Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)

• Year: 1989
• Released: 03 Feb 1989
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098645/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/whos_harry_crumb
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/whos-harry-crumb
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy, Mystery
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Robert Conte, Peter Wortmann
• Director: Paul Flaherty
• Cast: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts
• Keywords: disappearance, private detective, disguise, fool, leave,

	5.9/10
	44/100
	27% – Critics
	46% – Audience

Who’s Harry Crumb? Storyline

Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately talent seems to have skipped a generation and Harry is reduced to “gumshoe” work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan which requires the inclusion of an incompetent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts Crumb actually makes some headway in the case…

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The Lovable John Candy!

‘Who’s Harry Crumb’ rests on the shoulders of the brilliant John Candy. The late comedy legend rules the show, with a lovable, hilarious performance, that appeals entirely.

‘Who’s Harry Crumb’ Synopsis: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he’s not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

‘Who’s Harry Crumb’ is funny in parts. Some jokes are silly, some laugh-out-loud funny & some are pretty lame. But, in totality, the humor works for its targeted audience – the kids & the kids at heart. Its a passable one-time watch.

The Screenplay is flawed, but some memorable moments do the trick. Paul Flaherty’s Direction is decent. Cinematography is standard. Editing & Art Design are okay.

Performance-Wise: Its John Candy all the way. As Harry Crumb, the late comedy legend doesn’t miss a beat & delivers in every sequence. He’s the soul of the film. Amongst the supporting cast, Jeffrey Jones is terrific.

On the whole, ‘Who’s Harry Crumb’ is a must for John Candy Fans.

Loveable Candy

Shipping heiress Jennifer Downing has been kidnapped in L.A. Her parents (Annie Potts, Barry Corbin) hire Crumb & Crumb detective agency run by Eliot Draisen (Jeffrey Jones). He claims to have no one available and assigns young star investigator Harry Crumb (John Candy), the last in the line of Crumb investigators. In reality, Harry is a bumbling doofus working out of the lowly Tulsa office. Eliot is actually the mastermind behind the kidnapping and he deliberately picked the clueless detective. Harry finds an investigative partner in Jennifer’s younger sister Nikki (Shawnee Smith).

This is directed by Paul Flaherty, brother of SCTV alumni. John Candy is a wonderfully loveable actor. The obvious comparison for Harry Crumb is Pink Panther’s Clouseau. It doesn’t have as much physical comedy and the humor is not really directed at Harry unlike Clouseau. The comedy is slightly off and no matter how many fish hooks Harry takes on his face, the laughs aren’t there. Somehow, he also exists both as an idiot and as a genius. He needs to be pure idiot for the comedy to take off. This is where Nikki could help. She needs to be the straight man directing our clueless hero to solve the case. Maybe she should be the one finding all the clues and figuring out everything. There are some adjustments that could really set this comedy off.

Ah how the candy crumbles.

Every comic at some point in their career attempts to be a funny detective and sometimes it works (“The Pink Panther Series”, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”, “Beverly Hills Cop”, “Outrageous Fortune”) and sometime it doesn’t (“Fletch”, “The Black Bird”, “Ace Ventura”). Two genres mixed together don’t always work, and when one of them is comedy, the chances are more difficult because good comedy is really impossible to please everybody.

John Candy could be very funny in sketch comedy or in supporting roles or as part of a team, but some of his star vehicles are difficult to enjoy because he rushed them out a lot in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. As the namesake of a successful detective agency only involved in the simplest of cases where he can do no damage, Candy’s Harry Crumb truly has no business being in the detective business, and when he’s assigned to a kidnapping case so he can muck it up (which gives the intention of the plot no real conclusion), he does his share of damage especially to boss Jeffrey Jones’ office.

The daughter of wealthy Tim Thomerson has been kidnapped and Candy gets the aide of the victim’s sassy teen sister Shawnee Smith, eventually pointing the finger at nymphomaniac stepmom Annie Potts. It’s a completely different part for the “Designing Women” star and she goes over the top with the villainy as a red headed black widow. This takes the viewer into many Southern California locales, getting Candy into trouble over and over, and there’s some genuinely funny moments such as when Candy ends up on a ceiling fan inside a Santa Monica Beach restaurant. But most of the gags with potentially funny conclusions fall flat so this is easily watched and won’t tax your funny bone, thus quickly forgotten.