John Candy's popularity from his appearances on the Canadian television series Second City TV did not translate into film success until he made the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck. Who's Harry Crumb? was released just before the more well-known film, and some SCTV regulars make cameo appearances. In this farcical comedy, Candy plays bumbling Harry Crumb, scion of a family of great detectives, who works as a trainee in the agency his legendary grandparents founded. His slimey boss Eliot Draisen (Jeffrey Jones) assigns the inept young detective to find the kidnapped daughter of a multi-millionaire. The plot twist is that Draisen doesn't want the kidnappers found, for reasons of his own. While Crumb blithely bumbles along through various mishaps, Draisen tries to put the moves on the millionaire's wife (Annie Potts). Fans of Candy will probably enjoy this film, which he dominates with his comedic talents and (literally) large presence.
10 February 1949, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
19 May 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14 October 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 October 1952, Franklin, Kentucky, USA
3 April 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 April 1946, Coronado, California, USA
19 November 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 January 1941, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
31 October 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8 May 1960, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
16 October 1940, Lamesa, Texas, USA
15 February 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 June 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1959, USA
January 15, 2003
Love the late, great John Candy? Me too. Let's honor the funnyman by never seeing this movie again.
May 31, 2002
O slogan do filme é 'Nervos de aço. Corpo de ferro. Cérebro de pedra.'. A quem os produtores estavam se referindo? A Crumb ou a nós, pobres espectadores?
June 07, 2017
It's so lacking in wit, it makes even Abbott and Costello seem so much smarter.
January 20, 2006
An outlandishly fluffy whodunnit farce that generates its inspired nuttiness from the likable John Candy.
