3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt

1964
Unrated
1h 19m

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Tommy Noonan and Mamie Van Doren in 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964)

An out of work Method actor is hired by a male model, an ecdysiast, and a car salesman who live together to save money. They want the actor to listen to their problems and go see a psychiatr... Read allAn out of work Method actor is hired by a male model, an ecdysiast, and a car salesman who live together to save money. They want the actor to listen to their problems and go see a psychiatrist so they can get counseling for cheap. The psychiatrist is intrigued by the split perso... Read allAn out of work Method actor is hired by a male model, an ecdysiast, and a car salesman who live together to save money. They want the actor to listen to their problems and go see a psychiatrist so they can get counseling for cheap. The psychiatrist is intrigued by the split personalities indicated by the three separate sets of problems presented by the actor, and soon... Read all

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Trivia
Although it's still unclear exactly what it means, Mamie Van Doren's baffling sign-off line ("It sure don't taste like tomato juice!") is a take-off on a popular TV commercial (for V-8 tomato juice) of the era. (Clarification: V-8 Juice is red and has the same consistency as tomato juice, so the line from the commercial is [It looks like tomato juice, but] "It sure doesn't taste like tomato juice.")

Connections
Featured in Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)

Soundtracks
I Used To Be a Stripper Down on Main - Now I'm the Main Attraction on the Strip
Lyrics by Doris Sherrell (as Pony Sherrell)
Music by Phil Moody

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1/10

One of the worst "movies" ever thrown together

I'm actually watching it right now. I went to IMDb for information on this disaster to see who to blame and for the first time ever felt compelled to leave a review. I can almost hear the applause from audiences in movie theaters cheering when the film may have broken and caught on fire. I have no idea of who the target audience for this bomb may have been but I suspect there was CIA involvement with ideas of torturing communist spies with it.

Mamie Van Doren was in some genuine clinker movies but this is the most forgettable of them all. The premise is beyond absurd and its execution while being captured on film leaves one with the feeling those responsible for it should have been captured and executed. Save yourself the time and pain of viewing any of it and head straight for YouTube to watch bloody drivers education training films like "Signal 30" that have higher production values and better plots.