She was previously married to an illusionist, who also disappeared under mysterious circumstances. White is an alleged black widow who was drawn in to avoid a scandal regarding the mysterious death of her nuclear physicist husband. However, she claims she is innocent and that she must pay blackmail money to avoid the story being used for a political witch hunt. Peacock is the wife of a United States Senator who has been accused of accepting bribes to deliver her husband's vote. He now works for the United Nations' WHO.
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They are met by the house butler Wadsworth, who reminds them that they have been given pseudonyms to protect their true identity. In 1954 New England, against a backdrop of McCarthyism, six strangers are invited to a party at a secluded New England mansion. Universal Studios announced that a remake was in the works with a release date set for 2013, though the project was later shelved.
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This predated by 19 years Paramount's deal to distribute other films and television series based on Hasbro properties. The film initially received mixed reviews and did poorly at the box office, ultimately grossing $14,643,997 in the United States, though later it developed a cult following.Ĭlue was Paramount's first adaptation of a now-current Hasbro property, though at that time Cluedo was owned by Waddingtons and licensed in the United States (as Clue) to Parker Brothers Hasbro later bought both Waddingtons and Parker Brothers. In the film's home video release, all three endings were included.
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In keeping with the nature of the board game, in theatrical release the movie was shown with one of three possible endings, with different theaters receiving each ending. The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival architecture mansion, and is styled after the "old dark house" whodunit genre of films (wherein a mysterious killer preys on a group of strangers trapped at an isolated location), such as The Bat Whispers (1930), The Old Dark House (1932), One Frightened Night (1935), The Cat and the Canary (1939 film) (1939), Hold That Ghost (1941), And Then There Were None (1945 film) (1945), Ten Little Indians (1965 film) (1965), and Murder by Death (1976), which itself was a parody of the genres. "Clue" is a 1985 American mystery comedy film based on the board game of similar name. In any case, it's not entirely a waste of time to watch this, but neither would I suggest a second viewing. Not faulting the actor here, maybe more of a casting mismatch. Taylor (Jack Hadrian) just didn't seem to exactly fit right as the purported artist character.
Heather Weeks, given what she had to work with, did a fine job delivering her character Evelyn. But in this case, less would have definitely been more. Not that being "low budget" is necessarily a bad thing many well crafted productions have been remarkably compelling with even less resources to work with. In this production, it was very much a single stage set theatrical play production, put to film. If anything, the general theme is faintly reminiscent of the "Humans" series, but in that production, there were vastly more interesting and unique characters, evolving scenarios, plots and subplots within subplots that could carry the general concept over multiple episodes, and did so exceedingly well. There is an interesting philosophical punchline, as it were, in the final minute or so of this production, but it seemed like a very long way around the barn to finally get there. I get it, the director was hoping to get the audience thoroughly engaged with the two primary characters with the exceptionally long "character study" dialogue sequences and all that, but the end result was creating more impatience as the seemingly endless (and obvious) dialogue sequences just became evermore predictable, as was the "surprise" ending (which became more or less obvious half way through, or even sooner). However, at almost 2 hrs in length, this was more than just a bit too drawn out. As such, it would have been a perfect match for much of the content presented in the DUST series of sci-fi shorts, for example. This could have been compressed into a much shorter production.
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