When Flint 'relaxes' (suspending his body supported only by two chairs: one under his head and one under his heels - the rest, with no support), it was not a special effects shot; James Coburn was able to do so, and it was incorporated into the script.

The safe door locking bars, which Flint easily melts, were cast from "Woods metal", an alloy whose melting point is only 158? F, so low it can be melted in boiling water.

The dock at Galaxy Island and the submarine deck are the same one used as the Nelson Institute in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964).

On the official studio soundtrack album, the song 'Galaxy a Go-Go' was written by a young Randy Newman, who is in fact the nephew of Lionel Newman, the head of "20th Century-Fox's" Music Department at that time.

When the computers analyze the requirements for an agent to solve the crisis, the end result is simply a blank punched card that has Derek Flint's name typed on it but has no holes punched, rendering it useless for input or output. This one flaw mars a sequence that was otherwise remarkably un-dumbed down for a popular movie of the era. After Cramden asks the world representatives to write down their specifications for the perfect agent, it would not have been surprising to see him feeding a sheet of paper with their handwritten instructions into a slot in a prop "computer". Instead the film shows the information being punched onto cards with real keypunches, the cards put in stacks and loaded into real card hoppers (the origin of the phrase "loading data"), from which they are input and processed by the computer. This was state of the art data processing in 1965.

Continuity

Every shot of the "anti-American eagle" soaring shows a different kind of bird, easily noted by the radically different shape of the wings.

After using his portable light-torch to cut his way through the trailer's locked safe door, Flint is then found back inside the locked safe door with no signs of it having been cut open.

When Flint dives off the cliff, the cliff face is sheer with little vegetation. He lands in a lagoon, no cliff, but a beach with a lot of vegetation.

The tail-number on Flint's jet changes from the ground shot to the aerial shot.

Flint's hands are covered with lather and soap before the fight with Gruber. But every shot of his hands in the fight shows them without lather.

Factual errors

The chemical formulas on the small bags in the briefcase with "65 weapons" Cramden tries to give Flint are nonsense. According to the formulas, the leftmost bag consists of benzoic acid, a food preservative; the middle bag is tartaric acid, commonly found in fruits and wine; the rightmost bag is acrolein, a toxic, unstable and stinking substance that smells of burning fat. None of these would be of any use for a secret agent.

In the scene where Flint is resting before going on his mission his girls comment on him stopping his heart for almost three hours. If his heart stopped there would be no blood delivering oxygen to his brain. He would have been braid dead (more likely simply dead) after about five minutes of heart stoppage.

The Rodney coat of arms does not feature three black boars heads but three purple falcons, a purple griffin and a knight's helmet.



Revealing mistakes

In the Reward Room, the discotheque area is silent with the doors closed. The music can only be heard with the doors open. But when one of the dancers opens them, she does so by sticking her hands through the "glass" in the doors. And when the men enter the room, they enter through the open doors and the "glass" panels on each side.

When Flint's women are being abducted, one is snatched right out of the shower. As she clears the door, her flesh-colored bikini top is visible.

Flint uses his watch as a head-worn light while trapped in the safe. But the spot of light does not follow the movements of his head, obviously coming from someone holding a lamp off-screen. It is also much smaller in the close-up shot of the map.

On Galaxy Island, the coffin is being transported standing up on its short end. This would have caused the corpse in it to fall out, especially since the lid - as is shown later - is not firmly latched in place but instead just resting on the coffin.

When Flint throws 0008 over a table one of the patrons throws himself dramatically backwards, nearly two seconds after 0008 lands on him.



Miscellaneous

Toward the end, when Flint and the women are running upstairs to their escape, a chunk of large foam-rubber concrete bounces off the head of the last brunette, and then falls in front of Flint. Apparently, too good a take, otherwise, to re-do with better timing.

When the girls are being rescued from the cylinders near the end, a sailor can be clearly seen to grope a girl's breast.



Audio/visual unsynchronized

When Hans Gruber attempts to kill Flint, his pistol has a silencer on it and is quiet. Moments later, when Flint wishes to empty out the cafe before the bomb goes off, he fires the pistol with the silencer still on, but this time it is loud.



Errors in geography

When Cramden's plane is landing after an unsuccessful attempt to recruit Flint in what is supposed to be Washington DC, the outside view of the plane landing shows it landing on runway 13. None of the airports in the DC area (Dulles, National, or Andrews AFB [Bolling AFB ceased flight operations in 1962]) have a runway 13.

When Flint radios the location of Galaxy Island, it is roughly 18 degrees north and 11 degrees west. However, the map that he reads shows it is about 41 degrees north and 5 degrees west. The map's location is in Spain, and the radioed location is in Mauritania. Neither is in any ocean region.

There is no such thing as extinct volcano in NE Russia, as claimed by the mad scientists.



Character error

For being an extremely well educated man, even to the point of teaching ballet in Moscow, Flint's French is unrealistically poor.

The secretary at Exotica and Flint greet each other in Italian, then the secretary immediately addresses him in English without knowing that it is his native language.

When Flint is leaving Cramden's office and attacks the guards he tells Cramden that he knew they were phonies because they were wearing Battle of the Bulge ribbons and claims there is no such ribbon. Flint should not be able to "recognize" a non-existing ribbon.