![]() ![]() Someone else who makes “Who’s Harry Crumb?” not so terrible is Shawnee Smith, who I had a crush on for quite a while (I still might, if a 37-year-old man can be said to have a crush). And certainly more terrible than “Who’s Harry Crumb?” See how nicely I brought us back there? Anyway, here’s the scene of which I speak. In retrospect, it might have been a terrible show. All I know is I was an avid watcher, and that I purchased bootleg copies of the whole series run a few years ago. The show featured many cameos from actual National Wrestling Alliance wrestlers. At the time of the film’s release, the late, great Alzado was in the midst of his greatest acting moment, as the star of the world’s first (and dare I say last) wrestling sitcom, “Learning the Ropes,” in which Alzado played a teacher who also moonlighted as a professional wrestler named The Masked Maniac. (But we do get to hear the full title in dialogue, and whenever that happens in a movie, I am reminded of “A Couple of Eccentric Guys,” Calvin Trillin’s profile of Penn and Teller, in which he reveals that Penn and his Movie Night friends would always politely applaud any time a movie’s title was spoken in dialogue.)īut as a reward for our patience, we are given the opportunity to see not only Candy, in a decidedly conspicuous disguise (a window washer with Don King hair) for a private investigator spying on a cheating husband, but also former football player and nascent actor Lyle Alzado as a different husband who suspects his wife has been cheating on him. ![]() Five minutes is too long a wait, even with the red hair. Draisen, who–SPOILER ALERT–is behind the kidnapping, points him toward Detective Harry Crumb, at which point we finally get to see the inexplicably red-headed John Candy. Downing (played by the always reliable Barry Corbin). The scene ends with some chloroforming and a kidnapping (always hilarious) before we cut to the offices of Crumb & Crumb, where Eliot Draisen (Jeffrey Jones, best known as Ed Rooney from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” or for being a sex offender) is meeting with the kidnapped girl’s father, P.J. And if you think that sounds like a bad start for a funny movie, well, you’d be right on the money. “Who’s Harry Crumb?’ starts off oddly, with a prolonged pseudo-striptease, followed by mud application, in a weird Kubrickian-looking spa. Let’s see if I can fight through it and finish writing this. That was the closest I’ve ever come to insulting John Candy. ![]() ![]() But you’d be hard-pressed to put it at the top of the Candy oeuvre. Sure, there are some funny moments in it, enough to make watching it 25 years later a not completely unwelcome task, and it is certainly not the worst Candy movie (I recall “Delirious” being pretty terrible, and I’m so certain that “Nothing but Trouble”–starring Candy, Dan Aykroyd, and Chevy Chase, aka three of my all-time favorite funny people–is awful that I refuse to watch it). And that’s where “Who’s Harry Crumb?” comes in. He’s easily among my favorite movie stars of all time, and in 1989 news of a new John Candy movie would bring an immense amount of joy to my 12-year-old life.īut I am not such a Candy man (see what I did there?) that I can contend that everything he ever did was amazing. He was undoubtedly a hero of mine growing up, and the list of movies he’s been in that I love is a long and impressive one (to name just a few, “Planes, Trains & Automobiles,” “The Great Outdoors,” “Summer Rental,” “Brewster’s Millions,” and, coming to an At 25 post later this year, “Uncle Buck”). I have a hard time saying anything bad about John Candy. Brain of stone.Starring:John Candy, Shawnee Smith, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin Keywords : leave, fool, disappearance, disguise, private detective Stars : John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin, Shawnee Smith, Valri Bromfield HD Watch Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) Full Movie Online For Free STREamINg Who's Harry Crumb? - 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. Watch Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) Online Streaming Full Movie HD, Watch Who's Harry Crumb? 1989 Online Stream Full Movie ![]()
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