The Cut-Throats. John Hayes, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included in Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray set #235, 5 Films • 5 Years Vol 4: Horror and Exploitation, released 2018; also released in 2015 as DVD #080. English language. Runtime approximately 76 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 1.5/5❤
The script for The Cut-Throats contains about one page of dialogue, all of it explaining that a Nazi outpost must be raided. When da ’Throats arrive at this previously mentioned run-down administrative building at a poorly attended state park, it turns out to be a bar-and-brothel where average-looking women provide unerotic massage to Nazi officers, and one cute girl wears clown makeup. The handful of Nazis are killed. The end. There is no aspect of acting, props, story, costumes, or sets that can be recalled five minutes after viewing. Except the clown makeup.
And the cowpoke Jimmy Johnson.
Trivia Time! What movie opens with a prolonged still shot of a painting of a cowboy practicing with his lariat, while the mournful song “Ballad of Jimmy Johnson” tells the story of a cowpoke gone to war?
Need a hint? The film begins with G.I. Jimmy Johnson practicing with his lariat in a German forest. He encounters a Nazi on the road and is thusly killed four minutes into the movie.
Give up? Well, the completely unrelated story of The Cut-Throats then takes over, having no association with or reference to Jimmy Johnson, cowboys, or the Road Nazi scene. The only explanation I can think of is that the production house accidentally burned the titles over incorrect cowboy artwork and music, and it would have cost more to reburn the credits than to shoot the short skit about Jimmy Johnson.