The Straight Razor in Film

**SH-60Pilot** · 07-24-2008, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by CTnewbie76

There is a scene in Schindler's List where it shows both Schindler and Goeth shaving with straight razors.

I was going to mention that one. Don't know why, but I thought it was one of the best filmed scenes in the movie. I think people always get a little nervous watching those scenes in movies, expecting someone to cut their face, which added to the tension of the movie; but with no accidents and the music playing in the background, the scene had a kind of tranquil elegance that brought out Schindler's sorrow and Goeth's insanity. Great scene juxtaposing two very different and extraordinary, public men performing a mundane and private task.

**Basch** · 07-24-2008, 08:45 AM

Everybody forgot" Hellbound: Hellraiser II"
Celluloid Dreams: Hellbound: Hellraiser II Review

and Dracula?
YouTube - Bram's Stoker's Dracula

**kevint** · 07-24-2008, 10:48 AM

Seven Samurai. Kambei impersonates a priest in order to rescue a child hostage from a desperate thief.

I cannot recall if he shaved his own head or someone did it for him.

**Agoge1** · 07-24-2008, 03:51 PM

At the end of the film The Golden Compass the character played by Daniel Craig (Lord Asriel?) is shown briefly finishing off a shave with a straight, it looks like he is holding it right and at the proper angle to his face. (enough that it made me wonder if he used one in real life) Razor was a proper sized 7/8 , 8/8 whisker wacker as well..........

**Basch** · 07-24-2008, 04:16 PM

the wiki on SR's actually has a filmlisting

Straight razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Adventurer627** · 07-25-2008, 12:45 AM

Also in The Natural in the locker room right before the big game at the end. Pop's using a straight.

**Seraphim** · 07-25-2008, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by smythe

Talk about shaving angle… though not a “movie” I remember a scene in the series The Twilight Zone (the old TZ, season, 3 episode 1 staring Elizabeth Montgomery & Charles Bronson titled “Two”) with Charles shaving himself in an abandoned barber shop… the razor angle was about 90 degrees... and he got BBS too!

Charles Bronson is a tough SOB, he probably could shave with that steep an angle and come out BBS!

**Seraphim** · 07-25-2008, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by fpessanha

Not much a straight razor scene... more a thing about tigers in Africa, but hey! the razor is there... first moments - very good technique!

YouTube - Monty Python - The Meaning of War (Tigers)

**PonderingTurtle** · 07-29-2008, 04:10 PM

High plains drifter has the sceen where clint kills the enforces highered by the town where he is half shaved and sitting in a barbers chair.

**freebird** · 07-29-2008, 06:02 PM

Not sure if it has been mentioned, but "Dark Passage" with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall has a scene where Bogie visits a plastic surgeon who prepares to shave him with a straight. Doesn't show the actual shave, but shows the Dr testing the sharpness as he tells Bogie that if he didn't like someone he could make them look like a "bulldog or a monkey".

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