After Clint and Richard escape their captors in the car, they push it over a cliff with the dead bodies inside and it just magically blows up as it goes over the side, why would it blow up when they didn't put any bombs in it?
I'm guessing the timing was off on the pyrotechnics. Surely they meant for the car to explode at the bottom of the cliff, which probably wouldn't happen in real life either but is certainly more plausible (and one of those Hollywood cliches we still buy into today). The botched effect was left in likely because the director deemed it "close enough" for the less demanding and less sophisticated audiences of 1968 and not worth the time and expense to reshoot.
When the heroes get to the castle, Clint kills a guard and the helicopter pilot and then they go off to the dining room scene and nobody ever misses these two dead guys or finds their dead bodies in the phone room next to the helicopter pad? I mean the heilcopter pilot was just working next to another guy on the chopper who never wondered why the pilot never came back from the phone room?
Maybe the other guy just assumed the pilot was told to report elsewhere for orders when he answered the phone. It wasn't really that long, and why would this guy assume there was anything wrong at the time? He wasn't the pilot's keeper.
Why did Clint sneak up behind the radio operator to stab him? Richard shot him with a silencer after he saw Clint and set off the alarm, why didn't they shoot him to begin with and avoid the risk of him setting off the alarm?
This one kind of puzzled me too. It's not like they were so short on ammunition that they needed to save a single bullet. Only thing I can come up with is that either a) the radio operator was right in front of the transmitter and they didn't want to risk a bullet potentially going straight through the guy and damaging the equipment behind him or b) they thought if he could be restrained suddenly and dispatched by stabbing that he wouldn't have even a slight opportunity to set off the alarm. The scene might have worked better if Richard tried shooting him first, but his gun jammed and the "click" from it alerted the operator, so Clint was forced to run up and kill him with the knife. This would have given the operator time to hit the alarm button. But you are right - this should have at least been explained better.
Why take the three spies back? Well, I know why they took one, they used him as a decoy for climbing down the rope and getting shot for them instead, but there was really no point in risking their lives in trying to escape with them. They would always be a hindrance and risk giving their position away.
More valuable information might have been extracted from the three if returned to England. Anyway, as Richard said, "Mustn't cheat the hangman".
The cable car fight was fun, but why didn't Richard just throw the dynamite on top of the car as it left with the two spies instead of riding along with it? Also, I found it funny that the two spies could hear Richard on top of the cable car roof, but when Richard and Clint rode on the roof of a cable car up to the castle, those same two spies plus the third one and some guards that were with them couldn't hear anything.
A number of things come to mind. a) With only a couple seconds to act, Richard wouldn't have time to safely set the timer and switch; by the time he did so the car would be too far away to assure that the thrown bomb wouldn't miss or just bounce off the roof. And if he missed with his throw, it certainly would have been too late to try again or jump on. b) Even if Richard had managed to hit the car, the two spies might have heard the "thunk" from the dynamite, in which case they could have easily made it on top of the car and thrown the dynamite off. c) A loose bomb rattling around freely on the roof of the car is not certain to cause catastrophic damage. Richard had to secure it directly to the support arm to assure the cable car would fall.
As they were coming back from the castle, why couldn't the Germans see our heroes jump off the car into the water? There's like 50 of them waiting for the car to arrive with their guns pointed right at it and none of them can see any of the heroes jump out?
They turned the lights out in the car. It was still dark out and the Germans were waiting to fire from a well-lit station. We can assume that they would not have been able to see everyone jump out into the river in the distance. I'll admit that the "day for night" shooting techniques used in the 1960s didn't exactly help make this believable though.
I love how Richard and Clint don't need towels or blankets to dry off after landing in the freezing water and when Clint is firing out the back of the bus he makes himself as big a target as could possibly be in front of the back window, it's hilarious.
Why should he make an attempt to conceal himself when the Germans have thus far shown themselves as less capable marksmen than a blind Star Wars stormtrooper?
Finally, when Richard is firing his submachine gun at the last car full of Germans at the airfield, why did it blow up from the inside of the open top car? There were no bombs in it and he sure as heck didn't hit the gas tank.
Maybe he hit a grenade or other munitions being carried inside the vehicle.
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