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Who's Harry Crumb? was released in the United States and Canada on February 3, 1989. During its opening weekend it grossed a total of $3.9 million from 1,197 theaters—an average of $3,227 per theater—making it the fifth-highest grossing film of the weekend, behind Beaches ($4.2 million) in its seventh week of release, and ahead of Twins ($3 ...
- Paul Flaherty
- Stephen M. Katz
- Robert Conte, Peter Martin Wortmann
- Arnon Milchan
Feb 3, 1989 · Who's Harry Crumb?: Directed by Paul Flaherty. With John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson. 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.
- Paul Flaherty
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When Harry, the last of the great sleuthing Crumbs - and the last person in the firm to ever get an assignment - finally gets a shot at a frontpage kidnapping, it's only because his beady-eyed boss, Eliot Draisen (Jeffrey Jones), doesn't want the case solved. At stake is the gorgeous daughter of multi-millionaire P.J. Downing, a $10 million ...
Nov 20, 2019 · Candy plays Harry Crumb, the bumbling son who never quite lived up to the reputation of his sleuthing father and grandfather in his family’s long-standing detective agency. Instead of running the company, he is relegated to being a lowly trainee as their Tulsa office. Ineptitude is just what the CEO of the company, Eliot Draisen, in Los ...
Harry, disguised as De Roach, a bearded Hungarian hair stylist wearing blue leather with a shaved head, goes to the spa to interview the woman who gave Jennifer the mud bath that ended in her kidnapping. While re-enacting the crime, Harry leans over a mud encrusted woman and his fake chest hair falls into her crotch.
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Harry Crumb himself is an excellent comic character. A detective who stumbles on his own ego and family legacy but still manages to back into solving the case. It is a good vehicle for his talent in this regard. Most of Candy's films explored his range as an actor but this movie is comedy.
Overview. 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. Paul Flaherty. Director.
