The Last of the Mohicans

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The Last of the Mohicans Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (factual errors): The French are seen lighting the bomb fuses in their mortars and then firing the mortars, when by the Seven Years' War it was discovered that the flash was sufficient to ignite the fuse on a bomb (and indeed safer).
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When the British leave the Fort, a propane gas bottle, a plastic box and bucket made of stainless steel can be seen as the soldiers go down the ramp.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Hawkeye shoots a Huron who drops his gun. The gun falls off of a rock and then in the next shot reappears on the rock for Hawkeye to grab as he runs by.
Movie Goof (continuity error): As the British Army is retreating from Fort William-Henry, Magua ambushes the British. At one point in the battle, Major Duncan Heyward is commanding a small group of British soldiers. Most of them get killed, and he begins to run away. The bayonet on his rifle disappears soon after he shoots one of the Indians.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Gray rock-textured canvas, presumably covering modern trail signs or graffiti, is clearly visible in final scenes. Hawkeye bumps a canvas while running through underpass, and a larger portion is visible as he returns to embrace Cora after Magua's death.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): After Fort William Henry has surrendered, the assistant director is visible at the bottom of the screen, wearing a blue baseball cap and waving a megaphone.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the messenger runner sequence, the sky above Hawkeye and the others changes between shots, showing different cloud patterns and periods of twilight.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Duncan can be heard translating one of the lines from French before it is spoken.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the party going to Fort William Henry is attacked, Alice's hair is pinned up in a complex pattern. However, a few minutes later her hair is completely down and there is no evidence that it was ever done up at all.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Chingachgook hits Magua's arm with the war club, the club bends, showing that it was actually rubber.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): As the British are leaving Fort William Henry, two buses are visible in the background as the British General rides by.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): The flare launched from Fort William Henry, during the bombardment scene was equipped with a parachute to provide longer use. This type of flare was not invented until shortly before the First World War.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): The bars of the cell in Fort William Henry, in which Hawkeye was detained, were deformed reinforcing rod (rebar). Reinforcing rod was not used in construction until at least 1848, but deformed rod requires specialized rolling machinery which did not exist at that time.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): Telephone pole visible on the left side of the screen when the argument over the burial takes place.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Hawkeye is hunting at the beginning of the movie, there is a chain link fence in the background.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Maj. Duncan delivers a dispatch to Gen. Web. After he reads it, Gen. Web puts it completely rolled up and straight ahead in front of him. Subsequently it appears placed crosswise and a little open.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the scene at Fort William Henry where the colonials are arguing with General Munro about releasing them to go back to their farms, Cora is shown standing in a doorway. In the first scene where she is first shown, the doorway is over her left shoulder. In the subsequent scene, the doorway is over her right shoulder and she ultimately exits through this doorway.
Movie Goof (continuity error): As they are climbing rocks along the river, Uncas looks back at Alice. His earring has changed sides. (The shot was flopped)
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Major Heyward's company enters the forest for the first time, the drum tempo does not match the marching of the soldiers.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When the troops are leaving the fort there are two big red and white buses as well as a blue and white umbrella on the beach.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Cora is in the bedroom with Alice, her hair in braid over her right shoulder, in the next, it is over her left shoulder.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): Diver visible at the bottom of the waterfall.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): If you look very carefully during the opening, just as the elk emerges from the trees, you can see a man wearing a red hat, moving right next to the elk.