Historical Bloopers

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2004)

This is a fast-moving adventure film, but two errors at the beginning of the film, make it clear that this is strictly for fun.
The film makes reference to the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Actually there were 56.
The biggest blooper of all is about Charles Carroll. Charles Carroll was the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. He signed as "Charles Carroll of Carrolltown" He was also the only signer brave enough to put down his hometown, so that if the British came looking for him, they wouldn't accidentally nab some other Charles Carroll by mistake. Here's the blooper. Charles Carroll was NOT a Freemason. The Freemasons were started in Europe in the 1700's by intellectuals who were disgusted with organized religion in general, and Catholicism in particular. The feeling was mutual. There's no way a Catholic would ever have joined the Freemasons. Even today, the two groups don't mix. In fact, the Knights of Columbus were started as a Catholic substitute for Freemasonry.
There were Freemasons among the signers, but Carroll wasn't one of them.