Did anybody notice this?


There's a scene late in the film when Joseph Cotten's character, Alfred Becker, is talking to Karl, Eva and Peter, and they look up at the castle heights and see three "bodies" that have been impaled on spikes. In one of the brief shots of the three impaled bodies, if you look on the right side of screen, there is clearly a person who comes around the corner of the top of the tower and puts an arm up towards the body on the spike.

I just wondered if that was a goof - maybe a case of "crew or equipment visible"? I can't think of anything in the plot where Alfred Becker would have had a henchman helping him put bodies on spikes up there, so there's no explanation for why a "live" person would be up there. It seems like Becker acted alone in everything he did. I suspect it was a member of the film crew who inadvertently got caught on camera. Anyway, I just wondered if that was some sloppy film editing and belongs in the "goofs" section.





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I just noticed this, after reading your post. Took over three years to get a response, but I am thinking it was unintentional. Since we never see a henchman.

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It's been so long since I've seen that film that I can barely remember the entire movie, but... I still recall how that one scene sticks out in my mind. It just seemed so unexpected and unaccountable that a person would be up there with the bodies. It HAD to have been a crewman or prop person - somebody working with the film crew, at least that's the way I've always explained it to myself. There's just no other logical explanation for a person to be up there. lol

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