Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace

I'm going to preface this review by saying that I'm a big fan of Lee Demarbre's movies. I have two of them in my personal collection ("Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy" and "Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter").

Having said that, I hated "Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace". I appreciate the fact that it was shot on about $40,000, however I felt that the story essentially had no plot, seemed to change direction continuously, and had many scenes which did NOTHING to advance anything other than my confusion at what was going on. I kept asking myself: "how is this relevant to the story?" and by the end it became quite apparent that much of it was irrelevant. This is unlike Demarbre's other movies which have a clear plot and progress towards the end with purpose in most scenes.

This added up to a movie with a LONG running time (almost two hours) that felt even longer. What this movie really needed was some good editing to tighten things up. If it was one hour long, to remove much of the irrelevant matter, then it might have been much better.

It did have its comedic moments, the ridiculous fight scenes are priceless as always and Demarbre does have a knack for the comedic absurd, but they weren't nearly enough to make up for such a direction less mess.

Finally, as another failed saving grace, like in Demarbre's other movies, the music was fantastic.

I cannot recommend this movie to anybody.