In the confusion, Yvette, the cop, and an arriving singing telegram girl are murdered with the rope, pipe, and revolver, respectively. After successfully distracting the officer and hiding the bodies, the group resume their search until someone turns off the electricity. Edgar Hoover, which Wadsworth takes alone. The mansion receives a call from FBI chief J. Discovering a secret passage, Mustard and Scarlet find themselves locked in the lounge with the motorist's corpse until Yvette shoots the door open with the revolver.Ī cop investigating the motorist's abandoned car arrives to use the phone. After the group pair up to search the mansion, someone burns the blackmail evidence, unlocks the cupboard, and kills the motorist with the wrench. Wadsworth locks the weapons in a cupboard, but before he can throw away the key, a stranded motorist arrives and Wadsworth locks him in the lounge before throwing a key out the front door. Amidst this, someone discovers Boddy is alive before killing him with the candlestick. Ho, of killing Boddy, only to find she was fatally stabbed with the dagger. He then summoned the guests, hoping to force a confession out of Boddy and turn him over to the police. A gunshot rings out before Peacock turns the lights back on, revealing Boddy seemingly dead with no indication as to how at first glance.Īs the guests investigate Boddy's death, Wadsworth explains his wife committed suicide after she refused to name friends who were socialists, forcing Wadsworth to become Boddy's butler. He then gives them six weapons - a candlestick, a dagger, a lead pipe, a revolver, rope, and a wrench - and demands someone kill Wadsworth, who possesses the front door key and whose death will ensure no one will learn their secrets, before turning out the lights. Wadsworth notified the police, who will arrive in 45 minutes, but Boddy threatens to expose everyone if he is arrested. Boddy, who has been blackmailing everyone for some time. Green', ' Professor Plum', and ' Miss Scarlet'. Greeted by Wadsworth the butler and Yvette the maid, each guest receives a pseudonym to maintain confidentiality: ' Colonel Mustard', ' Mrs.

In 1954, six strangers are invited to a secluded New England mansion. The film initially received mixed reviews and did poorly at the box office, grossing $14.6 million in the United States against its budget of $15 million, but later developed a considerable cult following. Home media releases include all three endings presented sequentially. Inspired by the nature of the board game, the film's initial release featured various different endings, with one of three possibilities sent to each theater. Directed by Jonathan Lynn, who co-wrote the script with John Landis, and produced by Debra Hill, it stars the ensemble cast of Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, and Colleen Camp. Clue is a 1985 American black comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name.

Original clue game characters