Old Movies That I Adore ........ personal favorites

Nearly all the vehicles used in the film have inspection stickers in their windshield indicating registration in Pittsburgh, PA, where none of the action in the film takes place.
Clarice claims to have double-majored in criminology and psychology at the University of Virginia. Criminology has never been a major offered at UVa.
Jack Crawford's collar pops in and out of his vest during a conversation with Clarice Starling.
When Clarice goes into the first girl's room, her father says that the room has been left the way it was when she died. But, there's a Deborah Harry "Def, Dumb and Blonde" poster on the wall; that album was released in 1989, 3 years(?) after the girl died.
A forensics expert's opinion of the autopsy scene: over 8 errors were made. Among them: the body was fingerprinted without collecting evidence under the victims fingernails, and the ink would have destroyed the evidence. You cannot get fingerprints off a body if it is in that condition.
When the killer looks at Starling through the night-vision goggles, Starling's shadow appears on the walls as if there were a light shining on her, and yet it's supposed to be pitch dark in the room. However, the shadow could be cast by an infrared illumination source carried by the killer.
The killer looks right into the headlights of Catherine Martin's car with his night-vision goggles on when she drives into the parking area and is not blinded. In fact, goggles at the timeframe of this movie might have been permanently damaged. Newer goggles do have automatic protection mechanisms.
U.S. Customs has a record of Buffalo Bill bringing the moths, found only in Asia, from Suriname, in South America. But he may have used a re-shipper to disguise the origins of the shipment.
When they are in the funeral home, Clarice peeks into a funeral taking place and sees/remembers/hallucinates a little girl that is supposed to be her as a child. It's not obvious in the lighting, but the little girl has blue eyes, the same as Clarice.
Gumb's basement, while larger than the "red herring" house in Illinois, is proportional to his house in Ohio.
As Hannibal escapes, he kicks the cell door onto the guard, causing the door to be in between Hannibal and the guard. Yet in the very next shot, the guard is right in front of Hannibal so he can bite him.
When the cop holding the flowers is at the front door of the house in Illinois, shadows change direction on the doorframe between shots.
The red herring house is supposed to be in Calumet City, Illinois, and in the background, mountains can be seen. There are no mountains in the vicinity of the actual Calumet City.
At the end of the film when Hannibal is telling Clarice about having "an old friend for dinner" a camera crew can is reflected in Hannibal's sunglasses.
When Clarice is talking to Buffalo Bill in his back room, a moth is filmed landing on a cotton reel. After the moth has settled, a thread is visible attached to it. Presumably the shot was filmed in reverse, and the moth 'yanked' off the reel.
When Clarice is researching Lecter in Quantico by reading old newspaper articles on microfilm, the same text regarding developments at some vague governmental conference appears over and over again surrounding the Lecter articles in all four separate newspapers she views.
Sgt Tate tells an officer to call in the SWAT team. Memphis has no SWAT team, it has a related unit called the TACT team.
Sweat stains change on the back of Clarice's jogging suit, between the woods shots and the academy shots at the beginning of the film.
The plane carrying agents to Calumet City banks over mountainous terrain, resembling nothing in the vicinity of northern Indiana
Jack Crawford says that Clarice graduated "magna" (magna cum laude) from UVA, but this is impossible because UVA does not award such a distinction to psychology majors