Thread: The Straight Razor in Film

Just watched the DVD of Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, a great movie.

In the middle of the movie James Coburn's character Sgt Steiner is in his platoon's squalid bunker on the russian front and shaves with a prop straight razor (the angle was wrong for it to be real, but not as obvious and glaring as the infamous Schindler's List shaving scene).

If you've got Netflix I strongly suggest you put this one in your queue, bad straight scene notwithstanding.

Just watched "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" (not a bad movie for kids, and grown-ups also), and saw Ben Chaplin "pretending" to shave with a straight...

Sorry to bump this ol' thread, but there was a great scene in the last episode of Mad Men about shaving.

Don and Roger have a barbershop appointment set by Cooper, and Don gets a nice shave. They show a straight cutting some whiskers for a brief moment, then he gets a splash of aftershave and a massage. Later his wife goes, "Oooh, smooth." and his smiling response is, "I got a shave."

I meant to go back to see if I could read any markings on the razor but I forgot and deleted it off my DVR. Maybe I'll download it to see.

Great episode, btw!

Once upon a time in the west has a straight scene with Jason Robards. One of the best movies ever made.
beautiful scene with the razor ,,he even nicks himself :P

Originally Posted by commiecat

Sorry to bump this ol' thread, but there was a great scene in the last episode of Mad Men about shaving.

Don and Roger have a barbershop appointment set by Cooper, and Don gets a nice shave. They show a straight cutting some whiskers for a brief moment, then he gets a splash of aftershave and a massage. Later his wife goes, "Oooh, smooth." and his smiling response is, "I got a shave."

I meant to go back to see if I could read any markings on the razor but I forgot and deleted it off my DVR. Maybe I'll download it to see.

Great episode, btw!

Why apologize for bumping this thread? Considering this thread is a list, a compilation it requires "bumping" in order to serve its intended purpose. What it really needs is to be tabulated by someone who can do those clerical functions. If we could come up with an Excel spread sheet with fields for Title, Year, Director, and whatever else is deemed pertinent we can perform various statistical analyses.

Brad

Gentlemen,

In the 1958 film "Some Came Running," starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, there is a scene in which Dean Martin is shaving with a straight razor, wearing his cowboy hat.

The film is based on the novel by James Jones about being disillusioned of life. Martin plays the role of a gambler who never removes his cowboy hat, even when shaving.

Regards,

Obie

dont know if it has been said yet but Blazing Saddles had a part with Gene Wilder using a straight razor. he used it at a 90deg angle on his chin going side to side it made me squirm seeing it.

My favorite straight scene was when Clint got a shave in "High Plains Drifter" from the shakiest barber in the west.

JERRY
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Do ya think Johny Depp realy knows how to stropp???
Maybe he was told to do it wrong in Sweeny Todd for poetic liscence??
The strop sounded like 80 grit sandpaper to me.

Doesn't Antonio Banderas use a straight in Desperado? It's been a while since I've seen it.