During the lunar rover chase scene at 1:01:45, the camera follows the rover going down a ravine while a pursuing car flips and rolls down the slope. When the car stops at the bottom of the hill, one of the moon buggy's wheels, not the car's, rolls into the foreground. In the next shot, Bond is still driving the rover with all of its wheels attached.
The lunar rover and the dirt trike chasing it both lose a wheel which reappears on the vehicle later.
Bond passes the Golden Nugget several times during the chase but has not turned any corners on the street so he can't just be going round in circles.
When Bond is holding Bambi and Thumper under water his hair is messed up. When Felix comes in, it is slicked back again.
Tiffany's position in the doorway changes rapidly several times while Bond is fighting Peter Franks in the glass elevator.
The laser beam destroys a Soviet/Russian submarine moving underwater. First, it's almost impossible to locate a submerged, moving submarine in the vastness of the ocean. Then the chances of a laser going through the water causing it to blow it up are extremely remote.
Scorpions rarely sting humans, and even more rarely do scorpion stings cause death. Most scorpion stings are nonfatal. In cases that are fatal, death is not instantaneous. Scorpion venom usually takes several hours to take complete effect on the body. A scorpion is not a portable lethal injection device, as depicted in this movie.
Shady opens the coffin, that was just in the incinerator, without releasing the catches and then grabs the lid which ought to be too hot to touch. Also, as it had just come out of the incinerator, the coffin should have been smoking.
You cannot make a laser out of diamonds. Even if you could, you could not make a laser out of multiple gem-quality stones; ruby lasers, for instance, are made from a single flawless rod of artificially-grown ruby.
When Tiffany takes Bond's fingerprint (fake) and compares it to Peter Franks', the two images are 100% identical, pixel by pixel. Although the two images would be similar, it would be virtually impossible to produce two 100% identical fingerprints, which are taken at the same angle, with the same amount of substrate, and the same amount of pressure applied.
When Bond and Tiffany are eluding pursuers by driving down a narrow alley, they manage to tip their Mustang so it's balanced on its two right wheels, but when it emerges from the other end, it's on its two left wheels. But during the drive through the alley, Bond can be seen wrenching the wheel over to flip the car in the other direction on a second ramp.
Cremation furnaces run at 870-980 °C which would burn up any diamonds present (diamonds are not in fact forever); it would be impossible to successfully smuggle diamonds inside a cadaver and separate them via cremation. However, we never see the furnace at Slumber, Inc. actually operating, and cremation usually takes an hour and a half whereas Bond is given the diamonds a few minutes after the coffin moves down the belt. It is more likely that the diamonds were simply removed from the body.
...sort of. During the Las Vegas car chase scene, Bond's car ends up riding on two wheels in order to pass through a narrow alley. When the car emerges at the other end of the alley it is balancing on the opposite pair of wheels. The producers spotted this error before release, however, and inserted a quick shot to indicate that, for some reason, Bond flips the car onto its other wheels. There must have been an opening somewhere in the alley. In a TV interview director Guy Hamilton said that after he'd filmed the car coming out of the alley he was called back to England and left Albert R. Broccoli ("Cubby") to film the car going into the alley. When Guy saw the rushes he pointed out the error to Cubby who refused to do a reshoot.
When the real Peter Franks buzzes Tiffany in her apartment, she tells him to come up to the third floor. As Tiffany thinks that she has already met "Franks" (really Bond) in her apartment, there's no reason for her to remind him what floor she lives on. However, she may have recognized that this Peter Franks had a different voice and let him in assuming he was an impostor. (Though Case verifies the identities of her visitors, she does not do anything to prevent them from entering her apartment first; presumably she has a plan to deal with unwelcome guests.)
In the opening scene, Bond gets a little mud spilled on him while he is already lying face down on the floor. When he stands up, his jacket is perfectly clean - except for the spots of mud on the back of his jacket, and down the rear of the right sleeve.
In the chase scene in the desert when James Bond is being tailed by sedans, Bond makes a jump that causes one of the cars to flip and roll behind him. Once it rolls down the dune, a spare tire not matching those on the car rolls into the foreground for no apparent reason. The rolled car did not lose a tire. (The wheel is in fact from the lunar rover - apparently the prop vehicle shed its wheel(s) a few times during filming.)
During Bambi and Thumper's attack, while performing a series of cartwheels, Thumper's skin color appears to change. This is most noticeable just as she lands.
During the car chase through the streets of Las Vegas, many shots plainly show crowds of onlookers obviously watching the filming of the action; they do not behave like normal pedestrians (walking, etc.), and while some sidewalks are crammed with people standing still observing the action, the adjacent sidewalks (nearer the cameras) are completely devoid of any people.
When Bond wakes up inside the pipeline, there is a mysterious light source which illuminates both him & the inside of the pipe. This same phantom lamp illuminates Bond when he's inside the closed coffin.
During the establishing shot of the Whyte House, in actuality the Las Vegas Hilton, you can still see the Las Vegas Hilton's name at the entrance to the building.
As Bond escapes from W.Techtronics and runs across the "moonscape" set, one of the astronauts moves in slow motion when he tries to stop Bond who runs past him. It may seem that there's no reason for this, but apart from being a funny joke, it's also a jibe at the stupidity of moon-landing conspiracy theories.
Valerie Perrine is listed in the credits as one of Shady Tree's Acorn (uncredited). She has stated more than once that she was not in this movie. She has stated that her first movie was Slaughterhouse 5.
When Kidd and Wint are watching the helicopter fly away before it explodes, Kidd's hair is being blown by the wind. When the helicopter explodes, Kidd's hair stops blowing and the image jumps slightly which means the shot of the explosion was edited into the scene after the recording of the helicopter flying away was stopped.
While on the deck of the oil platform, Tiffany Case's swimsuit has changed from purple and red to brown and red.
Blofeld's "voice box" (at about 1:14) is simply a Sony TC-165 cassette deck with some added "lights, bells and whistles".
As the Ford sedans are racing through the desert in pursuit of the lunar rover, the exact same engine revving sound effect is used over and over throughout the scene.
The man Bond attacks in the very first scene manages to scream "Cai-Cai-Cairo!" without moving his mouth.
When Bond is released from the burning coffin, Shady Tree's diatribe against him about the phony diamonds doesn't match the movement of his mouth.
When Bond is speaking, as Saxby, to Blofeld using the voice disguise machine, Bond's lips do not match the voice when he says, "It's a cinch he's not working alone."
When Plenty O'Toole comes to Bond's room, she compliments on how "super" the place is, but her mouth does not move. Later, when a half naked Plenty is yelling as she's being forced over to the window, her screaming does not match the movement of her lips.
When Peter Franks arrives at Dover he gets a message. He parks his car outside an office and as he walks in the camera crew is reflected in the window.
At 1:08:38 in the Whyte House Hotel a nipple "pastie" is clearly visible on Tiffany as she reacts to what James tells her about possible jail time as an accessory.
When Mr Wint and Mr Kidd exit the tunnel, with Mr Bond in the trunk of the car, the cover that lifts up has a Saguaro Cactus on it. That type of cactus only grow in extreme southeastern California, southern Arizona and adjoining northwestern Mexico.
The "oil-rig" in Baja California which controls the laser satellite is supposed to be in the middle of the ocean. Yet when Tiffany is shown sun-bathing on the rig, we can see mountains and a coastline not too far away in the backdrop.
The effect of the white cloud from the explosion of the rocket in Dakota is used again for the explosion of the long row of rockets in China.
Since the diamond cartel is careful to identify Peter Franks with fingerprints, it is odd that they didn't take the additional precaution of having a photograph of his face.
Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint operate by killing their victims quickly and with certainty, except for Bond who they leave in a deathtrap, unless they assumed the poison gas in the elevator was lethal. (In Goldfinger, the villain told the mobsters that the gas he was using merely incapacitated victims for twenty-four hours, knowing it was in fact lethal.)
H.M. Secret Service goes through the trouble of providing James Bond a set of fake finger prints to match Peter Franks', but does not provide any facial disguise when all it would have taken was a photo of Franks to give Bond away.
Messrs. Kidd and Wint dispose of Bond by leaving his drugged, unconscious body in a 8' section of underground pipe, open at both ends. The next day, a construction crew somehow manage to select the pipe section, hook it to a crane, lower it into position and bury it in dirt without happening to notice a man in a tuxedo apparently sleeping in it.
Mr. Kidd & Mr. Wint are clearly assigned by Blofeld & Saxby to kill anyone involved with the diamonds within the organization, their faces being unknown by all targets. Yet when they knock Franks (Bond) unconscious and put him into the coffin, it is Shady Tree and Slumber that open the coffin, as if they had also participated in the murder.
However, as Franks arrived in the hearse, Slumber would have known that he hadn't left the building when they went to look for him, and Slumber would have recognized from a distance that the crematory was turned on.
The actual plot hole in this scene is that Bond makes several references to the money being fake, which neither of them deny, nor do they try to get the money back.
However, as Franks arrived in the hearse, Slumber would have known that he hadn't left the building when they went to look for him, and Slumber would have recognized from a distance that the crematory was turned on.
The actual plot hole in this scene is that Bond makes several references to the money being fake, which neither of them deny, nor do they try to get the money back.
At the circus the announcer says that the transforming woman was captured near Nairobi, South Africa: but Nairobi is in Kenya.
Secret Agents succeed best when they are still secret. Tiffany Case knows about James Bond even though she is just a diamond smuggler, which is a field far from the usual work of Special Branch. If he's achieved this level of fame, it's unlikely he'd be sent to infiltrate criminal organizations. In fact this recognition is a central plot line in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
During the discussion about the satellite and what it might be used for, Bond describes Dr Metz as being an expert in "light retraction" - he should have said "light refraction".
During the craps game, Plenty throws a nine to establish the point, then immediately throws a seven, thus losing. The stick-man incorrectly says she "craps out" when the proper phrase would be she "sevens out."