If you're thinking of the scene where he's shaving with a DE and switches when he sees he's being watched, that's not a razor. As Dundee himself would say, "Now that's a kinfe."
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did somebody already mention escape from New York? i don't know if it counts as prominent but at the very end when the president is getting cleaned up to go on camera and snake it talking to him there is a guy shaving the president with a straight razor.
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This is not exactly a straight scene, but in Pitch Black, Riddick shaves his head with some Gucci knife. And in the Chronicles or Riddick he is supposed to be shaving 5 years of hair and beard off with a knife again, though the shots don't show you anything.
in the cartoon Futurama, straight razors are used on more than one occasion, albeit only by the old characters.
in "That's Lobstertainment" Harold Zoid (Zoidberg's uncle) uses a razor in a silent-film era comedy (a clear parody of WC Fields) to shave a customer, with tragic and hilarious results.
in "The Problem with Popplers" Prof. Farnsworth strops a razor (more or less correctly, for a cartoon) in anticipation of using it to vivisect a poppler's brain. ("Restrain the specimen!")
There is a scene in Schindler's List where it shows both Schindler and Goeth shaving with straight razors.
In a made-for-TV-movie called, "Frank Nittie, The Enforcer," Nitti wakes up Capone with a barrel of ice water. When Capone asks why he shouldn't kill him, Nitti (who was a barber before a crime boss) says something about making friends instead of enemies and then says, "But just in case, I carry a razor in my pocket." We see Nitti at the barber shop shaving a customer earlier.
Over the 4th of July weekend there was a Twilight Zone marathon. The only episode I caught had Chalres Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery (from Bewitched) as the apparent last two post-apocalyptic survivors. Bronson shaved in a bombed out barber shop with a straight.