Who's Harry Crumb? - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[nicholas]

Valri Bromfield later co-starred with John Candy in Nothing But Trouble (1991), in which she also played a cop.

[alyssa]

Tim Thomerson and Shawnee Smith were both in Iron Eagle (1986).

[toni]

The seemingly out-of-place orange tree in Harry's office, which drops oranges while he meets with his first client, is a possible homage to Chinatown, where orange trees are abundant and important to the story.

[norma]

This is John Candy's Fletch: playing a clumsy, endearing title character investigating (one a reporter, the other a private eye) a rich family's problem, and using various disguises along the way. Even the soundtrack is similar.

[frances]

The amount of the ransom money was US $10 million.

[lynn]

A number of Canada's Second City TV (SCTV) regulars made cameo appearances in the movie.

[albert]

Cans of Coca-Cola are seen been drunk as product placements in this movie on at least a couple of occasions, one of them being Diet Coke. The movie was made by Tri-Star Pictures which was a division of Columbia Pictures which was owned by the Coca-Cola company. Around 1985, home video cassettes of Ghostbusters (1984) had been released with an advertisement for Coke on the tapes.

[steve]

This was the first of four movies starring John Candy first released in 1989. The others were: Uncle Buck (1989), Speed Zone (1989), and The Rocket Boy (1989).

[sandra]

Although the film is set in Los Angeles, it was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Palm trees were imported for some shots.

[edgar]

According to the American Film Institute, "1988 was the wettest Vancouver spring in a century. Outdoor location shots were delayed, and even interior shots were adversely affected. The city's skyline needed to be visible through the window in Harry's office. After hours of balancing indoor and outdoor light, clouds would float and ruin a shot. Director of photography, Stephen Katz, solved the problem by placing crewmen with walkie talkies on the roof to alert him to approaching clouds."

[riley]

The ransom in the movie is for $10,000,000. Adjusting for inflation this would be a little over $19,000,000 in 2016.

[charlie]

Jim Belushi: Uncredited, as a man on a bus.

[steve]

The movie was filmed from May to July 1988.

[norma]

Harry Crumb's car was a red 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado.

[michele]

Director Paul Flaherty and actor John Candy were alumni of the Canadian sketch comedy improv TV troupe SC-TV (Second City TV) whose work is anthologized in SCTV Network 90.