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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.

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, a police officer, a motorist, a singing telegram girl, and Wadsworth the butler, all find their lives at risk.

The six central characters, and the supporting cast, are all part of an intricate web of lies and blackmail that Mr. Boddy has created. Miss Scarlet runs a prostitution service, Mrs. Peacock accepts bribes from foreign powers for her husband, a US senator, and Mrs. White has had five husbands, all of whom she has allegedly killed. Mr. Green is supposedly a homosexual politician , Colonel Mustard stole and sold radio parts on the black market during World War II (although this is only revealed near the end, with the original revelation that he used Miss Scarlet's service being the primary secret used against him for most of the film), Professor Plum has been practicing medicine after his license was revoked for taking advantage of one of his patients, and Wadsworth's late wife had socalist connections.

The supporting cast were each connected to at least one of the main cast members somehow, and gave Mr. Boddy the information he needed to blackmail them. The maid Yvette was a prostitute under Miss Scarlet, and also frequently had Colonel Mustard as a client, and had an affair with Mrs. White's husband. The cook cooked for Mrs. Peacock, the random motorist was Colonel Mustard's driver, the police officer was bribed once a week to allow Miss Scarlet to carry on her business, and the singing telegram girl was the patient Professor Plum slept with. The only guest Mr. Boddy has not been spying on is Mr. Green, which, given the third ending, lends proof to the fact that Mr. Green is an FBI agent.

An interesting note is that the names of the guests are aliases. Thus, they could very well be anyone at the time. This serves the possibility that the movie could have actually happened at one point, although it obviously has not. The only connection between the aliases and the guests is their cars: each guest drives a car matching their alias. So Professor Plum drives a purple car, Mrs. White drives a white car, etc.

Cast

Tim Curry
as Wadsworth, the butler
Eileen Brennan
as Mrs. Peacock (wife of a corrupt senator)
Madeline Kahn
as Mrs. White (wife of a deceased nuclear physicist)
Christopher Lloyd
as Professor Plum (employee of U.N.O. W.H.O., United Nations Organization World Health Organization)
Michael McKean
as Mr. Green (a state department employee who may or may not be homosexual)
Martin Mull
as Colonel Mustard (a war profiteer)
Lesley Ann Warren
as Miss Scarlet (a prostitute and madam)
Colleen Camp
as Yvette, the maid
Bill Henderson as the Cop
Lee Ving
as Mr. Boddy
Jane Wiedlin
as The Singing Telegram Girl
Jeffrey Kramer
as the Motorist
Kellye Nakahara
as the Cook
Howard Hesseman
as the Chief (uncredited)

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

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