![]() To do so, she has to avoid detection by using a secret passage from the kitchen to the study - an element inspired by the board game. Peacock to sneak past everyone to murder her while the rest of the guests are trying to stop a screaming Yvette from panicking. ![]() Problem is, while that ending is the clear fan favorite - it’s the most detailed and entertaining one, complete with Madeline Kahn’s heavily memed “flames on the side of my face” improv - it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Because the movie moves so quickly, all three endings look plausible at first glance… but are they? Opinions vary, depending on who’s talking - Kotaku claims there’s no “real” ending, while Looper’s Clue explainer says it’s “strongly indicated” that C is the real ending. There’s even a fourth “lost” ending (we’ll call it D), unreleased because it was considered too dark. Peacock (Eileen Brennan) did the killings on her own. Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren) and Yvette the maid (Colleen Camp) in tandem. Ending A (spoiler alert!) has the guilty party as Ms. ![]() Problem is, only one of those endings works out mechanically. The idea failed - Clue was a box-office flop - but it found cult status on home video, where people could see all three endings back-to-back. Each ending was sent to different theaters as a studio ploy, meant to lure viewers into paying to see the film several times in first release. There’s a lot to muck through in the fast-paced setup, but the film’s most ingenious twist is the three different endings, where the butler Wadsworth (Tim Curry) reveals three different answers to whodunit. But all the victims are also co-conspirators in the plot. Boddy, who arranged the meeting a cook a motorist Yvette the maid a cop and a singing-telegram performer. Their dirty laundry (war profiteering, adultery, political corruption) creates motives for six subsequent murders - Mr. Lynn and co-writer John Landis (director of The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London) fool the audience with subtle tricks and twists, as six guests are invited to a New England mansion to get to the bottom of a nasty blackmail conspiracy. Jonathan Lynn’s dark comedy Clue, inspired by the mystery-solving board game, is easily one of the best whodunits of the 20th century. ![]()
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