John Candy has always been one of my favourite comic actors. He’s also a B-movie making machine with 200 odd credits to his name. He was also in the excellent Near Dark (which I really need to see again). Tim Thomerson is cult favourite Jack Deth from the good fun series of films Trancers.Shawnee Smith would later become one of the big horror scream queens with her recurring role as Amanda in the Saw fancisie and later appearing in The Grudge 3.Looking at his IMDB page he has nine films in post-production! He will always be best known to me as Warden Walter Beatty from Stir Crazy. Barry Corbin has been all over the screens for over four decades.She was also punk rocker Iona in Pretty In Pink and she soon to be back on the big screen, well in animation, as her recurring role as Bo Peep in the soon to be released Toy Story 4. Annie Potts will be familiar as Janine Melnitz the Ghostbusters secretary.You will of course know him so well as the crazy headteacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the bonkers scientist from Howard The Duck. Jeffrey Jones is his usual brilliant self. There’s so many comedy and film connections in Who’s Harry Crumb?.Paul’s brother Joe Flaherty from SCTV also has a bit part in the film. Like Catherine O’Hara, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy to name a few. Who’s Harry Crumb? is directed by Paul Flaherty who was a writer on the Canadian sketch show SCTV which starred John Candy alongside other soon to be big household names.Let’s meet Harry Crumb’s alter egos as he goes deep undercover. They’re slime and without exception they are lazy, stupid, cowardly, arrogratant and thoroughly incompetent.”Ĭan Harry and his new assistant Nikki unravel the puzzle and figure out who the kidnappers are? One thing’s for sure, if Harry’s involved there’s gonna be a whole heap of mishaps happening alongside a super cheesy and overpowering soundtrack. Detective Casey ( Valri Bromfield) from the police force is also called in and now all the players are on the board.ĭetective Casey – “Over the years I discovered a theory about private detectives. Nikki is keen to help Harry bring her sister back and with the arrival of a ransom note they team up together. Wandering around searching for clues he bumps into the friendly and fiesty face of the kidnapped girls, younger sister Nikki ( Shawnee Smith). He starts the investigation at PJ’s mansion, meeting his nympho wife Helen Downing ( Annie Potts) and her tennis coach Vince Barnes ( Tim Thomerson). Harry Crumb – “Dangerous? Dangerous? I’ve got a black belt in aikido and the boots to match” He’s also armed with exceptional martial arts skills. He may fool you with his bumbling, incompetent ways but under that clumsy and cuddly exterior sits a brilliant master mind. The larger than life Harry Crumb ( John Candy) at your service. Reluctant to give PJ one of his best detectives, he offers the services of the last surviving descendants of the legendary Crumb agency founders. Just by seeing Eliot Draisen, we the viewer know this guy is a slime bag and a bit of a wrongen. PJ knows Eliot Draisen ( Jeffrey Jones) the president of a detective agency called Crumb & Crumb. Anything just to get his precious daughter back. He needed the best man that money could buy. What was he to do? He needed a private detective. Downing ( Barry Corbin) is obviously distraught. Jennifer Downing ( Renée Coleman) has been kidnapped! Unfortunately her tranquil, relaxing treatment is about to be ruined as a chloroformed handkerchief is placed across her mouth. She is at a beauty spa, ready to be applied with a full body mud pack. Red high heels first, then slowly removing her stockings before lying naked on a table. The TriStar Pictures logo fades into smooth jazz funk as a sexy blond starts to undress. When you need a master of disguise detective and Fletch is on vacation, who you gonna call? Well private investigator Harry Crumb is next down on the list.
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