Errors in movies can be amusing. For example, I've seen films set in the 1940's using vehicles not built until the 1950's.

I watched "Dirty Dancing" recently. The first time I've seen it all the way through. Bit of an effort since it's pretty trite.

If I remember correctly, it's set in 1963 and the music is meant to be appropriate to the period.

It is, except for one track.

Early on there's a roadhouse/club-type scene with lots of dancers and one of the tracks is "Love Man" by Otis Redding.

The sound is typical of mid-late 60's Stax material and seemed out of place.

Sure enough it was recorded in 1967 and issued in 1969.

Oops!

And another one.

When the family arrive at the site in the car, if you watch the outside shot of teh car with the wife in the passenger seat, you'll see the wife has blonde hair.

Aparantly, the actress who was booked to play the wife dropped out after shooting that first scene.

Too clever for me - I limit myself to looking out for pylons and TV aerials in period dramas (not that I've spotted any)

Yeah, I'm not very good at spotting stuff either!

The only one that stands out for me, and I can't even remember the name of the film, was do you remmeber the film from the early 80's that starred Sylvestor Stallone / Michael Caine / Pele (I think??) and they are playing POW's who end up playing a football match against the Germans? A pretty rubbish film if I recall, but for me, the last scene in the last reel is TERRIBLE. We're supposedly watching a football match in the 1940's, and the camera pans on the crowd, who are obviously just the locals bussed in to create a crowd - well it's AWFUL!! Half the crowd are in circa 1970's - 1980's tracksuits, Nike type anoraks and late 70's hair cuts - it just destroyed what was rubbish to begin with. Or maybe I thought the film wasn't too bad, but then that killed it. I can't remember anything about that film apart from that crowd scene.

Escape to Victory it was called, my good man!