Bridge at Remagen(1969) In an opening battle scene George Segal's unit has just defeated some Germans. Segal is shaving with a straight razor one handed with a metal mirror in the other hand. complete one pass shave in 5 minutes.
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Bridge at Remagen(1969) In an opening battle scene George Segal's unit has just defeated some Germans. Segal is shaving with a straight razor one handed with a metal mirror in the other hand. complete one pass shave in 5 minutes.
Sleeper by Woody Allen has a scene where he shaves with a straight while his reflection moves differently similar to the classic Marx brothers scene.
In the opening scene of The Great Debators a man pulls out a straight to attack another man. He says, "I'm gonna cut off yo head!"
I just caught what may very well be the best straight razor scene ever! In the musical Night and Day in which Cary Grant plays Cole Porter (I didn't catch the beginning as I was merely surfing), in a mansion around a Christmas tree as folks were exchanging gifts a fully bearded gent is holding a handful of razors says, "Every Christmas I receive four or five razors. This year, seven."
Then Cary Grant hands him another and says, "Here, make it eight."
"In the Time of the Butterflies" Salma Hayek giver her father a straight shave as he lies in bed after being ruffed up. Don't let the title throw you off this was a rather good movie about the Dominican Republic and its fight for independence. On a personal note- lucky son of a gun!
Serg
A film called, "The Savage is Lose" in which George C. Scott, his wife and their young son are marooned on an island shows Scott shaving straight style with a pair of scissors. Good luck, George!
I just caught a scene in a 1948 movie called, "I Remember Mama." Papa is stropping his razor with the strop hooked over the door of the oven as they think about how to tell their daughter they chloroformed the cat. Good form except if I saw what I think I saw, it looked like he was turning the blace on the edge instaed of the spine. You'd think in 1948, he'd have known better.
The Hungarian movie Sose Halunk Meg (translation: We Never Die) has a scene where the two main characters visit a barber shop. The younger guy is being preped by a woman for a shave ... you also see her strop the razor etc. Great movie!
khat
I saw part of a documentary in class on Wednesday, Moro no Brasil. It is a Finnish guy that goes to Brazil in search of Samba.
They have a quick scene, no more than 5 seconds where in an outdoor barbershop, a Brazilian is getting a Straight shave.
in Repo! The Genetic Opera
the lead character Shiloh plays with a straight razor in her room. BONUS: i zoomed way in, and it's a Double Arrow!
In the "Crossfire Trail," Tom Selleck walks into a barber shop in need of a "Bath and a shave." The barber says, "Shave first, no use getting blood on a clean body."
How about Family Guy from this past Sunday, when the guys go over to shave Quagmire's cat with a straight. It doesn't go so well, for most of the cat's lives :chop:
In Gran Torino, right before the final confrontation, Clint Eastwood readies himself by getting a haircut from his good barber friend. At the end of the cut, he asks his friend if he could give him a straight shave. Kind of taken aback, his friend tells him he'll go heat up a towel.
Although you never actually see a razor or even a strop, it's all a sweet implication. I'm sure IRL Clint Eastwood doesn't shave with a straight razor. He probably uses a God-awfully sharp machete or bowie knife.
In one of the Jason Bourne movies Bourne fights a guy in an apartment in Morocco. The fight progresses into a small bathroom where a straight is picked up by his attacker and he defends himself with a towel! really great fight scene. :jedi:
Funny you should mention that! I was shaving the other night and had the TV in the bedroom on. Some show was on that had something to do with WWII and Nazis (only caught the voices). At the time I was using a razor I'd just bought on Ebay, that was allegedly a "war take-home" from Germany, and I'd just finished cleaning and sharpening it and was doing a test shave with it. I started wondering if maybe it had been used by a soldier who was a Nazi that had maybe done bad things and all that - and that if i nicked myself would some supernatural stuff come racing into my bloodstream... About that time I DID nick myself :gaah: and decided screw this! And went for a new Dovo. I really need to keep my imagination in check when I'm shaving! :-)
Everyone remembers the camp fire scene, but Gene Wilder shaves with a straight in Blazing Saddles.
Just saw a man use a straight in the very beginning of the Swedish film Ådalen 31 (Ã…dalen 31 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) from 1969 about the Ådalen shootings (Ã…dalen shootings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
i just watched Sweeney Todd, i thought would be a good film but they all stropped on bent strops blade first and spine up grrrrrrr ruined the whole film for me, and he dropped his razor on a stone floor
lol, the new sweeny todd with johnny depp is stupid, its for girls into musicals. the old made for tv one with ben kingsley, a horror instead of a musical, si much more realistic and just a better movie.
YouTube - Money Mike Going For The Blade/Get Rape (Scene) LOL, "you never know what this might be good for, might wanna shave; might wanna shave somebody else"
that always crazks me up ,trying to use a SR as a weapon
Ha, ive been waitin for an excuse to add that clip :P
nasty Nick:
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as u can see,its no teeny-bopper musical, kingsley made a great sweeny todd, this movie was wicked, that new one really disapppointede me, this is one of my all time favs.
*sorry thats the only pic i can find thats from the movie instead of the cover, im in the works of sending a VHS copy to someone so they can convert it to dvd for me
Ouch! Man, that's hurts!
I enjoyed the Tim Burton version of Sweeney Todd. Having said that, I also enjoy Theatre and Musicals, in general. I appreciated the artistic license that Depp/Burton brought to the tale. Even if it was different that other versions of the original story...I like to think of it like the story Beowulf...
The original story of Beowulf cannot be found...or at least, can't be decided. It's one of those stories that has been told and retold and retold by many generations and slightly skewed/altered each time. I, personally, enjoy that aspect of it. When I watched to recent installment of the Beowulf story, I was immediately upset that they changed the story. Then I watched to behind-the-scenes making-of stuff and really came to appreciate that the screenwriters knew the original story, but wanted to tell Beowulf as they saw it, or wanted to see it. It's like when I tell my children stories of my father...the fish was 3 feet long and weighed in at over a thousand pounds!
I do rather enjoy musicals, too. Singing Theatre was one of the earliest forms of the Performing Arts, and I'm glad it's still being honored today, even if the audience is on a much grandier scale.
Just my opinion
-Derek
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So I come home from work and my wife shows me this picture. "Does shaving with a straight razor make you look like this?"
If only, if only.
Another obscure find - Roman Polanski's 1965 black & white movie "Repulsion" starring a very young Catherine Deneuve. We have a glimpse of a straight shave, a shaving brush (I have one just like it on the Wall of Shame) but then the razor gets abused - to chop off a rabbit's head (don't worry, it was dead) and to solve a problem with the landlord (he wasn't dead, at least, not at the start of the scene....).
Chris
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but in "Child's Play", Chucky cut's the barbers throat with a straight.
Also, I think it's "Babe" where the farmer uses a straight to shave with.
Didn't look to see if it's already in here, but there's a shave at the beginning of Our Man Flint
Cain shaves with a straight razor (not correctly) in Tin Man (the wizard of oz remake)
Memorial Weekend is always pretty good for SR shaving. A lot of WWI and WWII films get shown with the occasional SR shave. I watched a fair number this weekend, noticed a few, but didn't keep track.
In "Gran Torino" Clint asks his barber pal for a striaght shave, but it never is actually shown.
The movie Casper has Eric Idle about to be shaved by two straight razors.
The Postman
The Postman (1997)
One of the badguys has a razor, some girl nearly cuts Kevins head off with it! :O
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
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.