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Howard Hughes replies to Mrs. Hepburn's statement "we don't care about money" with "that's because y [...]
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When Hughes asks how long can the Civil Aeronautics Board keep the Constellations grounded, Frye rep [...]
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The dialog places the scene where Hughes shows Frye and Gross the XF-11 on Christmas Night 1944, but [...]
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When Hughes is checking the control panel mock-ups for the Hercules, his hands are on/off the contro [...]
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In a shot with the Hercules aircraft in the background, a painter is seen applying paint to the nose [...]
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The wedding ring on Mrs. Hughes' left hand as she reaches for the soap tin is a plain gold band, whi [...]
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Robert Gross's eyeglasses are too thin and modern for the time period.
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As Hughes is on the phone ordering Reel 10 to be re-run, his right index finger is pointed. When he [...]
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There are references to both Ava Gardner and Linda Darnell well before either became a movie actress [...]
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As Hughes complains about the airplane footage, his arms are moving in a circular motion in one shot [...]
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As Hughes finishes shaving as he talks to Hepburn, there is still foam on his chin. As he moves to r [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, as Dr. Hepburn asks Hughes if he reads, Hughes handles a fork and a [...]
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Before the man throws the crumpled-up paper ball at Errol Flynn, a couple passes between them, disap [...]
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During the speed runs of the H-1, Hughes increases engine power for each run, as evidenced by the in [...]
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When Howard arrives at the Hepburns', and the dog greets him, there is a visible laser pointer on th [...]
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The bulbs that Howard and Harlow are stepping on and breaking at the premier aren't camera flash bul [...]
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When Katharine and Howard drive up to the Hepburn estate, it is sunny. When she gets out of the car [...]
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In the projection room with Dietrich, Hughes jots down notes with his right hand. When he is at Ava [...]
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Hughes has cellophane wrapped on the yoke of the plane he flies Katharine in, yet the stick of the H [...]
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When Hughes is burning his clothes, his fringe appears in the close ups and disappears in the wide s [...]
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When Professor Fitz "promises" clouds in Oakland, Howard Hughes orders his entire squadron of planes [...]
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Referring to her family and the people at their compound, Mrs. Hepburn tells Hughes: "We're all Soci [...]
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At least two of the Feds who trash Hughes's office are smoking filtered cigarettes.
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As Hughes goes down in the XF-11, his headset disappears, yet he is still able to communicate with O [...]
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As Hughes enters the tent at the end of the film, he is carrying his hat. When he's talking to Noah [...]
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When Hughes starts to shout "Oakland!", the shadow of the tower behind him and Dietrich changes.
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The overhead shot of the H-1 just before Hughes takes it off for its test flight show the airplane w [...]
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As Dietrich breaks the bad news regarding the cost overruns on Gli angeli dell'inferno, Hughes runs [...]
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Despite the fact that this was filmed in Super 35, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the end credi [...]
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After Ava Gardner shaves Hughes, she instructs him to rinse off his face. The water in the sink has [...]
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The close-ups of the stopwatch timing Hughes isn't the same stopwatch that Odie is holding.
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In real life, Howard Hughes hired Noah Dietrich in 1925 when Hughes took over ToolCo, and right afte [...]
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In the Cocoanut Grove with Errol Flynn, the waiter brings out Hughes' "usual", which includes 12 pea [...]
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The two models who present the Hercules are at the curtain as it parts. In the next shot, they are s [...]
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A main plot point is that Hughes is mysophobic, yet he engages in behavior that someone who suffers [...]
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When Hughes and Hepburn are first flying together, they are flying over LA at night. You can see all [...]
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The scene in which Howard Hughes locks himself in the projection room and cuts off most contact from [...]
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Johnny Meyer tells Hughes that all the color cameras in Hollywood are being used by Cecil B. DeMille [...]
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When Hughes is in hospital, Trippe sends a flower arrangement that contains Gerber Daisies, a hybrid [...]
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At 1h 41m 4s Hugh's aircraft starts impacting the ground, he would be thrown forwards, not backwards [...]
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The posters outside the viewing room where Howard locks himself change when he leaves. Before he lea [...]
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Various people and events in Howard Hughes' life, and events in the lives of the real-life character [...]
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As Hughes tells Dietrich "but it all makes good sense to me", the action behind them changes.
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As Hughes talks to the cigarette girl at the Cocoanut Grove, the same couple walk up to the table be [...]
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During the H-1 run, close up shots of Hughes shows an open canopy, but farther shots show a closed c [...]
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Howard Hughes is shown ordering 40 Lockheed Constellations on Christmas Night 1944 after being pitch [...]
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Hughes' left hand is hanging up the phone as he points his right index finger up to acknowledge Kath [...]
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At one point in the film, Hughes and Hepburn address each other as "City Mouse" and "Country Mouse" [...]
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When Professor Fitz tells Hughes there are clouds in Oakland, the sky behind Fitz is blue, but the s [...]
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The Spruce Goose flies over a group of boats, which disappear in the next shot. Moreover, the plane [...]
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During the crash of the XF-11 aircraft over Los Angeles, Hughes radios that he will put down on the [...]
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The film implies that Howard Hughes entirely re-shot Gli angeli dell'inferno for sound. In fact, he [...]
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The lamp shade Errol Flynn removes off the lamp sits flat on the table, then leans on its left side, [...]
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In the early scene when Hughes takes Hepburn on a flight over LA, the first aerial shots briefly sho [...]
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The director insisted that certain portions of the film be color-adjusted to simulate faulty film pr [...]
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When Ava Gardner smacks Hughes, the flowers in the vase he knocks down fall onto the left side of th [...]
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Howard Hughes writes in his notebook with his left hand as he asks Ava Gardner what she thinks about [...]
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As Hughes enters the tent at the end of the film, he raises his arms to clasp Noah and Odie on their [...]
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Luddy shoots Hughes with a Bolex reflex camera from the 1950s.
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When Hughes is washing his hands at the Cocoanut Grove, the one where he cuts his finger, the overhe [...]
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When Hughes asks Jack Frye how much controlling interest in TWA would cost him, Frye responds, "Call [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, as Hughes complains about the dog, Luddy holds a bowl of string bean [...]
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After Hughes crashes the XF-11 and is laying on the ground, the left leg of his trousers is undamage [...]
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The headrest of the XF-11 is taller from the back view and shorter from the front view when Hughes i [...]
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When the H-1 runs out of fuel after the last speed run, Hughes immediately yanks the throttle comple [...]
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In the closing credits, Kenneth Welsh's name is misspelled as Kenneth Walsh.
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Hughes refers to the Lockheed "F-80" when he's talking to Noah and Odie about working with jet engin [...]
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The right-side half of the soap holder on the bathroom sink as Hughes vigorously washes his hands is [...]
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According to biographers, Hughes Tool Company ("Tool Co"), which owned a 90% market share of petrole [...]
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When we see Sir Ian Holm sitting in the Hercules his head barely comes over the back of the seat. In [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, when Katharine mentions the plane Hughes is building, Luddy, a glass [...]
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The static shot of Odie and the others watching Hughes zip by them during the speed test was clearly [...]
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The Sydney, Honolulu, and Los Angeles clocks first seen in Trippe's office are later replaced by clo [...]
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The sunlight when Hughes is in the cockpit of the XF-11, taxis down the runway, then takes off.
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At the premiere screening of Gli angeli dell'inferno, in the first wide shot after the film ends, Di [...]
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Louis Mayer's mouth movements doesn't match his vocals near the end of his talk with Hughes.
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While at the controls of the Goose, LDC is shown with his hand on 8 throttles; the day of the flight [...]
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The shot of Hughes and Ava Gardner talking near the end is spliced with a shot of them over Howard's [...]
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Hughes flies the H-1 without goggles, yet his eyes are not affected. Even with a windscreen, the win [...]
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In the H-1 run, Howard Hughes wears a fedora. As the newsreel account of the ensuing crash showed, h [...]
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Errol Flynn holds a drink in his right hand and a cigarette in his left hand as the man behind him h [...]
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We cut to a frontal view of the plane whose rudder Hughes is inspecting with Dietrich, then to a sho [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, when we cut to Hughes after Luddy says "What are you snickering at?" [...]
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Odie was not aboard the Hercules on her maiden flight because Hughes wanted there to be no doubt tha [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, when Luddy says to Katharine "a mere trifle, darling", Hughes's arms [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, as Hughes reacts to Dr. Hepburn telling him he's a urologist, there [...]
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Odie has his finger on the reset button of his stopwatch during the speed-test, then at the crown.
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Hughes has small hands with slender fingers, but the right hand that reaches for the Cocoanut Grove [...]
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On the door when Hughes is in hospital after his plane crash.
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When the Spruce Goose first gets airborne, two members of the crew stationed behind the cockpit can [...]
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As Hughes steps out of his plane just before meeting Hepburn on the beach and he buttons his coat, h [...]
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The angle of the sketch of the Hercules on the back of the photo that Hughes hands to Odie changes.
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During lunch with the Hepburns, as Luddy asks Katharine something, he passes a bowl of string beans [...]
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The propeller tips on the XF-11 are painted. Archive photos show that the first XF-11 didn't have pa [...]
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In the Pantages Theatre premiere sequence, posters for Donne are quite visible. On the soundtrack we [...]
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The amount and position of fudge on the sundae that Hughes and Faith Domergue share in the Cocoanut [...]
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At the lunch with Brewster, the garnish on Hughes' fish, the garnish next to the fish, and the potat [...]
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While shooting the dogfight, a plane clips the camera mounted on Hughes' plane, and brown film spews [...]
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When Faith Domergue crashes her car into Howard Hughes and
Ava Gardner's car, even after two crashes [...]
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How did Faith Domergue know exactly where Hughes and Ava Gardner were going, and when they would arr [...]
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On the night Hughes shows his XF-11 to Robert Gross, which occurred Christmas 1944, a radio is shown [...]
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When Hughes is flying the Xf-11, you can see a very wide runway from the cockpit view before takeoff [...]
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The mink on Katharine's right shoulder before and after Hughes hands her the steering wheel of the p [...]
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When Hughes is staring at his hands in the projection room he raises them to be illuminated by the l [...]
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At least one of the Fokker biplanes shown rolling for takeoff in the Gli angeli dell'inferno scenes [...]
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Flynn's cigarette moves from his right hand to his left hand as Hughes and Hepburn stand up, then ba [...]
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When Howard Hughes is in the mens room washing his hands with his personal soap, a man with crutches [...]
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Whilst Hepburn and Hughes are dining in the Coconut Grove in 1935, she states "Haven't you heard? I' [...]
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While Hughes asks Ava Gardner if she wants to go to Paris, two guys with blue suits pass behind them [...]
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As Hughes wipes the blood off his hands in the Cocoanut Grove bathroom, it is obvious from the spots [...]
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Several changes were made in the movie to the relationship between Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hugh [...]
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As Hughes orders Frye to dig up dirt on Owen Brewster, a man in a full brown coverall suit appears b [...]
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In the Cocoanut Grove Errol Flynn is portrayed as an established and successful movie star. The scen [...]
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Errol Flynn has a drink in his left hand when he approaches Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hughes' tab [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, as Mrs. Hepburn asks Hughes about his politics, the drinking glasses [...]
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The hearings were chaired by Michigan Senator Homer Ferguson, not Senator Owen Brewster. Brewster di [...]
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The ice cream spoon Hughes holds against the carton as he enters his office is in the carton when he [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, when Dr. Hepburn asks Hughes "Don't you like dogs?", there are carro [...]
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As Hughes and Trippe talk, went we cut to Trippe, Faith has her arm raised, eating the sundae. But w [...]
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One of the SE-5As planes that Hughes and Noah walk past has an air-cooled cylinder engine instead of [...]
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In 1928, Hughes orders 10 "chocolate chip cookies," not invented until 1933.
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Errol Flynn reaches out for Katharine Hepburn's hand twice as Howard Hughes introduces them.
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Light screens are seen reflected in Robert Gross's eyeglasses.
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The real Howard Hughes had brown eyes, but Leonardo DiCaprio's blue eyes are not covered with brown [...]
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After reaching 352mph in the H1 Hughes describes himself as 'fastest man on the planet'. In fact the [...]
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The positions of Hughes' arms and Frye's head, as they talk about Hughes buying TWA.
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As Hughes lifts off in the XF-11, there are yellow and white stripes on the runway that weren't ther [...]
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It is not certain that Howard Hughes had any of his germ phobias prior to either the crash of the XF [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, when we cut to Hughes after Mrs. Hepburn says "Flying magazines?", t [...]
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In the film, the Hercules is not only airborne, but flying over boats and above the newsreel cameras [...]
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As Hughes runs his hand across the H-1's body the first time, you can see the sheet above his index [...]
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As Frye tells Hughes about the airline route bill that Brewster is pushing on Trippe's behalf, Hughe [...]
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When Hughes rolls out the "Spruce Goose" at the dinner party, the plane's eight engines are shown wi [...]
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After Dietrich introduces himself to Hughes, everything to their right disappears when the shot chan [...]
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The Gillette razor Ava uses to shave Hughes is a black handled Gillette Superspeed dating from 1972, [...]
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When Howard is lying in the hospital bed, the pillow changes positions between camera angles.
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Senator Brewster's eyeglasses have non-reflective coating.
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After Huges crash lands the H-1 in a tomato field, he tells Hepburn that he landed in a beet field. [...]
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The sky alternates between sun and shade during the speed-test run.
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Hughes inspects a rudder while talking to Dietrich, but neither he or Dietrich are in the shot when [...]
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During the test flight of the Howard Hughes H-1 racer, as Hughes pulls the plane up over the runway, [...]
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When Hughes is dining with Senator Brewster in the hotel, his jacket seems to vary between being but [...]
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In one scene Howard Hughes orders 10 chocolate chip cookies. The chocolate chip cookie wasn't introd [...]
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When a model Hercules is shown at the party, it passes by two ladies in red twice.
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Hepburn's reaction when Hughes pushes the yoke to her tells us that she knows nothing about flying, [...]
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When first in the Cocoanut Grove, Hughes orders a "milk with the cap still on". When Howard receives [...]
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Hughes puts the drawings for TWA's new logo down on the table to free his hands. But as he chews out [...]
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When we first see Louis B. Mayer, his arms are down. When he turns around after Hughes taps him on t [...]
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During the brawl in the nightclub, the violin player is standing/sitting between shots.
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Gli angeli dell'inferno is set during World War I when parachutes were unavailable to pilots. But pa [...]
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In the first scene at the Cocoanut Grove, which was the nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Ang [...]
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During the test flight of the "Spruce Goose", the flight engineer is calling out the airspeed in MPH [...]
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In the restaurant scene with the indoor snowfall, snowflakes on Hughes' shoulders appear and disappe [...]
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A more careful examination of the timing of Hughes during the speed-test run: Odie says "347" (miles [...]
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As Hughes stands at the doors to his office, the ice cream carton he holds has shifted to his left h [...]
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As Hughes gets the idea to build a single-wing plane out of the bi-plane, Odie smashes the support h [...]
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During lunch with the Hepburns, as Hughes tells Mrs. Hepburn "Well, that's because you have it", his [...]
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The handkerchief folds in the breast pocket of Trippe's dress jacket as he talks to Howard Hughes at [...]
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When Howard and Faith are at the nightclub, they share a chocolate sundae. The scene begins with a c [...]
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The sunlight as Hughes taxis down the runway in the H-1 changes radically.
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When Errol Flynn reaches Hughes and Hepburn's table, he takes a final drag off of his cigarette, the [...]
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The Honolulu clock behind Owen Brewster shows the time is 9:30, 3 hours earlier than the time on the [...]
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Hughes is holding a pen and notebook as he asks Ava Gardner what she thinks about the new name of hi [...]
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When Hughes is lying in hospital, his pillow changes positions between shots.
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As Hughes and Trippe talk at the club, went we cut to Trippe, Faith has her arm raised, eating the s [...]
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When we first see Louis B. Mayer, the bar that he and his party are gathered at is to his left. As h [...]
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As Hughes approaches Mayer at the Cocoanut Grove, the men with Mayer switch positions.
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The shots of Hughes flying the speed-test plane show him in an open cockpit, but the cockpit is clea [...]
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Near the end of the film, when Hughes and others are in the tent beside the Spruce Goose, the ceilin [...]
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In the frontal shot of the Hercules, the pilot's and copilot's cockpit windows are open. The next sh [...]
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Timing Hughes during the speed-test run, Odie says "347" (miles per hour) then "352", yet, both time [...]
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When the model of the Hercules is brought out to promote the plane's construction, the propellers ar [...]
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The first time we see Pan-Am's headquarters, a close-up of the upper portion of the Chrysler Buildin [...]
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In the first scene where they are filming Gli angeli dell'inferno, Hughes puts his hand up in the ai [...]
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Lighting screens are reflected in Katharine Hepburn's glasses while she's in the car heading to the [...]
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As Hughes crashes into the neighborhood, a pair of glasses on a kitchen counter fall down twice.
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Immediately following the aerial filming on Hells Angels, the scene cuts to the Hells Angeles cast p [...]
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During the filming of Gli angeli dell'inferno, as one of the SE5a scout biplanes taxis past, the fac [...]
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The "fog" surrounding the model of the Hercules as it taxis up and down the runway changes radically [...]
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In a newsreel account, Howard Hughes himself says that the H-1's top speed was "approximately 370 mi [...]
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In the film, the witnesses inside the Hercules are seated and separated from Howard Hughes as he was [...]
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The Gli angeli dell'inferno screened at the premier is not the master - which the real audience saw [...]
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After Hughes yells "Oakland!", he passes behind Dietrich, then passes him again in the wide shot.
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(at around 45 mins) Hughes sits down to the table with Johnny Meyer who pulls out a cigarette and pr [...]
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As Katharine blots her face with the handkerchief on the golf course, a group of people walk up the [...]
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At 1h 31m 50s the "Spruce Goose" in shown under construction. Although mainly built from wood, there [...]
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As Hughes and Dietrich first talk on the Gli angeli dell'inferno location, the same two men pushing [...]
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The singer at the Cocoanut Grove is at the microphone until we cut to a wide shot, and he's now step [...]
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Odie tells Hughes that there is enough fuel in the H-1 for two runs. Just after takeoff, the fuel ga [...]
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As Hughes confronts Roland Sweet, you see the face of the thug in the car behind Hughes. When we cut [...]
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