When Watson is arrested by the police after being conned into a small courtyard with only one entrance two policemen enter but three policemen leave.
During the fight with Slade, Holmes blocks the chain with his right arm, but during the meeting with the PM his left arm is in the sling.
When Holmes And Watson leave the theater at the beginning of the film they have news of the third ripper victim (Liz Stride). She was murdered in September but Watson clearly states that the month is October. There were no Ripper murders in October.
In the movie, Holmes and Watson occasionally mix up the order of the Ripper's first two murder victims.
Holmes refers to the cab that ran him over as a "hansom." Those were two-wheeled vehicles, and Holmes was attacked by a four-wheeler.
He had post-traumatic amnesia, didn't remember exactly what ran him down and assumed it was a Hansom.
He had post-traumatic amnesia, didn't remember exactly what ran him down and assumed it was a Hansom.
When Holmes is going to the meeting in the masonic lodge at the end, he first passes Buckingham Palace, which may have been on his way from Baker Street. He then seems to have crossed the Thames, because in the next picture he approaches Westminster Palace from the south side of the river, effectively re-crossing it.
The second time Holmes visits the medium, Robert Lees, Lees recounts his vision and we see a bridge over the river. The shot pans in to a group of men searching the scene and there is a single yellow line around the corner of the road. Yellow lines (indicating parking restrictions) were introduced in the UK in 1960.
A recollection of a vision is not going to be accurate. Perhaps he was seeing the future; a world where parking lines are painted in yellow.
A recollection of a vision is not going to be accurate. Perhaps he was seeing the future; a world where parking lines are painted in yellow.
When Watson questions the ladies in the Black Horse Tavern a
Salvation Army band is playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" in the street. But the tune "St. Gertrude" was not composed and published by Sir Arthur Sullivan until after the purported time setting of the film (1888).
Arthur S. Sullivan wrote the music for "St. Gertrude" and published it in the December 1871 issue of the Musical Times, which is before 1888.
Salvation Army band is playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" in the street. But the tune "St. Gertrude" was not composed and published by Sir Arthur Sullivan until after the purported time setting of the film (1888).
Arthur S. Sullivan wrote the music for "St. Gertrude" and published it in the December 1871 issue of the Musical Times, which is before 1888.
When Holmes visits the Lees disguised as a chimney sweep, he removes his false mustache and false blackened nose, but when we see him seconds later, the nose is false again as if he never peeled it off.
Poor observation. The false nose was off, but the coal dust and soot are not so easily removed.
Poor observation. The false nose was off, but the coal dust and soot are not so easily removed.
About 90 minutes into the film, Holmes and Watson are looking for Mary Kelly and walk past a sign with a bell-shaped logo. After a right turn and a left turn, they are shown walking under the same sign. The street is shown from a different angle and dressed up with a cart to make it seem like a different block, but it is clearly the same part of the set seen few seconds earlier even though the characters were shown to be walking away from it.
Some of Holmes' laboratory equipment has nonsensical connections: The spout of a retort connects to a glass coil which then connects to the top of the cooling jacket of a reflux condenser. (In reality, only cooling water would connect to the jacket, and then it would be fed into the bottom.)
When Holmes and Watson are driving in a carriage through open landscape, the camera angle from inside the carriage shows houses through the rear window of the carriage, though exterior shots of the carriage show no houses in the vicinity behind it.
The Jack the Ripper murders took place in 1888 but Tower Bridge, which was not opened until 1894, is seen in its completed form in several establishing shots.
Prince Albert Victor, "Eddy", was not created Duke of Clarence and Avondale until 1890, two years after the film is set. His young cousin Charles Edward, was born Duke and Earl of Clarence, but was only 4 years old when the film was set - he later became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany.
Near the end of the movie yellow parking lines, painted on the curb, are seen.
In a wide shot of London, Westminister Bridge, St Pauls etc in the mist, a light-colored motor vehicle is seen on the bridge moving toward WM.
At the end of 'Baker Street' is a City of Westminster street sign of the Mischa Black design introduced in 1967. (It says Great College Street, which is at the end of Barton Street where the scenes were filmed)
In the final dialogue scene between Holmes and Watson after the Whitehall interview, Holmes is depicted using his right hand to bow four notes on the free-standing upright violin on the desk. He purports to play middle B, E and D followed by treble E on open strings - but it is impossible to play a B natural on an open A string. The A string's pitch must be raised to B by a finger stop for the dubbed sound to be physically possible. The open string pitches are tenor G, middle D, middle A and treble E.
The little girl has no provenance. Without proof, she is indistinguishable from any other little girl.
When Spivey shoves Catherine Eddowes' body out of the carriage, she moves her arms to break her fall.
At the end of the film when Holmes is relating the story to the Prime Minister Holmes claims that Annie Crook married her lover without causing any concern, however since her lover was supposed to be the heir presumptive to the throne of Britain, it would cause great concern and not be what the Prime Minister describes as an indiscretion.
When Dr. Watson is writing on the black board, he says that Polly Nichols was the first victim, while the writing on the board says "victim #2."