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A Fish Called Wanda (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Crew and camera visible in a mirror when Wanda visits Archie in his office for the first time.
  
  
• Continuity: Path in cement before the cement roller has been there.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The wedge that Ken shoots out of the pulley was inserted from the wrong side, so that the weight on the rope would have loosened it rather than it holding safely.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Otto fires his gun on the safe in the hideout the gun makes the sound of a silenced weapon, but his gun is not equipped with a silencer.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The garage with the safe is in an archway under a very wide railway viaduct. But dialogue between Wanda and Ken places it in Fulham, which has no such viaduct.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The flat that Archie borrows has an E1 postal address, putting it on the north side of the Thames, but has a view of Tower Bridge from the south side.
  
  
• Continuity: Wanda is in a car putting on red lipstick. After a cutaway and return to Wanda in close-up, she is wearing bright pink lipstick.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Reflected in a mirror in an early scene in George's flat.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Wanda's hands on Archie's shoulders and face as she kisses him in the apartment.
  
  
• Continuity: When the crew meets for the first time before the robbery, Otto throws a knife at a poster on the wall where it hits the nose of a baby seal. Later in the movie the poster is undamaged.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Archie runs out of the house after the "burglary".
  
  
• Continuity: When Otto shoots the sleeves of Archie's suit in the airport, the hole in his left sleeve blows out before the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: After coming out of the airport building, Archie's suit doesn't have the two bullet rips from Otto's gunshots.
  
  
• Continuity: Ken causes the death of the first dog by releasing an attack dog. The old lady is holding three leashes, colored red, yellow, and blue. The attack dog is obviously headed for a small dog attached to the red leash, but during a quick cut the attack dog grabs the one on the yellow leash.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the family walks in on Archie's striptease act, one shot facing the family (from behind Archie) shows that Archie is wearing dark briefs (only visible in the non-letterboxed version).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Wanda is talking to George in prison, you can see crew equipment bobbing up and down over their heads.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time they mention George's address, it's Murray Avenue. All other times, it's Murray Road.
  
  
• Continuity: The first goldfish Otto picks from the aquarium changes color just before he puts it in his mouth.
  
  
• Continuity: Otto forces Archie into a barrel of sludge at the airport, waist deep. When Archie escapes the barrel, his clothes are dry.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Otto chases Archie across the lawn there are multiple shadows indicating at least three spotlights.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the beginning of the movie when Wanda tells Ken that Otto's dad used to beat him up, Ken says "good" but his lips don't match his voice.
  
  
• Continuity: The second getaway car is an Austin Metro City X 5 door model, it has two wing mirrors. However, the car they get out of in the lock-up is a Metro City as it has only one wing mirror and no 'X' decal on the rear wing.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: While Ken is on the phone with George making final arrangements, a camera shadow falls across him.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ken crashes the car into the trash, trash appears in the car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wendy and Portia see the flat tyre it is broad daylight. In the scene after John Cleese is seen in his house at night. Then the whole Wanda scene is played out before Wendy and Portia return to the house. Where did they park their car?
  
  
• Continuity: Otto's phone call to the police gives George Thomason's address as "flat 3, Kipling Mansions, Murray Road, London, West 9" (W9). During the committal, a court clerk asks George to identify his address as "Kipling Mansions, Murray Avenue..."
  
  
• Continuity: Ken causes the death of the first dog by releasing an attack dog. The old lady is holding 3 leashes, colored red, yellow, and blue. The attack dog is obviously headed for a small dog attached to the red leash, but during a quick cut the attack dog grabs the one on the yellow leash.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Spotlight glare and (faintly seen) camera lens reflection visible in door glass as Wendy storms outside while demanding that Archie get her necklace back with a "YOU'RE the bloody barrister!" (slam).
  
  

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