Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) is a part comedy part detective mystery movie featuring John Candy as the title character. The story revolves around the often incompetent, sometimes genius, private investigator Harry Crumb in his search for the kidnapping victim Jennifer Downing who is being held for ransom.
While visiting a health studio, Jennifer Downing, the daughter of millionaire P.J. Downing, is kidnapped. Her father turns to the detective agency...
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) is a part comedy part detective mystery movie featuring John Candy as the title character. The story revolves around the often incompetent, sometimes genius, private investigator Harry Crumb in his search for the kidnapping victim Jennifer Downing who is being held for ransom.
While visiting a health studio, Jennifer Downing, the daughter of millionaire P.J. Downing, is kidnapped. Her father turns to the detective agency Crumb, whose chief Eliot Draisen recommends the last descendant of the agency's founders, Harry Crumb, to investigate the case. The matter is complicated by the fact, however, that Draisen himself is the organizer of the kidnapping; he counts on the fact that Harry Crumb is a rather clueless person in order to escape scotsfree.
When Crumb returns from an external assignment (which he messed up as usual), he immediately begins his investigation, assisted by Jennifer's younger sister, Nikki. His tendency to mix up fact with fantasy, however,...
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