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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. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Cluedo (Clue in North America) is a murder mystery board game originally published by Waddington Games, UK in 1948. ...
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Definition A farce is a comedy written for the stage, or a film, which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant - yet often possible - situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include puns and sexual innuendo, and a fast...
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 The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who wrote the script with John Landis. Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946 in Cheshire, England) is a British actor and composer perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). ...
Eileen Brennan (born September 3, 1935 in Los Angeles) is an American character actress of films, television, and theatre. ...
Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress of movie, television, and theater. ...
Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) from the movie Back to the Future. ...
Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician, best known for his portrayal of Leonard Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. ...
Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor from Chicago, best-known for frequent appearances on the television show Hollywood Squares. ...
Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946), is an American actress. ...
Colleen Camp (born June 7, 1953 in San Francisco, California) is an American actress and film producer. ...
Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American actor. ...
Lee Ving was the lead singer of the 80s punk band Fear. ...
Jonathan Lynn (born April 3, 1943), is a British actor and comedy writer. ...
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Box Office The film was not successful at the box office, but found new life on home video where it quickly became a cult film, and remains so today. The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ...
A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of obsessive fans or one that has remained popular over successive years amongst a small group of followers. ...
Trivia The movie is unusual in that it was made with three different endings, which were randomly played at cinemas during its theatrical release. Some have claimed that because of this gimmick, the mystery of the movie is inherently unfair (after all, if there are three possible scenarios that can occur, it is impossible for the audience to deduce the ending from the clues given.) 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. A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
Reportedly, there was actually a fourth ending scripted and shot, in which Wadsworth committed all the murders out of a twisted need for perfection in his life. He reveals that he poisoned everyone with a slow-acting toxin in their drinks. It ended with Wadsworth being killed by dogs as he attempted to escape by car from the house. The rather grim nature of the ending is probably why it was never released. It was never shown because the film makers thought the ending would have been too obvious - it only survives in the novelization and the storybook, which features but a single photo from that ending (the Chief punching Wadsworth in the stomach).
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. Cluedo (Clue in North America) is a murder mystery board game originally published by Waddington Games, UK in 1948. ...
For other uses see Butler (disambiguation) The butler is a senior servant in a large household. ...
Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ...
A maidservant or in current usage maid is a female employed in domestic service. ...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Modern New England, the six northeastern-most states of the United States, indicated by red The New England region of the United States is located in the northeastern corner of the country. ...
Social Commentary The film is set in 1950's America during the era of Cold War McCarthyism where the federal government purged members of the Communist Party, and homosexuals from employment and touched off a national campaign where anyone with political viewpoints that were considered to be liberal were harassed, blacklisted and became social outcastes. The film makes reference to the infamous House Committee on Un-American Activites and the fact that McCarthyism treated homosexuals, called sexual perverts as akin to Communism, or Socialism. The word America has several meanings: Geographical and political Americas, the continent which is divided in: North America, Central America and South America. ...
The Cold War (1947-1991) was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of nations practicing different ideologies and political systems. ...
McCarthyism, named for Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, was a period of intense anti-communism, and is also popularly known as the second Red Scare. ...
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Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
In politics, the term liberal refers to: an adherent of the ideology of liberalism —an ideology espousing liberty. ...
A blacklist is a list or register of people who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ...
This article is about communism as a form of society built around a gift economy, as an ideology that advocates that form of society, and as a popular movement. ...
For information on mainstream political parties using the term Socialist, see Social democracy and Democratic socialism, For the governments of the USSR, the PRC, and others, see: Communist state, Other variants of Socialism include Marxism, Communism, and Libertarian Socialism. ...
Despites the film's satire of McCarthyism, gay film critics often pointed out that homosexuality of the neurotic character Mr. Green (played by Michael McKean) was the subject of various physical comedic jokes, that went from mere absurdity to being mean-spiritied. The most critical scene was when the table Green was sitting on collapsed after Wadsworth the Butler (played by Tim Curry) mentions how Mr. Body blackmailed all the guests because he felt that they were "un-American." The official novel of the film mentioned that among the destroyed photographs was a picture of Mr. Green holding hands with another man, something not shown in the film. One of the film's endings went as far to change Mr. Green's sexual orientation, although as a humorous moment where we learn Green was an undercover agent, and not gay at all. Gay, in addition to meaning happy, also means, simplistically, preferring the same sex in current usage, though to tie down the word to a specific cultural meaning might be to misrespresent a huge community of individuals who find themselves described by the word gay. The term gay, or lesbian for...
Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician, best known for his portrayal of Leonard Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. ...
Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946 in Cheshire, England) is a British actor and composer perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). ...
Television Version The television version has some scenes that ran longer then the theatrical version to make up for the cuts made for content.
DVD Version The film is available on DVD, and includes all the alternative endings.
See also Cluedo (Clue in North America) is a murder mystery board game originally published by Waddington Games, UK in 1948. ...
Clue® (known as Cluedo® outside of North America) is a computer game based on the board game of the same name. ...
External links Wikiquote quotations related to: Clue (1985 movie) - IMDB entry for Clue (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088930)
- Extensive Clue Collection and Fan Discussion Forums TheArtofMurder.com (http://www.theartofmurder.com)
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