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The basic premise of the board game is that of six guests, one of whom has killed their host Mr. Boddy. The film expanded on this by making the six central characters victims of Boddy's blackmail, and they join him at his mansion for dinner one evening. When he is killed, a madcap riot begins in which the blackmail victims along with the maid, the cook and Wadsworth the butler, all find their lives at risk.
The film was directed by Jonathan LynnJonathan Lynn (born April 3, 1943), is a British actor and comedy writer. Born in Bath, England, Lynn studied Law at the University of Cambridge (where he participated in the Footlights revue), but by the 1960s was appearing in and writing television sitc, who wrote the script with John LandisJohn Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. His career began as a teenager, working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox. He starred in Schlock ( 1976), which he also wrote and directed, as well as The Kentucky Fried Mo.
The film was not successful office, but found new life on home video where it quickly became a cult filmA cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of obsessive fans or one that has remained popular over successive years amongst a small group of followers. Often the film failed to achieve mainstream success on its original release, but th, and remains so today.
The movie is unusual in that it was made with three different endings, which were randomly played at cinemaA movie theater or cinema is a location, usually a building, for viewing movies. Other colloquial names include the silver screen and the big screen (contrasted with the "small screen" of television). Generally, theaters are not owned by individuals, buts during its theatrical release. The critics were reported to have had their favourite ending (the second on the video release). When released on video - and later DVD - and broadcast on television, all three endings were included in the film with silent filmA silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but before the late 1920s, most films were silent. The years before sound came to the mo-style title cards interspersed between. The DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto release includes an option to have one of the endings randomly selected and played at the end of the film, thereby recreating the theatrical experience.
Though based on the Clue premise and featuring the game's characters and mansion, the film took several liberties. Writers Landis and Lynn added more characters (a butlerButler is the name of some places in the United States of America: Butler, Alabama Butler, Georgia Butler, Illinois Butler, Indiana Butler, Kentucky Butler, New Jersey Butler, Maryland Butler, Missouri Butler, New York Butler, Ohio Butler, Oklahoma Butler, a cook) and added a maid separate from Mrs. White, who was pictured as a maid in the board games but in the film was the widow of a nuclear scientist. Also, the mansion's geography was changed, and three floors were added. Finally, the film was set in 1954 New England, while the actual board game was British originally.