Robert Cain (brewer) his mother's maiden name is listed as Mary Kirk (died 1864). The story of the life of Robert Cain and Cains Brewery is told in Christopher Routledge's 2008 history of the brewery, "Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint", which unpicks many of the mythologies that have developed around the Cain family. Many of these mythologies seem to date back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Cain's sons William Cain and Charles Nall-Cain were given titles in the British honours system, and centre on the idea that the brewery's founder had a background in the Irish gentry. Such a
Syd Cain the titles. For "From Russia with Love", Cain designed a $150,000 set for a chess match which repeated the "chess pawn" motif throughout the room. He worked on a number of James Bond movies creating numerous gadgets. Cain's name appears in documents in several films on which he worked. In "Our Man in Havana" where he was assistant art director his name features on the blueprints of a vacuum cleaner. Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" features an in-joke of a racing form featuring the horse Jon Finch is to bet on is owned by a "Mrs S. Cain". Cain was married three