Clue

Clue (1985)

Timing: 1:34 (94 min)

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Release date

1985-12-13

Country

United States

Production

Paramount, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Guber-Peters Company, Debra Hill Productions, Guber/Peters Company

Genre

Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Budget

$15 000 000

Revenue

$14 647 963

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Director

Jonathan Lynn

Actors

Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp, Lee Ving, Bill Henderson
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Scenario

Producer

Debra Hill, Peter Guber, Jon Peters, John Landis, George Folsey Jr.

Operator

Victor J. Kemper

Composer

John Morris

Artist

Donald B. Woodruff

Audition

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Editing

David Bretherton, Richard Haines
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• The second version of the film title translation is "The Hook".
• The basis for the film is a board game invented in 1946. The game was developed by lawyer Anthony E. Pratt, who worked as a clown in his spare time. The goal is to use deduction to answer three questions: who, where, and with what did they kill Dr. Black (in the North American version – Mr. Boddy).
• The translation of the surname Boddy is "body." The names of the other guests signify colors: Scarlett – "scarlet," Green – "green," White – "white," Plum – "plum," Peacock – "teal" or "peacock," Mustard – "mustard."
• Carrie Fisher was originally supposed to play Scarlett, but she entered a rehabilitation center four days before filming. Leslie Ann Warren agreed to the role one day before the start of filming.
• In fact, not three, but four versions of the ending were filmed, but the creators considered the last version too brutal, as all the characters died in it.
• When everyone rushes to Yvette’s scream in the billiard room, the scream heard off-screen is not from the non-playing Yvette (Colleen Camp), but from Leslie Ann Warren, who plays Miss Scarlet. Moreover, it wasn’t recorded specifically for this moment, but was borrowed from scenes where Miss Scarlet screams when the cook’s body is first found in the kitchen cupboard, and later when Wadsworth, pretending to be a corpse, is found there.
• An alternative translated title for the film was "The Hookup."
• The film is based on a board game invented in 1946. The game was developed by lawyer Anthony E. Pratt, who worked as a clown in his spare time. The goal is to use deduction to answer three questions: who, where, and with what did Dr. Black (in the North American version – Mr. Boddy) get killed.
• The translation of the surname Boddy is “body.” The names of the other guests signify colors: Scarlett – “scarlet,” Green – “green,” White – “white,” Plum – “plum,” Peacock – “teal” or “peacock,” Mustard – “mustard.”