
In response to the blooper in "The Green Berets", During the time of
the Vietnam War there was an Airborne School run at Fort Bragg as well
as the one at Fort Benning. In addition Special Forces, being the
ultimate soldiers and teachers, they can and have run their own Airborne
Schools.
WO1 Huemoeller
5th Special Forces Group
P.S. Don't doubt the Duke!!
Ed.note: You guys can decide who is right. I was in the Air force!
HATARI
Terry "Poltergeist" Burkhart points this one out
Here is a blooper from Hatari!.
After the Warusha tribe initiates Dallas into the tribe and names her
'Mama Tembo', John Wayne enters her bedroom and finds Dallas is in bed with
a face full of cold cream, except on her chin! She sets the bottle of cold
cream down on the table. After 3 back and forth cut aways from her to John
Wayne, she has cold cream on her chin, too!
JIM BOYD FOUND THIS ONE
In the opening scenes they are chasing a rhino. Pockets(Red Buttons)
is driving the "catching car" and is in the front of the truck alone.
While chasing the rhino, the animal does a quick 180, causing the
crews to reverse their routes as well. When the catching car makes a
sharp U turn, there are very clearly two people in the truck!
The rider is wearing a bright red shirt as Dallas(Elsa Martinelli)
wore in a later scene, but at this point she had not even entered the
movie.
Thanks,
Jim Boyd
HONDO!
DALE ZINK found this one
In Hondo, close to the end of the movie John is shooting then runs to a waiting horse, but
when he gets on you can see that a guy is holding the horse.
THE HORSE SOLDIERS
LYNN RUST SPOTTED THIS:
I wonder how many of your webpage fans know this was based on an actual mission in the Civil War? Also, there is overlapping footage in the Confederate charge up the street at Newton Station. Watch carefully and see the same Johnny Reb (he has a beard, as memory recalls) pick up the Stars and Bars twice after the standard bearer is shot down. From two different camera
angles, separated by segments of other parts of the charge.
TOM CAUGHT THIS ONE!
At scene when a soldier is about to have his leg cut off, the Dr.(William Holden) gives the soldier a stick to bite on.
Another soldier steps over him to help hold him down, and he bumps into the stick. As he bumps it the stick bends and flexes back straight.
DESTRY NOTICED THIS:
Big blooper in HORSE SOLDIERS is in similar sequence with Dr. Holden prescribing
penicillin, or something mighty close to it, some 80 years before it was discovered.
THE LAWLESS FRONTIER
BOB REED noticed that:
In "Lawless Frontier" John Wayne is chasing one of the bad guys on horse-back and in the background, for just a few seconds, you can see a concrete and steel bridge. This was supposed to have been in the 1800's !!!!
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
DARREN SWOLLEY also found this one
Wayne in the late 1950's and 60's usually wore blue or red double breasted shirts for his westerns. In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, filmed in black and white, Wayne is
shown in a bar wearing a dark shirt. When he arrives at his ranch, in the next scene, he has on a lighter colored shirt. The next scene, inside his home, Wayne has on the darker shirt again. The next sequence is the fire and when Wayne is carried out of his home by Woody Strode to the wagon, Wayne has on the lighter shirt again. Once in the wagon, the next shot shows Wayne wearing the dark shirt once again.
McLINTOCK
THIS ONE COMES FROM TERRI ROYEA.
Early in the movie young Dev, played by Patrick Wayne, asks McLintock for a job. After he is hired (and a bit of posturing) Wayne gets up into a buckboard with his lead man Drago. Wayne sits down on the left side of the buckboard facing the camera, to drive the team. A cutaway is shown next to Young Dev who gets on his horse to follow the buckboard. The next scene shows the Buckboard driving away from camera, Wayne is still sitting on the left side, even though the wagon has turned around and he should be on the right now.
Oliver Spivey strikes again!
In the scene where John Wayne is chasing Maureen
O'hara around town at the end of the film, and when duke is chasing her through the
general store. If you watch carefully just before she knocks down a bunch of barrels to
stop duke, and just before he falls, it is clearly his stuntman by the look of his face and a black
hairline. Also if I am not mistaken in that film his stunt man also plays the sheriff.
(This was confirmed by Frank Skapura and several other fans)
HERES ONE FROM STEVE CHRISTENSEN:
In the scene, daughter Stephanie Powers is outraged and insulted by potential suiter Patrick Wayne. Powers goes to father, John Wayne and insists Wayne shoot Patrick for his insult. Duke pulls out a pistol and obliges. However the pistol is actually a starter pistol and merely puts a powder burn on Patrick Waynes shirt. The blooper is the powder burn. When shot, the burn is shown to be on Patricks belly.(left photo) After he falls backward, the burn appears to be over his heart.(right photo)
STEVE TAYLOR NOTICED THIS:
In McClintock, when John Wayne is persuing Maureen O'Hara thru the hotel, at the
point where they both jump from the
second story of the hotel, to a hay wagon below, Wayne's left shirt sleeve rides up,
giving an excellent flash of his
watchband.
ed. note. I created this picture almost 2 years ago and never spotted the band. Even in this gif, you can see it..
From Craig Gillette:
In McClintock, when they arrive at the mine for the big mud slide
brawl, as John Wayne dismounts and moves up to the confrontation with the
girl's father, he is wet from about the knees down! (Which reminds of a
slightly racy joke with the punch line, "Are you really John Wayne? I can
relate it if you haven't heard it.
ed's note...I don't think we need to hear it..but thanks anyway!
Terry Burkhart noticed this one
During the Fourth of July celebration 'Bunny' places his small wagon
against a wall to free the indian chieftains. You see him walking away from
the wall with his burro and just before the explosion there is a definite
shadow shift that is being cast by the wagon. Obviously a necessary editing
blooper but a blooper none the less. I would assume this was caused by the time lapse from a 'safe' wagon to protect the actors and loading it up with explosives for the ultimate
explosion which destroys the wall and allows the indian chiefs to escape.
NORTH TO ALASKA
In a fight scene towards the end of the movie, Wayne pushes con-man Ernie Kovacks onto the floor of a buckboard. In the tussle, the horses reins knock Waynes hat off, along with his toupee. In the photo at right you can see the difference in the hairline.
PITTSBURGH
ANOTHER SUBMITTED BY PAUL MARINO
In a crisis scene, Wayne and Randolph Scott are attending a function when summoned to an emergency. As the two enter a car to drive to the problem, Wayne is wearing a full suit with vest. A cutaway and back shows Wayne without the vest.
RED RIVER
Dee Lyda caught this:
"RED RIVER"
During the stampede scene when all the cowboys are trying to turn the
herd, check out the horses that John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Noah
Berry Jr. are riding. It's the same mechanical horse! They didn't
even change saddles for the shots! Notice the big Mexican saddlehorn on
the saddle that all of them ride.
Some other bloopers include
Waynes wagon is struck by a flaming arrow, causing a large burn hole in the left front part of the wagon. At the Red River, the hole is visible. In the next shot, the hole is gone. The next scene shows the hole has reappearred. Then upon Waynes Arrival at his future ranch site, the hole is gone again.
During the climactic fight between Wayne and Montgomery Clift, Waynes hat is knocked off of his head. The scene then cuts to Walter Brennan for his reaction to the punch. The next scene features Waynes hat getting knocked off again for the second time.
RIO BRAVO
FRANK MOREAU just made the Buckaroo club with this one!
I am surprised that no one has mentioned this one.
In the final shootout scene in Rio Bravo, the Duke and Ricky
Nelson are exchanging Claude Akins for Dean Martin. Dean
tackles Claude and a the fight starts. Ricky Nelson says
something to the Duke as a bullet hole appears in the window
frame beside Ricky's head. In all subsequent shots the
bullet hole is gone
DAN FARMER POINTS OUT:
In the scene where Dean Martin, sitting on a horse, tells Wayne he is going to stop off at the saloon for a beer. Wayne replies, " I thought you might, there's some inside....cold." Dean Martin then says, "As long as its beer." . The blooper here is that when Martin says his last line, his lips aren't moving. It was obviously looped in later...
CARL SWANSON SPOTTED:
In the end of Rio Bravo when Duke stops feathers from going out in her nighty you see dukes shadow on the piano move from one side to the other but duke hasn't moved?? Don't Know if
that really qualifies as a blooper though?? (ed note..it does)
RIO GRANDE!
Dirk Doss found another one!
Here Is a blooper from Rio Grande. Victor Mclaglen is calling off the roll call
when he comes to York. He picks up his hat and walks out. He stands on the porch for a few
seconds when then you see him stick his hat on. In the next scene you see him walk off the
porch putting his hat on as he goes.
Julian Thompson Noticed this...
RIO GRANDE
DURING THE ENTIRE MOVIE SOLDIERS HAVE SINGLE SHOT RIFLES. IN THE FINAL
BATTLE THEY ALL HAVE REPEATING RIFLES.
RIO LOBO
KEN PAYNE SAW:
In Rio Lobo towards the end of the movie Jack Elam is following Victor French into
the jail when he fires his shotgun into the air.If you watch close you can
see the paper wad from the blank float back to the ground.
TOM FROM DUBLIN GA CAUGHT THESE TWO
At the scene when JW is bringing Ketchum out of the jail for the trade, they make a left
turn down a street. Notice their shadows, they are behind them. The next scene shows JW and Ketchum walking toward the camera down the same street, but notice their shadows now. The shadows are to their left and not behind them. It appears they shot the two scenes at different times.
Another shadow blooper. The scene is during the time they are about to make the trade.
JW calls out to Hendrix the sheriff to talk. Notice that they are facing each other but both
of them have a shadow behind them. (ed note. obviously impossible)
Another blooper is, when one of the bad guys was going to throw dynamite into the building that JW was inside. JW shot him. The bad guy grabs and holds his stomach. Then the bad guy throws the dynamite, but as he starts to back away from it and starts to get up, notice he grabs his right shoulder instead of his stomach. ( ed note: Good obs Tom)
ROOSTER COGBURN
Wayne and Hepburn are resting, when Indian boy Wolf tells them that the bad guys are approaching. As they mount their horses, Wayne is wearing a coat. In the next scene, as they are riding, Wayne still has the coat on. In the next scene as they approach some hills, Wayne does not have on the coat. Yet in the very next scene, when the bad guys are spotted, Wayne has the coat on again.
OLIVER SPIVEY KEEPS FIND'N MORE BLOOPERS...THIS TIME HE POINTS OUT:
In Rooster Cogburn after Cogburn (Wayne) is finished shooting "corn dodgers" in a
field he gets up and walks away with his rifle. And in the next scene he does not have
the rifle.
DUSTIN DOSS ADDS THIS TIDBIT:
In Rooster Cogburn
through out almost half of the movie Mr. Waynes eye patch is a little
bit bigger. The reason is Mr. Wayne was trying to show his daughter how
to hit a golf ball. She swung and hit the Duke above the eye. Luckily it
was the same eye he wore the patch on.
THE SEARCHERS
J. VICTOR ORTIZ sent me this gem
In the river fight scene, I believe right after Ward Bond throws his hat at Wayne, he pulls up his pistol to shoot, but it goes off prematurely.....Bond, like the film veteran he is, makes it look intentional by carefully aiming the second shot.
Eugene Koczur noticed this one:
When the Indians are ready to attack across the river, Ward Bond throws his hat at John Wayne, and hitshim very hard in the chest. You can see by the look on his face, it was pure pain, but they kept it in the scene.
Oliver Spivey says that:
During the Searchers when Ethan Edwards ( Wayne) and Martin Pawley ( Jefferey
Hunter) stop to camp, Ethan keeps putting more wood on the fire so Jerem Futterman can locate them. After Edwards kills Futterman
and gets his money back, if you look at the fire Edwards was building, you can tell it
had died down to something very small compared to what it was.
Another blooper in the Searchers is when they are having the shoot out with Cheif Scars
war party across the river. If you look at Wayne's Winchester rifle it is the same for the
first few scenes. But then later you can see it is a different style Winchester
by looking at the barrel. Then after the shoot out when Wayne walks away the rifle is like it was in the first few scenes.
JOHN SEEBECK REPORTS THIS ONE FROM THE SEARCHERS.
In the scene where ETHAN and PAWLEY approach a dead indian, If you look closely, you can not only see the "dead" indian breath, you can hear it on the film.
One more from, "The Searchers". Early in the film Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) refers to himself as "one-eighth" Cherokee indian. Later, Wayne refers to him as being "one-quarter" Cherokee. Its a small point, but a blooper none the less.
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
JOE MANTELLA tells me:
In the scene . Arthur Shields is tending the wounded soldier inside the wagon,
an old fashioned kerosene lantern is hanging. When the wagon is shown at a
distance a two mantle Coleman type lantern is seen hanging in the wagon.
THE SHOOTIST!
STEVE REPORTS:
I've noticed that one of the most noticable "bloopers" I've ever seen in a film is at the end
of "The Shootist"...after Duke is shot by the bartender he staggers a moment before he
falls...you can plainly see the HUGE special effects cable coming out of his pants leg.
SCOTT BROWN OBSERVED:
In the scene where the Duke is "escorting" the newspaperman down the hall and out the door, you can plainly see Lauren Bacall's shadow on the wall of the stairway, just standing still waiting for her cue to walk down the stairs.
OLIVER SPIVEY NOTICED:
In The Shootist when Ms. Rogers (Lauren Bacall) helps J.B. Books (Wayne) out of the
bathtub, Wayne sits down on the bed. you can see his left hand is on his hip. The next
scene shows Waynes left hand on top of his right hand resting on the bed post. and then
in the very next scene Wayne picks up a bottle of lodnum in his left hand. And in the
next scene it is in his right hand.
SONS OF KATIE ELDER
Another one from Dusty Doss
I was watching Sons Of Katie elder when I noticed another blooper. When the man Hastings
has hired is watching Wayne from the hill at the graveyard if you look in the background you
don't see a horse. After it shows Wayne again it goes back to the man ,and his horse is
standing there waiting for him to get back on.
Submitted by DARREN SWOLLEY
In the movie THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER the final shoot out in the gunsmith shop
they are shooting back and forth, Wayne is peaking over the counter and you
can see a spot on the counter that flares up to simulate the bad guys gunshot at Wayne. The Duke also fired too many shots without reloading his gun. Count them.
Newly submitted by DARREN SWOLLEY
In "The Sons of Katie Elder" At the beginning of the movie after the funeral scene Billy the sheriff sneaks up on Wayne. John's gun is in his holster. He turns as if to draw the gun really fast. If you look closely you can see two guns. One gun in his hand and the other gun still in the holster.
Then when the Duke puts gun #2 in the holster, gun # 1 is now gone.
FRANK MAZUROWSKI ALSO SUBMITTED
In the movie Sons of Katie Elder, Wayne is thrown in the water, by his
brothers. If you listen real carefully, you can here his real son Ethan Wayne scream in the background. It wasn't taken out because John Ford didn't want to shoot the scene again because the water was too cold. John Wayne had just got out of the hospital after fighting the big C. I got this from Pilar Waynes biography on John Wayne.
Sounds like it probably was what happened Mr. Mazurowski. I am aware Wayne had just left the hospital after his fight with Cancer to film "Sons". Thanks for your submission
Oliver Spivey adds
At the begging of the film the Elder boys are at their mothers funeral. while John elder
(Wayne) the oldest is on top a cliff watching, you first see him his hands are
hanging by his side, in the next shot of Wayne his hands are on his hips.
More From Oliver Spivey
on the sons of katie elder duke and his brothers are bringing horses back to clearwater.
they show duke going after a stray twirling his lasso to rope it. in the next scene the lasso is
coiled up.
STAGECOACH
Stagecoach was John Waynes jump from "B" movies to stardom. Yet a clear mistake can be seen if you watch close enough. In the scene where Wayne is on top of the stagecoach firing his rifle at the attacking indians, watch the shadows. If you look close enough, you will see a shadow of the camera and truck as they follow along and film the scene.
(not in above photo)
KIM WALLIS FOUND ANOTHER CAMERA BLOOPER:
In the scene the stagecoach comes to the river, only to find the ferry crossing has been burned out by indians. Tieing logs to the coach, they float the stagecoach across the river. As they cross, the scene was filmed as viewed from top of the the stagecoach. Shadows from the camera can be seen on the river and on the stagecoach.
TRUE GRIT
In the famous climactic scene where Wayne, on horseback, Charges Lucky Ned Pepper and his gang. (The fill your hand scene) Wayne has a rifle in his right hand plus a revolver in his left hand as he charges the gang. After Wayne charges through the gang and turns to continue firing, a film negative reversal suddenly puts the revolver in Waynes right hand and the rifle in his left. The next scene shows the guns back in the proper hands.
You can further check this one out by watching which eye Wayne has the eyepatch on...
Theresa Williams noticed
In True Grit, at the end when Rooster gets to that little town w/ that
gal, it's dusk, all of a sudden he's poundin' on the door and it's Dark!
THE UNDEFEATED
LYNN RUST TELLS US:
When Wayne and his comrades are driving their horseherd, accompanied by Rock Hudson, to the rendevouz with the Juarista general holding Hudson's party and charges; they encounter a troop of the Emperor Maximillian's French cavalry lancers sent to stop Wayne from turning the herd over to the revolutionaries and keep them for the emperor's army for which they were origiinally intended. Wayne decides the best way to handle the lancers is to charge them
with the herd, with his traildrivers scattered amongst the horses (except for some riflemen hidden in the cookwagon. This would breakup an organized charge of the lancers, plus make it more difficult to attack the scattered Americans.
During this scene, two of the French lancers charge Wayne in tandem among the running horses. With his rifle, he clubs them both over the head & shoulders as he rides past them. The scene shifts to a couple of other segments of other parts of the melee, then shifts back to the Duke. The exact same footage of the two lancers charging him is repeated. Not a different camera angle; the exact same footage. Additionally, when Wayne clubs the soldiers (a total of four times with the repeated footage), the rifle can clearly be seen flexing over the cavalry men as he clubs them. One has heard of rubber bullets used on rioters. Betcha didn't know they were fired from rubber guns!
THE WAR WAGON
In the big Barfight scene, Wayne is shown without his hat. Yet the next scene shows Wayne with his hat on, and then the next shows Wayne without his hat again.
THIS ONE SUBMITTED BY PAUL MARINO.
Also in a bar scene, Wayne and Kirk Douglas are standing at the bar next to each other talking. A close up of Wayne shows his scarf crumpled up and high on his neck. A cutaway to Douglas and back to Wayne now shows the scarf straightened out, flat and down to his vest.
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