"Mary! Mary!"  (5/5)

Mary is frustrated with her husband, Ned.  A discontent not built upon his lack of attention toward her because his hands are always all over here succulent body and certainly not because of his promiscuity as Mary joins right into the fun with him.  No.  The problem with Ned lies in his loins as he a consistent premature ejaculator.  Mary won't ever leave him for churning out butter to early, but their sex life suffers when Mar goes unsatisfied.  After one very short romp session, Ned yells out to the world for help and to his surprise, he gets a response from a mysterious stranger who is willing to help Ned with his problem in exchange for his soul.  Without much consideration, Ned jumps at the opportunity and from that point on, he can't suppress his sexual appetite, jumping into encounters between his wife and his secretary and into an orgy party, but soon, the mysterious stranger will come collect what's rightfully owed to him. 

"Mary! Mary!" is the 1977 fantasy adult comedy from writer-director Bernard Morris as his sole credited film.  "Mary! Mary!" is an unremitting porn encased by a supernatural element, a devil's contract type aspect, that becomes the one-and-done motivator for Ned's marathon mixers.  A whimsical premise that on a broader scale seems like every other stag film to date; however, Morris's one and only opus just flat out seemed different.  Perhaps because "Mary! Mary!" didn't pussy foot too much around the supernatural portion.  Or maybe because there wasn't too much sugar coating the already salty and sweaty sex?  Or better yet, what made the film stand out was the excellent car chase sequence, something you rarely come across in adult films.

Though titled after one the characters, John Leslie is essentially the star as the early off-loader Ned.  Leslie been around for two-to-three years prior to this film, but the humping hall of fame porn star is still young in 1978, looking fairly unrecognizable until the camera gets a closeup of his face...not his cock.  Opposite Leslie is the fire-crotch Constance Money as the titular character.  Money didn't have a lavish career, but she makes a name for herself in Morris's film in a memorable, if not bizarre, scene of her and co-star John Leslie engaged in mystery meat foreplay during an orbiting romantic dinner setting.  Things get juicy due to Ned's endless supply of hormones and the main course becomes sexually assaulted in the midst of the action!  The two have another hot scene as they make a splash copulating in a pool during the film's opening credits.  Sharon Thorpe gets to share Leslie fairly equally as Ned's blowjob loving secretary, Jane.  The rest of the lineup includes Jon Martin ("Oriental Baby Sitter"), Sandy Pinney, Angela Haze, Ken Scudder, Rene Bond, and Andrew as The Arranger.

The Arranger is something like the Devil, but the character's highly cryptic being a free spirited, dancing hippie-like with a habit of slowly practicing kung fu in sun induced shadows and making slick deals with verbal contracts to help those less fortunate with their manhood.  Instead of signing a legal document, all Ned needs to do, as his John Hancock, is to either ingest a paste or just simply rub it on his penis.  As soon as Mary does this for him, boooooooing!  His trouser snake whips straight up, hard, and ready for action.  For anyone who uses the paste, such as used as icing overtop a penis shaped cake, those souls will be owed to The Arranger whose looking to collect what is contractually his at the end of the romp as he dances around their naked, entangled bodies that progress like a runaway freight train toward sex-to-death.

Audio/Video (4.5/5)

"Mary! Mary!" is top shelf Vinegar Syndrome Patrón with a newly scanned and restored in 2k transfer from the original 35mm camera negative and presented in a widescreen, 1.85:1 aspect ratio.  The two disc DVD and Blu-ray combo pack flexes it's muscles that, aside from the light blemish and grain of the natural film degradation, "Mary! Mary!" is the epitome of sharp, clean, and vibrancy image.  Natural skin coloring render nicely, and glistens with sheen sweat. 

The audio aspect features a single channel English DTS-HD Master Audio sizes appropriately beyond limited ranges.  Clear and crisp dialogue from the actors and actresses provide well-defined depth and range during conversation and copulations.  The revs and screeches of the car chase register cleanly with unblemished quality and the soundtrack, including also the bongo drums at the orgy climax, provide a bit of girth to the adult fantasy. 

Extras (0.5/5)

With such a unique and outlandish release, "Mary! Mary!" comes with little and very disappointing bonus material that only includes the original theatrical trailer and reversible cover artwork.

Overall

"Mary! Mary!" highly eroticizes a super-charged, sexually-fueled adult comedy of juggernaut proportions.  Vinegar Syndrome did right by director Bernard Morris in giving his only child an upgraded rebirth release worthy of space in any collector's spank collection.  Even with some slight downside in the bonus features department, "Mary! Mary!" has extremely high repeat value from the blanketed weird hippie subculture of peace and love that's shrouded by mysticism and greediness and all baked into one giant dick cake of perpetual screwing.  Recommended.