The VHS tape features the film's title mostly visible as it's partially pulled out from the side of the box. Make slipcovers a little more meaningful with this line of "Retro VHS" slipcovers that offer a shrunken-down approximation of a vintage rental storeĪnd also feature a portion of a VHS tape extending from the side of the case, even if most VHS covers were open at the bottom.įor Who's Harry Crumb?, the cover features a bit ofįake wear (creases, edge frays) and a genre stickerĪppears on the box. Occasionally embossing/debossing work adds a little variety but this reviewer has always pitched them in the trash, partly for that reason and partlyīecause doing so saves precious (albeit finite) shelf space, critical when one's collection is in the thousands. Downing's office, reminiscent of an encounter between Nielsen's Frank Drebin and co-star Ricardo Montalban in The Nakedįinally, a purpose for slipcovers! So often the collectible outer shell features the exact same artwork, front, back, and side as the Blu-ray case inside, Similar role but portraying a very similar character, which coincidentally (or not) even features nearly identical scenes, here when Candy The Naked Gun, that film featuring Leslie Nielsen not exactly in a Yet for as "Candy" as his work in Who's Harry Crumb? may be, the film ultimately feels most closely related to
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Practically, Candy portrays a man who is goofily gregarious, comfortable in his own skin and confident in himself but disaster seems to follow, disaster Person in some level of authority whose stature is challenged by his own buffoonery. Movies like Delirious, Armed and Dangerous, and Uncle Buck feature Candy playing, basically, the same character and to In the right place but whose actions frequently embarrass him or, worse, land him in trouble. In Who's Harry Crumb?, John Candy plays the type of character that defines his career, the lovable but bumbling leading man whose heart is Crumb returns to Los Angelesįrom "assignment" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, thrust into a case filled with twists and turns and surprises that only a man of his gifts could see coming. Kidnapping, he assigns the agency's worst detective to the case: Harry Crumb (John Candy), the last of a long and proud line of Crumbs who built theīusiness from the ground-up and whose names have become synonymous with the best of modern detective work. But because the firm's president (Jeffrey Jones) is actually in on the Downing, who has a connection at theĬrumb & Crumb detective agency, recruits the firm to find his daughter. Downing (Barry Corbin), has been kidnaped. Jennifer Downing (Renée Coleman), daughter of millionaire P.J. As this is the first time the film has been released to Blu-ray, find below brief film, video, and audio reviews. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section belowįor more on the slipcover. In this case, the artwork on the slip and the case are similar, but not entirely identical. VHS" slipcovers which mimic the look of classic 1980s rental copies (which often had vastly superior artwork compared to today's Photoshopped Mill Creek has released the John Candy Comedy 'Who's Harry Crumb?' to Blu-ray for the first time as part of the first wave of titles to feature Reviewed by Martin Liebman, January 16, 2019
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