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Clue

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Clue	comment	Quite possibly 1985's best movie based on a board game, Clue is a Black Comedy murder mystery film based on the board game Clue (or Cluedo, depending where you live). The film justifies the game's premise (a large mansion full of people with silly names trying to solve a murder mystery) by turning all of the characters from the board game into blackmail victims using predetermined aliases.The six guests travel to the remote mansion after receiving an invitation from the butler, Wadsworth, to expose his employer, Mr. Boddy, as a blackmailer. Mr. Boddy turns the tables on the plan: he gives everyone a weapon and asks them to kill Wadsworth so no one will have their secrets exposed. When the lights go out, someone kills Mr. Boddy; since everyone has both the means and a motive to turn Boddy into a body, everyone becomes a suspect in his murder. The group opts to solve the case themselves rather than call the police, and Hilarity Ensues—and in a good way. While made in The '80s, the film sets its story in 1954 (and in New England) to justify both the large mansion and the politically-charged secrets of its main cast.That was one way the description could have ended. But how about this?Clue bombed in theaters, partly because of the movie's Multiple Endings. In theaters, the solution to the murders changed depending on where you saw the movie; viewers couldn't deduce the murderer from the clues presented, since other options had to remain viable in order to accommodate the other endings. This was harshly criticized by reviewers, who apparently didn't know a zany comedy couldn't have a real mystery happening. The home video and TV versions of the film include all three endings; these cuts mark two endings as "how it could have happened", while marking the third ending as "how it really happened". The DVD and Blu-Ray releases enable viewers to play one ending at random or all three endings as described above.But here's what really happened.Although it bombed in theaters, Clue eventually became a Cult Classic. Fans regard it as a solid comedy with a mix of clever dialogue and slapstick, and the various solutions to the murders (mostly) hold up on repeat viewings.Directed by Jonathan Lynn. Members of the cast included Tim Curry as Wadsworth, Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White, Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock, Michael McKean as Mr. Green, Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum, Martin Mull as Colonel Mustard, Lesley Ann Warren as Miss Scarlet, and Colleen Camp as Yvette the maid. Lee Ving, better known as the singer for punk band F.E.A.R., plays Mr. Boddy.Do not confuse this film with Cluedo, the 1990â€“93 British TV adaptation of the board game (which, unbelievably, was a Game Show). The 1992â€“93 Australian TV adaptation, also called Cluedo, was a kind of game show where pre-recorded scenes showed how a guest star was murdered every week, and the actors playing the six main characters were questioned by a live studio audience, which was also filmed so the TV audience could play along as well (only the week's murderer could lie, all the other suspects had to tell the truth)—which meant that the TV audience had to depend on the studio audience to ask the right questions. Then another pre-recorded section showed the solution. If you would like to read the February 1985 shooting script, click on this link. For the novelization by Michael McDowell click here. For the movie storybook, click right here.
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Clue / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Clue / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Nobody in the film uses any sort of gun safety at all. Even the police and FBI agents seen during each ending constantly keep their fingers on the trigger at all times. This includes the Chief and Mr. Green in the third ending, despite them currently pointing their guns at the backs of their fellow agents; the Chief pointing his gun directly at Wadsworth's stomach while arresting Miss Scarlet; and Wadsworth pulling the trigger of a gun to try and prove it's out of bullets (it isn't).
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Clue / int_10416043	type	Dropping the Bombshell
Clue / int_10416043	comment	Dropping the Bombshell: In the third and "real" ending, when attempting to deduce who shot the Singing Telegram Girl:
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Clue / int_10c9fbb	type	Doctor's Disgraceful Demotion
Clue / int_10c9fbb	comment	Doctor's Disgraceful Demotion: Professor Plum was a psychiatrist until his lost his license for having a fling with one of his "lady patients."
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Clue / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Clue / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Wadsworth (except in the third ending). Yvette (if you don't count her as a Decomposite Character of Mrs. White), the cook, the motorist, the singing-telegram girl, and the cop.
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Clue / int_1152876e	type	Faux Yay
Clue / int_1152876e	comment	In the third ending, the final line from Mr. Green has him declaring loudly, in front of his boss, that he's going to sleep with his wife. Some viewers take this line at face value, making this an inversion, and thus makes Green a Faux Yay. But the ostentatiousness of his loud announcement (even his boss snickers in discomfort) — in the 1950s, mind you — suggests to others that the line is played straight as this trope.
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Clue / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Clue / int_129749df	comment	Also All Men Are Perverts between Boddy and Yvette.
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Clue / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Clue / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After the power is restored, the entire group gathers together and wanders around the house, noting every new corpse with absolutely no reaction whatsoever, mentally putting more checks on the list. Wadsworth deadpans, "Three more murders... This is getting serious."
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Clue / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Clue / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity and confusion ensue in the following conversation between Col. Mustard and Wadsworth:
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Clue / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Clue / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: At one point, Mrs. White threatens to hurt Wadsworth when they're alone. Wadsworth tells her that no man in his right mind would spend time alone with her (because she's a Black Widow). When the guests, Wadsworth and Yvette have to split up into pairs, guess who Wadsworth is paired with?
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Clue / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Clue / int_1aa08f77	comment	When Yvette spots their former boss or former lover's wife or someone else and will-be murderer, they exclaim "It's you!"
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Clue / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
Clue / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: When Wadsworth accuses Mrs. Peacock in the second ending, she takes off her glasses. This is the only time she does this in any of the endings, because she's the murderer. Nicely Foreshadowed in the dinner scene: When Mr. Green says he recognizes Mrs. Peacock, she takes off her glasses and demands sharply, "How do you know who I am?"—indicating that not only the glasses but her scatterbrained behavior are just a disguise. In the third ending, Mr. Green takes his glasses off before shooting Wadsworth / Boddy to hide the fact that he's reaching for his gun. He never puts them back on, either.
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Clue / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Clue / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Twice. The first is played when Mr. Boddy's corpse is discovered after he's killed for real, while the second is played as Yvette is strangled to death with the rope.
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Clue / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Clue / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Nurse Kellye and the rhythm guitarist of The Go-Go's are murder victims, while Dr. Johnny Fever puts in an uncredited appearance as a door-to-door evangelist who's really a police chief. Lee Ving, who played Mr. Boddy, was also the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the punk band Fear.
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Clue / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Clue / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: The second ending. After Wadsworth fingers the culprit, he declares that nothing more needs to be done. The people killed were a blackmailer and his accomplices, so the murderer clearly did the world a favor, and is allowed to leave first. Naturally, there is a squad of FBI agents ready to make the arrest.
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Clue / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
Clue / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: Mrs. White lapses into a version of this when describing her feelings about Yvette in the third ending.
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Clue / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Clue / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: At dinner, Professor Plum says that he is employed by UNO (United Nations Organization), at a branch called WHO (World Health Organization). Which means he works for U-NO-WHO. Even better? It actually exists. Between Plum and Wadsworth: Miss Scarlet's name seems ill-chosen in the film, as she never wears any red throughout it. But it soon comes to light that she's the leader of a prostitution ring who has "serviced" several high-paying clients. An old term for dubious women with multiple sexual partners is "scarlet woman."
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Clue / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Clue / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Not the cognac - just in case it's poisoned.
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Clue / int_20dc0291	type	Curtain Camouflage
Clue / int_20dc0291	comment	There is a genuinely eerie scene where Miss Scarlet, left alone in the ballroom, nervously checks to see if the mystery killer is hiding behind the curtains. This is made even better by the brief tracking shot over her shoulder, which lends to the sensation that we're about to see someone come up behind her.
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Clue / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
Clue / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: Three of them. Two German shepherds by the house's main entrance, and a Doberman outside the conservatory.
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Clue / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
Clue / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: The inscription above the fireplace reads "Nouveau Riche Oblige," which is a take on the phrase "noblesse oblige," meaning that the nobility have an obligation to act as such. Presumably, this inscription means the newly rich should act as such by spending lots of money on Big Fancy Houses.
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Clue / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Clue / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The movie Mrs. White went to see on the night her husband was murdered was From Here to Eternity.
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Clue / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Clue / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: One of the genre's more lighthearted examples. This film features murder and blackmail, yet is filled to the brim with fast-paced dialogue and heavy slapstick.
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Clue / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Clue / int_22cf536c	comment	Both possibly subverted when the "real" ending reveals Wadsworth is the real Boddy and this was part of the plan. On the other hand, his butler not realizing this can still count... Then promptly double subverts it, as it never occurs to him that phone call from J. Edgar Hoover means that one of the guests is actually an undercover FBI agent sent in to take him down, and pointing a gun at them would mean killing him would count as self-defense... as said agent (Mr Green) demonstrates.
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Clue / int_22d2b473	type	Share Phrase
Clue / int_22d2b473	comment	Share Phrase: The same lines and gags appear in each ending, transposed to different characters (e.g. "Communism is just a red herring," the line "There's one thing I don't understand." "One thing?"). However, when watched together, it comes off as a convincing call back.
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Clue / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Clue / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Two clues from the scrapped fourth ending still remains in the film: eagle eyed viewers can spot that Wadsworth disappears from the study when Mr. Boddy is found "dead" for the first time. According to the script, this was when he would have murdered the cook, using the secret passage while everyone was gathered around Mr. Boddy. He's also initially missing when everyone first enters the kitchen to check on the cook; this would have been when he stayed behind in the study to kill Mr. Boddy for real.
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Clue / int_23a06c52	type	TheUnReveal
Clue / int_23a06c52	comment	The Un-Reveal: In the second ending, it's never revealed why Yvette is helping Wadsworth expose the blackmail ring that she's part of by recording the confrontation (in the previous two endings, she was likely following her real employer's agenda).
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Clue / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Clue / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Wadsworth says this is Mr. Boddy's motivation for the blackmail.
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Clue / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
Clue / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: In the first ending, everyone is thoroughly shocked to discover Yvette committed the first two murders.
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Clue / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Clue / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Mr. Green, twice in the second ending. by Col. Mustard and Wadsworth.
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Clue / int_25bcf6ce	type	Lightswitch Surprise
Clue / int_25bcf6ce	comment	Lightswitch Surprise: After Mr. Boddy has handed round the weapons, told the guests to kill Wadsworth, and switched out the lights, the light is turned on again to reveal Mr. Boddy lying on the floor apparently dead. This is repeated when Wadsworth re-enacts this, with himself on the floor. Later, the cop switches on the study light to find people cuddling in the room, when in fact they are hiding the dead bodies. On two other occasions, the surprise is the light being turned on, when the guests have been nervously creeping around in the dark. This happens when Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet enter the ballroom, and when Professor Plum and Mrs. Peacock reach the bottom of the cellar steps.
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Clue / int_266e4fc7	type	The Perry Mason Method
Clue / int_266e4fc7	comment	The Perry Mason Method: Wadsworth uses this in the third ending to compel all the guests to confess to their respective murders. Miss Scarlet lampshades Wadsworth's use of this method and even references the Trope Namer.
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Clue / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Clue / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Several, referencing the original board game. The house includes all the requisite rooms, and the two secret passages are taken from the game as well, linking the same rooms. In the quote at the top of the page, Wadsworth describes the primary objective of the game: to find out who's the murderer, where the murder took place, and what weapon was used. And one character eventually gives an answer to each of these, mostly in the form players are supposed to give in the game: "...I did. In the hall, with the revolver." And like the game, he declares the murder in the room where it was committed. The Creative Closing Credits show the guests, Wadsworth, Mr. Boddy, and Yvette on playing cards patterned after those in the game. (The guests are even holding the murder weapons (except for Colonel Mustard), something which also appears on some versions of the game cover.) During The Summation, Wadsworth leads the group in running from room to room to explain his theory of the crime. In the game, players must place their pawns in the room they intend to speak about if they want to name a suspect, and when doing so, they move the suspect into the room with them. Additionally, during this sequence one of the guests accuses Wadsworth of being the murderer, and he incredulously asks why he'd reveal how he did it if he was the culprit; in the real game, it is possible for the killer to win by revealing themselves as the murderer. The main floor has tiling that greatly resembles the tiles of a game board, and each square is even large enough for a person to stand in.
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Clue / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Clue / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Pick a character. Any character. Watch that character the whole movie, even (sometimes, especially) when they're out of focus, and you can depend upon seeing this trope in action. For example, when Mrs. White knees Mr. Boddy in the crotch you can see the normally uptight Mrs. Peacock in the background wildly cheering her on.
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Clue / int_2802a519	type	Impossibly-Low Neckline
Clue / int_2802a519	comment	Impossibly-Low Neckline: Yvette, Miss Scarlet, and Mrs. White. Yvette's French Maid outfit is cut so low and her bosom is so ample that it's a small miracle she doesn't pop out of it.
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Clue / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Clue / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The whole movie takes place in one evening. Most of the action is packed within the 60 minutes from being called into the study until the police /FBI arrive
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Clue / int_298b1a12	type	Knocking on Heathens' Door
Clue / int_298b1a12	comment	Knocking on Heathens' Door: Appears as a throwaway gag during Wadsworth's summation. This is yet another cover. The Jehovah's Witness is really the FBI agent's - whether Wadsworth or Mr. Green - boss. And judging by Green's reactions (backing up, removing his glasses), a number of these lines were code words revealing the Feds were nearby and ready to move in. As the Jehovah's Witness says, "Mr. Hoover is an expert on Armageddon".
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Clue / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Clue / int_2a090d00	comment	Though not part of the above loop, Mrs. White is worth noting in that the inside of her coat actually is white, but we only see this for about five seconds, in the process Lampshading her alias. But for the majority of the film, she wears black. She does wear a striking white pearl choker, and have a pale, dreary face, however.
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Clue / int_2c7416bb	type	Acting Unnatural
Clue / int_2c7416bb	comment	Acting Unnatural: When Miss Scarlet and Prof. Plum close the doors to the study and the lounge, they unconvincingly feign nonchalance in how they lean against the doors.
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Clue / int_2dd7023a	type	Death as Comedy
Clue / int_2dd7023a	comment	Death as Comedy: The whole movie, especially as the murders pile up. This is particularly true of the Singing Telegram Girl, whose death and body disposalâ€”dropped unceremoniously in the studyâ€”are Played for Laughs at first, though it's later given an actual motive.
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Clue / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Clue / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: In the first ending, Wadsworth attempts to pull this on Miss Scarlet, saying that all six shots have been fired and enumerating them. Miss Scarlet disagrees, stating only one shot was fired at the chandelier. When everything is over and the murderer has been arrested, Wadsworth says that they could not have got away in any case because the gun was empty and fires it at the ceiling. Inevitably, it goes off, and triggers a second Falling Chandelier of Doom that narrowly misses Colonel Mustard.
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Clue / int_30afb908	type	Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?
Clue / int_30afb908	comment	Everyone's body language when The Cop shows up reeks of this, especially the two who slam and block the doors to the two rooms containing corpses. This is especially true when everyone very nervously denies that The Motorist came to the house, only for Mr. Green to sheepishly admit the truth. When the cop states what is essentially a rhetorical Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"? observation ("You all seem to have some kind of disagreement"), they all deny it again, even more nervously...only for Green to again, with grim satisfaction, say yes.
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Clue / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Clue / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Mrs. Peacock is often disgusted with the crimes the other guests have committed, but they then flip this back on her by pointing out she's a Sleazy Politician who accepts bribes on behalf of her husband, who is a Senator.
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Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_30ed4f7d
Clue / int_30f48597	type	When It Rains, It Pours
Clue / int_30f48597	comment	When It Rains, It Pours: For most of the movie, it is raining very heavily indeed, with thunder and lightning.
Clue / int_30f48597	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_30f48597	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_30f48597
Clue / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Clue / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: The questions Mustard asks Wadsworth in the library are self-inverted as to be effectively unanswerable, which leads to a comedic interchange. In the third ending, it's revealed he did this on purpose, hoping splitting everyone up to search the house would give him an opportunity to kill the Motorist.
Clue / int_31083edb	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_31083edb	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_31083edb
Clue / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
Clue / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: This is true throughout the entire film, but only the third ending takes the trope to its full extent. Though, Mr. Green excludes himself from it since he "didn't do it".
Clue / int_323fd510	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_323fd510	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_323fd510
Clue / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Clue / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Boddy dies with his eyes open, which bothers Mustard while he's trying to develop a plan, so he closes them. The cook apparently dies with her eyes closed, so forcefully so that Peacock has to keep them pried open during the lounge dancing scene. In the third ending, Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy dies this way when shot by Mr. Green.
Clue / int_33029735	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_33029735	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_33029735
Clue / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Clue / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Yvette's French accent occasionally gets shaky. Yvette drops the accent completely right before she's killed, implying her accent was fake. Mrs. White starts off with some sort of accent, which gradually disappears as the movie wears on. This is possibly intentional by the character for concealment.
Clue / int_35b241c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_35b241c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_35b241c0
Clue / int_386257bf	type	Hitchhiker's Leg
Clue / int_386257bf	comment	Hitchhiker's Leg: While tending to her broken-down car on the way to the mansion, Miss Scarlet does a Foot Popping version of this when she hears another one coming—it's Professor Plum.
Clue / int_386257bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_386257bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_386257bf
Clue / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Clue / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Mr. Boddy attempts one, and it fails miserably, leading to his murder. In the third ending, Wadsworth reveals he is the blackmailer and his victims did all of his work for him in tying up loose ends. It still fails because Mr. Green is actually an undercover FBI agent and Green kills Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy.
Clue / int_38d02d44	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_38d02d44	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_38d02d44
Clue / int_3b657394	type	Mistaken Death Confirmation
Clue / int_3b657394	comment	Mistaken Death Confirmation: When the lights come back on and Mr. Boddy is found face-down on the floor, Prof. Plum examines him and declares that he is dead. He's not. He pretended to be dead when he realized that the shot in the dark was intended for him.
Clue / int_3b657394	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3b657394	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3b657394
Clue / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Clue / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: While the film has more victims and invites the prospect of the six guests being in mortal peril from each other, particularly when they split off and worry about being killed alone with another person, the setup of the game already guarantees they're all potential killers and never in danger of being victims since the game operates on one murder that the suspects all work out as a group, with the end having all alive and one proven guilty.
Clue / int_3bc88a7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3bc88a7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3bc88a7f
Clue / int_3be01119	type	Is It Something You Eat?
Clue / int_3be01119	comment	Is It Something You Eat?: When the dinner starts.
Clue / int_3be01119	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3be01119	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3be01119
Clue / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Clue / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: The real Mr. Boddy's Batman Gambit in the final ending. Boddy was in charge of a large network of spies who gathered and extorted government information, but when some of his agents (the murder victims) threatened to expose him, he came up with a convoluted plot to kill them all to save his skin. The plot involved bringing in the mutinous agents, none of them knowing that the other was a spy, to his home in the guise of servants and locals. He then called in the six blackmail victims, picking each one of them specifically as each of them had great reason to kill one of his spies. Knowing that Professor Plum had reason to kill him personally, Mr. Boddy swapped placed with his butler, using him as a Sacrificial Lamb, as none of the guests or spies had ever actually met Mr. Boddy in person. Yvette was the only one of those killed who was not an agent, Mr. Boddy only having brought her in due to her association to Mrs. White. Once all of his spies are dead, he intended to continue blackmailing the guests on their secrets and the murders to ensure his identity, business, and crimes remained a secret. Even more insane, is that his plan works. The only thing he doesn't count on is for Mr. Green, one of his supposed blackmail victims, to be an undercover FBI agent.
Clue / int_3c51db1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3c51db1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3c51db1c
Clue / int_3eba1249	type	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
Clue / int_3eba1249	comment	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: When Colonel Mustard is asking Wadsworth about whether there is anyone else in the house, Wadsworth does answer with 'yesses' and 'nos', but they're all so ambiguous as answers to the questions asked that he has to keep asking him for clarification.
Clue / int_3eba1249	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3eba1249	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3eba1249
Clue / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Clue / int_3eee0728	comment	Col. Mustard. "So... whoever knew that the cook was involved... killed her?" (looking very pleased with himself, except he's being Captain Obvious here)
Clue / int_3eee0728	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3eee0728	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3eee0728
Clue / int_3ffca0b1	type	CanonEnding
Clue / int_3ffca0b1	comment	Everyone except Mr. Green killed someone and Wadsworth is actually Mr. Boddy (and "Mr. Boddy" was actually Wadsworth's butler). Mr. Green kills Wadsworth, reveals he's an FBI plant, has all the others arrested, and says, "I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife." (The "home video" order shows this one last with a tag before it that says, "But here's what really happened.")
Clue / int_3ffca0b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_3ffca0b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_3ffca0b1
Clue / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Clue / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Mrs. White's explanation for what happened to her first husband. Also, the group Speaking in Unison to answer the Cop's second question ("You all seem to have some kind of disagreement"), since Mr. Green's previous "Yes" would make any subsequent denial of disagreement an obvious lie.
Clue / int_40bb59d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_40bb59d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_40bb59d0
Clue / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Clue / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Jane Wiedlin's cameo consists of a tacky tapdance and a ditty that starts with "I am your singing telegram". She doesn't get to finish it.
Clue / int_415b3315	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_415b3315	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_415b3315
Clue / int_41df5e28	type	Body in a Breadbox
Clue / int_41df5e28	comment	Body in a Breadbox: The Cook's body is found this way. The group heads into the kitchen to find her, but she doesn't appear to be there. Then she topples out of the freezer right on top of poor Mr. Green. This also happens when Mr. Boddy's body is found in the toilet, which falls on Mrs. Peacock as she opens the door; the bizarreness of the location is lampshaded by Wadsworth as he recounts the first ending.
Clue / int_41df5e28	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_41df5e28	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_41df5e28
Clue / int_4310c3d6	type	To Make a Long Story Short
Clue / int_4310c3d6	comment	To Make a Long Story Short: Wadsworth says the phrase as he's telling the story of how Mr. Boddy's blackmail led his wife to kill herself, leading to... At the end of the movie, the events are explained in excruciating detail by Wadsworth, prompting the other characters to yell at Wadsworth to get it over with several times. Once they even do it as a chorus.
Clue / int_4310c3d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_4310c3d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_4310c3d6
Clue / int_43e71a8c	type	Bluffing the Authorities
Clue / int_43e71a8c	comment	Bluffing the Authorities: When The Cop becomes understandably suspicious of the goings-on at the mansion, Mr. Green is commandeered to give a "tour" while the others set up the corpses to make it look as if they're still alive. Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet get off the lightest since they get to make out while pretending the motorist is "dead drunk" who will have "a long black car" sent to take him home.
Clue / int_43e71a8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_43e71a8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_43e71a8c
Clue / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Clue / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy in the third ending, after being shot by Mr. Green:
Clue / int_4604fd4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_4604fd4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_4604fd4d
Clue / int_46d47e5	type	Eye Poke
Clue / int_46d47e5	comment	Eye Poke: Boddy vs. Mustard.
Clue / int_46d47e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_46d47e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_46d47e5
Clue / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
Clue / int_46ee4d3	comment	Eye Take: Wadsworth's eyes widen when Mr Boddy tells the other guests to kill him. They widen again when he discovers Boddy on the floor, apparently dead.
Clue / int_46ee4d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_46ee4d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_46ee4d3
Clue / int_47929816	type	Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Clue / int_47929816	comment	Lights Off, Somebody Dies: Mr. Boddy's murder. He's actually the one who turns off the lights, expecting everyone in the room to attempt to murder someone else. And he was actually faking his death because he realized someone was trying to kill him instead. Said guest succeeds later, but not in the dark.
Clue / int_47929816	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_47929816	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_47929816
Clue / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Clue / int_47fea76b	comment	Mr. Green is treated like the Butt-Monkey of the group most of the time, but other times shows himself to be very perceptive, noticing Commonality Connections between the guests that help them realize the full extent of Mr. Boddy's schemes. In the third ending he's revealed to be a plant by the FBI, so this is both him letting slip his deductive observation skills, and may also be him trying to subtly nudge the other guests into realizing things ahead of the plan that's been prepared for them.
Clue / int_47fea76b	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_47fea76b
Clue / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Clue / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: All four major female characters have a chance to show off their screaming skills: Mrs. Peacock and Yvette when Professor Plum suggests that the brandy they just drank might have been poisoned, Mrs. White when she's frightened by a jack-in-the-box in the dark during the house search, and Miss Scarlet when the cook's dead body falls out of the freezer (and again later on when Wadsworth re-enacts the scene).
Clue / int_48309ad4	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_48309ad4	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_48309ad4
Clue / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Clue / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The TV is showing a clip from the Army-McCarthy hearings, and not just any session, but the famous "Have you no decency?" speech. So the film takes place on June 9, 1954.
Clue / int_4856ac40	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_4856ac40	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_4856ac40
Clue / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Clue / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: As mentioned under Bluffing the Authorities, when The Cop becomes understandably suspicious of the goings-on at the mansion, Mr. Green is commandeered to give a "tour" while the others set up the corpses to make it look as if they're still alive. The results are hilarious, partly because of the cop and Green's reactions to Mrs. White and Mr. Boddy apparently making out and Colonel Mustard romancing the dead cook (while poor Mrs. Peacock is stuck on her other side on a window ledge).
Clue / int_49d5f48f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_49d5f48f	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_49d5f48f
Clue / int_49d7c511	type	Half-Empty Two-Shot
Clue / int_49d7c511	comment	Half Empty Two Shot: There's a scene where Miss Scarlet, left alone in the ballroom, nervously checks to see if the mystery killer is hiding behind the curtains. This is made even creepier by the brief tracking shot over her shoulder, which upon first viewing lends the sensation that we're about to see someone come up behind her.
Clue / int_49d7c511	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_49d7c511	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_49d7c511
Clue / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Clue / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: When Colonel Mustard challenges Mr. Boddy to a fight, Mr. Boddy responds by kicking him in the shin, poking him in the eyes, then beating him more while he's down. Mr. Boddy has to be dragged away by the others, at which point Mrs. White decides to get in on this trope too, by kneeing Boddy in the crotch.
Clue / int_49fb5ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_49fb5ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_49fb5ccb
Clue / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Clue / int_4de1a4f7	comment	After the first couple murders, Wadsworth plans on locking up the remaining weapons so they can't be used to murder anyone else. This is all great in theory... but he doesn't lock up the Candlestick or the Knife that has already been used. Just because they were used once to kill someone, it doesn't make them any less deadly to be used again. Alternately, the killer in all three endings also never thinks about this, and has to steal the key from Wadsworth (or plan on breaking open the cupboard) instead of just picking up one of the previously used weapons. Or for that matter just picking up one of the numerous candlesticks, kitchen knives, pieces of lead pipe, and other potential weapons that are lying randomly around the house and are not locked in the cupboard.
Clue / int_4de1a4f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_4de1a4f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_4de1a4f7
Clue / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Clue / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Plum wonders just what Mr. Boddy's secret is. When the Motorist, who seemed to just be some uninvolved passerby, is on the phone just before he's murdered. From the first and second endings, Wadsworth's declaration of who has the gun in their possession is the murderer. It's less a wham line than a wham action when the murderer of the ending reveals themself. From the third and "real" ending:
Clue / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_4e7c4536
Clue / int_50269bae	type	Blooper
Clue / int_50269bae	comment	When the guests return to the Study after checking on Yvette, we see a quick shot of Mr. Boddy's corpse on the floor. And his neck visibly moves. While this may be an unintentional Blooper, it still serves as a subtle visual clue that he isn't really dead yet.
Clue / int_50269bae	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_50269bae	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_50269bae
Clue / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Clue / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: In the first two endings, Wadsworth is an FBI agent. In the final ending, Mr. Green reveals himself as the agent just after shooting the real Mr. Boddy. In all the endings, the Jehovah's Witness is the FBI agent's boss.
Clue / int_52ae74d	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_52ae74d	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_52ae74d
Clue / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Clue / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: "What do you mean, don't deny it? I'm not denying anything." I'M NOT SHOUTING!
Clue / int_535865be	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_535865be	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_535865be
Clue / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
Clue / int_54f999c	comment	This attitude may cast the reaction of Wadsworth to Mr. Green outing himself in a different light. Some fans point to the reaction as Wadsworth being confused because the claim does not match the notes he has, however given the attitudes of the time and displayed in the movie, he may have just been shocked that Mr. Green would be so brazen as to come out and say it rather than try to hide or deny the accusation (which was why he could be successfully blackmailed).
Clue / int_54f999c	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_54f999c	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_54f999c
Clue / int_5565c2dd	type	Rule of Perception
Clue / int_5565c2dd	comment	Rule of Perception: When Wadsworth throws away the key to the weapons cupboard, the key is seen disappearing into the foliage, with a "plink" audible even above the heavy rain, so the audience knows for certain that a key has been thrown away. It was presumably the lounge key which Wadsworth threw away.
Clue / int_5565c2dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_5565c2dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_5565c2dd
Clue / int_57918465	type	Seven Minute Lull
Clue / int_57918465	comment	Seven Minute Lull: When the guests first arrive, there is a rather awkward silence between them as they wonder why they are there. When they sit down to dinner, the only sound is the guests slurping soup. Finally, Mrs. Peacock breaks the silence with a long speech, which is followed by another stunned silence. Later, Professor Plum asks Mrs. Peacock if she is afraid of silence, as she tries again to make conversation.
Clue / int_57918465	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_57918465	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_57918465
Clue / int_58f20f50	type	Minsky Pickup
Clue / int_58f20f50	comment	Minsky Pickup: The singing telegram girl.
Clue / int_58f20f50	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_58f20f50	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_58f20f50
Clue / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Clue / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The Cop, who shows up to inquire about a motorist that left his car on the side of the road, was apparently incapable of noticing the blood on Mr. Boddy's head or the fact that the man he was talking to wasn't breathing. Miss Scarlet revealed that the Cop is in her payroll.
Clue / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_59907e4f
Clue / int_5a1819b7	type	Panty Shot
Clue / int_5a1819b7	comment	Panty Shot: provided by Yvette when she sits down in her French Maid outfit.
Clue / int_5a1819b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_5a1819b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_5a1819b7
Clue / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Clue / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Mrs. White's late husband's threat. Also the whole "No, meaning yes" sequence. Actually, Col. Mustard gets a lot of these.
Clue / int_5aa4ec8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_5aa4ec8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_5aa4ec8a
Clue / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Clue / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: She does crack later, but in the initial revealing of everyone's blackmail reasons, Miss Scarlet is simultaneously the most blasÃ© about her own and is inclined to throw innuendo about everyone else's. While there's some comments from others, Scarlet is the only one not particularly disturbed by her own or anyone else's (except Mr. Green's homosexuality).
Clue / int_5f146203	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_5f146203	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_5f146203
Clue / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Clue / int_5f91efd9	comment	The Creative Closing Credits show the guests, Wadsworth, Mr. Boddy, and Yvette on playing cards patterned after those in the game. (The guests are even holding the murder weapons (except for Colonel Mustard), something which also appears on some versions of the game cover.)
Clue / int_5f91efd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_5f91efd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_5f91efd9
Clue / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
Clue / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: "Oh my. Nobody can get into that position." Plum is eager to show White just how, however.
Clue / int_60a66fb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_60a66fb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_60a66fb1
Clue / int_6136e02f	type	Brain Food
Clue / int_6136e02f	comment	Brain Food: Monkey brains is apparently popular as a dish in Cantonese cuisine.
Clue / int_6136e02f	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_6136e02f	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_6136e02f
Clue / int_619bc34b	type	High-Class Gloves
Clue / int_619bc34b	comment	High-Class Gloves: Mrs. Peacock and Miss Scarlet both wear long satin gloves, standard accessories for women's formal wear in the 1950's, when they arrive at the Boddy mansion, though they soon take them off and remain bare-handed for the balance of the movie.
Clue / int_619bc34b	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_619bc34b	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_619bc34b
Clue / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Clue / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: When the crew discovers that Mr. Boddy's body is gone and Mrs. Peacock takes a stab at Mrs. White for decapitating and emasculating her late husband.
Clue / int_61b576af	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_61b576af	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_61b576af
Clue / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Clue / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: A cut line, though it still appears in the shooting script and the novelisation: after the Cop picks up the phone call and is told he's speaking to J. Edgar Hoover, he replies "And I'm Harry Truman."
Clue / int_62b65869	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_62b65869	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_62b65869
Clue / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Clue / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When the killer is collecting the evidence to throw it in the fire, you can see a picture of Col. Mustard and his driver, The Motorist. Extra points for it being right before the The Motorist himself is killed after saying on the phone that one of the guests was his old boss. When the cook is introduced, a TV can be seen in the kitchen playing the Senator Joseph McCarthy trials.
Clue / int_62f9d08e	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_62f9d08e
Clue / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Clue / int_63b02752	comment	Mrs. White is pale and tragic, and the lining of her black coat is dazzlingly white. She also has a white hot temper.
Clue / int_63b02752	featureApplicability	1.0
Clue / int_63b02752	featureConfidence	1.0
Clue	hasFeature	Clue / int_63b02752
Clue / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Clue / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Wadsworth, when he speaks of his late wife making the mistake of having friends who were â€¦ socialists.
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Clue / int_6595b784	type	Animal Reaction Shot
Clue / int_6595b784	comment	Animal Reaction Shot: After Wadsworth steps in dog poop at the start of the movie, he turns to direct a withering gaze at the animals responsible. One of the German shepherds, happily chowing down on the raw meat he brought them, gives him a very hurt "Who, me?" look.
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Clue / int_668a5371	type	Necktie Leash
Clue / int_668a5371	comment	Necktie Leash: Mrs. White starts to do this to Wadsworth when she threatens to get back at him for planning the whole disastrous evening. ("One day, when we're alone together...") She immediately lets go when Wadsworth shoots her down. ("Mrs. White, no man in his right mind would be alone together with you.")
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Clue / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Clue / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Wadsworth gives a sinister chuckle when he's revealed to be the real Mr. Boddy.
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Clue / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Clue / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Mrs. Peacock seems to do this nearly every time she opens her mouth. Wadsworth's exposition delves into this as well. Subverted with Mrs. White in the third ending in a rambling, stumbling speech.
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Clue / int_6a1a1f8a	type	Glasses Pull
Clue / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: Mr. Green does this when the gang discovers the dead body of the cop. Mrs. Peacock does this in an even more over-the-top manner in ending #2 when Wadsworth identifies her as the killer.
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Clue / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Clue / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The story starts out pretty light-hearted until Mr. Boddy arrives and all hell breaks loose. His arrival is also accompanied with sinister music.
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Clue / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Clue / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: Twice. Both the Motorist and the Cop are killed while on the phone. The Motorist gets bonus points for being killed mid-sentence just before revealing which of the suspects he was connected to.
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Clue / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Clue / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Mr. Boddy, naturally. All of the other guests have these as well, as their pseudonyms reflect their attire, appearance, profession, or personality: Miss Scarlet has red (auburn) hair and bright red lips, and is a madam: a scarlet woman. Professor Plum wears a plum-colored vest. Mrs. Peacock's outfit and accessories are gaudy and ostentatious, her headdress has peahen feathers in it, and she wears a gold peacock pin. The brown tones of her outfit (particularly her wrap and fur stole) could also be seen as matching the plumage of female peafowls. Her name is also a play on the fact that she's implied to be a former Trophy Wife. Mrs. White is pale and tragic, and the lining of her black coat is dazzlingly white. She also has a white hot temper. Col. Mustard arrives in a beige coat and a beige and black scarf, and he wears a yellow tie. Also, he's a high-ranking military official and repeatedly attempts to take charge in various situations, but is generally incompetent and rarely actually does anything; in other words, he can't cut the mustard. Mr. Green is revealed to be a plant in the third ending. Also, it could refer to his clumsy nature, as "green" is often used as a slang term for an incompetent novice. He also is the only one who turns a metaphorical green in the second ending, on learning what they ate for dinner.
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Clue / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
Clue / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: As Plum and Scarlet get their first sight of the house, Plum's car suddenly stops.
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Clue / int_6d2afccf	type	Audible Gleam
Clue / int_6d2afccf	comment	Audible Gleam: The soundtrack actually does one of these when, during The Summation, Wadsworth imitates Yvette smiling. (Which she doesn't actually ever do on camera, her back is to the audience when they are introduced so we only have Wadsworth's word she did so.) There's another one near the beginning of the film, when Wadsworth helps Mrs. White take her coat off, revealing its brilliant white interior.
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Clue / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Clue / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Mr. Boddy can't stay for very long. In fact, he's just Lee Ving. This isn't the first time Mrs. Peacock's been involved in a manor murder mystery.
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Clue / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Clue / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Mr. Green being tossed around by Wadsworth during The Reveal.
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Clue / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
Clue / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Invoked by Colonel Mustard, when he suggests searching the house to make sure there's no one else there that could be behind the murders. However, they make a point to avoid the usual Genre Blindness of the trope by going in pairs, reasoning that if one of them is the murderer, pairing off will make it harder for them to strike again; the other will notice if their partner goes missing for a long period of time, and the murderer killing their own partner would make them the prime suspect. Of course, this logic doesn't work out for several reasons, but at least they tried. The invoking of the trope is also justified - it's a huge three story house with a basement, so if they all searched together, it would both take too long (and they're on a timer to find the murderer before the police arrive) and it would be more likely that someone hiding in the house could slip away.
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Clue / int_7104ae6a	type	Wrench Whack
Clue / int_7104ae6a	comment	Wrench Whack: Depending on the ending, The Motorist is killed either by Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, or Colonel Mustard with a Billings & Spencer Co. 12" adjustable monkey wrench.
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Clue / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Clue / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Due to the Of Corpse He's Alive shenanigans, the cop thinks the only thing they were trying to hide from him is some scenes of mild partying. Wadsworth, however, is not aware that the cop was fooled:
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Clue / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Clue / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Mr. Boddy hands lethal weapons out to a half dozen people he's been blackmailing into poverty for years (at least one of whom he already knows to be a murderer), turns out the lights, and expects them to use the weapons on the guy who's trying to help them out of their fix. For that matter: Yvette, in the first ending, is knowingly working for someone who's been killing off all of Mr. Boddy's other accomplices. What did she think would happen? And Mrs. Ho, the cook, understandably would not want her former employer, Mrs. Peacock, to know that she was the cook for the dinner party, since the cook informed on her employer to Mr. Boddy. Yet in at least the second and third endings, she cooks monkey's brains and it's implied that Mrs. Peacock recognized the dish, thus leading to Mrs. Peacock murdering the cook. Did the Cook not realize that preparing a dish Mrs. Peacock would recognize would expose her? Right after finding Mrs. Ho's body, Col. Mustard tells Mrs. White not to touch the dagger, since it is evidence. He then proceeds to grab the dagger with his right hand. Potentially invoked depending on the ending. Wadsworth - a.k.a. Mr Boddy in ending C - invited them all - including the cook, Yvette, and three strangers - there for a reason: they're all connected, with the plan in any ending being to expose them eventually as connected to the blackmailing. That the true suspect(s) would try to kill them to silence their potential involvement is unknown to anyone.
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Clue / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Clue / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience/Color-Coded Characters: Each suspect is color coded as in the board game, but it may not always be immediately apparent. Colonel Mustard arrives in a mustard yellow coat and hat, which he takes off. The suit he wears underneath is a mustard seed brown. Miss Scarlet's hair is a fiery red, as are her lips—and we soon learn that she is a scarlet woman. Additionally, in the scene where Professor Plum picks her up from her broken-down car, we see she drives a scarlet Lincoln Continental. Mrs. Peacock is more obviously orange-themed, tying into the peacock's copper-colored down feathers, which she also wears in her hair. Meanwhile, bluish tones appear on her iridescent jacket and printed blouse, and she carries a teal clutch. Though not part of the above loop, Mrs. White is worth noting in that the inside of her coat actually is white, but we only see this for about five seconds, in the process Lampshading her alias. But for the majority of the film, she wears black. She does wear a striking white pearl choker, and have a pale, dreary face, however. Prof. Plum's vest is purple. Mr. Green, however, never actually wears green. Possibly because, as we find out in the third ending, he isn't really Mr. Green. However, even then it's subtly a part of the reveal since he is a plant! The women all wear the inverse of their color names. Miss Scarlet wears green, Mrs. White wears black, and Mrs. Peacock wears orange. The more obsessive viewer will have picked up on the fact that the guests' names all match the colors of their cars: Miss Scarlet drives a 1946 red Lincoln Continental, Professor Plum drives a purple 1949 Pontiac Streamliner Station Wagon, Mrs. Peacock drives a blue 1952 Packard 200 Deluxe club sedan (though admittedly, it isn't peacock blue), Mrs. White drives a black-and-white 1950 MG TD convertible, Colonel Mustard drives a yellow 1954 Cadillac Series 62, and Mr. Green drives a green 1951 Plymouth Cranbrook. Wadsworth himself drives a black 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline Sportmaster, handily referencing the identity of Dr. Black, an alternate name for the perpetual victim Mr. Boddy.
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Clue / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Clue / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Wadsworth attempts this in the first ending by saying he kept track of how many times the revolver had gone off during the night and the killer has an empty gun. He miscounted.
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Clue / int_74ab25a4	type	Secret Underground Passage
Clue / int_74ab25a4	comment	Secret Underground Passage: The secret passages from the board game also appear here; while in the game no indication is made of how or where the passages are concealed other than in the corners of rooms, here each is hidden in fairly unique ways. The passage from the study to the kitchen opens through a rotating painting in its frame and the back of a cold cupboard, while the passage from the conservatory to the lounge opens through a brick wall next to a set of shelves and...a rotating fireplace.
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Clue / int_772f4a4f	type	"Be Quiet!" Nudge
Clue / int_772f4a4f	comment	"Be Quiet!" Nudge: When the policeman inspects the body of the Motorist and says he's in no shape to drive:
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Clue / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Clue / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Colonel Mustard opening a cupboard in the kitchen, and an ironing board falls on his head. When Peacock is screaming after finding Boddy's body in the back toilet, Green and Wadsworth both run down from the attic and second floor respectively, and smack into each other in fantastic acrobatics. When Wadsworth is doing his "I'M NOT SHOUTING!" raving, the candlestick falls off a door frame and knocks him out cold. When Mustard and Scarlet are locked in the lounge, Plum and Green trip over each other as Yvette comes out with the revolver.
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Clue / int_790b1e6	type	Nasty Party
Clue / int_790b1e6	comment	Nasty Party: All the guests are invited to the house to face Mr. Boddy, who—unbeknownst to them—is the person blackmailing all of them. Boddy gives each guest a weapon, and suggests they kill Wadsworth so all the dirty little secrets that led to the blackmail won't be exposed. This degenerates into psychosis, with more murders over the course of the movie.
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Clue / int_7923b4e7	type	The Oldest Profession
Clue / int_7923b4e7	comment	The Oldest Profession: Miss Scarlet runs a "house of ill fame". Prof. Plum asks for the phone number. Scarlet later mentions the trope name itself, explaining, "Like all members of The Oldest Profession, I'm a capitalist."
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Clue / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Clue / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Colleen Camp's French Maid Outfit emphasizes her cleavage, which gets stared at by some of the men, particularly Professor Plum.
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Clue / int_7d218606	type	Rapid-Fire Comedy
Clue / int_7d218606	comment	Rapid-Fire Comedy: Some of the jokes in the dialogue happen so fast that you might miss them.
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Clue / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Clue / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Pretty expected, as one of the murder weapons is a revolver. The attempted murder of Mr. Boddy (in a completely dark room with others standing around) starts things off, Yvette's attempt to Shoot Out the Lock of the lounge later on is a comedy of gun usage errors, and Wadsworth proves to be guilty of the trope in Ending A.
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Clue / int_7e2b418c	type	Story Branch Favoritism
Clue / int_7e2b418c	comment	Story Branch Favoritism: A non-gaming example, in which the "C" ending is decidedly more developed than the other two. Whereas the first two endings choose a random character to be the villain â€“ namely, Miss Scarlet and Mrs. Peacock â€“ this ending assigns one murder per board game character with more detailed reasoning than the previous endings as to how they're related to the blackmail, unmasks the prominent Canon Foreigner as the villainous mastermind, and makes a well-earned Brick Joke concerning Mr. Green's sexuality. Ultimately, it's no surprise that the "C" ending is preceded by a title card reading "But here's what really happened!" in home video releases.
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Clue / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Clue / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: One of Mrs. White's husbands was found dead this way. This was brought up as a bad joke when they find the supposedly murdered Mr. Boddy gone.
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Clue / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Clue / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Mrs. Peacock completely loses it on the sight of a murder.
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Clue / int_7fe66c69	type	Hand of Death
Clue / int_7fe66c69	comment	Hand of Death: Black gloves allow the identity/sex of the murderer to remain anonymous until the endings.
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Clue / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Clue / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When they arrive at the mansion together, Prof. Plum cops a feel on Miss Scarlet's backside. For Scarlet herself, when her car's broken down, she doesn't flag down the passing Prof. Plum, she simply bends over the car in a more sexualized pose. When Mr. Green arrives, Wadsworth yells "SIT!" at the guard dog, to which Mr. Green suddenly sits down on the bench by the door, showing his timid nature.
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Clue / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Clue / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: In Ending A, Mr. Green expresses disbelief that Miss Scarlet's brothel operation would give her a motive for murder, saying half of Washington probably knows about it and that her high-profile customers would have too much to lose if they let the cops arrest her.
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Clue / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Clue / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Inverted when the cop starts listing their transgressions.
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Clue / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Clue / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging / Aborted Arc: Before she dies, Yvette the Maid has a very ominous, suspicious conversation with her killer that makes absolutely no sense unless you get a specific ending, where it's revealed the two were working together. Without that ending, it instead becomes a plot point that is never elaborated on. Yvette, however, is surprised by the identity of the person she's speaking to ("It's you!"), so she thought it was someone else.note Which makes sense since Yvette was working for Miss Scarlet and encounters Mrs. White in the third ending. It only makes sense in the first ending when Miss Scarlet is killing her if she were expecting Wadsworth or Col. Mustard (her former client.) note Unless by "it's you" she meant "oh, you're the murderer!" Both the guard dogs and the poisoned cognac are relics from a fourth ending that was written and shot, but ultimately left out of the final cut. When Mr. Boddy shuts off the lights there's a thud and a groan followed by the gunshot. Those initial sounds are never addressed through the rest of the movie. note They're probably Red Herring noises to suggest that any of the weapons could have been used in the dark.
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Clue / int_81a61a4a	type	Discontinuity Nod
Clue / int_81a61a4a	comment	Discontinuity Nod: Whether or not the brandy's been poisoned is a running point of concern for the characters. In the original edition of Cluedo, poison was included among the possible weapons. It also has the distinction of being the added feature to the 50th Anniversary Edition. In the unused D ending, it really was poisoned. The third ending does this as a subtle joke. Nobody murdered Mr. Boddy, he was shot in self-defense.
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Clue / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Clue / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: See Tim Curry, below. Especially during The Summation, which could be summed up as "Wadsworth reenacts the entire movie by himself, but in the silliest way possible." Mrs. Peacock too. Martin Mull as Col. Mustard has his moments. "You know, you could've killed us! I could've been killed! I can't take any more scares!" Let's face it, this is a movie almost entirely cast with character actors who are having a blast hamming it up.
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Clue / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Clue / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Mrs. Peacock at dinner: Also Wadsworth, when recapping the entire evening:
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Clue / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Clue / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: "Is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after multiple murder?" "Yes. Why do you think it's run by a man called Hoover?" Of course, as per the game, the first one to die is Mr. Boddy. The Cop examining the motorist and saying, "This man's drunk. Dead drunk." This is followed by "Dead right." "Communism is just a red herring." Professor Plum works for UNO (the United Nations Organization), specifically for a branch of them called the World Heath Organization. In other words, he works for UNO WHO. The best part? That actually exists.
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Clue / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Clue / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Mr. Green is a whiny wimp, but he otherwise has no stereotypical gay traits. In one ending, it's revealed that this is just an act, and he's also actually straight.
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Clue / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
Clue / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Parodied with the Singing Telegram Girl. She appears at the door, does a song and dance, "I... am... your singing telegram!" and gets shot dead. She existed solely to give Professor Plum a motive, as an affair with her caused him to lose his license to practice medicine.
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Clue / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
Clue / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: The communism (though in all three endings it's just a "Red Herring"), nuclear arms race, J. Edgar Hoover, and homosexuals-not-being-allowed-to-hold-government-jobs part of the Fifties, in particular. The soundtrack also establishes the time period from the very beginning. Seeing as how most of the action takes place in an old, creepy house, music is vital to pinning the atmosphere to the subtext of the McCarthy era. Joseph McCarthy himself is briefly seen on the TV in the kitchen near the beginning of the film.
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Clue / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Clue / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: All the actors also manage to be a Deadpan Snarker at the very same time, meaning it's not only a World Of Ham, but a World of Cold Ham too!
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Clue / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Clue / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The dogs disappear, not bothering the motorist or anyone else that arrives later. Although with the storm raging for most of the night, they would have been hiding in the doghouse, as shown in one shot early on (the never-filmed fourth ending would have had them serve as a Chekhov's Gun, where Wadsworth gets his comeuppance in the end thanks to one of the dogs turning up in his getaway car).
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Clue / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Clue / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: All the actors ham it up to the utmost.
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Clue / int_884c48a6	type	Non-Answer
Clue / int_884c48a6	comment	Non-Answer: This conversation between Colonel Mustard and Wadsworth:
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Clue / int_89ed9b94	type	Gentleman Snarker
Clue / int_89ed9b94	comment	Wadsworth, more specifically the Gentleman Snarker variety.
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Clue / int_8ba5626c	type	Distressed Drink Jitters
Clue / int_8ba5626c	comment	Distressed Drink Jitters: When the militant Colonel Mustard offers to pour everyone cognac to help cope with the stress of the evening, he spills the alcohol all over the tabletop while trying to pour everyone's drinks at once.
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Clue / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Clue / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Wadsworth tells the guests his plan is for all of them to expose Boddy. But Boddy replies that if he goes down, he'll ensure every one of them has their secrets exposed in court. He then says "if one of you kills Wadsworth now... no one but the seven of us will ever know." The screenplay sums up Wadsworth's wide-eyed reaction with "clearly this option hadn't occurred to him." Of course, this then applies to Boddy as it never occurred to him that at least one of the six people he was blackmailing would decide that rather than knock off Wadsworth, it'd be better to kill Boddy instead. Right after he even gave them each a murder weapon and turned out the lights. Both possibly subverted when the "real" ending reveals Wadsworth is the real Boddy and this was part of the plan. On the other hand, his butler not realizing this can still count... Then promptly double subverts it, as it never occurs to him that phone call from J. Edgar Hoover means that one of the guests is actually an undercover FBI agent sent in to take him down, and pointing a gun at them would mean killing him would count as self-defense... as said agent (Mr Green) demonstrates. A point could be made for Miss Scarlet in her ending as the murderer. Not so much for anything to do about miscounting the bullets, but that she made her case to extort secrets from the other guests at gunpoint with the threat of blackmail to keep them in line. Problem is, she then plans to kill Wadsworth on the spot... with a gun that only has one bullet left. The moment she wasted her bullet on him and lost her immediate leverage, what was to stop any of the other guests from just grabbing her and subduing her? After the first couple murders, Wadsworth plans on locking up the remaining weapons so they can't be used to murder anyone else. This is all great in theory... but he doesn't lock up the Candlestick or the Knife that has already been used. Just because they were used once to kill someone, it doesn't make them any less deadly to be used again. Alternately, the killer in all three endings also never thinks about this, and has to steal the key from Wadsworth (or plan on breaking open the cupboard) instead of just picking up one of the previously used weapons. Or for that matter just picking up one of the numerous candlesticks, kitchen knives, pieces of lead pipe, and other potential weapons that are lying randomly around the house and are not locked in the cupboard. The fake Mr. Boddy in the third ending. His boss is presumably blackmailing him as well, forcing him to pretend to be the real Mr. Boddy around his other victims of extortion. His plan is to give them all weapons and tell them to kill Wadsworth after they've been told he's the one blackmailing them and picking a fight with several of them right beforehand. Did he have a death wish? Given how his efforts to escape earlier did not pan out, this may have been a last desperate attempt to Take a Third Option that turned out poorly.
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Clue / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Clue / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The guests are all being blackmailed into bankruptcy because they've engaged in some manner of shady activities that are illegal, amoral, or both. The sole exception is Mr. Green, who was being blackmailed for being a homosexual and had to keep it secret to avoid losing his job. (This is Values Dissonance, as in the time of the film's setting, homosexuality was considered amoral, though in the time of the movie's release, it was comparably more accepted.) Mr. Boddy is a sleazy blackmailer who decided to extort six people for engaging in activities he considered "un-American", instead of simply turning them over to the authorities like a true patriot would do. Mr. Green even lampshades this, and Wadsworth explains he decided to use his information to make money, because "what could be more American than that?" Most of the other murder victims are no better than Mr. Boddy and the guests. At the least they informed on one of the guests to Mr. Boddy so he could blackmail them, and some of the victims are themselves complicit in what the blackmail was about, like the Dirty Cop who accepted bribes from Miss Scarlet so she could run a brothel. The exception is the Singing Telegram Girl — the circumstances of her sexual encounters with Professor Plum are vague, but given his lecherous personality, in all likelihood he took advantage of her as her psychiatrist to seduce her. Although given the fact that Plum specialized in treating homicidal lunatics with delusions of grandeur, she might not have been quite as wholesome as she seemed, even if Plum took advantage of her. Mrs. White's husband (well, the one we know the most about) was a verbally (and possibly physically) abusive asshole who threatened to kill his wife in public (that is he threatened, in public, to kill her). The fact he was murdered by being castrated and then beheaded is treated more as a Groin Attack joke than to garner any actual sympathy from the audience.
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Clue / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Clue / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Mr. Green is the only truly innocent person of the suspects, his only "crime" being that he's gay. Which turns out to not even be true in one of the endings.
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Clue / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Clue / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Yvette, and Miss Scarlet in the first ending. One of the few tropes played straight. Each ending qualifies; in all three at least half of the murders is carried out by a woman.
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Clue / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Clue / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Yvette in the Miss Scarlet ending, and all the victims (except Yvette this time, who was killed for revenge) in the "Everybody did it" ending, thanks to the Batman Gambit of the real Mr. Boddy.
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Clue / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
Clue / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: Subverted, as Plum gets it wrong. Zigzagged in the third ending because Plum did know, but lied.
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Clue / int_937c30b9	type	No "Police" Option
Clue / int_937c30b9	comment	No "Police" Option: No one wants to involve the police because they are all being blackmailed for crimes they've committed, such as running a brothel for Miss Scarlet, accepting bribes for Mrs. Peacock, adultery with a patient for Professor Plum, war profiteering (and soliciting prostitutes from Miss Scarlet's brothel) for Col. Mustard, etc.
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Clue / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Clue / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: An interesting usage; Wadsworth called the police to arrest Mr. Boddy after the reveal of his blackmailing, and when he's dead they now have until the cops arrive to actually find the murderer, with frequent mentions of how much time they have left until they arrive. Only counting 1 ending, the run time Wadsworth's announcement to the police arrival is the nearly exact amount of time it takes for the police to show up in-universe, with the murder being solved only about one or two minutes to failure.
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Clue / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Clue / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: The guests aren't supposed to know each other and they're all addressed by aliases, but a little conversation turns up a connection: most of them live in Washington D.C. and all of them make their living from the government "one way or another", which naturally alarms them.
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Clue / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Clue / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: At several points (though the film doesn't draw attention to it), eagle-eyed viewers will notice that one or two of the guests isn't in view. As Wadsworth explains during The Summation, this is because they were off plotting or committing another murder. These instances serve as further evidence that the third ending is the canonical one; Mrs. Peacock is absent when the guests check on Yvette, which is when she killed the cook, Professor Plum is briefly absent when they go to the Kitchen to check on the cook, which is when he kills Mr. Boddy again since he previously knew he was still alive; and Colonel Mustard leaves Miss Scarlet to look around the Ballroom by herself, which is when he retrieves the Wrench from the cupboard to kill the motorist.
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Clue / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Clue / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette, with a Spanner in the Works: Mr. Boddy presents all of his blackmail victims with a lethal weapon, tells them to kill the guy who isn't blackmailing them, and then turns off all the lights, while still in the room. To the shock of no one, it doesn't end well for him. Of course, depending on the ending, it was a successful Roulette - in the third ending "Mr. Boddy" was really the blackmailer's butler, and the guy he was telling everyone to kill was, in fact, Mr. Boddy. If anybody had actually done what they were told to, The Chessmaster would have been killed, just as the butler wanted.
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Clue / int_98c4ea5f	type	Falling Chandelier of Doom
Clue / int_98c4ea5f	comment	Falling Chandelier of Doom: Colonel Mustard is almost killed by one when Yvette accidentally shoots it down. At the end of the first ending, it happens again with another chandelier.
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Clue / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
Clue / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: Mrs. Peacock has a pretty hilarious one when she meets Yvette for the first time and notices her cleavage, and is left stunned and speechless.
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Clue / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
Clue / int_9c6ba43a	comment	The guests are all being blackmailed into bankruptcy because they've engaged in some manner of shady activities that are illegal, amoral, or both. The sole exception is Mr. Green, who was being blackmailed for being a homosexual and had to keep it secret to avoid losing his job. (This is Values Dissonance, as in the time of the film's setting, homosexuality was considered amoral, though in the time of the movie's release, it was comparably more accepted.)
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Clue / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Clue / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Inverted. Mr. Green says he is being blackmailed for being gay, but is the only one of the main characters who was never involved in any illegal activity. While the others were being blackmailed for things like war profiteering, political corruption, and murder, his only "crime" was being homosexual. Even in the third ending, wherein everyone killed someone, his only victim was the villain, Wadsworth...and then he says he's not really gay.
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Clue / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Clue / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: At the very end, Wadsworth calls everyone together for The Summation. Further spoofing on the above, they only start in the study... before Wadsworth has them running ragged about the whole house.
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Clue / int_9d080c44	type	Ice Queen
Clue / int_9d080c44	comment	Ice Queen Mrs. White is the most sympathetic when Wadsworth sobs that his wife was a socialist.
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Clue / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Clue / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Nicely Foreshadowed in the dinner scene: When Mr. Green says he recognizes Mrs. Peacock, she takes off her glasses and demands sharply, "How do you know who I am?"—indicating that not only the glasses but her scatterbrained behavior are just a disguise.
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Clue / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Clue / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: "That's what could've happened. But how about this?"
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Clue / int_9f1b0b39	type	Counting Bullets
Clue / int_9f1b0b39	comment	Counting Bullets: The first ending has Miss Scarlet and Wadsworth arguing over how many bullets are left in the revolver, the former insisting one, and the latter insisting none. Scarlet was right.
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Clue / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Clue / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Sinister music on a rising scale is played while the weapons are handed out. When Wadsworth is frantically recapping the evening, there is appropriately "busy" music.
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Clue / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Clue / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Hilarity and confusion ensue in the following conversation between Col. Mustard and Wadsworth: Later on: When the motorist asks to use the phone:
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Clue / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
Clue / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: In the third ending, the final line from Mr. Green has him declaring loudly, in front of his boss, that he's going to sleep with his wife. Some viewers take this line at face value, making this an inversion, and thus makes Green a Faux Yay. But the ostentatiousness of his loud announcement (even his boss snickers in discomfort) — in the 1950s, mind you — suggests to others that the line is played straight as this trope. Interestingly, inverted in endings A and B. Unlike everyone else's blackmail subjects, Mr. Green's homosexuality is outed by himself during the confessions then never mentioned again. Everyone else gets two or even three jokes throughout the rest of the film, but Mr. Green says he's gay then the rest of the jokes around him revert to his being a klutz. Except for the third ending, where after shooting Wadsworth and getting asked if he (Mr. Green) is a cop and he replies that no, he's a plant, Miss Scarlet snarks that she thought men like him were fruits.
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Clue / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Clue / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Summations from '80s mystery shows and movies are spoofed by the over-the-top (and unhelpful) way Wadsworth does it. His summation takes twenty minutes.
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Clue / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Clue / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Wadsworth running from room to room with every guest following him as he explains the (possible) sequence of events.
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Clue / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Clue / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: The Singing Telegram Girl. Also the motorist who is bludgeoned while talking on the phone, just before revealing which one of the guests is his old boss. Wadsworth/Boddy, in the third ending, who doesn't manage to get out the last word of his sentence before dying. Inverted when the cop's killer hangs up his phone call before killing him.
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Clue / int_a293102a	type	Eek, a Mouse!!
Clue / int_a293102a	comment	Eek, a Mouse!!: Mrs. Peacock in the cellar.
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Clue / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
Clue / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: The characters are wildly hysterical about Boddy's death, then the cook's, but they quickly get hardened ("Two corpses, everything's fine."), and finally, "Three more murders... this is getting serious.") They make no reaction when they find Yvette's body and by the time they get to the Singing Telegram Girl, they just casually drop her corpse among the others as if it were a tiresome chore.
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Clue / int_a3eb0c53	type	Confusing Multiple Negatives
Clue / int_a3eb0c53	comment	Confusing Multiple Negatives: Particularly when Mustard tries to hide his indiscretions. Which becomes a Double Entendre:
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Clue / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
Clue / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: The deleted Ending D has Wadsworth revealing he committed all the murders, driven to insanity after failing to be the perfect husband and butler.
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Clue / int_a456a8a9	type	Randomly Generated Levels
Clue / int_a456a8a9	comment	Randomly Generated Levels: There are three different endings for the movie, each with a different person as the killer. In theaters, the film had only one of the endings attached, whereas the TV and home video edits include all of the endings one after the other. If you play the film on DVD or Blu-ray, you can choose to have one ending played randomly or watch the home video "all endings" version.
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Clue / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Clue / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The novelization's ending D. Wadsworth, insane after his wife's death, triggers an "Everybody Dies" Ending: first, he takes out Mr. Boddy, the informants, and all the guests, then he gets surprised by a guard dog and dies in a car crash trying to leave. It's the only ending without a trace of the madcap or offbeat humor of the other endings, and the only one that dives straight into Downer Ending.
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Clue / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
Clue / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: Yvette does this to get Miss Scarlet and Colonel Mustard out of the lounge.
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Clue / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Clue / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The three endings. Used to full effect in the "home video" version of the film, in which all three endings are shown one after another. Three people in the mansion before the guests arrive: Wadsworth, the cook, and Yvette. Three strangers visit the mansion before the summation: the Motorist, the Cop, and the Singing Telegram girl. Three uses of the revolver before the ending: Mr. Boddy's proposal, the chandelier, and the Singing Telegram girl.
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Clue / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
Clue / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: Mrs. White. She's had five husbands, and we learn the fate of two. One was an illusionist who disappeared and never reappeared ("He wasn't a very good illusionist"). As for the other, according to Mrs. White, someone "had cut off his head and his, well, you know."
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Clue / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Clue / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: See Killed Mid-Sentence just below. Inverted in the 3rd ending when Wadsworth/Boddy is fatally shot, but keeps on talking.
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Clue / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Clue / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: This is zig-zagged with Colonel Mustard in the third ending. On one hand, he was bright enough to pick Wadsworth's pocket for the key to the weapons cupboard, substitute the lounge door key to be thrown away, then suggest everyone split up in order to get at the witness against him. On the other hand, he assumes that something perverted is about to happen when Wadsworth declares that, rather than be exposed as the killer, "So I choose to expose myself!"note "Please! There are ladies present!" Mrs. Peacock in the second ending. Mr. Green in the third ending.
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Clue / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Clue / int_a806691d	comment	Despite his being a pervy Casanova Wannabe and Lovable Sex Maniac being played up throughout the movie, the moment when Professor Plum confesses that the Singing Telegram Girl was a patient he slept with and that was how he lost his license to practice psychiatry is played with genuine sympathy, and it seems likely he had real feelings for her... Although the effect is ruined when he and the others unceremoniously dump her in the study with the other bodies.
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Clue / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Clue / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass/Obfuscating Stupidity: Mrs. Peacock in the second ending and Mr. Green in the third ending.
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Clue / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Clue / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Thanks to being set in The '50s. Wadsworth saying that Mr. Boddy drove Mrs. Wadsworth to suicide by blackmailing her over being a socialist is perfectly plausible for a movie set during the Red Scare. Likewise, Mr. Green's concern about being outed as a gay man comes off as if it's mere public embarrassment or scorn he'd deal with, but since the film is set in the fifties and Mr. Green has a government job it'd almost guarantee he'd be fired. Also reflected in how the other characters treat being too close to Mr. Green; while relatively minor compared to their supposed infractions, they all shrink away from him, a normal attitude for that period. This attitude may cast the reaction of Wadsworth to Mr. Green outing himself in a different light. Some fans point to the reaction as Wadsworth being confused because the claim does not match the notes he has, however given the attitudes of the time and displayed in the movie, he may have just been shocked that Mr. Green would be so brazen as to come out and say it rather than try to hide or deny the accusation (which was why he could be successfully blackmailed).
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Clue / int_ab3ecc1d	type	Undercover When Alone
Clue / int_ab3ecc1d	comment	Undercover When Alone: Since the film has multiple endings, this can happen in scenes where the killer appears to be scared for no apparent reason, such as Miss Scarlet being hesitant to look behind a curtain and Mrs. Peacock hitting a furnace she bumps against.
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Clue / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Clue / int_ac1e30d8	comment	"Communism is just a red herring."
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Clue / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Clue / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Professor Plum finds out he didn't kill Mr. Boddy, but his butler, in the third ending he says, "Oh, shucks". Wadsworth's face when Boddy says that each of the six guests are only going to be able to keep their secrets if they kill Wadsworth at once. This makes perfect sense in the third ending. Since Wadsworth is really the blackmailer, the butler he's dressed up as Mr. Boddy is about to bump him off to end the scheme. The blackmailed victims, when they discover the people who were killed (the Cook, Yvette, the Cop, the Motorist, and the Singing Telegram lady) were involved somehow. Yvette is horrified when the noose is thrown around her neck and she sees the identity of her will-be murderer.
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Clue / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Clue / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Wadsworth, more specifically the Gentleman Snarker variety. Miss Scarlet, to Colonel Mustard's disgust:
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Clue / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Clue / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Yvette, the French Maid (Colleen Camp), wears a dress that spectacularly shows off her cleavage and legs. Also Miss Scarlet, who wears a stylish, low cut dress, and is played by Statuesque Stunner Lesley Ann Warren.
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Clue / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Clue / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: In the second and third ending, Wadsworth revealed how he guessed that Mrs. Peacock is the/a culprit by recalling how she enjoyed the dinner they had earlier in the film.
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Clue / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Clue / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Namechecked by Plum.
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Clue / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Clue / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Wadsworth is briefly knocked out by the candlestick falling off a shelf over a doorway he was standing in. He's back upright in the next scene (although he is holding a napkin with ice to his head for a little while afterwards).
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Clue / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
Clue / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: The film has six deaths in total. Seven if you take the third ending into account.
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Clue / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Clue / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: All of the guests have engaged in some manner of morally dubious and underhanded acts, but some of what they learn about each other stuns even them. Colonel Mustard reveals that he's a war profiteer who made his money selling stolen radio parts on the black market during the war (implicitly World War II). Even Mustard himself is ashamed to admit it. Mrs. Peacock is often disgusted with the crimes the other guests have committed, but they then flip this back on her by pointing out she's a Sleazy Politician who accepts bribes on behalf of her husband, who is a Senator. Played with for Wadsworth's wife. The horrible secret Mr. Boddy was blackmailing her over was that some of her friends were socialists! All of the guests are stunned and Mrs. White offers Wadsworth a hankerchief for his tears. While it works as a punchline now, the film is set in the 1950s, and being associated with socialists and communists really was something shameful, and could do serious damage to someone's reputation.
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Clue / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Clue / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That! Wadsworth on Professor Plum's new occupation. Plum himself joins in: during one of the endings, he is told that it won't help his career to be implicated in six murders. He responds, "You don't know what kind of people they have at the UN; I might go up in their estimation."
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Clue / int_b6a13a56	type	Ten Little Murder Victims
Clue / int_b6a13a56	comment	Ten Little Murder Victims: The film is a parody of this kind of movie.
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Clue / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Clue / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: A running gag is Mrs. Peacock's moral outrage at the discovery of the other guests' indiscretions, even though she herself is guilty of taking bribes on behalf of her husband. And of murder, in two of the endings.
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Clue / int_b739f0d2	type	Finger Gun
Clue / int_b739f0d2	comment	Finger Gun: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Miss Scarlet makes one to defend herself from Wadsworth's murder reenactment in the second ending.
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Clue / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Clue / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: In two of the three endings, this question is raised, and Wadsworth suggests more or less the same thing: stack the bodies in the cellar, have everyone leave at different times, and pretend it never happened, although not necessarily for the same reasons given there are different killers.
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Clue / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Clue / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra/Out of Focus: Not for the characters, but the rooms. While the six characters and six weapons all play equal roles and get equal screen time, very little time is spent some of the nine rooms. Most of the action takes place in the Hall, Lounge, Study, Dining Room, and Library, with additional scenes in the Billiard Room and Kitchen. The Conservatory is featured in just two scenes, and the Ballroom gets The Cameo.
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Clue / int_b96ee227	type	Everyone Meets Everyone
Clue / int_b96ee227	comment	Everyone Meets Everyone: The movie begins with all the characters assembling at Hill House, meeting for the first time, and learning each other's aliases.
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Clue / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Clue / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Miss Scarlet's hair is a fiery red, as are her lips—and we soon learn that she is a scarlet woman. Additionally, in the scene where Professor Plum picks her up from her broken-down car, we see she drives a scarlet Lincoln Continental.
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Clue / int_bd25b911	type	Scary Jack-in-the-Box
Clue / int_bd25b911	comment	Scary Jack-in-the-Box: When the house is plunged into darkness, Mrs. White is searching the nursery. As she is fumbling around in the dark, she triggers a giant jack-in-the-box which springs out; making her scream.
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Clue / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Clue / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Wadsworth gets off a good one in the third ending when he says, "I shot her."
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Clue / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
Clue / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: The motorist is telling someone that he recognized "my old boss from—" when the wrench is cracked over his head.
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Clue / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Clue / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Mrs. Peacock begins to faint at the sight of a murder. The butler catches her... and then she slips through his arms and thuds to the floor.note Doubles as an Actor Allusion to Eileen Brennan's (Mrs. Peacock) previous role of Tess in Murder by Death. In that film, the blind butler misses her completely.
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Clue / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
Clue / int_bf1c906	comment	Mrs. Peacock's outfit and accessories are gaudy and ostentatious, her headdress has peahen feathers in it, and she wears a gold peacock pin. The brown tones of her outfit (particularly her wrap and fur stole) could also be seen as matching the plumage of female peafowls. Her name is also a play on the fact that she's implied to be a former Trophy Wife.
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Clue / int_bfe568a3	type	Ominous Clouds
Clue / int_bfe568a3	comment	Ominous Clouds: The dark and ominous skies and pouring rain are early portents of the murderous events that would fall over the mansion of Hill House as six guests arrive and are greeted by a butler. Hilarity and six murders then take place.
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Clue / int_c044f854	type	Speak in Unison
Clue / int_c044f854	comment	Also, the group Speaking in Unison to answer the Cop's second question ("You all seem to have some kind of disagreement"), since Mr. Green's previous "Yes" would make any subsequent denial of disagreement an obvious lie.
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Clue / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Clue / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: A few of them, which also scare the characters in-universe. During an awkward silence in the conversation, there is a sudden cut to the cook banging a dinner gong fiercely, which frightens Mr. Green, who spills his drink. Yvette screaming from the billiard room. The dead cook falling out of the freezer. In-universe, Miss Scarlet is startled by Colonel Mustard switching on the ballroom light. The electricity being turned off using a Big Electric Switch, just after Mr. Green has suddenly opened a door.
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Clue / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Clue / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Wadsworth indulges in this in the third ending, when they smugly reveal to the other guests that they're about to get away with their crimes scott-free. The prior summation was an extended way of him gloating, as he's explaining to the guests that he knows they all killed his informants and that this is exactly what he had planned for them to do.
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Clue / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
Clue / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: In the third/true ending, Wadsworth reveals himself as the real Mr. Boddy, while the man who was murdered at the start of the film was Mr. Boddy's butler.
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Clue / int_c4f3a09a	type	Share the Male Pain
Clue / int_c4f3a09a	comment	Share the Male Pain: When Mrs. White indicates that her late husband was castrated during his murder, the three male guests all cross their legs.
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Clue / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Clue / int_c54d550d	comment	The Novelization includes a fourth ending left out of the finished film: The brandy was poisoned. Wadsworth knew that inviting the guests to the house, presenting them with their enemies, and supplying them with the means and opportunity to kill would prove too powerful a temptation to resist, so he dosed them with a slow-acting poison and allowed them to do his dirty work for him, knowing they would all drop dead at the end of the night.
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Clue / int_c671163e	type	Film Adaptation (Live-Action)
Clue / int_c671163e	comment	Film Adaptation (Live-Action): Adaptation based on the game, Clue. Created with Multiple Endings to imitate the game's random solution.
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Clue / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Clue / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Gone with the Wind: Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn." One said by a Butler, the other paraphrased by a butler. The dinner takes place at a mansion called Hill House—named after Debra Hill, the film's producer. It's also a reference to The Haunting of Hill House. A couple to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The motorist's car broke down and he needs to use the phone, and he tells whoever he calls that "there's a whole group of people here having some sort of party". A mixed group of strangers are summoned to a creepy old house by a mysterious host, who provides them all with deadly weapons packaged as gifts. Clue, or House on Haunted Hill?
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Clue / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Clue / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: "Well, I had to stop her screaming."
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Clue / int_c9e7f2b	type	Necro Cam
Clue / int_c9e7f2b	comment	Necro Cam: When Wadsworth explains the solutions in the various endings, most of the murderers are seen in action, mostly in the comedic style of the film, especially Yvette murdering the cook in the first ending, by sneaking up behind her and stabbing her in the back.
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Clue / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Clue / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: In the latter half of the film, when the electricity is turned off. Even though the moon is out, this occurs in the windowless cellar. This would also seem to be the explanation for the earlier moment in the Lounge, when it takes a flashlight beam for Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet to see the body of the Motorist on the floor that is clearly visible to the viewer. (The room is rather gloomy and dim, with only one or two lamps on, but not that dim.)
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Clue / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Clue / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Mr. Boddy and the guests are all referred to by their typical names (Mr. Green, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, etc.), but these are just aliases being used to protect their identities. Wadsworth also claims that "nobody here is being addressed by their real name", and it's heavily implied (especially in the third ending) that this goes for everyone, not just the guests. Aside from Yvette and Wadsworth, the other characters are referred to by their role — the Cook, the Motorist, the Cop, and the Singing Telegram Girl. Wadsworth briefly refers to the Cook as "Mrs Ho", so that may be her name, but the credits still refer to her as simply "the Cook".
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Clue / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
Clue / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Professor Plum evaluates Mr. Boddy after he "dies". This comes back to bite Plum in Ending C, when Wadsworth notes that a psychiatrist has more than enough medical training and knowledge to tell if a patient is dead or alive, so there shouldn't be any reason why Plum mistakenly declared that Boddy was dead... unless Plum planned to kill Mr. Boddy himself.
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Clue / int_cd3e8a81	type	Dramatic Curtain Toss
Clue / int_cd3e8a81	comment	Dramatic Curtain Toss: When Miss Scarlet is searching the Ballroom, she throws the curtain aside to reveal a broken pane.
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Clue / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Clue / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: There is a genuinely eerie scene where Miss Scarlet, left alone in the ballroom, nervously checks to see if the mystery killer is hiding behind the curtains. This is made even better by the brief tracking shot over her shoulder, which lends to the sensation that we're about to see someone come up behind her. The fourth and fifth murders qualify. First, Yvette walks into a dark room. An unknown voice tells them to lock the door, and asks them if anyone saw them. Yvette answers in an different accent, only to switch back to scream "It's you!" as they're strangled with the rope. Then we cut to The Cop telling someone on the phone that they are genuinely afraid, only for the murderer to use the lead pipe to hang up the phone, then bash their head in. The third murder too, to some degree. While the Motorist talks very quietly into the phone about everyone having a party and recognizing one of them as his old boss, the camera lets the viewer see the fireplace rotate behind him so the murderer can come into the Lounge from the secret passage. Then all focus is on the Wrench in their gloved hand, approaching nearer and nearer, all while accompanied by a superb usage of "Psycho" Strings, until...
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Clue / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Clue / int_ce1d78bc	comment	And Mrs. Ho, the cook, understandably would not want her former employer, Mrs. Peacock, to know that she was the cook for the dinner party, since the cook informed on her employer to Mr. Boddy. Yet in at least the second and third endings, she cooks monkey's brains and it's implied that Mrs. Peacock recognized the dish, thus leading to Mrs. Peacock murdering the cook. Did the Cook not realize that preparing a dish Mrs. Peacock would recognize would expose her?
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Clue / int_ce730b71	type	Death by Recognition
Clue / int_ce730b71	comment	Death by Recognition: Yvette is killed right after saying, "It's you!", to a character off-screen.
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Clue / int_ceb854cb	type	The Door Slams You
Clue / int_ceb854cb	comment	The Door Slams You: When Colonel Mustard is in the library, Wadsworth opens the door (disguised as a bookcase) into him.
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Clue / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Clue / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Played with. Mr. Green has two, but one ("Maybe Mr. Boddy killed the cook!") is immediately exposed as false and the other ("Yvette is a link between them!") turns out to be a Red Herring since he's the Wrong Genre Savvy. Col. Mustard. "So... whoever knew that the cook was involved... killed her?" (looking very pleased with himself, except he's being Captain Obvious here)
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Clue / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Clue / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: In the third ending, all the suspects turn out to have committed a murder each, except for Mr. Green, who ends up killing the Big Bad.
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Clue / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Clue / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: During the third ending.
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Clue / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
Clue / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: The Summation reveals that every character up until The Reveal was in fact part of the blackmail conspiracy; While the Guests were victims, the others were informants who gave up dirt on the victims.
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Clue / int_d1ebedfb	type	Armchair Military
Clue / int_d1ebedfb	comment	Col. Mustard arrives in a beige coat and a beige and black scarf, and he wears a yellow tie. Also, he's a high-ranking military official and repeatedly attempts to take charge in various situations, but is generally incompetent and rarely actually does anything; in other words, he can't cut the mustard.
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Clue / int_d2a5bed2	type	Redhead in Green
Clue / int_d2a5bed2	comment	Redhead In Green: Miss Scarlet, who wears a dark green dress.
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Clue / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Clue / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Mr. Green says "I didn't do it!" and then "I told you I didn't do it!"
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Clue / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Clue / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Miss Scarlet in the first ending, Mrs. Peacock in the second ending, Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy in the third ending.
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Clue / int_d7abaf48	type	One Crazy Night
Clue / int_d7abaf48	comment	One Crazy Night: The movie, like the game it's based on, features a cast of colorful characters trying to solve a murder before they're all killed. Hijinks ensue as everyone from a singing telegram to a high-ranking Federal agent show up to interrupt them.
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Clue / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Clue / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When the group walks into the Billiard Room and find Yvette dead with the noose around her neck, they just walk out without a single word as if they were used to all the murders happening around them.
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Clue / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
Clue / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Wadsworth doubles as both this and Mr. Exposition.
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Clue / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
Clue / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: When the cop sees the dead motorist disguised as merely drunk, he asks if the remaining guests will give him a ride. Miss Scarlet says they will get him a car and Professor Plum says it will be a long black car (i.e. a hearse) then looks shocked at what he said and throws his hand over his mouth. Miss Scarlet saves the day by saying he meant a limousine.
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Clue / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Clue / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: All of the characters have some connection to the government, often with ties to the military and the Cold War. None of this is actually important since, as we're told in all three endings, "Communism is just a red herring". Also, we never learned the cause of the broken window in the ballroom. Though it can probably be assumed it was broken by a tree branch during the storm.
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Clue / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Clue / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: When the characters are checking on the room they left the bodies in, to make sure another one hasn't mysteriously disappeared (again). This is lampshaded in the Novelization where Wadsworth thinks to himself incredulously, "Everything's fine?"
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Clue / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Clue / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Professor Plum not so subtly gazes at Yvette's cleavage. Wadsworth, Colonel Mustard, and the female guests all take a peek as well, but Plum's is the most obvious. Also All Men Are Perverts between Boddy and Yvette.
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Clue / int_e0a077fa	type	Miss Kitty
Clue / int_e0a077fa	comment	Miss Scarlet has red (auburn) hair and bright red lips, and is a madam: a scarlet woman.
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Clue / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Clue / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Once the characters get to the house, they can't leave. Not only is there a storm outside, but there's angry dogs loose near a couple possible exits, Wadsworth has all the keys, and if anyone leaves, they'll be blamed for the murders.
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Clue / int_e2d0f716	type	Revenge Porn Blackmail
Clue / int_e2d0f716	comment	Revenge Porn Blackmail: Colonel Mustard is blackmailed by Mr Boddy in this way, with photographs of himself and Yvette in Miss Scarlet's house of ill fame.
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Clue / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Clue / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: A thunderstorm is raging outside of the mansion during most of the film.
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Clue / int_e542a41c	type	Gasp!
Clue / int_e542a41c	comment	Gasp!: Mrs. Peacock does a very over-the-top gasp after Wadsworth reveals that his wife "had friends who were...socialists."
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Clue / int_e5b75009	type	"Psycho" Strings
Clue / int_e5b75009	comment	The third murder too, to some degree. While the Motorist talks very quietly into the phone about everyone having a party and recognizing one of them as his old boss, the camera lets the viewer see the fireplace rotate behind him so the murderer can come into the Lounge from the secret passage. Then all focus is on the Wrench in their gloved hand, approaching nearer and nearer, all while accompanied by a superb usage of "Psycho" Strings, until...
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Clue / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Clue / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Mr. Boddy. From the moment he's seen on-screen, it is immediately apparent he's a slimy, skeevy dirtbag. All the guests immediately look wary of him even though they don't know who he is yet, and he then sits down and fondles Yvette with a smirk. This is before it's revealed that he's blackmailing the other guests with secrets about their lives, and in the ensuing confrontation he sucker punches Colonel Mustard and invites the guests to kill Wadsworth to help cover up his crimes, telling them that if he's arrested and charged he'll make sure every one of their secrets gets exposed in court. He has no redeeming traits whatsoever, which makes him an Asshole Victim when one of the guests murders him, and makes the murderer (whomever they are) seem sympathetic in comparison.
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Clue / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Clue / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Wadsworth gives one to the motorist. Everyone's body language when The Cop shows up reeks of this, especially the two who slam and block the doors to the two rooms containing corpses. This is especially true when everyone very nervously denies that The Motorist came to the house, only for Mr. Green to sheepishly admit the truth. When the cop states what is essentially a rhetorical Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"? observation ("You all seem to have some kind of disagreement"), they all deny it again, even more nervously...only for Green to again, with grim satisfaction, say yes.
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Clue / int_e65d7f25	type	Drawing Straws
Clue / int_e65d7f25	comment	Drawing Straws: Used with fireplace matches to determine who gets paired up with whom while searching the house.
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Clue / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Clue / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: This is used twice to refer to people who are dead. Mrs. White states that her husband simply "lies on his back all day." When it's later revealed that her husband is dead, Miss Scarlet lampshades White's exact wording (and very much enjoys the joke). Professor Plum assures the cop that the murdered motorist, who the cop believes is simply drunk (dead drunk!), will not be driving home. Plum even promises to call a car for himâ€”a long, black one.
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Clue / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Clue / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Administered to Mr. Boddy by Mrs. White. Normally-prim Mrs. Peacock cheers. Also alluded to later in a conversation with Colonel Mustard. And mentioned earlier:
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Clue / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
Clue / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, and Michael McKean are all in the same movie. It's inevitable.
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Clue / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Clue / int_eb251937	comment	Most of the other murder victims are no better than Mr. Boddy and the guests. At the least they informed on one of the guests to Mr. Boddy so he could blackmail them, and some of the victims are themselves complicit in what the blackmail was about, like the Dirty Cop who accepted bribes from Miss Scarlet so she could run a brothel. The exception is the Singing Telegram Girl — the circumstances of her sexual encounters with Professor Plum are vague, but given his lecherous personality, in all likelihood he took advantage of her as her psychiatrist to seduce her. Although given the fact that Plum specialized in treating homicidal lunatics with delusions of grandeur, she might not have been quite as wholesome as she seemed, even if Plum took advantage of her.
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Clue / int_eb716c8c	type	Big Electric Switch
Clue / int_eb716c8c	comment	The electricity being turned off using a Big Electric Switch, just after Mr. Green has suddenly opened a door.
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Clue / int_eb72fe07	type	Divided into Disaster
Clue / int_eb72fe07	comment	Divided into Disaster: When they draw straws and the groupings are people who openly despise each other and/or have threatened one another with bodily harm. The lecherous Professor Plum is paired with prudish Mrs. Peacock. Wadsworth, the butler, is paired with the murderous Mrs. White, who hates him for drawing them all to the house, and whom Wadsworth had earlier stated no man in his right mind would ever be alone with. Gay (or happily married depending on you interpretation of the ending) Mr. Green with sexpot Yvette. And Madame Miss Scarlet with former client Colonel Mustard.
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Clue / int_ec993b17	type	Leaning on the Furniture
Clue / int_ec993b17	comment	Leaning on the Furniture: Miss Scarlet casually perches on the desk in the study, while explaining what she is being blackmailed for. Yvette is also seen perching on the billard table, while listening in on this conversation. In the next scene in the study, Wadsworth tells everyone to sit down. Mr Green tries to, but everyone grabs a seat before him; eventually he is reduced to perching on a small table, which suddenly collapses.
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Clue / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Clue / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: Yvette is one of Miss Scarlet's prostitutes and is murdered for knowing information obtained from sleeping with people. When she is found strangled, the guests react with indifference, simply leaving her corpse sprawled on the pool table.
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Clue / int_ee77f7f0	type	Wall Slump
Clue / int_ee77f7f0	comment	Wall Slump: In the final ending, Mr. Boddy dies in this way after being shot by Mr Green.
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Clue / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Clue / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Of all the characters from the original boardgame, Mrs. White is the most drastically different. In the original game, she was the elderly Maid, but the film recasts the maid as Ms. Fanservice Yvette and reimagines White as a younger Black Widow.
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Clue / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Clue / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Several lines and events happen in all three endings, in similar ways and to similar effect. Someone expresses with surprise that the murder plot had nothing to do with the various characters' government contacts, to which the killer replies, "Communism is just a red herring." After the summation and confrontation, someone says, "There's just one thing I don't understand," to which someone else will quip, "One thing?" "To make a long story short..." "Too late!" "The gun is missing! Gentlemen, turn out your pockets! Ladies, empty your purses! Whoever has the gun is the murderer!" after which the killer will reveal themselves and attempt to escape. Said by Wadsworth in all but the last ending, where he has the gun and Green speaks the line. Wadsworth saying they'll "stack the bodies in the cellar, lock it, leave quietly one at a time, and pretend that none of this ever happened."
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Clue / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Clue / int_f15c2859	comment	I'M NOT SHOUTING!
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Clue / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Clue / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The letter inviting the guests tells them that a Mr. Boddy will bring to an end a certain long-standing confidential and painful financial liability.
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Clue / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Clue / int_f2877d9e	comment	Professor Plum assures the cop that the murdered motorist, who the cop believes is simply drunk (dead drunk!), will not be driving home. Plum even promises to call a car for himâ€”a long, black one.
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Clue / int_f49ba6ee	type	Took a Level in Cynic
Clue / int_f49ba6ee	comment	Took a Level in Cynic: Wadsworth and the guests are initially freaked out and concerned by each new murder, but get more dull-faced and unaffected by the night's end.
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Clue / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
Clue / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: When Yvette spots their former boss or former lover's wife or someone else and will-be murderer, they exclaim "It's you!" When Wadsworth reveals that he shot the singing telegram girl in the third ending, everyone else exclaims, "You?!"
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Clue / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Clue / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Mr. Boddy insists to the party guests that killing Wadsworth is the best way for them to keep their various secrets from being exposed. He even gives them the weapons to do it. Needless to say, that didn't quite work out for him.
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Clue / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Clue / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Mr. Boddy does this, pretending to be dead after realizing that the shot in the dark was intended for him, not Wadsworth. It doesn't work for him. Depending on the ending, Yvette, Mrs. Peacock or Professor Plum realizes the fake and kills him for real.
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Clue / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Clue / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Wadsworth steps in dog poop at the beginning of the movie. The first time he speaks to Yvette and each of the guests, they all sniff a few times and check their own shoes. "To make a long story short..." "Too late." "But there's still one thing I don't understand." "ONE thing?!" "I didn't do it!" Mrs. White comes after Colonel Mustard in each character sequence. She is introduced in the trailer after him, she arrives at the mansion after him, Wadsworth discussed her blackmailings after discussing Colonel Mustard's, and in the third ending, after Colonel Mustard turned out to have killed The Motorist, Mrs. White is revealed to have killed Yvette.
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Clue / int_fb6666b4	type	The Comedy Drop
Clue / int_fb6666b4	comment	The Comedy Drop: When Mrs. Peacock begins to faint, Wadsworth tells her to fall into his arms and he'll catch her. The heavyset Peacock slips right through his grasp to land on the floor. (Which may or may not have been deliberate on his part after we learn that he's Mr. Boddy.)
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Clue / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Clue / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: "You see? It's like the Mounties, we always get our man!" "Mrs. Peacock was a man?" (cue Dope Slap) This becomes a Stealth Pun when you realize that the word "peacock" refers to the male of the species. (The females, which are called peahens, lack the bright blue plumage.) (Spoilered because of relevance to the murderer's name.) Colonel Mustard does this frequently while trying to appear intelligent.
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Clue / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Clue / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Wadsworth beginning The Summation: Col. Mustard on Yvette shooting the door open.
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Clue / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
Clue / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: Invoked deliberately by the script. When straws are drawn to search the house, everyone ends up with the worst possible partner: Mrs. Peacock with Professor Plum (she's already expressed her disgust with his sexual escapades); Mrs. White with Wadsworth (after threatening him with what she'd do if they were ever alone together); Miss Scarlet with Colonel Mustard (after she hinted that she might know more than a few of his dirty secrets, and after he has already said that if he was the killer, he'd kill her next); and the overtly sexual Yvette with the ostensibly gay Mr. Green.
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Clue / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Clue / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Spread throughout the movie as the body count rises, but briefly deconstructed in this dialogue:
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Clue / int_fd7f0823	type	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
Clue / int_fd7f0823	comment	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Professor Plum.
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Clue / int_fda1a026	type	Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics
Clue / int_fda1a026	comment	Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: During the scuffle in the dark where Mr. Boddy is killed, someone shoots the Revolver and it breaks a vase on the mantle. However, the bullet also apparently grazes Mr. Boddy's ear. For a gunshot to have hit Mr. Boddy's ear and the vase, it would have had to be fired from his left, which is unlikely given that the Revolver was in the hands of Professor Plum, who was sitting on the sofa directly between Mr. Boddy and the mantle. While it's not impossible that the Revolver ended up in the hands of someone on the other side of Boddy to make the shot, given the short window of events and the position of Mr. Boddy's body when the lights come back on, it's very unlikely. On the other hand the only person to claim the bullet grazed Mr. Boddy is Wadsworth, so he may simply have been mistaken.
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Clue / int_fdee2c8f	type	Singing Telegram
Clue / int_fdee2c8f	comment	Singing Telegram: During the blackout, a singing telegram inexplicably shows up and is promptly shot by the mystery assailant. Professor Plum reveals that she was a patient he had an affair with, and Mr. Boddy blackmailed him over publicly revealing this.
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Clue / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Clue / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Mrs. Peacock was concerned about the cook since she wasn't involved in the blackmail conspiracy, but Wadsworth tells her she was involved. Why else would she even be in the mansion? She was one of Mr. Boddy's accomplices. In the second and third endings, Mrs. Peacock is revealed to have killed the cook, who had been her cook (and, presumably, the one who had informed on her to Mr. Boddy), subverting this apparent concern. Ice Queen Mrs. White is the most sympathetic when Wadsworth sobs that his wife was a socialist. Despite his being a pervy Casanova Wannabe and Lovable Sex Maniac being played up throughout the movie, the moment when Professor Plum confesses that the Singing Telegram Girl was a patient he slept with and that was how he lost his license to practice psychiatry is played with genuine sympathy, and it seems likely he had real feelings for her... Although the effect is ruined when he and the others unceremoniously dump her in the study with the other bodies.
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Clue / int_ff892c21	type	Guilt by Association Gag
Clue / int_ff892c21	comment	Guilt by Association Gag: While everyone else is being blackmailed for some crime or unscrupulous activity that they know they shouldn't've done, Mr. Green's just a closeted gay man who's afraid of being outed. This plays into the endings as he's the only one in all of them who never commits any of the murders, and in one is revealed to be a badass undercover Fed. And not a homosexual.
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Clue / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Clue / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: A subtitle says the film's events take place in 1954. The TV broadcast playing in the kitchen as the cook prepares dinner uses real Congressional footage aired on the 6th of June 1954. In the third ending, Miss Scarlet references Perry Mason. Although the TV series did not premiere until 1957, it is based on a book series and character that started in 1933, with seven films made between 1934 and 1940 and a radio series that aired from 1943 to 1955.
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Clue / int_fff371b4	comment	The fake Mr. Boddy in the third ending. His boss is presumably blackmailing him as well, forcing him to pretend to be the real Mr. Boddy around his other victims of extortion. His plan is to give them all weapons and tell them to kill Wadsworth after they've been told he's the one blackmailing them and picking a fight with several of them right beforehand. Did he have a death wish? Given how his efforts to escape earlier did not pan out, this may have been a last desperate attempt to Take a Third Option that turned out poorly.
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