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• Continuity: Early in the film, Lady Trentham taps on the window of the car. Mary, who is seated in the front, looks over her right shoulder. In the next shot she is looking over her left shoulder.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning, Lady Trentham jumps closer to the car between shots just before she gets in.
  
  
• Continuity: In the dining room when George the footman tells Henry Denton to go elsewhere, Henry's hands are in his pockets, but in the next shot, as Henry leaves the room, his hands are at his sides.
  
  

• Continuity: Lady Trentham is holding the paper open as Denton leaves after having coffee spilled on him. In the next shot, the paper is closed and she opens it again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lady Trentham is getting ready to leave, she doesn't have a scarf around her neck. When she goes to the vanity, she throws the scarf to Mary, but then in the next shot she is taking the scarf off.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Lewis and Probert are listening to the music, the shadow of the camera is visible just before the cut.
  
  
• Continuity: As Lady Trentham is telling Mabel about training her new maid, her tea cup appears in her hands between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mable informs Lady Trentham that she doesn't have a lady's maid, Mr. Nesbit lays his tea cup and saucer on the mantel. When Lady Sylvia joins the group at the table, Freddy again places his cup and saucer on the mantel.
  
  
• Continuity: While resting and listening to Ivor sing during the murder scene, the cooks "jump" from the spiral staircase to the square-landing staircase between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Before William is killed, the dog is on the desk. When the killer enters the room the dog is at the killer's feet. When William is discovered dead, the dog is on the desk again.
  
  
• Continuity: When the butler goes into the servants' quarters to tell Lord Williams' valet the police wants to talk to him, Mrs. Wilson's door is closed. In the next scene the door is opened.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Wilson enters the Servants' Hall while the inspector is telling the staff that he will be leaving, Mrs. Croft exits the room but the door remains open behind the Inspector. When Mrs. Wilson leaves the room, Mrs. Croft reenters, the door is shut and she opens it.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the pheasant shoot, clucking can be heard. Pheasants do not sound like chickens, they make their own distinctive noise.
  
  
• Continuity: During the build up to murder sequence, with Ivor Novello playing piano, Morris Weissman clearly leaves the room "to use the telephone". We see him at the telephone, but then he is back in the room again during later shots, but when the murder is discovered, he is still on the telephone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Croft and the cook are counting the knives, we see servants bringing the candelabra from the dining room down the stairs. Then we see the gentlemen in the dining room, where the candelabra are still lit.
  
  

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