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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Tom]] killed both Clinton and [[spoiler:Lee]]. Clinton's game wasn't about his wife's death at all, it was just him screwing with his guests because he's a {{Jerkass}}--[[spoiler:Lee]]'s secret wasn't "Hit-and-run killer", it was "Alcoholic". [[spoiler:Tom changed the cards when he whipped up a spur-of-the-moment plan to kill Clinton and Lee, thus allowing him to make the script he sold to Clinton, with Lee's money]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Tom]] killed both Clinton and [[spoiler:Lee]]. Clinton's game wasn't about his wife's death at all, it was just him screwing with his guests because he's a {{Jerkass}}--[[spoiler:Lee]]'s secret wasn't "Hit-and-run killer", killer",[[spoiler: though she ''actually was'' the hit-and-run driver who killed Sheila]] it was "Alcoholic". [[spoiler:Tom changed the cards when he whipped up a spur-of-the-moment plan to kill Clinton and Lee, thus allowing him to make the script he sold to Clinton, with Lee's money]].
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* BathSuicide: Lee is found in the tub, having slit her wrists right after she confesses to killing Sheila and Clinton. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted when we find out she didn't actually kill herself]].
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* BathSuicide: Lee [[spoiler: Lee]] is found in the tub, having slit her [[spoiler: her]] wrists right after she [[spoiler:she]] confesses to killing Sheila and Clinton. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted when we find out she didn't actually kill herself]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: By [[spoiler:By being forced to finance the production of the InUniverse film ''The Last of Sheila'' (with money he would otherwise have had for himself), but being creatively relegated to script "rewrites" (which he loathes doing), Tom is consigned to a personal hell worse than if he'd been turned over to the police. police.]]
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* HandPuppet: Anthony the weirdo brings his hand puppets on the trip. Later Tom [[spoiler:Tom tries to use them to strangle Phillip, Phillip,]] muttering "I don't have any gloves."
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* RedHerring: The whole incident in which someone turns on the engine, nearly killing Christine as she swims. It turns out to be Phillip, who was trying to kill Clinton (also out swimming), but it's not related to the main mystery.
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* RedHerring: The whole incident in which someone turns on the engine, nearly killing Christine as she swims. It turns out to be Phillip, [[spoiler:Phillip]], who was trying to kill Clinton (also out swimming), but it's not related to the main mystery.
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* SpottingTheThread: Phillip is not satisfied with the tidy solution. He ponders the card that says "Little Child Molester", with the odd redundancy of "little". He realizes that the card secrets--"shoplifter", "homosexual", "ex-convict", "informer", "little child molester", and "hit-and-run killer"--are actually an acrostic that is supposed to spell out "SHEILA". The only problem is that they spell out "SHEILH" because there's no card that starts with A. Phillip realizes that "hit-and-run killer" doesn't fit...and that was Tom's card. He unravels the whole mystery from there.
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* SpottingTheThread: Phillip is not satisfied with the tidy solution. He ponders the card that says "Little [[spoiler:"Little Child Molester", with the odd redundancy of "little". He realizes that the card secrets--"shoplifter", "homosexual", "ex-convict", "informer", "little child molester", and "hit-and-run killer"--are actually an acrostic that is supposed to spell out "SHEILA". The only problem is that they spell out "SHEILH" because there's no card that starts with A. Phillip realizes that "hit-and-run killer" doesn't fit...and that was Tom's card. ]] He unravels the whole mystery from there.
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* XanatosSpeedChess: That's a pretty elaborate plan that Tom [[spoiler: Tom]] came up with on the fly, once he [[spoiler:he]] was aboard Clinton's yacht and discovered the nature of the scavenger hunt.
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* TheSeventies: This movie is very '70s. How '70s is this movie, you ask? One of the five secrets that are thought to be no big deal, definitely not worth killing over, is ''child molester''.
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* BathSuicide: Lee is found in the tub, having slit her wrists right after she confesses to killing Sheila and Clinton. Eventually subverted when we find out she didn't actually kill herself.
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* BathSuicide: Lee is found in the tub, having slit her wrists right after she confesses to killing Sheila and Clinton. Eventually [[spoiler:Eventually subverted when we find out she didn't actually kill herself.herself]].
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* TheReveal: Tom killed both Lee and Clinton. Clinton's game wasn't about his wife's death at all, it was just him screwing with his guests because he's a {{Jerkass}}--Lee's secret wasn't "Hit-and-run killer", it was "Alcoholic". Tom changed the cards when he whipped up a spur-of-the-moment plan to kill Clinton and Lee, thus allowing him to make the script he sold to Clinton, with Lee's money.
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* TheReveal: Tom [[spoiler:Tom]] killed both Lee Clinton and Clinton. [[spoiler:Lee]]. Clinton's game wasn't about his wife's death at all, it was just him screwing with his guests because he's a {{Jerkass}}--Lee's {{Jerkass}}--[[spoiler:Lee]]'s secret wasn't "Hit-and-run killer", it was "Alcoholic". Tom [[spoiler:Tom changed the cards when he whipped up a spur-of-the-moment plan to kill Clinton and Lee, thus allowing him to make the script he sold to Clinton, with Lee's money.money]].
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* PlotTwist: Several zig-zags in the story: [[spoiler:Clinton's cruise is actually a ruse to expose the killer of Sheila, Clinton ends up getting murdered, Lee confesses to killing both Sheila and Clinton and commits suicide, Phillip figures out that Tom actually murdered Clinton and Lee.]]
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* PlotTwist: Several zig-zags in the story: [[spoiler:Clinton's cruise is actually a ruse to expose the killer of Sheila, Clinton ends up getting murdered, Lee confesses to killing both Sheila and Clinton and commits suicide, Phillip Philip figures out that Tom actually murdered Clinton and Lee.]]
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Starts out as a comedy about a complex ScavengerHunt-type game, then turns into a {{Whodunit}}.
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* InternalReveal: The audience finds out about the secrets actually being real facts about the players, and the existence of the "hit-and-run killer" card, before all the characters become aware of those things.
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* Glamorous actress Alice Wood (Raquel Welch), and her would-be movie producer husband Anthony (a startlingly young Creator/IanMcShane).
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* YourCheatingHeart: Alice is having an affair.affair.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: By being forced to finance the production of the InUniverse film ''The Last of Sheila'' (with money he would otherwise have had for himself), but being creatively relegated to script "rewrites" (which he loathes doing), Tom is consigned to personal hell worse than if he'd been turned over to the police.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: By being forced to finance the production of the InUniverse film "The ''The Last of Sheila" Sheila'' (with money he would otherwise have had for himself), but being creatively relegated to script "rewrites" (which he loathes doing), Tom is consigned to personal hell worse than if he'd been turned over to the police.
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''The Last of Sheila'' was written by the oddball duo of Anthony Perkins, best known as playing Norman Bates in ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', and Music/StephenSondheim, world-famous as the creator of Broadway musicals like ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. It is [[OneBookAuthor the only screenwriting credit]] either Perkins or Sondheim ever received.
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''The Last of Sheila'' was written by the oddball duo of Anthony Perkins, Creator/AnthonyPerkins, best known as playing Norman Bates in ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', and Music/StephenSondheim, world-famous as the creator of Broadway musicals like ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. It is [[OneBookAuthor the only screenwriting credit]] either Perkins or Sondheim ever received.
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* TheCameo: Yvonne Romain, an actress from HammerHorror films, appears briefly as Sheila.
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* ScavengerHunt: A particularly elaborate one with a series of clues.
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* XanatosSpeedChess: That's a pretty elaborate plan that Tom came up with on the fly, once he was aboard Clinton's yacht and discovered the nature of the scavenger hunt.
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* HandPuppets: Anthony the weirdo brings his hand puppets on the trip. Later Tom tries to use them to strangle Phillip, muttering "I don't have any gloves."
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* {{Jerkass}}: Clinton, who delights in embarrassing and humiliating his guests as he dangles the prospect of work in front of them.
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* CelebrityParadox: The TV in the room where Clinton is waiting for his guests is playing ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', which stars James Mason.
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* TheReveal: Tom killed both Lee and Clinton. Clinton's game wasn't about his wife's death at all, it was just him screwing with his guests because he's a {{Jerkass}}--Lee's secret wasn't "Hit-and-run killer", it was "Alcoholic". Tom changed the cards when he whipped up a spur-of-the-moment plan to kill Clinton and Lee, thus allowing him to make the script he sold to Clinton, with Lee's money.
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* VoiceChangeling: Tom's really good at imitating people. That's important.
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* MistakenForProstitute: As Christine is walking around town during the first scavenger hunt, holding a key to an unknown room, she keeps getting approached by johns thinking she's a {{Streetwalker}} offering the key to her room.
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* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: As Christine wanders around a seaside town trying to solve the first scavenger hunt, she stumbles into a lesbian bar. A bunch of butch lesbians gape at her before she beats a hasty retreat.
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* TheAlcoholic: Lee--not really LadyDrunk as she's not old and sad and bitter, she just drinks way too much. This turns out to be yet another clue.
* BathSuicide: Lee is found in the tub, having slit her wrists right after she confesses to killing Sheila and Clinton. Eventually subverted when we find out she didn't actually kill herself.
* BathSuicide: Lee is found in the tub, having slit her wrists right after she confesses to killing Sheila and Clinton. Eventually subverted when we find out she didn't actually kill herself.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Lee has to sit down and have a smoke right after she kills Clinton in a fit of rage.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: Loaded throughout with clues that might help a viewer solve the mystery, like the group photo taken early in the story, or Tom's ChekhovsSkill, or the ice pick that one character is seen using right before another character can't find it.
* {{Fanservice}}: Alice and Christine spend a goodly chunk of the movie lounging around the yacht in their bikinis.
* HorribleHollywood: A bunch of venal, selfish Hollywood types. The film ends with two people deciding to let a double murderer go free as long as they can get a movie produced as part of the deal.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A lot of this, as the characters are all movie people who call out the story beats as if they're in a movie. When they reach the abandoned monastery they compliment the set design. When Phillip is explaining how the whole mystery went down, he says "{{Dissolve}}", and the scene dissolves to the next scene.
* {{Fanservice}}: Alice and Christine spend a goodly chunk of the movie lounging around the yacht in their bikinis.
* HorribleHollywood: A bunch of venal, selfish Hollywood types. The film ends with two people deciding to let a double murderer go free as long as they can get a movie produced as part of the deal.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A lot of this, as the characters are all movie people who call out the story beats as if they're in a movie. When they reach the abandoned monastery they compliment the set design. When Phillip is explaining how the whole mystery went down, he says "{{Dissolve}}", and the scene dissolves to the next scene.
* OminousLatinChanting: Clinton arranges some cassette players to play Ominous Latin Chanting as the scavengers root through the monastery.
* RedHerring: The whole incident in which someone turns on the engine, nearly killing Christine as she swims. It turns out to be Phillip, who was trying to kill Clinton (also out swimming), but it's not related to the main mystery.
* RedHerring: The whole incident in which someone turns on the engine, nearly killing Christine as she swims. It turns out to be Phillip, who was trying to kill Clinton (also out swimming), but it's not related to the main mystery.
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* TitleDrop: Clinton wants to make a movie called ''The Last of Sheila''. This doubles as {{Foreshadowing}} when Phillip later realizes that the movie title is a vital clue.
* YourCheatingHeart: Alice is having an affair.
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* BlowingSmokeRings: Clinton does this in one scene as he savors the prank he's pulling on his guests.
* TheCameo: Yvonne Romain, an actress from HammerHorror films, appears briefly as Sheila.
* TheCameo: Yvonne Romain, an actress from HammerHorror films, appears briefly as Sheila.
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''The Last of Sheila'' is a 1973 film directed by Herbert Ross, featuring an AllStarCast.
Sheila Greene, Hollywood gossip columnist, angrily stalks out of her Malibu home during a cocktail party one evening, and is struck and killed in the street by a motorist.
Cut forward one year. Her husband, wealthy movie producer Clinton Greene (Creator/JamesCoburn) hosts some of his movie acquaintances on his yacht for a Mediterranean cruise. The guests are all people who were at the party the night of Sheila's death. They include:
* Once famous, now washed-up film director Philip Dexter (Creator/JamesMason).
* Hollywood super-agent Christine (Dyan Cannon).
* Frustrated screenwriter Tom Parkman (Richard Benjamin) and his independently wealthy wife Lee (Joan Hackett).
* Glamorous actress Alice Wood (Raquel Welch), and her would-be movie producer husband Anthony (a startlingly young Creator/IanMcShane).
Clinton offers up to all these movie hangers-on and rejects a part in his new film, ''The Last of Sheila'', about his late wife. Because Clinton is an arrogant jerk, he doesn't just offer them jobs or anything. No, he arranges an elaborate scavenger hunt in which each of his guests are given cards with true-life secrets of a different guest. Whoever wins the game, by discovering the most embarrassing secrets about the other guests, will get to work in the movie.
However, a shocking, tragic event interrupts the second scavenger hunt. As the guests wonder what to do next, they show each other the "secret" cards and discover that one of the secrets is "You are a Hit-And-Run Killer." Tom figures out Clinton's true intention--the whole scavenger hunt routine is actually a clever ruse to expose the identity of the person who killed Clinton's wife.
''The Last of Sheila'' was written by the oddball duo of Anthony Perkins, best known as playing Norman Bates in ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', and Music/StephenSondheim, world-famous as the creator of Broadway musicals like ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. It is [[OneBookAuthor the only screenwriting credit]] either Perkins or Sondheim ever received.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Tom's uncanny ability to mimic Clinton's voice, seen in one idle conversation, turns out to be crucial to the solution.
* DevelopmentHell: InUniverse, this is the hold Clinton has over Tom Parkman; Clinton bought the option to one of Tom's screenplays but has no interest in actually making the script into a film.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One of the gags was how all the characters are modeled after real people. Philip Dexter, the once-great director now reduced to appearing in commercials, is Creator/OrsonWelles. Christine is actually RealLife agent Sue Mengers, who passed on playing an {{Expy}} of herself and gave the role to her client, Dyan Cannon. Tom Parkman is actually Tony Perkins himself, a closeted gay man married to a woman, whose career had stalled (Perkins's career had stalled due to typecasting after ''Psycho''). Alice and Anthony Wood are actually based on ''Raquel Welch'' and her then-husband, producer Patrick Curtis. (Sondheim got Welch to play the part by lying and telling her that Alice and Anthony were based on Ann-Margaret and her husband.)
* TheSeventies: This movie is very '70s. How '70s is this movie, you ask? One of the five secrets that are thought to be no big deal, definitely not worth killing over, is ''child molester''.
* SpottingTheThread:
Sheila Greene, Hollywood gossip columnist, angrily stalks out of her Malibu home during a cocktail party one evening, and is struck and killed in the street by a motorist.
Cut forward one year. Her husband, wealthy movie producer Clinton Greene (Creator/JamesCoburn) hosts some of his movie acquaintances on his yacht for a Mediterranean cruise. The guests are all people who were at the party the night of Sheila's death. They include:
* Once famous, now washed-up film director Philip Dexter (Creator/JamesMason).
* Hollywood super-agent Christine (Dyan Cannon).
* Frustrated screenwriter Tom Parkman (Richard Benjamin) and his independently wealthy wife Lee (Joan Hackett).
* Glamorous actress Alice Wood (Raquel Welch), and her would-be movie producer husband Anthony (a startlingly young Creator/IanMcShane).
Clinton offers up to all these movie hangers-on and rejects a part in his new film, ''The Last of Sheila'', about his late wife. Because Clinton is an arrogant jerk, he doesn't just offer them jobs or anything. No, he arranges an elaborate scavenger hunt in which each of his guests are given cards with true-life secrets of a different guest. Whoever wins the game, by discovering the most embarrassing secrets about the other guests, will get to work in the movie.
However, a shocking, tragic event interrupts the second scavenger hunt. As the guests wonder what to do next, they show each other the "secret" cards and discover that one of the secrets is "You are a Hit-And-Run Killer." Tom figures out Clinton's true intention--the whole scavenger hunt routine is actually a clever ruse to expose the identity of the person who killed Clinton's wife.
''The Last of Sheila'' was written by the oddball duo of Anthony Perkins, best known as playing Norman Bates in ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', and Music/StephenSondheim, world-famous as the creator of Broadway musicals like ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. It is [[OneBookAuthor the only screenwriting credit]] either Perkins or Sondheim ever received.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Tom's uncanny ability to mimic Clinton's voice, seen in one idle conversation, turns out to be crucial to the solution.
* DevelopmentHell: InUniverse, this is the hold Clinton has over Tom Parkman; Clinton bought the option to one of Tom's screenplays but has no interest in actually making the script into a film.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One of the gags was how all the characters are modeled after real people. Philip Dexter, the once-great director now reduced to appearing in commercials, is Creator/OrsonWelles. Christine is actually RealLife agent Sue Mengers, who passed on playing an {{Expy}} of herself and gave the role to her client, Dyan Cannon. Tom Parkman is actually Tony Perkins himself, a closeted gay man married to a woman, whose career had stalled (Perkins's career had stalled due to typecasting after ''Psycho''). Alice and Anthony Wood are actually based on ''Raquel Welch'' and her then-husband, producer Patrick Curtis. (Sondheim got Welch to play the part by lying and telling her that Alice and Anthony were based on Ann-Margaret and her husband.)
* TheSeventies: This movie is very '70s. How '70s is this movie, you ask? One of the five secrets that are thought to be no big deal, definitely not worth killing over, is ''child molester''.
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