Clue (film)
Clue is a 1985 U.S. comedy film based on the boardgame Clue (a.k.a. Cluedo). The film uses the characters and murder mystery premise of the boardgame as the basis for a quickfire farce.
- Directed by Jonathan Lynn. Written by John Landis and Jonathan Lynn.
It's Not Just A Game Anymore.taglines
Dialogue
- Col. Mustard: I prefer Kipling myself. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." Do you like Kipling, Miss Scarlet?
- Miss Scarlet: Sure, I'll eat anything.
- Wadsworth: I'm merely a humble butler.
- Col. Mustard: What exactly do you do?
- Wadsworth: I buttle, sir.
- Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
- Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
- Wadsworth: So I see your work has not changed.
- Mrs. Peacock: Yvette, is there a little girls' room in the hall?
- Yvette: Oui, oui, madame.
- Mrs. Peacock: No, I just I wanna powder my nose.
- Mrs. White: I didn't kill him.
- Col. Mustard: Then why are you paying the blackmailer?
- Mrs. White: I don't want a scandal, do I? We had had a very humiliating public confrontation. He was deranged. A lunatic. He didn't actually seem to like me very much; he had threatened to kill me in public.
- Miss Scarlet: Why would he wanna kill you in public?
- Wadsworth: I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her.
- Col. Mustard: Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?
- Wadsworth: You don't need any help from me, sir.
- Col. Mustard: That's right!
- [after catching Mrs. Peacock in the second ending]
- Wadsworth: You see, like the Mounties. We always get our man!
- Mr. Green: Mrs. Peacock was a man?!
- [Colonel Mustard and Wadsworth each slap him]
- Wadsworth: Would anyone care for fruit or dessert?
- [In the third ending]
- Professor Plum: It must've been Mr. Green who shot the singing telegram!
- Mr. Green: I didn't do it!
- Col. Mustard: Well, there's nobody else left!
- Mr. Green: But I didn't do it! The gun is missing! Whoever's got the gun shot the girl!
- [Wadsworth draws the gun]
- Wadsworth: I shot her.
- Col. Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Ms. Scarlet, Prof. Plum: You?!
- Mr. Green: So it was you. I was going to expose you.
- Wadsworth: I know. So I choose to expose myself.
- Col. Mustard: Please! There are ladies present.
- Wadsworth: You thought Mr. Boddy was dead, but why? None of you even met him until tonight.
- Mr. Green: You're Mr. Boddy!
- [Wadsworth grins and laughs]
- Prof. Plum: Wait a minute! So who did I kill?
- Wadsworth: My butler.
- Prof. Plum: Oh, shucks.
- Wadsworth: He was expendable, like all of you. I'm grateful to you all for disposing of my network of spies and informers. Saved me a lot of trouble. Now there's no evidence against me.
- Mrs. White: This all has nothing to do with my disappearing nuclear physicist husband or Colonel Mustard's work on the new top secret fusion bomb?
- Wadsworth: No. Communism is just a red herring.
- Mr. Green: But the police will be here any minute. You'll never get away with this, any of you.
- Wadsworth: Why should the police come? Nobody's called them.
- Mrs. Peacock: You mean-- Oh, my God! Of course!
- Wadsworth: So why shouldn't we get away with it? We'll stack the bodies in the cellar, lock it, leave quietly one at a time, and forget that any of this ever happened.
- Mr. Green: And you'll just- just go on blackmailing us all.
- Wadsworth: Of course. Why not?
- Mr. Green: Well, I'll tell you why not.
- [he draws a revolver, and shoots Wadsworth; Wadsworth drops his gun]
- Wadsworth: Oh, good shot, Green! [slumps to the floor, reaches a hand inside his coat, and looks at the blood on his fingers] And very good.
- Mrs. White: Are you a cop?
- Mr. Green: No, I'm a plant.
- Ms. Scarlet: A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.
- Mr. Green: Very funny. [displays a badge in his wallet] FBI. That call from J. Edgar Hoover was for me. [heads to the front door] I told you I didn't do it!
- [he opens the front door and the police rush in]
- Chief: All right, who done it?
- [Mustard, White, Scarlet, Peacock and Plum all start arguing.]
- Mr. Green: They all did it! But if you wanna know who killed Mr. Boddy, I did, in the hall, with the revolver. Okay, Chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.
Taglines
- It's Not Just A Game Anymore.
- Murder, madness, mystery, and mayhem. More fun than you can imagine.
- Seven Suspects, Six Weapons, Five Bodies and Three Endings.
Cast
- Eileen Brennan - Mrs. Peacock
- Tim Curry - Wadsworth
- Madeline Kahn - Mrs. White
- Christopher Lloyd - Prof. Plum
- Michael McKean - Mr. Green
- Martin Mull - Col. Mustard
- Lesley Ann Warren - Miss Scarlet
- Colleen Camp - Yvette
- Lee Ving - Mr. Boddy
External links
- Clue quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Clue at Rotten Tomatoes
- Listen to Sound clips from Clue at MovieSounds.com