Mary, Mary

MARY, MARY is so-so. At over two hours, it's been padded out, and there is nothing slower than a comedy where the jokes don't play. Breen's adaptation should have sliced some of the excesses, instead of adding to them. It isn't much more than a movie of the play, and that would have been all right except that the actors seemed to be waiting for laughs. The editing was awful, and they even cut from one person to another in the middle of a punch line, a definite no-no. The picture was released while Kerr's play was still making money on the New York stage as well as on tour, and it's a fairly foolproof work in the mouths of the right actors. Nelson is a newly divorce...