Clue - Communism is Just a Red Herring
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The cache is NOT at the post coordinates: You must answer the questions and follow the directions below to get to the cache. All answers to the questions are in the paragraphs below. Terrain isn't difficult, but you do have to walk up a small hill and the final location is not wheelchair accessible.
Clue – Communism is Just a Red Herring
Clue is a 1985 comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name (Cluedo outside North America). The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival mansion, and is styled after Murder by Death. The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving
In keeping with the nature of the board game, in theatrical release the movie was shown with one of three possible endings, with different theaters receiving each ending.
Clue was filmed on sound stages at the Paramount Pictures film studios in Hollywood. After the completion of the movie, the set was bought by the producers of Dynasty, who used it as the fictional hotel The Carlton.
Carrie Fisher was originally contracted to portray Miss Scarlet but withdrew to enter treatment for drug and alcohol addiction.
Madeline Kahn's "Flames...on the side of my face" speech was entirely improvised.
Synopsis of the Movie:
During dinner, the seventh guest, Mr. Boddy arrives. After dinner, Wadsworth reveals the true nature of the party: all of the guests are being blackmailed to hide their secrets:
• Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), a Senator's wife, has accepted bribes to deliver her husband's vote.
• Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), a madam who operates an illegal brothel in Washington, DC.
• Mr. Green (Michael McKean) is homosexual, a secret that would cost him his job with the State Department if it were widely known.
• Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), a psychiatrist, who lost his license because he had an affair with a female patient. He now works for the World Health Organization.
• Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn), an alleged black widow, who was drawn in to avoid a scandal regarding the mysterious death of her nuclear physicist husband. She was previously married to an illusionist, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
• Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull) is at first thought to be being blackmailed for scandalous pictures, but it is later revealed that he was a war profiteer who made his money from selling stolen radio components on the black market. He now works at The Pentagon.
Questions:
1. Professor Plumb indicates at dinner that he works for the _____ _____ _____, part of the United Nations Organization. This means he works for UNO WHO. (# of letters = A)
2. Eileen Brennan also stared in the film ____ ____ ____, Neil Simon’s parody of murder mysteries. (# of letters = B)
3. The actor playing Mr. Boddy is the front man of the rock band Fear, and was chosen because his name is ____ ____ and is character would soon be “leaving” not long into the movie. (# of letters = C)
4. After production concluded, the mansion set was bought by the producers of ____, who used it as Carlton Hotel. (# of letters = D).
After obtaining ABCD, go to the above coordinates and follow these directions:
1. You should be standing at or near a light pole.
2. With your back to Exposition Blvd walk D paces.
3. You should now be near a large tree, turn your back to Heritage Lane and you should be looking up a hill.
4. Add A & B and walk this many paces up the hill.
5. You should be staring at a large lone bush.
6. Walk C paces around the bush (either direction)
7. You should now be on the backside of the bush and looking back down the hill. If you are facing a wall, you are looking in the wrong direction.
8. Cache is located at the base of the bush in a little ways. Now search the bush for your CLUE. No need to trample or destroy bushes/ shrubbery.
You are looking for a small black taped Tupperware container approximately 7” x 5” x 3”. Original items in the container are log, pen, 8 little erasers of various kinds, 2 lego minifigures, and a travel bug.
Please be sure to put cache back exactly as found.
If you take something, please leave something of equal value.
Additional Hints
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