Bond's jetpack was actually flown by engineer Bill Suiter. He was one of only two people in the world qualified to fly it.

In the underwater scenes, where Bond encounters sharks, Sir Sean Connery was supposed to be protected by clear plastic panels shielding him from sharks in close-ups. However, the panels only extended about three feet in height and sharks could swim over them. As a result, in some scenes (notably during the pool fight at Largo's mansion), Connery got much closer to the real sharks than he wanted. Director Terence Young said in an interview that scenes used in this movie where Bond reacts in fright at the approach of a shark were miscues, in which Connery was reacting with genuine terror as a shark approached unobstructed by plastic shielding.

The only Bond movie where we get a glimpse of all 00 Agents in one shot. They are summoned to M's briefing, and 007 is the last to join in. He sits down in the only available chair, the seventh from the left. Only one of the other 00s is revealed, however, as they are filmed from behind.

Sir Sean Connery performed the gun-barrel sequence for the first time because of the new Panavision process used in the movie. Beginning with this movie, the sequence would be performed by the actor playing Bond in the movie.

The budget for this movie was more than the combined budgets of the first three Bond movies.

Continuity

When James gets the gadgets he is told that the watch was a Geiger counter and the camera would takes 8 pictures quickly when the button was held down. Later 007 tells Domino that the camera is the Geiger counter and will work when she presses the button.

When Bond confronts Count Lippe at the health retreat, he enters a door that has the word "Massage" on it. When he exits the room the door suddenly says "Sitz Bath & Heat Treatment".

When Bond is underwater, a diver removes his blue dive mask. He then removes a black mask from a dead diver and puts that on. In the following scenes the mask is blue again.

When Bond is shot in the calf - as he runs away, the blood is on the right leg; when he crawls onto the float, it?s on the left. The next day he is diving to check the plane without so much as a bandage on either leg.

Bouvar loses one high-heeled shoe during the fight with Bond. In subsequent shots, he is wearing both shoes again with no opportunity to have replaced it on his foot.



Factual errors

A motorized traction table such as the one that Bond uses at the health retreat would obviously not have had settings that would have been dangerous to the patient.

When Bond is being held in the car, a drunk comes along and offers a bottle of rum. Bond spills the rum over the back of the front seat and ignites it. The fluid flashes and burns with a bright orange flame. Rum will not flash and only burns with a cool, dim blue flame. It would not be hot enough to immediately set the car seat alight.

When Bond dives down to the sunken Vulcan bomber, he enters the cockpit through a small door via the bomb bay. It is not possible to access the bomb bay from the cockpit due to being separated by bulkheads, the nose gear and a fuel tank.

When the 00s listen to Largo's ransom demand, they begin the message at the very beginning of the tape spool, which is moving at slow speed (probably 3 3/4 IPS). When the very short message ends, the spool of tape has advanced about 1/3 of the way through the tape, which is much too far for a short message at that tape speed.

The Panamanian flag on the Disco Volante is upside-down throughout the film. It flew in that configuration only in 1903.



Incorrectly regarded as goofs

As Bond is leaving M's office after receiving his assignment he says, "I think I had a hat when I came in." He did hang his hat on the hat rack, and when he leaves no hat can be seen, but Bond's words indicate this is a deliberate screen moment.

When speaking to Fiona in the hotel room, Bond mentions what he did was for King and Country. Although Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne at the time, the alliterative expression "King and Country" was in common use predating the Queen's reign.

When Bond drops his gun off the roof, it fires. It would be very rare for that to happen, however, it is not impossible. This is one of those rare occasions such a thing does happen.

When Angelo kills Derval, he demands more money from SPECTRE claiming he's spent two years training to become Derval. However, moments later he is chastised for not saying "Ciao" (what Derval always says) and for wearing his cap too far back. Those seem like two basic things you'd learn first if impersonating a suave Air Force pilot. It's possible that Angelo only learned what Derval looked like and sounded like from official records, but there was no one with intimate personal knowledge to gleam from until Fiona pointed these things out to him.

When Bond is dancing with Fiona, a henchman (who's on Fiona's side) aims his gun at Bond (in mostly clear view) but doesn't pull the trigger until Bond swings her in the way (resulting in Fiona taking the bullet). This is because the henchman was waiting until the drum music that was playing hit a loud note (which would mostly hide the sound of the shot).



Revealing mistakes

Apparently, some of the locals wanted to celebrate their moment in a Bond movie, because during the chase through the Junkanoo parade, James passes a parade group, all of whom are wearing large yellow "007" headdresses.

Obvious fast-forwarding used in a number of scenes in the movie. Some examples include the car careering off of the road following the motorcycle attack, and the crash of the Disco Volante at the end of the film.

The meeting of all the Double-0 agents is held in a conference room where top secret information is shown and discussed. Yet in the front of the room there's an enormous, floor-to-ceiling, completely uncovered window through which are visible several buildings just across the street, from which any foreign agent could easily spy on the proceedings unhindered.

When Bond is swimming through the small passageway between the regular pool and the shark pool, he stops briefly to make way for one shark swimming in the opposite direction. As he watches it swim by, Bond's right hand is plainly leaning on a piece of glass between him and the shark swimming past.

When Bond returns to his hotel room and plays back a recording, the sound of intruding footsteps are very loud, yet Bond's voice saying "Paula" remains normal.



Miscellaneous

When Fiona ditches the motorcycle into the pond, the engine revs a couple of times on the way down to the pond. They couldn't happen without someone pulling back on the throttle.



Audio/visual unsynchronized

While Bond dances with Domino after the card game in the casino, a brass dance band is seen playing and a musician is shown standing up in the back playing a trumpet solo. However, the music heard playing is that of a string orchestra. There are no string players shown in the group.

When Bond emerges from Largo's basement into the yard, the door is allowed to fall and should bang loudly. However, its utterly silent, perhaps as any noise at all would have been audible to the nearby henchmen.

Just after showing Bond the rebreather, Q says "Now pay attention"; his lips do not move when he says this.

When Bond is coming out of Largo's Palmyra basement after seeing his helper dead, the cellar door is vigorously thrown open and visibly bangs to a stop, but it makes no noise.

When bond runs up to Fiona sitting in her Mustang, he asks her if he can have a lift. She replies "sure", but her lips do not move.



Crew or equipment visible

When Domino takes James to the beach in her boat after first meeting him, a crew member is visible crouching down inside the boat as it's being turned around.

After Bond has escaped Largo's sharks, lighting equipment is reflected in the car door as he opens it.

When the cars arrive at the mansion after attending the funeral, they enter through the front door. While it's opening the film crew's lighting equipment is reflected in the door.

As Bond climbs the hydrofoil plane to enter the Disco Volante, a rope and wood ladder can be seen conveniently strapped to the plane.

When Bond is inside the boat with Paula and trying to start it, you can see a cameraman in the reflection of the boat's windshield.



Errors in geography

The ransom drop, mentioned twice in dialogue, is supposedly "Precisely 20 degrees north, 60 degrees east" off the Mergui Archipelago. These coordinates are actually in the Arabian Sea off Oman. In round numbers to be at the named location it would be about 15 degrees North, 95 East.

When the Royal Air Force officer is briefing the double-O agents about the Vulcan bomber's flying range using the large map on the wall, a close look at the United States portion of the map reveals that the map is not drawn correctly. The Southeastern part of the States from Florida to about Virginia and across the Gulf states (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the southern part of Texas), as well as much of Mexico, are inexplicably covered by water.



Plot holes

Q says that the emergency rebreather holds about 4 minutes of air but in the underwater fight at the end Bond uses it for at least 7 minutes.

It would have been impossible for SPECTRE to have stolen the atomic bombs as depicted in the film. Primarily due to the fact that the RAF V-Bombers would never carry live nuclear weapons during training flights and military exercises, dummy warheads would have been used for training purposes. Live nuclear weapons were strictly used only for Quick Reaction Alert missions.

In the first scene, Bond's car sprays out more water than it could hold.



Boom mic visible

As Bond goes down the stairs while listening to BBC Overseas Service announcement that Big Ben struck seven times instead of six at 6pm.



Character error

The VIP played by Roland Culver is called Home Secretary by M but in the end titles is listed as Foreign Secretary.

Bond speaks to Domino three times about conch chowder using the correct local pronunciation of "conk". Domino, who has lived on or near Nassau for a long time with her guardian Largo, is obviously very familiar with the dish, even commenting about the folklore that it is an aphrodisiac but she later mispronounces the dish to Bond as "conch" chowder.

Neither Bond nor Leiter wore safety helmets during the helicopter flight. Only Leiter wore a radio headset later. Bond should have as well given the noise of the rotor blades so that they could hear each other.

After Paula is late to meet Bond and Felix at the beer stand, they walk towards the building Q is in. When Bond reaches the last of the three people passing them, it looks as if he slips, or does some sort of dance with his feet. Yet he is suave and debonair.