Clue (1985 movie) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Clue is a 1985 U.S comedy film based on the boardgame Clue (a.k.a. Cluedo). The film uses the characters and murder mystery premise of the boardgame as the basis for a quickfire farce.

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1 Overview 2 Cast 3 Box Office 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 External links

Overview

The basic premise of the board game is that of six guests, one of whom has killed their host Mr. Boddy. The film expanded on this by making the six central characters victims of Boddy's blackmail, and they join him at his mansion for dinner one evening. When he is killed, a madcap riot begins in which the blackmail victims along with the maid, the cook and Wadsworth the butler, all find their lives at risk.

Cast

• Tim Curry as Wadsworth, the butler
• Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock
• Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White
• Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum
• Michael McKean as Mr. Green
• Martin Mull as Colonel Mustard
• Lesley Ann Warren as Miss Scarlett
• Colleen Camp as Yvette, the maid
• Howard Hesseman as the Chief
• Lee Ving as Mr. Boddy

The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who wrote the script with John Landis.

Box Office

The film was not successful office, but found new life on home video where it quickly became a cult film, and remains so today.

Trivia

The movie is unusual in that it was made with three different endings, which were randomly played at cinemass during its theatrical release. The critics were reported to have had their favourite ending (the second on the video release). When released on video - and later DVD - and broadcast on television, all three endings were included in the film with silent film-style title cards interspersed between. The DVD release includes an option to have one of the endings randomly selected and played at the end of the film, thereby recreating the theatrical experience.

Though based on the Clue premise and featuring the game's characters and mansion, the film took several liberties. Writers Landis and Lynn added more characters (a butler, a cook) and added a maid separate from Mrs. White, who was pictured as a maid in the board games but in the film was the widow of a nuclear scientist. Also, the mansion's geography was changed, and three floors were added. Finally, the film was set in 1954 New England, while the actual board game was British originally.

See also

• Clue, the board game
• Clue, the computer game

External links

• IMDB entry for Clue

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