Captain Smolsky gets hit in the back and the top of the head with the plaster, but later on his entire body is covered in hardened plaster.
Dandy Dan gives buttonhole flowers to all of his gang except Doodle. Pies are then brought in for the gang to throw at Doodle, but when they do their flowers have disappeared.
When Blousey returns for the second time to Fat Sam's for an audition, Knuckles opens the door. He tells Blousey, "He's busy lady. Come tomorrow" in an English accent. Throughout the movie, he has an American accent.
Moments before Blousey Brown comes to Fat Sam's place for her audition, we see Tallulah kiss Bugsy in the center of his forehead and leave a lipstick mark. A few moments later, however, the mark is much further over to the left hand side of his forehead.
After the song "Tomorrow" Bugsy and Blousey are in the café. Blousey has a drink and it has two straws and one spoon. The spoon keeps disappearing.
When Fat Sam calls Dandy Dan at his home and Dan answers the phone, he is speaking into the receiver's earpiece and the mouthpiece is at his ear.
The front page of the New York Herald Tribune shows the date Friday, September 20, 1927. September 20 fell on a Tuesday in 1927.
On the region 4 DVD front cover, it credits Florrie Dugger as
Florrie Gugger.
As a DVD cover has no relation to the actual film nor is it related to the filmmaker, this is not a valid Goof per IMDb guidelines.
As a DVD cover has no relation to the actual film nor is it related to the filmmaker, this is not a valid Goof per IMDb guidelines.
A singer auditions in the 1920s with "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", which was not published until 1931.
The Movie is supposedly set in 1927. The soup kitchen scene where Bugsy finds his "army" could not have been possible. According to the website "thesoupkitchen.com" soup kitchens did not appear until the Great Depression starting in 1929.
Tallulah asks Fat Sam, sarcastically, if he is going to get help from the Lone Ranger. That character did not appear until 1933 on Detroit radio station WXYZ (WXYT since 1984).
Bugsy quotes "I coulda been a contender, Charlie" from On The Waterfront, made in 1954. Bugsy Malone is set in the 1920s - 30 years before On The Waterfront was made.
The musicians on stage at the Grand Slam Speakeasy are playing conventional instruments for the time, however the music on the soundtrack features an electric bass guitar, which won't be available for another 30 years.
The diners at a New York restaurant handle their knives and forks like Europeans, rather than Americans.
Even though they say that they are in New York , all of the streets and the police show differently, they show that they are in Chicago.
Although Alan Parker noted that American actors were cast for many of the speaking roles to insure the use of American accents, he pointed out a Cockney accented "Me, too!" as Bugsy rallies the soup line boys during the "Down and Out" chorus.