Thread: The Straight Razor in Film

Originally Posted by Basch

the wiki on SR's actually has a filmlisting

Straight razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They also now have a link to SRP

There is a scene in Prison Break where an inmate has his head shaved with a straight (season 3).

In the film Rounders, Ed Norton and Matt Damon were getting shaved simultaneously. It looked like genuine barbers doing a genuine shave.

Several times in the Sherlock Holmes BBC dramatization a straight razor makes an appearance (as shown by my avatar)

there is a scene in the film Cross of Iron where James Coburns' character corporal Schnieder is shaving in this dugout on the eastern front. Looks like he does know how to use one for real.


Cheers

Gordon

Caught the tail end of a striaght shave in Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"

Originally Posted by heelerau

there is a scene in the film Cross of Iron where James Coburns' character corporal Schnieder is shaving in this dugout on the eastern front. Looks like he does know how to use one for real.


Cheers

Gordon

Its Stiener, Not schnieder! Sorry, but its my favorite war movie, I get a little testy! And it looks like he does it for real. Also I believe Maximllan Schells character does a shave in it as well, but I would have to check to be sure.

In the movie The Water Horse: Legend of the deep (released in 2007), there is a short clip of a man shaving with a straight razor.

Originally Posted by kevint

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.

The priest he impersonates did the shave for him.

There is also Lee Marvin in The Professionals. He does a very good multipass job.

No body mentioned the obviously fake job by Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles.

I remember Gary Cooper shaving with a straight razor in the film, The Naked Edge" and after shaving Debra Kerr wipes off the razor.

Also in the TV series Mc Cloud, Dennis Weaver uses a straight razor.

I remember one scene from the Kung Fu series where a straight razor is used.

In my favorite WWII movie, Army of Shadows, the underground leader escapes from the Nazis and duck into a barber shop where he receives a shave and assistance from the barber.