Clue
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.
It's Not Just A Game Anymore.taglines
- Directed by Jonathan Lynn. Written by John Landis and Jonathan Lynn.
Mrs. White
- Men should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.
- I hated her... so... much, It–it... the f–, it–flame... flames... flames on the side of my face, breathing, breath... heaving breaths... heaving...
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 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 want to powder my nose.
- Mr. Green: Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?
- Wadsworth: I don't know. He's on everybody else's, why shouldn't he be on mine?!
- [Col. Mustard looks into the study.]
- Col. Mustard: Just checking.
- Mrs. Peacock: Everything all right?
- Col. Mustard: Yep, two corpses, everything's fine.
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