Nevada Smith

Near the beginning of the movie, when Uncle Ben is seen twice with his buckboard, his name is painted on the seat back as "McCandles".

The end credits spell it "McCanles".

The scene in the swamp where the inmates are hauling logs out of the water shows Max on a welded steel barge.

Welded steel barges weren't constructed until the advent of electric arc welding in the 1930s, and didn't appear in general use until World War II.

The barge should have been a wood-hulled barge instead of welded steel.

The camera's shadow can be seen as it pans across several head of cattle being driven in the scene immediately following the parting of ways between Max and Jonas.

When the cowboys are herding cattle at the ranch/rail yard, there are several modern box cars in the background.

They are of steel construction with modern US Department of Transportation identification codes that did not exist during the era depicted by this film.

After waking up on the pool table, Smith is standing at the bar with his gun belt on his shoulder.

In next shot he has it strapped on.

After waking up on the pool table Smith orders a drink at the bar.

When the bartender pours the drink Smith puts his hand on the glass.

In next shot Smith reaches to pick up the glass.

When Keith is teaching McQueen poker and McQueen pulls the gun on him, Keith's gun vanishes from his right hand between shots and the whiskey bottle changes from his left hand to his right.

When Max Sand (pretending to be Tom Fitch) gets busted out of prison by Fitch's buddies, he climbs out of the busted jail window with his gunbelt on.

If he was in a jail cell, he wouldn't have had his gunbelt with him.

After Bowdrie's whipping at the prison camp, Max runs into the water to save Bowdrie from drowning.

Max turns Bowdrie onto his back so Bowdrie's face is up, out of the water; in the next shot, which is just a second later, Max pulls a face-down Bowdrie out of the water by the feet.

Nevada Smith is working cattle at the railhead in Abilene KS.

and during that scene, snow capped mountains are visible in the background.

There are no mountains in Kansas.

At the end of the movie when Max Sand/Nevada Smith shoots Tom Fitch in both knees as he lays half way in the river, blood flows from somewhere upstream toward his legs, not from his legs downstream.

Half-Indians are never blond.

'Steve McQueen (I)' (qv) is clearly far too old to be a teenager at the beginning of the movie.

In the scene where Nevada Smith is after Jessie Coe, the music playing in the saloon in the background is "Frankie and Johnnie.

" In a previous scene, Bowdrie says he hasn't skinned an Indian since the war (Civil War) 15 years ago.

Thus, the date of the story has to be no later than 1880.

The first published version of the music to "Frankie and Johnny" appeared in 1904 (credited to and copyrighted by Hughie Cannon).

When Martin Landau swings the chair at Steve McQueen as he enters the saloon bedroom, you can plainly see that a piece of plexiglas is in the door frame to protect McQueen.

When the 3 bad guys are breaking Max out of jail, there are 3 ropes on the window.

One rope breaks, but in the next scene there are again 3 ropes.

I really like Steve McQueen's work in nearly all this films, but this was ridiculous. He's 36 years old and tries to portray a teenager...

To be honest it should be a 5 for entertainment value as it's watchable as soon as you get over the middle aged man playing a boy. Problems magnified as he tries to act like a teenage boy would which just makes it look like he's educationally challenged.

NEVADA SMITH is a film that is alternately shallow and very involving. Steve McQueen plays a half-breed tracking down the three men who killed his mother and father.

I thought about a Smith with Steve McQueen Karl Malden Brian Keith was an excellent version of the movie.

As part of the Carpetbaggers it was only ever one part of a big novel but it stands as a great western story.The scenery keeps changing and McQueen although too old for the early part of the movie plays the role well with his natural physicality and shyness.

Come on. He was what...

By 1966,the American western had become the relic of the post world war two era and was being replaced and outdone by the Spaghetti western, with Sergio Leone releasing the third instalment of his famous "dollar's trilogy", THE GOOD,THE BAD AND THE UGLY, in this same year. This meant that the American western had to be reinvented, it had to change, it had to become more violent, more adult and deliver to audiences of the day what they really wanted to see.

Henry Hathaway made his share of memorable westerns during his long career as a director in Hollywood. He stands along other great western filmmakers, such as John Ford, Anthony Mann, Raoul Walsh, John Sturges, Robert Aldrich, Sam Peckinpah, Burt Kennedy, and Andrew V.

It starts off strong and not very nice, concerning Steve McQueens character and even more so his loved ones. And then it gets to be a ...