

The film was released in the United Kingdom on July 6, 1989, and failed to reach the Top 15. Who's Harry Crumb? grossed $10,982,364 in North America. In the end, Harry takes over as the new president of his family's business, and promptly accepts a new assignment to investigate another case, this time a murder committed in a gay bar. Casey applauds Harry for solving the case. Harry is thanked for his heroism in the case and even Det. Jennifer is freed and Eliot is found.įalsely believing Harry has deduced his part in the kidnapping and exasperated with Harry's dumb luck, Eliot confesses and is taken into police custody. Harry arrives to confront Helen and Barnes just as their plane prepares to take off. He makes the mistake of informing Helen of his plans she and Barnes take the money and leave him bound and gagged. She tries to get rid of her husband on several occasions and does her best – along with Barnes – to get the ransom for herself.Īlso assigned to the case is Police Detective Casey, who (unlike Harry) is competent and experienced in kidnapping cases and has a strongly negative opinion of private eyes.Įliot escapes to the airport, bound for Buenos Aires. Helen is desired by Eliot, but all she is interested in is money. Harry deduces that Nikki's stepmother, Helen Downing, is having an affair with tennis coach Vince Barnes, and concludes she is behind the kidnapping. He is assisted in his investigation by P.J.'s younger daughter, Nikki, who is considerably smarter than he is. Harry returns to Los Angeles (by bus) from an assignment in the firm's Tulsa, Oklahoma branch office (which he messed up, as usual). Eliot knows that Harry is incompetent and counts on this fact to get away with the crime. the services of Harry Crumb, the last descendant of the agency's founders. To give the appearance of taking the investigation seriously, Eliot offers P.J. with one of his capable detectives because, as it turns out, Eliot himself is the organizer of the kidnapping. Her father turns to a family friend, Eliot Draisen, who is president of the detective agency Crumb & Crumb, to investigate the case.Įliot is reluctant to supply P.J. While visiting a health studio in Beverly Hills, fashion model Jennifer Downing, the daughter of millionaire P.J. The story concerns the often incompetent, sometimes brilliant, private investigator Harry Crumb, who searches for a kidnapping victim. An uncredited cameo appearance is made by Jim Belushi. Paul Flaherty directed the film, which co-stars Annie Potts, Jeffrey Jones and Shawnee Smith. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.Who's Harry Crumb? is a 1989 American comedy- mystery film featuring John Candy as the title character. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair.

And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
