Erros de gravação

When everyone is listening to the Baroness sing, Mr. Stevens pours Reginald Cardinal the same glass of wine twice in two continuous shots.

(at around 1h 20 mins) When the doctor is driving Stevens to the stranded Daimler there is a shot out the passenger window of the countryside which also shows part of the car windscreen. The scene is obviously shot from the Daimler's window (it shows the upright window pillar and the sticker on the windscreen), yet the pair are in the doctor's Austin.

At the beginning, during Mr. Stevens voiceover, he recalls the day Miss Kenton arrived. It was, he says, the day of the Charlgrove Meet, which is a fox hunt. As the hunt rides through the estate, the trees are covered in green leaves, making it summertime. Yet a hunt usually takes place in winter. Then Miss Kenton is being interviewed in Stevens' office (on the same day), but the calendar on the table reads Wednesday, 25th October.

When Mr. Stevens is serving at the banquet, he stands behind Lord Darlington's chair empty-handed. Then he leaves the room to receive news of his father's death, but at the end of this scene, he now has a decanter in his hand. The decanter isn't used until the next scene, when the guests have left the banquet and been in another room for quite some time.

Early in the film, the now elderly Stevens sets down a rack of toast on the breakfast table for Congressman Lewis, who is now the master of the house. Lewis is seen reading the paper and talking with Stevens. He doesn't take a slice of toast from the rack. The camera cuts to Stevens, who is bringing a cup of tea to the table. When he arrives at the table, Lewis is halfway into eating a now buttered slice of toast.

After Richard Carlisle drops off Stevens and empties the can of petrol into the gas tank of the car, the Daimler starts up right away on the first try. Considering that the car stalled because of fuel starvation due to an empty tank, the engine would be unable to start until the fuel pump has operated long enough to pump the gas from the tank to the float bowls of the carburetor. It would start eventually, but not instantaneously.

A dozen bottles of Graham's Port are seen being delivered for the banquet, but the port would have been cellared for at least six months before being decanted; vintage port is undrinkable immediately after being transported. Later Stevens takes (and breaks) a bottle of Dow 1913 vintage port, but no producers declared a vintage in that year; 1912 was a vintage year, and the next one was 1917.

When the kitchen staff is preparing for the banquet, a meat cleaver is used to behead a pheasant. However, when the head is thrown away, it is obvious that the head was previously severed, as the cleaver rests on a non-severed part of the pheasant's neck.

As the camera recedes in the final aerial shot departing from the estate, it briefly reveals a modern, silver-colored hatchback automobile backed up to the left end of the building.

The road markings at the junction outside the George Inn in Norton St Philip are modern; dashed double white lines were not around in the 1950s.

When Mr. Stevens arrives in the market town on his way to Clevedon, a modern "National Westminster Bank" sign is seen on a building in the background as he is getting his case out of the car.

Wrong Royal Portrait: Around the 32 min mark, as Mr Steven talks to stuff regarding the upcoming conference, the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is shown on the background. However, as the conference took place in 1923, George V was the King. The portrait of QE II would have been accurate for the later part of the movie which takes place in 1955-56.

At the end, an Exeter Transport bus is seen, showing local St Leonards destination, 70 miles away in Clevedon.

At the beginning, Miss Kenton mentions a conference "back in 1936". At the end of the film, Lewis asks, "Isn't this the same room where we all attended that banquet back in 1935?"