Clue - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Clue or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Clue

[norma]

The song to which Yvette (Colleen Camp) is dancing in the beginning of this movie, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll", is the version recorded by Bill Haley & The Comets, only it is sped up with the pitch increased. This trick was also used in Airplane! (1980), in which a sped-up version of the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive" was played.

[ethel]

Some of the authentic 18th and 19th century furnishings were rented from private collectors, and included items from the estate of President Theodore Roosevelt.

[edgar]

In Ending B, where it's revealed Mrs. Peacock murdered all six people, it was revealed that she was actually shot dead by the Chief of Police when he confronts her at her car. After saying they got Mrs. Peacock when Wadsworth and the other five guests run outside, the Chief then turns to Mrs. Peacock's dead body and shoots her again. This was deemed too dark, and Eileen Brennan recorded a new line saying she's the Senator's wife, so that Peacock is arrested instead of shot. However, part of the rejected sequence remains in this movie. After the Police run to Mrs. Peacock to arrest her, you can see smoke in the air from the Chief's revolver, as if it had been recently fired.

[carla]

The ballroom is only shown once in this movie. Miss Scarlet and Colonel Mustard are the only two characters to step foot in that room.

[aaron]

Tom Stoppard was initially approached to write the screenplay. He worked for a year before giving up and returning all of the money he had already been paid. Executive producer and story writer John Landis next approached Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, both of whom asked for far too much money.

[tom]

Wadsworth says the police will arrive in thirty-nine minutes, and the Chief rings the bell forty-five real-time minutes later.

[stephanie]

After the production concluded, the mansion set was bought and redecorated by the producers of Dynasty (1981), who used it as The Carlton Hotel.

[wallace]

There was actually a fourth ending scripted and shot, in which Wadsworth committed all the murders out of a twisted need for perfection in his life. He reveals that he poisoned everyone with a slow-acting toxin in their drinks. It ended with Wadsworth being killed by dogs as he attempted to escape by car from the house. The rather grim nature of the ending is probably why it was never released. It was never shown, because the filmmakers thought the ending would have been too obvious, it only survives in the novelization and the storybook, which features a single photo from that ending (the Chief punching Wadsworth in the stomach).

[camila]

In "ending C", its Mrs. White who kills Yvette the maid. In the original board game, Mrs. White is always depicted as the maid.

[ruby]

In the opening scene when Wadsworth (Tim Curry) checks on Mrs. Ho the cook (Kellye Nakahara), the live-televised Army-McCarthy hearings are on the kitchen's television. One phrase spoken by Senator Joseph McCarthy that can be heard clearly as Wadsworth departs, is "professors and teachers, who are getting their orders from Moscow." This Senate hearing is also the same one in which the famous quote of "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" is spoken by Head Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch. With the coverage of the hearings taking place on live television, the events of this movie take place on Wednesday, June 9, 1954.

[frances]

When Wadsworth cuts the power to the house during his solving of the mystery, it represents the point of divergence of the three endings.

[jim]

The murders are as follows: (1) The Cook, in the kitchen, with the dagger; (2) Mr. Boddy, in the hall, with the candlestick (his previous demise in the study from the revolver was a false death); (3) The Motorist, in the lounge, with the wrench; (4) Yvette the Maid, in the billiard room, with the rope; (5) The Cop, in the library, with the lead pipe; (6) The Singing Telegram Girl, in the hall, with the revolver.

[bessie]

The entire house is a set, except for the ballroom, which was shot on-location at a mansion in Pasadena, California.

[norma]

This movie takes place in New England, as revealed in the opening scenes. Soon afterwards, Miss Scarlet is picked up by Professor Plum and explains that she is on her way to Hill House, which is "off Route 41". In real-life New England, there is a Route 41 that spans the northwestern section of Connecticut, continuing through the southwestern section of Massachusetts. So, Hill House, storywise, is located in either of these two New England states.

[ava]

Kellye Nakahara's debut.

[veronica]

The color of each character's car is the same color as their playing piece in the game, and is introduced as follows: Colonel Mustard drives a yellow 1954 Cadillac Series 62, Mrs. White drives a black-and-white 1950 MG TD convertible, Mrs. Peacock drives a blue 1952 Packard 200 Deluxe club sedan, Mr. Green drives a green 1951 Plymouth Cranbrook, Ms. Scarlet drives a 1946 red Lincoln Continental, and Professor Plum drives a purple 1949 Pontiac Streamliner Station Wagon.

[melinda]

Wadsworth's true identity is different in all three endings. In "ending A", he is what he says he is, that is a real butler who is another one of Mr. Boddy's victims (and he's also a very good amateur sleuth). In "ending B", he is an undercover F.B.I. Agent, and being a butler was his cover, and in "ending C", he is really the despicable Mr. Boddy pretending to be a butler.