(at around 1h 5 mins) When Conan leaves the wizard to go to the mountain on the camel, he carries a bunch of purple flowers. By the time he reaches the mountain, the flowers are white.
(at around 1h 30 mins) During the battle at the orgy, the camouflage body paint on the three warriors keeps changing patterns and alternating between fresh and dull.
(at around 10 mins) Conan's mother is pointing the sword at the attackers' leader with both hands on the hilt. We cuts to a shot of Conan standing beside her holding her hand, then back to her with both hands on the hilt.
When the trio prepares to invade Doom's mountain, they camouflage themselves with 'war paint' (but Rexor recognizes Conan anyway), with black 'slashes' across their faces and torsos. Subotai adds cream-colored paint between his black marks, and Valeria applies it under Conan's left eye. But once inside, no one has cream paint--only black slashes and natural flesh colors.
Strangely, it reappears later at 01:41:25, after Valeria has been shot with the snake arrow.
Strangely, it reappears later at 01:41:25, after Valeria has been shot with the snake arrow.
(at around 1h 50 mins) When the princess is chained to the rock, the clasps around her wrist keep changing shapes. Either way, she could easily slip her hands through them at any time.
At the intro to the film, Conan's sword is shown being cast. Swords and knives are always forged. A cast sword or knife, would have limited strength, be difficult to sharpen, and would crack or shatter easily.
(at around 1h 35 mins) During the Orgy fight, one of the pillars has a crack visible before the warrior breaks it with his war-hammer. The pillar is initially cracked by the giant soup pot that Conan rolls down the steps.
(at around 3 mins) During the opening scene after Conan's father is finished forging his sword, Arnold Schwarzenegger's arms are shown sharpening the sword with a stone.
That's not a sequential scene. That's a flash forward (prolepsis).
That's not a sequential scene. That's a flash forward (prolepsis).
(at around 1h 30 mins) While sneaking into the orgy, Valeria slowly and quietly makes her way over a low ledge on her way to the main area of the cave. At one point, her foot kicks a set of large hanging chains, causing them to swing. In the very next shot of her, presumably after only mere seconds of a cutaway shot, she is in the same position as last we saw her, but the chains are completely still.
(at around 1h 30 mins) During the battle at the orgy, Conan slashes a guard across his chest. The actor, with his back to the camera, may be throwing fake blood on himself as he falls.
(at around 1h 30 mins) During the fight at the orgy, Conan appears to strike a guard with the pommel (hilt) of his sword. The strike clearly misses, but the guard reacts as if it connected.
(at around 1h 50 mins) Subotai slashes a guard across the back three times, but there is no blood.
Set in a primitive era, thousands of years before the rise of the known ancient civilizations, the women have shaved legs and armpits.
When escaping the temple (at about 1 hour 37 minutes and 57 sec.), Valeria's shadow on the left side of the cave is not in sync with her movements. Also, when the other characters run past this same spot, their shadows do not appear on the wall to the left as they run past. With the way the lighting is in the cave, a stand-in must have been positioned for Valeria near an unseen light to project this shadow.
When waiting for the final battle, Conan awaits Doom's army on a hilltop at 1:46:00. Just to the left of Conan on the horizon is a telephone pole in the distance, almost lost in the grain of the film. When he moves further left, you can see more poles appear to the left of his head when the camera moves.
If they are barely made out in the distance, identifying them as telephone poles is questionable. They may be dead trees or poles waiting for Doom to mount heads on.
If they are barely made out in the distance, identifying them as telephone poles is questionable. They may be dead trees or poles waiting for Doom to mount heads on.
During a battle, the archers get the command to "fire". That is a modern term, typically used for firearms, which do not exist in the barbarian age. For an archer, the command would be "release" or "loose".
At the end of the film the text crawl appears to be a transcript of what the Wizard / Chronicler is saying, but the last sentence of the text reads "but that is another story," although he actually says "this story shall also be told."
(at around 29 mins) When Conan emerges from the crypt and cuts his leg irons, a hand can be seen reaching up to snatch the chain out of the way. (No hand can be seen on the R2 DVD special edition.)
When Valeria uses the guard as a counter-weight to pull her to the top of the tower on the rope, she has a black safety line attached to her body.
At around 1:55:08, you can see a director (maybe John Milius) standing right next to Thulsa Doom, waiving his right hand in direction to the actor walking up the stairs (priest).