Clue
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Short description
Six strangers arrive at an isolated mansion after receiving an unusual invitation, and their host, Mr. Boddy, soon reveals why they are there: he has been blackmailing each of them. It is not long before Boddy is found dead, leaving the guests, the butler Wadsworth and the staff to work out which of them is responsible. Bodies continue to appear as the group tries to identify the killer, and each suspect has both a motive and a possible weapon.
Clue was released in December 1985 and marks Jonathan Lynn's first time directing a feature, following a career as a writer. Lynn also wrote the screenplay, and Debra Hill produced. Tim Curry plays Wadsworth, with Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean and Martin Mull as the suspects. Roughly two and a half million people have rated the film on IMDb, where it sits at 7.3 out of 10, while on TMDB it holds 7.2 from about two thousand votes. A critics' rating of 6.4 from forty reviews places it somewhat below the audience scores.
Made for about fifteen million dollars, the film took in a similar amount worldwide. Lynn went on to direct My Cousin Vinny and The Distinguished Gentleman, both in 1992, Greedy in 1994, Sgt. Bilko in 1996, The Whole Nine Yards in 2000, The Fighting Temptations in 2003 and Wild Target in 2010.
What's left behind the scenes
- Carrie Fisher was originally supposed to play Scarlett, but she entered a rehabilitation center four days before filming. Leslie Ann Warren agreed to the role one day before the start of filming.
- In fact, not three, but four versions of the ending were filmed, but the creators considered the last version too brutal, as all the characters died in it.
- When everyone rushes to Yvette’s scream in the billiard room, the scream heard off-screen is not from the non-playing Yvette (Colleen Camp), but from Leslie Ann Warren, who plays Miss Scarlet. Moreover, it wasn’t recorded specifically for this moment, but was borrowed from scenes where Miss Scarlet screams when the cook’s body is first found in the kitchen cupboard, and later when Wadsworth, pretending to be a corpse, is found there.
- An alternative translated title for the film was "The Hookup."
- The film is based on a board game invented in 1946. The game was developed by lawyer Anthony E. Pratt, who worked as a clown in his spare time. The goal is to use deduction to answer three questions: who, where, and with what did Dr. Black (in the North American version – Mr. Boddy) get killed.
- The translation of the surname Boddy is “body.” The names of the other guests signify colors: Scarlett – “scarlet,” Green – “green,” White – “white,” Plum – “plum,” Peacock – “teal” or “peacock,” Mustard – “mustard.”
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