THIS should be listed in GOOFS
The most vital part of the plot, the paint stain on Nurse Woods's theatre gown, is NOT present during Higgins's operation!
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when barnes was explaining to cockrill how the anaesthetics work, he mixed up what gases the tank colours corresponded to (said black was oxygen, green was carbon dioxide)
I don't think this is a goof - weren't the green tanks containing carbon dioxide deliberately painted black to make them look as though they contained oxygen? Might have to look at this again but I thought that this was what happened.
shareActually, Black AND WHITE was O2, black was NO2, green was CO2 and he says it all properly.
sharegribfritz- but that's not what he pointing to as he's explaining it. I had to rewind it three times. It's a MAJOR goof.
shareI just rewatched it on my DVR a couple times and he IS putting his hand on the correct gas tanks as they're colored as he's explaining what is in them. As I replied to another post in this thread, the U.K. and Europe had or have a different color-coding scheme for medical gas cylinders than the U.S.A. has. In the U.S.A. we're used to oxygen being in green tanks, whereas in the U.K. it's a black tank with a white shoulder (or was at the time this film was made).
shareIn the U.K. at that time, those were the correct tank colors for those medical gases. U.K. and European medical gas tank colors are different than those used in the U.S.A. - where we associate green with oxygen, grey for carbon dioxide and black for nitrogen today.
Non-standardization of tank colors can lead to accidents, so one should always look at the label on the tank and not rely on color alone. And in the U.S.A, at least, different gas tanks have different valve coupling pin arrangements - to prevent a nitrogen tank from being hooked up to an oxygen line, for instance.
(O.R. nurse, 23 years)
Yes, but it can't be ruled out that the stain was transferred at some point during the resuscitation attempt. After all, Sister Bates can only have noticed the stain and figured 2+2=4 (or 5 considering she mistakenly infers that Eden is the killer) after she collected all of the surgical garments post-op. The annoying thing about this film is that the plot, however improbable, just about hangs together.
shareI got the impression that Sister Bates might have thought that Eden was the killer. The way she kept dropping those hints during the dance, and then she got so paranoid that he was following her after she ran out....The only explanation I can think of is that she had figured out HOW it was done, but she had the wrong person in mind.
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The annoying thing about this film is that the plot, however improbable, just about hangs together.
There's nothing annoying about this film, except some of the people who whine about it. share
I absolutely love this movie, which is precisely why I found the absence of a mark on Nurse Woods's theatre gown during the operation so disappointing, because it is definitely a goof, and mars a film of this quality.
shareThen list it as a "goof," Fred. You're a member.
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