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

Groucho Marx...Horse Feathers.

Anthony Quinn in "The Guns of Navarone"

In "Il Capo dei Capi" the 10 hours long italien tv movie about the life and times of Salvatore "Toto" Riina the godfather of Corleone, Sicily. There is at least three different Straight scenes. One in a barbershop and at least two where people shave in private.

Originally Posted by NathJD

This MUST have been asked before sooooo many times but why is it that in westerns cowboys can get interrupted half way through a shave (usually with a straight of some sort) and then wipe the lather away to reveal a completely clean shaven face???

Probably because that face was clean-shaven to begin with...then some prop lather dumped on it and a plastic blade waved over half the face.

It's not a movie, but on the most recent CSI a perp is threatening a captive with a straight razor & chops some of her hair off with it. Not the kind of press we'd like...

Christopher Loyd shaves properly in Walk like a man and then Amy Steel shaves the 'dog' hair off of Howie Mandel's face.

Spike Lee's Malcolm X
There is a barbershop scene in the beginning of the film and for a split second you can see the straight in the barbers hand.

Don't forget death rides a horse or something like that. Its a Spaghetti Western. Lee Van Cleef is shaving with a straight, of course with a 90 degree angle and then switches to his hunting knife to finish the shave.

Then there is the cult S&M western with Clint Eastwood, "Shave 'em Dry."

Originally Posted by brian p

i have my dad and my wife to thank for this. 1951 "african queen". the memory of names and what nots from my father and my wife for the title and pointing out Humphrey Bogart shaving with a straight.

the only scene i have seen from the film.

In the 2004 version of the Alamo, Sam Houston is shaving with a straight.