Thread: Straight Razors in Movies

Originally Posted by dennisthemenace

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.

Man, that's wild! I watched MacKenna's Gold last weekend and Telly did that very thing. Now I'm gonna have to watch Scalphunters.

I also watched Yellow Sky (I had a sorta of a Gregory Peck western marathon going on my Netflix) and saw Richard Widmark just finishing his shave and a little later after the woman told him he smelled bad, Peck got a clean shirt out of his saddlebag and checked the sharpness of his razor with this thumb - after he licked it... never actually saw him shave tho.

I watched Bill Paxton put a razor to his throat at 90 degrees and wipe some soap off in Resistance.

Originally Posted by Pauly

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Opening scene introduces Groucho with him finishing off his shave with a straight whilst being introduced as new President of Huxley College.

LOL! "I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech." Now I know how to test for sharpness.

A spaghetti western I like is MY Name Is Nobody with Terrence Hill and Henry Fonda. There's two different scenes demonstrating the proper technique for keeping your barber on the straight and narrow.

Lori

Originally Posted by LoriB

LOL! "I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech." Now I know how to test for sharpness.

A spaghetti western I like is MY Name Is Nobody with Terrence Hill and Henry Fonda. There's two different scenes demonstrating the proper technique for keeping your barber on the straight and narrow.

Lori

Yep, one of my favorites too!

So last night I was board and flipping through the channels on tv when I caught the end of the movie Maverick and at the very end Actor James Garner, Mavericks Pappy, is using a straight razor while in the tub.

In Game of Thrones last night on HBO there is a scene where a knight shaves the chest of the 4th in line to the throne. He intentionally cuts his side to make him watch it bleed. Kind of a strange scene.

It isn't a movie, but in the FX series Archer, the main character uses a straight razor and specifically refers to a his expensive silver tipped badger hair brush. Hilarious show if any of you haven't seen it. It's a crude animated series about a secret agent. My avatar is the main character.

At one point, his baby picks up the razor and he takes it off of him. The baby starts crying. so he gives it back to him. I loled.

Guess you had to be there.

Originally Posted by jcsixx

It isn't a movie, but in the FX series Archer, the main character uses a straight razor and specifically refers to a his expensive silver tipped badger hair brush. Hilarious show if any of you haven't seen it. It's a crude animated series about a secret agent. My avatar is the main character.

At one point, his baby picks up the razor and he takes it off of him. The baby starts crying. so he gives it back to him. I loled.

Guess you had to be there.

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Originally Posted by rtaylor61

High Plains Drifter: Clint Eastwood almost gets a straight shave, he just has to stop and kill 3 guys...talk about distractions!

Rambo, First Blood: When Stallone is arrested, they prepare to shave him with a straight razor. The guy is honing the razor...well, he is actually "back-honing" the razor. That's about the time all hell breaks loose.

RT

That's quite the stropping the barber does in High Plains Drifter. Also, it would have been a lot cooler if Eastwood would have finished the shave!

In the movie tombstone Doc Holiday gets a str8 shave from a barber while sitting on the front porch. He then challenges a drunk man to a pistol fight.

Son of Paleface Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rodgers, and of course trigger. A terrible stropping followed by a comic shave... all while singing! Only Bob!