When Amelia first starts skiing, she loses her bathing cap. After falling in the water, the cap is back on her head.
Amelia presents Gilhooley with a Christmas present then goes out back of the bar to confront Donovan. When she returns, not more than a couple of minutes later, Gilhooley already has the train set put together on the bar and is playing with it.
Amelia loses her stockings after falling in the water.
When Ameila first comes ashore, she and Donovan are sitting in a jeep on the dock. Gilhooley is standing by the hood on the drivers side of the jeep talking across the hood to Amelia on the passenger side. In the shots of Amelia and Donovan, Donovan's fore arms are resting on the steering wheel. In the reverse shots of Gilhooley, Donovan's arms are not visible on the wheel.
When Donovan takes the kids and Amelia up the mountain to cut down an "island Christmas tree" they cut down a very pretty and bright green tree and put it in the back of the jeep. When they arrive back in town and pull up in front of Donovan's bar, the tree looks dead and shriveled.
French Polynesia was 4,000 km (about 2200 nautical miles) east of the farthest Japanese expansion, and there was no fighting there.
At 32:24, Cesar Romero asks what Miss Dedham's worth is, "according to Dun and Bradstreet." D&B wouldn't be able to apprise anyone of her personal fortune is, as they concern themselves only with commercial credit, not personal. They might be able to tell him the net worth of her shipping company, if its stock is publicly traded or if the company chooses to release its financial information. But her own, private business is not D&B's concern.
When the piano is destroyed in the bar brawl, there's no sign of its metal frame and strings in the debris.
The Christmas tree in the jeep when they returned to town was not the tropical tree they cut down.
In Boston they are talking about the will and how it is written to say that under Boston standards and morals, if found to be immoral, that Dr. Dedham could be cheated out of the stock. However, that terminology is contestable in court because it is far to vague of a reference.
On the road when the children are forced to leave their home to move in with Donovan, the shadow of the camera is visible on the people as they walk by.
Ameilia reads aloud the full names of Donovan, Gilhooley, and Doc Dedham off the plaque on the war monument. Later, a screen shot of the plaque shows only the person's first initial and last name.