Thread: Name a movie where someone shaves with a straight razor

not a shave but an appearance and i hope it's not been noted before but in the bombing raid in the film Pearl Harbour where the nurses are moving patients away from the windows one of them, i think the Kate Beckinsale character, gets a straight, i suppose a surgical straight, from he cupboard and cuts down the tractioned arms and legs of the patients

let me know if this doesnt count

ian

Just saw a CSI episode where Grissom gets a shave with a straight from his girlfriend, forget her name.

As for movies, I think Jackie Gleason(playing Minnesota Fats) shaves with one in The Hustler during his first match with "Fast" Eddie Felson(Paul Newman).

I'm pretty sure the Spanish commander in Pan's Labyrinth shaves with a straight. Not sure if it has been mentioned because I did not read through this entire thread.

One of my favorite movies also!

Kirk Douglas in "The War Wagon" gets a straight shave from an Asian bar floosy.

Groucho Marx is caught shaving with a str8 in the opening scene in "Horse Feathers". He makes the comment about another professor's speach - "that speach was as dull as the razor I was using".

Woody Allen shaves with a straight in his film Sleeper. It's a pretty funny scene as he mimics the old Marx brothers mirror sketch.

Originally Posted by jockeys

interestingly enough, that is the russian word for razor. wonder why burgess picked that.

Because all of the slang in A Clockwork Orange is based on Russian.

In the movie Barbershop (2002) Cedric "The Entertainer" teaches others (about 35 mins into the film) how to use the str8 with respect.
Nice film to watch...

Denzel Washington film "The Book of Eli" in two scenes the first with Gary Oldman being shaved and second where Denzel is shaving/being shaved the second is hard to tell but it is a good shot of the razor

ian

Saw an old episode of MASH in passing this afternoon. Col. Potter was lathering up for a shave so I thought I'd check what he was up to.
"Shaved" with a straight with about a 80* angle. Since he was already well into the lather when first into shot I'd bet that a blunt razor was just cleaning the lather off an already shaved face.

No one has mentioned Ride The High Country (my favorite western which happens to be on TCM in an hour!!!)
there are two shaving scenes and a stropping scene