History Fridge / Clue

** Acting in case Mustard or someone else came in her and saw her? Or perhaps, despite being the murderer and having Yvette working for her, she was still afraid one of the ''other'' guests might also be willing to kill to protect their blackmail secret.

* Most of the people we see get murdered are {{Asshole Victim}}s, but the singing telegram girl was connected to the suspects simply by having had an affair with Plum when he was her teacher. So this poor young woman was not only seduced by her teacher but then murdered for it.

* Most of the people we see get murdered are {{Asshole Victim}}s, but the singing telegram girl was connected to the suspects simply by having had an affair with Plum when he was her teacher. So this poor young woman was not only seduced by her teacher but then murdered for it.

* It's pretty likely, considering Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy doesn't seem surprised by his appearance, that the informant was intended to be the Evangelist. In the first two endings Wadsworth, as an FBI agent, would have known the Evangelist worked for the FBI; not only could he have told Wadsworth directly about Green's secret, being his boss, but Wadsworth could have assumed someone who worked for one government agency could have learned the blackmailable secret of someone working for another government agency. Or the Evangelist could have been planned to take the place of the real informant in order to keep from rousing Boddy's suspicions; he could even have been how the FBI learned about what Boddy was up to to begin with, thus leading to Wadsworth being placed in Boddy's employ. As for the third ending, when Wadsworth/Boddy was making sure all the informants would show up, he would have contacted whoever had supposedly informed on Green to him; when Green's "secret" was revealed to him, this person would also have let Boddy know how to contact them, and once he did so, the response could have stated the informant would appear dressed as a Evangelist as an excuse for a State Department official to be at the mansion.

* Most movies use some variant of ExactTimeToFailure, but few manage what ''Clue'' does: Wadsworth says that they have 60 minutes until the police show up to discover what happened to Mr. Boddy... and 60 movie-minutes later the suspect and murder weapon are known and the FBI reveals themselves at the door for the ending.

* Mr. Green's lack of interest in Yvette works no matter which ending you watch. In the first two endings, he's gay. In the third, he's ''happily married''.
* Mr. Green doesn't drink any alcohol like the other guests. Seeing as he's an undercover FBI agent in the middle of a murder-fest, it'd help to keep his wits about him.

* [[https://themoviola.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/not-just-a-red-herring-the-political-subtext-of-clue/ "Communism was just a red herring."]] 100% true and 100% false at the same time. Communism had absolutely nothing to do with any of the blackmailers, the blackmailed, the murderers or the murdered - except that it was the justification for everything. Security, bribes, blackmail, secrets, they were all because of Communists who ''weren't anywhere near the place.'' It was just a red herring - a red herring everyone was willing to lie, cheat, steal, kill and pay for. Ouch.
* Watch Mr. Green during the "Kingdom of heaven is at hand" preacher scene. He wears a very serious, acknowledging expression as he walks backwards from the door, as if to say "code phrase acknowledged."
** He also makes a dismissive gesture during that scene. It ''looks'' like a display of frustration, but it's also a signal: "No, don't come in yet: these people are blabbing everything just fine without you."

* There's a long shot with no dialog in which Yvette serves drinks to the guests. Whether they accept or reject a drink seems to correspond with their sexual preferences:
** Prof. Plum, who most openly demonstrated interest in Yvette, accepts.
** Mr. Green, who states that he is homosexual, declines.
** Col. Mustard, a client of Miss Scarlet's prostitution ring and with clear interest in women, accepts.
** Mrs. Peacock and Mrs. White, who have both mentioned husbands, decline.
** Miss Scarlet is served last. Her preferences are not noted in any other place in the film. She accepts a drink from Yvette.

* Mr. Boddy pretended to be dead so he can escape. If he did so, then he would have exposed them out of spite. He would have also added attempted murder into their charges.

** There would seem to be only two explanations: either the cook knew of them and told her (but that would require a) the cook to somehow still trust her enough to do so and b) time for her to ask and be told, while Yvette was screaming, before Mrs. Peacock killed her), or Yvette did. Since Yvette stayed behind in the study when they went to see the cook, and Mrs. Peacock stayed behind to check on Mr. Boddy's status, this did provide a great (and really, the only) opportunity, though why she would have done so is a different question altogether. (Perhaps because, after seeing Mrs. Peacock kill him, she was frightened into doing so?) In this second case, this would also mean she had no way of knowing of the passages when she killed the cook, so she must have simply run back down the hall to the study while the others were busy calming/interrogating Yvette. It also puts a different spin on Mrs. Peacock's request of Yvette about the bathroom, directing suspicion off of herself. (This is also true for Yvette herself, in the first ending.)

* A major plot hole goes unexplained in the third scenario. In the first two, Mr. Boddy's status as a possible villain is played for all it's worth, and eventually sustained even if the true BigBad is someone else. In the third scenario, the Mr. Boddy we've known is a fake... but nothing is done to explain his smugness or antagonism. Similarly, he's never truly redeemed, nor are there hints he's as much a victim as before. You'd think he'd have made a veiled comment about Wadsworth's own framing or that nothing is as it seems, but no; he lets Wadsworth do his spiel, introduces the weapons, makes a few thinly-veiled threats, then sets off a potential RouletteGambit that fails within minutes, without ever contradicting a word Wadsworth has said about him. Even in the third ending where he's not the true blackmailer, he comes off as an AssholeVictim at ''best''.