08/28/2026
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For people who love clever wordplay and deadpan humor -- Tim Curry and Clue (1985) are legendary. 🙏
The movie is a beloved farce with a stacked cast, and Tim Curry is the engine. As Wadsworth he spends the night herding suspects, stacking bodies, and talking faster than anyone else in the house. Then, in one of the film’s three endings, the butler drops the mask.
Mr. Green thinks he has him. “I was going to expose you.” Curry’s Wadsworth doesn’t flinch. “I know. So I choose to expose myself.” Colonel Mustard, ever the square, misunderstands and panics: “Please, there are ladies present!”
That is the joke. “Expose” means unmask a criminal. Mustard hears it as indecency.
The movie has already spent 90 minutes dangling s*x, secrets, and Cold War smoke. This is Curry using all of that at once: precise diction, dirty implication, perfect timing. He never played Wadsworth like furniture. He played him like the smartest, funniest person in the room — even when the room finally figures out what he is.
People who love Clue love jokes that are sharp, wordy, and a little mean — puns, deadpan cuts, innuendo — but they also like the movie because it is broad and chaotic. People slamming doors, yelling “shut up,” stacking bodies, and sprinting through the house is not dry. That is farce. And nobody did it better than Curry.
