If I remeber right in the Dirty Dozen there were a couple of scenes where they where shaving with straights.
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If I remeber right in the Dirty Dozen there were a couple of scenes where they where shaving with straights.
In "Cross of Iron," I believe James Coburn shaves with a straight razor.
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Who could forget the barber shop scene in the beginning of 'High Plains Drifter' with of course Clint Eastwood.
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Bridge on the River Kawi - William Holden
The Naked Edge - Gary Cooper
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison - Robert Mitchum
Ride the Pink Horse - Robert Montgomery
Check out Pink Horse at Yammering Magpie Cinema and Noir of the Week sites.
This is one of the most underated Noir films of all times. It is strange to see Dr. Marcu Welby as a WW2 GI bent on revenge, with Fedora, .45 Auto, tough hardboiled lingo and he uses a straight. Good movie.
Lawrence Fishburne in Bad Company (1995).
I still like the scene in Fahrenheit 451 where Julie Christie Gives Oskar Werner a straight as a replacement for his 'lectric claiming it's the latest thing. She then tosses the 'lectric in the trash.
The Warriors, 1979, a small unknown gang called the Orphans, threatens the warriors with a str8. The leader of the orphans says something like this; " See warriors, this is what you get, when you mess with the Orphans!' As he says this, he is holding up a str8.
I can't believe I saw this one last night. I had the honor of watching "Peter Pan" the original Disney classic with my youngest Grandson. There was a scene in the film where Mr.Smeed was getting Captain Hook ready for the day and put a wet towel over Hook's face and a seagull landed on the towel and Mr. Smeed lathered up the rump of the seagull and shaved him BBS.
My Grandson said: "Grampa, he has a razor just like you." LOL. My chest swelled with pride knowing that my buddy noticed.
There was a scene in Gilligan's Island where the Skipper is shaving with a straight. How else could they look so well groomed after all those years on the island? Maybe the Professor found something to hone it with on the other side of the island!:y
With all of these posts I'm surprised no one picked up on Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. It is amusing to watch Robinson playing gangster Johnny Rocco talking non stop while one of his underlings shaves him with a straight.
IIRC Bogie also gets a barber shop shave in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. One of the greatest films made IMO. If you've not seen it do yourself a favor and Key Largo too.
Only shows the warriors didn't have a SRPer in their ranks, cause that would have continued "Wow! What is that? Is it a Dubl Duck? Sweet scales! How does it shave?" and orphans would have ended up disarmed with a wad of cash and very perplexed expression. =)
Not a movie, but in the U.S tv serie 'Rescue me' there an episode (can't remember which season) where chief Reilly (Jack McGee) uses straight.
If you guys have never seen it "Eastren Promises"
I implore you to so so. The best movie Ive seen since Goodfellas. A straight is used in the first scene. Also Mickey Rourke uses one on on a fat guy in "Angel Heart". As for shaving, Schindlers List has two guys use a 90degree angle to scrape their faces.
Sean Penn uses a straight in the movie Casualties of War.
In the movie House of 1000 Corpses,there is some straight razor usage. However, I wouldn't personally recommend their technique.
"The Ranger the Cook and a Hole In the Sky"
I can't remember right now but I think that Carey Grant uses one in It Happened One Night.
Dean Martin gets shaved in Rio Bravo. And Uncle Fester gets his head shaved with a straight in The Adams Family.
There was a movie which came out in 1965 called, "The Wild Seed" a little known movie in which Michael Parks stars in his first film. Produced by Marlon Brando and Harry Dean Stanton is also featured. The plot is about a young girl in NYC who runs away from her foster parents to find her real father in LA. Enroute she meets up with Parks and they ride hobo to the west coast.
In the shaving scene Parks is sitting by a creek and shaving himself with a razor blade.
The critics called this film an "Artsy Little Drama.
Parks went on the film, Bus Rileys Back in Town with Ann Margret. Check her out in a whilte E Jag with that red hair flowing in the breeze.
Later Parks was in the TV series, Then Came Bronson.
If you get a chance to see any of his early movies do so. He is a very underated actor.
Last night I saw the "Guns of Navarone" on Turner Classic Movies. It's been quite a while since I last saw that movie, but there is a scene near its climax in which the team of saboteurs is preparing for their final assault on the guns in which both the characters portrayed by Anthony Quinn (Stavros )and Stanley Baker ("The Bucher of Barcelona") are shaving with str8 razors.
Malcolm McDowell's character, Mick Travers, uses one to shave off a forbidden moustache in "If," which is a great movie, but I imagine it doesn't get shown much anymore, because what was then a fantasy has, sadly, become reality in this country and others.
Hello, aragornelessar86:
It's been a while since I have seen the movie It Happened One Night. There might have been a straight shaving seen in that, but I don't remember.
The 1935 Frank Capra movie, however, stars Clark Gable, who is paired with Claudette Colbert. It's a delightful movie.
Regards,
Obie
Oh, I don't have the time now to read the entire post. Did anybody mention Pan's Labyrinth?
A dude shaves with a big knife in The Fifth Element. Just saw it today...
Tom Cruise uses one in Valkyrie. One handed, after losing a hand in the war.
Ethan Hawk- GATTACA, opening scene.
Don't know if it's covered yet, but Both Denzel and Gary oldman used straights in Book of Eli (saw it last weekend)
No, this is not another film with Lee Marvin shaving with a straight, this is one where he is shaved by Clint Eastwood. In the funniest, most manly musical ever made 1969 Paint Your Wagon. This is the scene where Lee (Ben Rumpsin) is being prepped by Clint (Pardner) for his newly purchased bride, played by Jean Seberg (WOOWOO!!!). With onlooking audience, Pardner shaves his hung-over/drunk partner and flings the suds off to the side. I've seen this movie a thousand times and never noticed this till last week.
did anyone mention the bourne ultimatum? matt damon almost gets shaved.. but ended up choking the guy out with a bath towell.
My Name is Nobody
Both Henry Fonda and Terrence Hill get a shave. They both find a way to make sure the don't get nicked... or even killed...
Jackson's King Kong.
The chef shaves a sailor in the kitchen and accidentally dips the brush into porridge instead of the bowl beside it and continues rubbing the porridge to his face . Not actual shaving is shown, but the chef seems to be holding a razor.
The Vampires assistant. Salma Hayek shaves her beard off at the Cirque De Freak.
also.. the last season of dexter had john lithgow as a serial killer who used a straight on several occasions.. first showing he slices a woman femoral artery in a bathtub
Yea, you know I've noticed that before but it never quite clicked untill you put it like that. I believe I have your answer. It's Hollywood (unless it was a Spaghetti Western); but in the interest of preserving the storylines we'll say they where starting a 3rd pass. Sound good?
(Edited) OOPS, just noticed somebody already said that. Well, two great mimes wink alike, or something like that.
There is also an old western with a character named Frenchy—not The Cotton Club. It was a terribly made gold mining movie in the vain of Paint your Wagon, I almost think they where trying to make a knockoff of it. In the movie the underhanded, scum bag Frenchy carries a straight razor hung around his neck on a rope throughout the whole movie. In one scene he is going to fight a man and the guy insists that Frenchy remove the razor before he will fight. I can't find any references to it. Thought the movie was poorly directed anyway IMO.
I was going to post saying that someone should compile all the movies listed and then thought, why pawn the hard work onto someone else. I thought it would be nice to have a list, at least out of my curiosity. I had no idea when I began, what an undertaking I had assigned myself to. After about an hour and still not able to see an end to the pages it was one of those "I've already swam halfway, why turn back" things. Then I pulled up the earlier post which was even longer. Anyway.
Maybe we should include Lynn's video. Sure it's not a movie, but it's a film; and as far as I'm concerned Pumping Iron isn't a movie either.
So here is the complete list (thus far). I included actor's names where provided in the posts and did a little additional background. It would be nice to have names and dates for all of them, but time permitting. . . maybe someone else can complete the list.
Movies
Ådalen
Apocalypse Now—Marlin Brando
African Queen—Humphrey Bogart (1951)
African Queen—Sam Houston (2004)
After the Thin Man—William Powell
Angel Heart—Mickey Rourke
Babe
Barber Shop—W.C. Fields
Bad Company—Lawrence Fishburne
Band of Brothers
Barry Lyndon
Big Jake
Big Red—Lee Marvin
Bitter Moon—Peter Coyote
Blazing Saddles—Gene Wilder
Book of Eli—Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman
Bourne Identity
Bram Stokers Dracula—Keanu Reeves
Breaker Morant
Bridge at Remagen—Gourge Segal
Bridge On the River—William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Bridge Over the River—William Holden
Broken Arrow—Jimmy Stewart
Buffy the Vampire Slayer—Luke Perry
Captains Courageos
Casper—Eric Idle
Casualties of War—Sean Pen
Chato's Land—Jack Palance
Child's Play
Chinatown—Jack Nicholson
Christmas Carol (1939)
City Slickers—Jack Palance
Clockwork Orange
Color Purple —Woopie Goldberg
Comancheros—John Wayne
Cotton Club, The—
Cross of Iron—James Coburn
Crossfire Trail—Tom Sellec
Cow with a Broken Lee, The
Dances With Wolves
Dark Passage—Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Death Rides a Horse—Lee Van Cleef
Dirty Deeds
Dirty Dozen
Dodge City—Errol Flynn
Dumb and Dumber
Dreased to Kill—Angie Dickenson
Eastern Promises
Empire of the Sun—John Malkovich
Escape from New Youk—Lee Van Cleef, Curt Russell (too many others)
Event Horizon—Sam Neil
Fahrenheit 451
First Blood—Silvester Stalone
Frank Nittie (Made for TV Movie)
Gangs of New York—Leonardo Dicaprio
Gattaca—Eathan Hawk
Godfather, The
Golden Compass
Grand Torino—Clint Eastwood
Great Debators, The
Great Dictator, The—Charlie Chaplin
Great Race, The—Tony Curtis
Green Mile, The
Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan
Guns of Navarone, The—Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker
Haven Knows Mr. Allison—Robert Mitchum
He Walks By Night
Heroes
High Plains Drifter—Clint Eastwood
High Tension
Hoarse Feathers—Marx Brothers
House of 1000 Corpses
I Remember Mama
If—Malcolm McDowell
Il Capo dei Capi
In Cold Blood
In the Realm of the Senses
In the Time of the Butterflies—Salma Hayek
It Happened One Night—Carey Grant
It's a Great Feeling—Doris Day, Gary Cooper, Ronald Regan
James Bond, The Living Daylights—Timothy Dalton
K-19 The Widowmaker
Key Largo—Humphre Bogart, Edward G. Robinson
King Kong (2005)
l'age dor (a Salvador Dali/Luis Buenel film)
La Gloire mon Père
Last Tango in Paris
Lawrence of Arabia
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Legionnaire—Jean-Claude Van Damme
Lovely Bones, The
Mail Order Bride (Made for TV)
Malcolm X
Matewan
Matrix II
Maverick—James Garner (1994 Movie)
Milano Calibro 9
Mississippi Burning
Miller's Crossing
Misery—James Caan, Cathy Bates
Monsieur N
Monte Walsh—Tom Seleck
Moro no Brasil
My Name Is Nobody—Henry Fonda, Terrence Hill
Naked Edge—Gary Cooper
Natural, The
Night and Day—Cary Grant
North by North west—Cary Grant
Once a Time in the West—Charls Bronson, Henry Fonda
Our Man Flint—James Coburn
Over Time
Paint Your Wagon—Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin
Pan's Labyrinth
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Patriot, The—Mel Gibson
Peter Pan (original)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Pope of Greenwich Village
Postman, The
Prison Break 3
Professionals, The—Lee Marvin
Rambo I
Ranger the Cook and the Hole in the Sky—Sam Elliot, Jerry O'Cunnell
Repulsion—Catherine Deneuve
Reservoir Dogs
Ride Lonesome
Ride the Pink Horse—Robert Montgomery
Ronri-Gi
Rio Bravo—Angie Dickison, Dean Martin
Rooster Cogburn
Ropo! the Genetic Opera
Rounders—Matt Damon
Savage is Loose, The—George C. Scott
Saw V
Scarface (1932)
Scent of a Woman—Al Pacino
Schindler's List
Seven Bride for Seven Brothers
Seven Samurai
Shootest, The
Sleeper—Woody Allen
Smart Money—James Cagney, Edward G Robinson
Some Came Running—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirly MacLain
Sons of Anarchy
Sommersby—Richard Gere & Jodie Foster
Sose Halunk Meg
Speed Racer
Spellbound—Gregory Peck
Star Trek Nemesis
Sweeney Todd
Tango Cash—Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell (various stars)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Three Stooges
Tin Man
Toombstone—Curt Russell, Val Kilmer
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The—Humphrey Bogart
True Lies—Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis
U-571
Un Chien Andalou—Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
Unforgiven—Clint Eastwood, Richard Harris
Untouchables—Robert De Niro
V for Vendetta
Valkyrie—Tom Cruise
Vampire's Assistant, The (Cirque De Freak)
Vertical Limit—Scot Glen
Walk Like a Man—Howie Mandel, Christopher Lloyd
War Wagon, The
Warriors, The
Water Hoarse, The
Westworld—James Brolin
White Squall
Wild Seed, The—Michael Parks
Will Penny—Charlton Heston
You Don't Mess With Zohan
Zohan
Zulu
Shows (Non Animated)
Alfred Hitch**** (Peter Fonda)
Battle Star Galactica
Blazing Saddles
CSI (Season 7 episode 17; Season 8 episode 9 & 10)
Deadwood (HBO)
Dexter (Last Season—John Lithgow)
Eastenders
Gilligan's Island
Gunsmoke (episode "Lynott")
Heroes (1st Season)
Kung Fu—David Carradine
Little House on the Prarie
Mad Men
MASH (Col. Potter)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (several skits including animations)
Rescue Me
Rome (HBO)
Seinfeld
Sherlock Holms BBC (several episodes)
Twilight Zone (Season 3, episode 1—Elizabeth Montgomery, Charls Bronson)
Velo Misto
Cartoons
Family Guy
Futurama (episode "That's Lobstertainment"; episode "The Problem with Popplers")
Itchy & Scratchy (Barber of Horrors)
Popeye ("Clean Shaven Man")
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Warner Brothers, Slick Hare
Warner Brothers, Junior Bear Episode
Warner Brothers (an old one with old movie caricatures where the waiter server a man a steak. The patron takes out his straight, strops it, and cuts the steak.)
Woody Woodpecker & the Barber of Seville
Tarzan
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It isn't a straight or a movie, but you have to see the opening scenes for Shaun the Sheep (any episode).
Look out at the top right scene - the farmer does a 5 second shave
-Lather with brush
-3 swipes with a DE
Done!
All the best,
Michael.