Based on the classic board game, we have the familiar characters of Col. Mustard, Professor Plum, Mr. Green, Mrs White, Mrs Peacock and Miss Scarlet. A closed door murder in an old gothic house on a dark and stormy night. The butler Wadsworth summons each person there, giving them an alias. He says they are are related somehow and it turns out they are all being blackmailed to hide a secret and that gives them a motive for murder.
It was an inventive way to turn the game into a movie. In this case people starts dying at the hands of the familiar weapons, the knife, the candlestick, the rope, the pipe, the revolver and the poison. And there are many room and passageways between them to give a number of solutions as to "Whodunnit".
Certainly campy and somewhat slapstick, it was evocative of the comedy of those days - Mel Brooks, Rocky Horror, Monty Python. The casting was done with most characters in upper middle age, a much different look than today. Witty dialogue and rambunctious action made it kind of fun to watch.
Very clever ending.
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