There is much inconsistency in the newspaper reports of Christine Clay's murder:
- one is published on Friday September 3rd 1937
- the next is dated Monday January 6th 1936
- another is merely dated Tuesday.
When Erica drives away from court with the policemen on board, she instructs somebody to crank-start the car for her, but in the next frame she is already driving away without having had the time to have it crank-started. Also, there were many people (and a horse-drawn carriage) on the street when they're first in the car, but the street is clear once they are shown driving away.
When Robert is reaching for Erica in the mine shaft, Erica alternates reaching with her left and right hands multiple times between shots.
(at around 38 mins) After the fight at Tom's Hat, Robert has a long blood streak down the left side of his face. Erica dabs at it with a cloth and water several times, but the streak is not lessened. Robert takes the cloth and turns away to listen to a man describe where he might find the person with his raincoat, and when he turns back to Erica, the blood is completely gone from his face.
(at around 50 mins) When Erica Burgoyne and Robert Tisdall have taken refuge at night in a small town by parking her car next to a siding just before where the railroad underpasses a bridge, the entire scene has been staged and shot as an obvious miniature as revealed by three mistakes:
- the somewhat jerky motion and unnatural lighting of an automobile (indicating that it was pulled) as it moves across the bridge above the railroad
- the express train speeding under the bridge drags a length of cord behind it as it disappears from view
- the camera tracking in closer to the parked automobile hidden in the shelter of freight trains on sidings reveals that the figures of Erica and Robert are actually modeled and painted figurines, motionless until the shot suddenly changes to a medium closeup shot of the two actors.
When Erica and Robert are driving away from the police after being identified by one of the policemen, Erica turns the steering wheel multiple times, but the car is shown driving straight ahead.
When Erica and Robert are driving along, one sees them in front of a backdrop with the frame of the windscreen in front of them. But just before they are recognized driving through a village, they are filmed driving against a backdrop without a windscreen.
During the performance of the first song heard and seen at the Grand Hotel, the drummer's visible playing (tapping on the drum head) does not nearly match the percussion sounds (cymbal strikes, drum rolls, rim shots, etc.) on the soundtrack.