Maverick Movie Details
Maverick taglines:The greatest gambler in the West has finally met his match.
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| Directors: Richard Donner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 out of 33,855 votes |
“Maverick” 1994 by Richard Donner – Movie Goofs
“Maverick” Plot Summary
Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.
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“Maverick” Goofs List
- Anachronisms: Tire tracks are visible on the dust trail during the runaway stagecoach scene.
- Anachronisms: When Maverick is talking to the women from the wagon train, a truck can be seen in the distance, traveling from left to right.
- Continuity: On the steamboat, the door to Maverick’s room is immovable when seen from within the room, but able to be budged when seen from outside.
- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The winning card that Maverick throws at the end of the match is obviously thicker and made of a heavier material than the rest of the deck so that it will land face up across the table.
- Continuity: Just before Maverick meets Annabelle for the first time in the saloon: after he sees the people playing poker, he is still going down the stairs although he had stopped at the bottom just before.
- Continuity: After the poker game in the saloon, Maverick goes back to his room without closing the door. But a few seconds later, Annabelle knocks on the door which is suddenly closed.
- Continuity: On the ferry, Coop takes Annabelle’s umbrella and helps her onto the stage. In the next shot, the umbrella has disappeared.
- Anachronisms: Modern American flag (with 50 stars) on the “Lauren Bell.”
- Anachronisms: For the last hand of the poker tournament, the dealer is seen taking a plastic wrapper off a new deck of cards.
- Continuity: The Archduke pulls a wallet from his jacket pocket to bribe Maverick, but the wallet has disappeared a moment later when Maverick grabs the rest of the Archduke’s cash.
- Anachronisms: While Maverick is climbing over the runaway stage coach toward the dead driver, a car is visible in the upper right corner.[widescreen only]
- Revealing mistakes: Cable marginally visible as Maverick flies over the edge of the cliff.
- Continuity: Just before the campfire shootout, Maverick tells Annabelle and Coop that he only has six bullets, but during the scene he fires fourteen without reloading.
- Crew or equipment visible: Guidewire visible on the arrow shot at Maverick.
- Continuity: As Maverick leaves his room in the saloon he locks the door behind him. When he returns, the opens the door with his hands full and keys in his mouth.
- Continuity: During the fight scene between Angel and Maverick’s “attackers”, the rope Angel uses to pin one of them to a pole keeps disappearing and reappearing between shots.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Maverick begins babbling “I can’t believe I pulled that card” his lips are not moving.
- Anachronisms: Contrail visible in the sky behind Joseph while the missionaries, Coop and Anabelle are watching Bret parlay with the Indians.
- Continuity: When Coop and Annabel are finding out information about Maverick on the ferry, the water wheel behind Annabel moves at different speeds between shots.
- Continuity: When Mav sits down at the table at the beginning of the movie, Annabelle’s hand is on her cheek when the camera is on her but in her lap when the camera is on Maverick.
- Anachronisms: When the shot pans out on the town, a speed boat is clearly seen on the lake.
- Continuity: On the balcony at the hotel, as Anabelle is trying to escape after stealing Maverick’s wallet, he removes his suspenders, but in the next shot, they are back over his shoulders again.
- Anachronisms: The playing cards used at the tournament have rounded corners as modern decks do instead of the period correct sharp corners
- Continuity: During the runaway coach sequence, the sky repeatedly changes from being overcast and cloudy to clear blue between shots.
- Continuity: As the stagecoach nears the women that were robbed, the horses switch from jogging to loping between shots.
- Continuity: When Maverick wins his first hand after losing for an hour, the first shot of the table shows all of the cards neatly arranged around the chips, while in the next shot from behind Johnny Hardin, they are strewn around in a mess.
- Factual errors: Annabelle gives her dealer a $1000 chip in the poker tournament before the final table. This is common in cash games in which money is won after each hand. Unlike cash games however, tournament chips have no money value and cannot be exchanged for cash.
- Anachronisms: While the gamblers might have played a very large poker game on the riverboat in the late 19th century, they wouldn’t have played a tournament because tournament poker wasn’t invented until 1971 in Las Vegas.
- Plot holes: Joseph states that he needs to ‘change some rubles into dollars’ in order to pay his debt. This indicates that the Archduke has been paying him in rubles yet the very same day the Archduke pays in American dollars.
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