Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

b_kite Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cain teams up with a colorful preacher/bounty hunter, and hunts down his family's killers one at a time.The first half hour of Cain's Cutthroats is pretty violent and grim, we get a army payroll wagon robbery were a soldier gets his hand cut off followed by the rest getting brutally gun down, Then we get a pretty rough rape murder of a woman and a child gets gun down. Following this the film sets into a pretty run of the mill revenge b western. The two main men here Brady and Carradine are both great in there roles. Robert Dix and Darwin Joston aren't to bad either, but, the rest of the cast are pretty amateurish. You will also not find any happy endings with this film as well, and thats one of my main issues. As the film progresses they try to paint Brady as a impending bad guy a man overwhelmed with paranoid lust for killing these men. But, anyone who watches that first half hour knows they defiantly get whats coming to them, another weird thing here is how they keep referring to Brady's wife as black even tho she is very much white?. Director Ken Osbourne worked on a couple of b-movies before this including some with notorious b director Al Adamson, most of the cast and crew seem to have worked in "Five Bloody Graves" (1969). The late Don Epperson who also starred in the film and died shortly after sings one of the films three songs. There's also another version of this film called "Cain's Way" which has footage of a biker gang terrorizing people in modern time over the opening credits.

Wizard-8 Even if you are as big a western addict like I am, I can't imagine that you'd find "Cain's Cutthroats" entertaining; it's not even entertaining on a so-bad-it's good level. For starters, it's painfully obvious that the so-called budget was brutally low - among other aspects, the costumes look cheap and amateurish, and there is a minimum of props and set dressings. I guess the movie could still have succeeded under those circumstances, but there are other bad things that get in the way of it. The musical score is strident and too contemporary for a western. The acting (except maybe for John Carradine's) is lazy and amateurish. The direction tries to be rough, but comes across as crude and heavy-handed. The worst problem, however, is the script. It takes a third of the movie to set up the situation and characters, and it unfolds both at a slow pace and with important information missing here and there. The screenplay does come up with a somewhat unexpected ending, but it's too little too late. Only for Carradine fans who have wanted to see their idol wearing a dress in one scene.

rixrex Good revenge Western with Scott Brady on the hunt for the 6 men who killed his wife and son, and burned his home, shot him and left him for dead. Thing is that they used to be Confederate soldiers under his command. They are now thieves, killers and they want to be mercenaries, but he refuses to lead them, for good reason, and that turns them against him, plus they're not happy that he has a black wife.After they take off, he's saved from death by John Carradine as a self-ordained minister who's also a "Dead or Alive" bounty hunter who, rather than bring in a whole body, only brings in the head, to collect the bounty, keeping them pickled in a barrel. Grisly yet humorous.Brady shows no hesitation in slaughtering the renegades, and why should he? They killed his wife and son with no remorse. Even in situations when he could let some of them them live, he won't. He's so intent that eventually the bounty hunter even questions his motives. Regardless, we root for him to succeed. Plenty of good gunshot violence and shoot-out scenes.The renegades are certainly a group of morons and imbeciles, and the smart Brady is more than they can handle. This is a public domain title that isn't too hard to find, and well worth it

tla.baio Cain's Cutthroats is a fast paced and violent western worth seeking out. It is the story of an ex-Confederate army captain named Justiss Cain who is one day visited by his ex-gang of thieves and killers who served with him during the Civil War. The gang has hopes of Cain joining them in order to "give it to those blue belly yankees." When Cain (who has changed for the better since the war) refuses, it leads to a fight which ends with his family being killed and him being left for dead. Once Cain is nursed back to health by a preacher/bounty hunter passing by, the hunt is on for the gang. For Cain it is revenge he seeks. For the preacher, it is the reward money to be gained!The performances by the cast are fine. The actors playing the gang do a very good job of making the audience root against them. John Carradine is probably the most memorable as the preacher. He is funny, witty and at times very crazy! The action scenes, although well handled, are a bit excessive due to some very bloody exit gunshot wounds. As for the ending, although satisfying and just, I found it too abrupt. Fans of rare westerns will want to seek out this little known oddity and also the Barry Shear film, The Deadly Trackers; which Cain's Cutthroats reminded me of. Happy Hunting!!