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.
Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately, talent seems to have skipped a generation, and Harry is reduced to "gumshoe" work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan, which requires the inclusion of an incompotent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case, Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts, Crumb actually makes some headway in the case... Written by Murray Chapman
