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The Godfather: Part II (1974) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The American flags visible in the 1917 street carnival should have 48 stars, not 50.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the Cuban rebel uprising scene, a store is looted while Michael Corleone makes his escape. Something is stuck to the camera lens and can be seen as a silhouette on the screen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The supposedly dead prostitute can be seen breathing by the movement of the white sheets.
  
  

• Continuity: In Havana, when Fredo and Michael are talking around a table in the bar, a lit cigarette appears suddenly in the Fredo's previously empty right hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Vito shoots Fanucci in the chest, a small puff of smoke can be seen from the squib.
  
  
• Continuity: When Michael returns from Las Vegas after Christmas, he is carrying a briefcase in one hand, and nothing in the other hand. As he walks into the house, he's holding the briefcase in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other.
  
  
• Continuity: Shortly after the assassination attempt on Michael in his bedroom, he meets alone in a room with Tom Hagen. They sit at an empty table. After talking for a few minutes, Michael offers Tom a glass of Courvoisier, from a bottle which has randomly materialized on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: After Vito Corleone kills Don Fanucci and is sitting on the steps with his family, Fredo can be seen yawning; however, when we cut to a shot of Vito holding Michael, Fredo's body is in a different position and his facial expression has clearly changed. Also, when we cut to the pan version after Vito has told Michael that he loves him, Fredo has the end of the flag out of his mouth and is sitting with his hands on his lap.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Vito and Genco go to the theatre, and watch the 'Senza Mama' show, the singers voice is clearly out of sync with the words of the song.
  
  
• Continuity: During Roth's birthday party, the pattern on his shirt changes. Due to weather difficulties, the two minute scene took over a week to shoot and the original shirt was lost at some point. The production designer attempted to recreate it by drawing an approximation of the pattern onto a plain shirt, but it didn't quite match.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Vito is driving and Fanucci hops onto the car, another car passes between the camera and Vito's car - Coppola and the camera can be seen reflected in the car's window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Michael and Kay are in their bedroom after the party, Michael is looking out the window, and below him is a mirror that shows Kay's reflection. When Michael ducks to avoid the wave of bullets that comes through the window, Kay's reflection disappears.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When traveling into New York harbor for the first time, young Vito's boat is traveling south, away from Ellis Island toward the ocean.
  
  
• Continuity: When young Vito is quarantined, we see him looking out the window at the Statue of Liberty. From the outside shot he appears to be standing at the right-most window pane, but when we see the scene from inside, he's at the other end of the window (i.e., what would have been the left side as seen from the outside).
  
  
• Errors in geography: When young Vito is quarantined, we are led to believe that he is still on Ellis Island. As he looks out the window, the shot from outside shows the reflection of the Statue of Liberty. By that reflection (the front of the Statue) Vito would have to be on Governors Island.
  
  
• Continuity: When Michael is confronting his brother in the den, he is eating a piece of fruit which changes size inconsistently between shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end of the movie in the flashback, they talk about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happening "on Pop's birthday". The Pearl Harbor attacks were on December 7, but according to his tombstone, in The Godfather (1972), Vito's date of birth is April 29.
  
  
• Continuity: During the sniper shooting into the Corleones' bedroom, the mirror on the dresser shows Kay sliding off her side of the bed as soon as the gunshots pierce the window and at this point her pillow is vertical. But as Michael crawls to Kay's side of the bed, she's back on top, waiting for him to pull her down, and her pillow is now laying flat.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Fredo gets to the hotel in Havana, Cuba, the Dominican Republic flag is clearly visible on the flag pole.
  
  
• Factual errors: There is a scene where Micheal is fired upon through his bedroom window soon after they release the dogs to find the perpetrators. In real life, no-one releases dogs to hunt down the enemy without keeping them on a leash. There would be no way for the dogs to determine nor relay to their keepers who the enemy is. They have to have control at all times or the dogs would have no frame of reference.
  
  
• Continuity: When Michael returns to the snowy Lake Tahoe estate, we see him looking at a toy red car and then walking past a window. In the next shot, when he enters the building, he suddenly has a lit cigarette in his mouth.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In Michael's office during Anthony's communion party, it appears the Senator sets down his bottle of pills on the table after he takes them and never picks it up. However, although very brief, immediately after setting down the drink used to take the pills, you can see the Senator motion for his pills. After returning from a shot of Michael, the Senator is then seen closing his right pocket, presumably with the pills inside.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Vito shoots Fanucci in the chest there is a bullet hole in his vest, however when he opens the vest their is no hole in the shirt underneath.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Vito Corleone arrives at Ellis Island, he was marked with a circled X and sent to a nurse because he was suspected to have smallpox. In history, the circled X was a sign for a mental illness.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the final scene flashback, they are talking about the attack on Pearl Harbor happening on "Pop's birthday". It is also revealed that this led Michael to enlist in the army "this morning". Since the attack happened in Pearl Harbor at 8AM local time, news of the attack couldn't have reached New York before 1PM.
  
  
• Continuity: After Vito shoots Fanucci, the towel that is wrapped around the gun catches fire. The next scene shows Vito discarding a smaller towel with no burn marks on it.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Michael is waiting to see Fredo (during the mourning gathering following their mother's death), Michael is wearing a watch. Then when he goes in to see Fredo (and give a nodding approval for his assassination) the watch is clearly absent.
  
  
• Continuity: When Signor Roberto visits Vito at work, Signor Roberto counts money on Vito's desk. The arrangement of the money changes between shots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When young Vito Corleone is first entering America, a green Statue of Liberty can be seen in the background. At the time this is taking place, the statue's patina had not fully developed. It should have been a dirty brown rather than green.
  
  
• Factual errors: When everybody is running out of the government palace during the New Year's party, the Dominican coat of arms can be seen over the entrance (while the scene is supposed to take place in Cuba).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: On the driver's side of the windshield of the red and black automobile that Michael Corleone drives to Hyman Roth's home in Miami, there is a 1970's Florida Vehicle Inspection sticker, although the story takes place in the 1950's.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the attempted assassination on Michael, Tom and Rocco are overlooking the discovery of the dead bodies in the water. When Rocco turns away from Tom to ask where Michael is, his lips do not move while the soundtrack says "Where's Michael?".
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In his later scenes, Don Fanucci has slash marks on his neck/throat area that weren't there earlier. (This is because of a deleted scene in which Fanucci is jumped on the streets by a group of young thugs, who slash him. The scene doesn't appear in the regular cut of the film, but does appear in the "Complete Novel for Television/Saga" edit, and as a deleted scene in the DVD set.)
  
  
• Continuity: The text in the funeral scene says Vito was nine years old in 1901, but according to his headstone in part one he was born in 1887 and would have been 14 years old.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Vito with his family leaves Corleone to go back in the States, he starts his trip taking a train in the Corleone station. Corleone never had a train station, the nearest (34 km) useful train station is in Palermo, and is not looking like the little village station we see on screen.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The ship-Moshulu, which transported the young Vito Corleone to Ellis Island, was built in 1904. While the young Corleone is seen looking out his window singing the date shows 1901.
  
  
• Plot holes: The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee points out 1947 as the year Michael Corleone kills Virgil Sollozzo and Captain McCloskey; but in The Godfather, right after the assassination attempt on Vito Corleone and just before agreeing to meeting with Sollozzo and McCloskey, Tom Hagen notes, "this is almost 1946..."; very unlikely they would have waited more than a year to hold the meeting.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the Havana scene where Hyman Roth is being examined in his hotel room by a physician, one can hear distinctly the sound of Velcro as the blood pressure cuff is being removed from Roth's arm. The revolution culminated in 1959 but Velcro was not commercially available until the 1960's.
  
  
• Continuity: At the New Year's Eve party in the Cuban ballroom, there is in aerial shot that clearly shows Michael with his hands around Fredo's face amidst a very crowded room to deliver "you broke my heart". However this had not taken place yet because Michael is eating at the end of the table with Fredo and Senator Geary *before* the midnight celebration. "You broke my heart" comes after the stroke of midnight. Also, the room was far less crowded as they were eating when a unit of soldiers march thru the middle of the ballroom.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Tom Hagen flies into the Nevada brothel to "rescue" Senator Geary (a common method to arrive at them at their remote parts of the state) he arrives in N3254S, it is a 1964 Cessna 182G. The time in the film is before the 1959 Castro Revolution and a straight tail 182 would have been in production at the time with the slant tail not seen until 1964.
  
  
• Continuity: When Michael is arguing with Connie at the beginning of the film, he says that her oldest boy, Vincent was charged by the police. But in the baptism scene of the Godfather, the child being baptized is her first child, a boy named Michel Rizzi.
  
  
• Plot holes: The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee asks Michael, "Is it true that in the year 1950, you devised the murder of the heads of the so-called Five Families in New York?" But at the party in the opening scenes, which takes place in 1958, Kay reminded Michael that, seven years previously, he had promised her that "within five years, the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." If that conversation took place in 1951, then the murders the Chairman referred to, which came afterwards, could not possibly have happened in 1950. In fact, since Michael refers to his son (who was neither born nor even conceived in 1951) being three years old shortly before the murders, it is probable that the murders did not occur before 1955.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first see Anthony during his communion, the titles state that his full name is "Anthony Vito Corleone" but later on when Senator Geary is reading out the name on the check, he says it is made out in the name of "Anthony Michael Corleone."
  
  
• Anachronisms: The ship on which young Vito Corleone arrives in the United States during 1901 is The Moshulu. But the Moshulu was not launched until 1904 and did not travel to the U.S. until 1914. The original name of the ship was The Kurt. It was renamed The Dreadnaught in 1917 and shortly after re-named The Moshulu.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Michael's henchman is strangling Johnny Ola, the hanger the henchman uses for the garroting slips from his left hand. 'Domenic Chianese' (who plays Johnny Ola) has to use his own hand to keep the hanger gripped around his own neck.
  
  

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