Thread: The Straight Razor in Film

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."

Originally Posted by scruffy

Crocodile Dundee comes to mind.

OK, that should read Riker not Rider. Sorry my tpying si bad.

Originally Posted by leadduck

Actually, Rider is shaved by Diana (sigh!) while they're both in the bathtub. Now that's the way to shave!

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.

Red

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.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I accept your challenge.
Starting tonight, I will watch all the Bond movies (or until I find that scene) within the length of one standard weekend.

Saturday + Sunday + Friday night = 24 + 24 + 12 = 60 hours / 21 movies

It's going to be hard, but I'm going to try.

Edit: I have to wait till the weekend; I have class Wed night...

Be sure to check with your doctor/analyst first , I would hate to see you over do it. Dammit! Now I'm going to have that damn Bond tune going thru my head all day.

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!")

One of my favorite Alfred Hitchc0ck episodes. A classic. It's based on a short story which wasn't nearly as good as the AH production.

Originally Posted by ebxr

Young Peter Fonda played impoverished Verge Likens in "The Alfred Hitch**** Hour" TV show back in 1964. Likens becomes a barber, so he can induce a fatal heart attack while giving a scary straight razor shave to a wealthy, powerful heart patient who got away with killing Likens' father.

Local authorities try but fail to charge Likens with murder, because the expertly shaved corpse, with eyes wide open, is completely unharmed.

It's been a few years since I last saw this episode, but if memory serves, I recall young Fonda doing all the honing, stropping and shaving techniques perfectly.

Plot summary for "The Alfred Hitch**** Hour"
Return of Verge Likens (1964)
Starring Peter Fonda


"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" Return of Verge Likens (1964) - Plot summary

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.

Originally Posted by Lunumbra

"The Untouchables" has Robert De Niro as Al Capone being shaved with a straight. Capone startles at one point and as a result the barber nicks him. There is the shot of the barber's face in a look of horror as he thinks he is going to be killed.

Lunumbra

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.