Thread: Straight Razors in Movies

Originally Posted by JLStorm

you have to wife it huh...soooo...your asking your razor permission to rinse it with water, but it is bitching at you that you are doing it wrong, the water is too hot and it has told you repeatedly about this, but you never listen???

LOL. I better watch my typing a little closer. Wait'll she hears I've been wifing my razors somewhere else!

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The 1941 romantic comedy by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. She shaves him twice with what looks like an 8/8 barber's notch quarter hollow.

I have noticed that in most of my old Clint Eastwood westerns they have straight razor shaving, but Clint is always too busy shooting someone to finish the shave! What a tease lol

Saw Tom Jones (1963) on TV a few days ago. After falling from a horse and breaking his arm, some chick has to take care of him. In one scene, she shaves him with a straight razor. The strokes looked genuine.

In Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), there's a scene where Ian Holm's character gives Tarzan (Christopher Lambert) a little straight razor lesson, starting with how to pronounce it: "Ray-zore." He then gives him a shave, even though Tarzan curiously had no facial hair.

In the book Tarzan of the Apes (1914), the author writes that Tarzan uses his innate British genius to figure out on his own that hair could and should be removed from the face, and uses a hunting knife which belonged to his dead father as a razor.

In Schindler's List there is a scene where Schindler lathers up with a (very nice) brush and makes a few strokes with a straight.

Haven't seen this one since it was on the big screen in the '60s; but in THE SCALPHUNTERS there's a scene where Telly Savalas is shaving his head with a straight and cuts the back of his head. Blood in the soap.

Last tango of Paris

Marlon Brando standing in front of the bathroom mirror . Maria Schneider watching him naked. Brando does some macho-talking while lathering. The way he lathers shows that he is more concentrating on speaking than on lathering. But then he starts shaving: Whoww - first stroke up against the grain!

Marlon you are the greatest!

Ed Harris in Code Name: Emerald

Originally Posted by Arnd

Last tango of Paris
Brando does some macho-talking while lathering.

Presumably not the line when he asks her about her fingernails.

Horse Feathers
Opening scene introduces Groucho with him finishing off his shave with a straight whilst being introduced as new President of Huxley College.
About 1:30 into this clip
YouTube - Horse Feathers part 1