Goofs

When Blackie picks up a magazine from the couch after Eleanor leaves him, it is a closeup of a Woman's Home Companion, November 1925, from a leopard skin upholstered couch. In the wide shot, he is holding a Vogue magazine, and the couch is plainly upholstered, not leopard skin.

Jim and Blackie meet before the boxing match. Jim lights Blackie's cigarette, then puts a cigarette in his own mouth, and then Jim's cigarette disappears in the next shot.

(at around 30 mins) Jim Wade and Eleanor Packer arrive at her and Blackie's apartment where Eleanor offers him some oyster stew. This is after Eleanor's first night on the town in NYC with Jim, a very old and dear friend of her current main event, Blackie, a gambling bad-boy. Jim declines the offer of chowder as it is 5:00 a.m. He then passes on a goodnight kiss from Eleanor and gracefully leaves. Eleanor is then seen wearing all the same clothes had on when she came in the door with Jim, and she's with Blackie, who's sitting lazily on the couch. They have a short discussion about the evening when Eleanor walks past their mantle that has a wind-up clock; the clock displays the current time as 4:10 a.m.

Actually, the clock shows it to be 5:10; the hour hand is well past the chime winding port near the "4". Regardless, the clock may not be showing the correct time due to needing to be wound up, or it may actually be 5:10 a.m., and Jim was simply rounding up the time (say from 4:40) as people often did prior to the proliferation of digital clocks and watches.

When having breakfast in bed, the phone on the nightstand rings, and Eleanor moves to answer it. It the next shot, her hands are not in the same position, and she has to reach out again to answer the phone.

When Snow enters the men's room at Madison Square Garden, he begins to close the door. In the next shot, showing him reflected in the mirrors above the basin, he once again is walking through the door.

There is a scene depicting a rabble rousing-speech by Lev Trotskiy, which descends into a riot, circa 1904. In reality, Trotsky didn't visit the United States until January 13 1917 for a short while before returning to Russia. In 1904, he was active in the events leading up to the 1905 Russian Revolution.

(at around 19 mins) In the closeup of the newspaper announcing Jim as the new D.A., in the upper right corner, the newspaper is being sold for "Five Cens".

Typographical errors are not uncommon in newspapers (even more so in the 21st century). It also can be seen that the paper was an "EXTRA" edition, meaning that the printers were rushing to get the paper on the streets, so likely were being rushed and didn't have time to completely proofread the copy before the print run.

In the cheering New York City crowds on Jim Wade's election night, supposedly in November 1925, theatre marquees are promoting 1933 films, including MGM's Dinner at Eight (1933) and Bombshell (1933) with Michael Strogoff (1910).

In the 1920,1923, 1925, and 1930 sequences, the women's fashions and hairstyles all are strictly from 1934.