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Questions regarding the Ending and the plot. Please help. (spoilers)


Though i thoroughly enjoyed this film I have some major plot related questions related to The last Ending. Please help me clear the confusion incase i have missed any dialogues that couldve cleared it.

1. Why did Mr. Boddy invite them all to the mansion. Why invite them and their informants at the same time. What was his motive? He couldve just kept extracting money from them without exposing himself. Why was he playing that silly game with his guests (giving them each weapons etc)? What was the motive for doing that?
2. Why was Mr. Green there, who invited him? He says, "Hes being blackmailed for being Gay", Which he clears at the end saying, "I will go home and sleep with my wife". So if he wasnt gay, why was he being blackmailed. And if was getting blackmailed for something else, why Mr. Boddy let him lie. (This is the most confusing sh** in this whole movie)
3. Why did Mr.Boddy kill the Telegram girl. Would it have not been more advantageous to have The doctor kill her, since she was his informant.
4. Yvette gets killed when someone is trying to talk to her, saying no one has recognised you yet have they. And she says no and then gets killed, IT SOUNDED LIKE A MANS VOICE NOT A WOMANS. very confusing!!!!
5. What the whole deal about Red Herring and Communisim. Someone please explain.


Please help me explain the plot and clear my doubts. The plot was a bigger mystery than the movie itself.

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...exposing himself.


Please, there are ladies present!

Pants up, don't loot.

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1) in the the third ending Tim Curry was actually Mr Boddy he invited them and the master manipulated the whole thing so that all of them were put in a position were they would basically kill off his informants ( Yvette, the Cook, the traveller, the cop ) people he knew they knew before hand such as Yvette being the woman who stole Ms White's husband. He had hired his butler to pretend to be him however the butler turned the tables on him and tried to get them to kill him instead which instead of derailing his plans actually enhanced them as now he had another person's death which he could blackmail them with and they all had weapons the butler had given them making it easier to frame them. The rest of the movie was the plan going exactly as it should have done them killing off all the informants which would give him the means to keep blackmailing them for more money he was basically tightening his grip on them. He'd been blackmailing them for a while he knew all about them and what they were capable of he basically just created a scenario where the end result is he would get more power.

2) In the third one he's an FBI agent undercover that's why he got that phone call from J Edgar Hoover the FBI had obviously found out about Mr Boddy's blackmail schemes and had sent him in there undercover. The whole persona of Mr Green was a facade to lure Mr Boddy out to expose him. He wasn't actually gay. It was the character he was playing. That's the joke his personality was the complete opposite of the one he'd been pretending to be all night. He seemed the most stupid and timid out if all of them but he was actually the smartest, bravest one.

3) It wouldn't have mattered he still would have had the means to blackmail them they were all accomplices in 6 murders since they all knew about it and didn't inform the police that's why he says the line about the police not being called and Professor Plum had already killed someone, the butler (the person pretending to be Mr Boddy) by that point the real Mr Boddy just needed the rest of the accomplices out of the way before they could have blabbed to police and also to give him more leverage over the rest of them cause he could easily just frame one of them and say that one of them did it with the information he knew about them the police would believe it.

4) It's such a low whisper it could have been man or a woman's voice when you whisper that low the sound of your voice makes it undistinugshable as to what gender you could be. Thereby it could easily have been a woman or a man. It's a device used in a lot of mystery films.

5) When Mr Boddy was pretending to be Wadsworth he said the reason he was being blackmailed was because his wife had friends who were communists that was a "red herring" a lie to throw them off track suspecting him. The film is set I think during the McCarthy era so there was a rampant fear in America about the dangers of of communism so the characters all had that fear which made it easy for them to believe Mr Boddy's story and not question it which allowed him to enact his plan to continue to blackmail them.

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@LadyN1 Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed answer. And though you have managed to clear most of my doubts, there's a question which still lingers.

Why was Mr.Green there? If he was indeed an FBI agent then why was he invited to this dinner party? Mr. Boddy had personally invited all those that he was blackmailing. If he invited Mr.Green then that means he was blackmailing him too. If Mr. Green wasn't invited by Mr.Boddy then why didn't Mr.Boddy raise an alarm when Mr.green said he was being blackmailed for being Gay. It was an outright lie, why was Mr.green being entertained?

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Wouldn't boddy know his clients well? Come on that's a clear pothole

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well not exactly a "pothole" but could be a PLOThole. :)

you'll also notice that none of the murder victims was an informant in mr green's case; he's the only one who tells everyone himself what he's being blackmailed for, rather than waiting for wadsworth to "unmask him." he's the only one who hasn't done anything actually "illegal" (although i'm not sure if homosexuality was considered a crime in 1954, which it was in england).

it actually would have been quite easy for the FBI to set mr green up in the state department as an undercover "gay" man; it could be assumed that he'd been set up there a few months or even years earlier in order to get into a position of being noticed by mr boddy's informants (for example, it's implied during the dinner scene that mr green knows mrs peacock's husband, so they might have traveled in the same professional circles).

i think part of the whole point of being an undercover FBI agent is that people don't know you're an undercover FBI agent and therefore believe you are who you say you are, and so mr boddy probably would have no reason NOT to believe that mr green was a gay employee of the state department...

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he's the only one who hasn't done anything actually "illegal" (although i'm not sure if homosexuality was considered a crime in 1954, which it was in england).


Definitely a crime at that time. And something that would make him unemployable in any field requiring any type of security clearance or in politics.

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Definitely a crime at that time. And something that would make him unemployable in any field requiring any type of security clearance or in politics.

Yeah. It wasn't considered okay to be gay in America until the 1970s.

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my thoughts exactly. This is part of an fbi sting so I'm sure Boddy was set up...

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> Why was Mr.Green there? If he was indeed an FBI agent then why was he invited to this dinner party?

That's a tricky question. The prevailing thought is that the FBI knew about the blackmailing (hey, they bug everyone's phones) and they set up a phony homosexual story to get Mr. Green to be blackmailed by Mr. Boddy.

However, that doesn't explain why Wadsworth was shocked and surprised when Green outed himself. If he was blackmailing Green, he'd be fully aware of the reason (whether real or phony).

I take it that it was a slight oversight by the producers caused by trying to make everything consistent with three different endings.

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1) in the the third ending Tim Curry was actually Mr Boddy he invited them and the master manipulated the whole thing so that all of them were put in a position were they would basically kill off his informants ( Yvette, the Cook, the traveller, the cop ) people he knew they knew before hand such as Yvette being the woman who stole Ms White's husband. He had hired his butler to pretend to be him however the butler turned the tables on him and tried to get them to kill him instead which instead of derailing his plans actually enhanced them as now he had another person's death which he could blackmail them with and they all had weapons the butler had given them making it easier to frame them. The rest of the movie was the plan going exactly as it should have done them killing off all the informants which would give him the means to keep blackmailing them for more money he was basically tightening his grip on them. He'd been blackmailing them for a while he knew all about them and what they were capable of he basically just created a scenario where the end result is he would get more power.


This should be in the FAQ. I've seen Clue more times than maybe any other film, and I sincerely did not understand the relationship or importance of the "new arrivals" to the plot as a whole; I thought they were merely opportunities for laughs and suspense.

Your entire post is fantastic, but the quoted part above is essential to an understanding of the movie. Congratulations.

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This should be in the FAQ.


Okay, but only if it's rewritten by someone who has some basic understanding of the English language.

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