Thread: Favourite straights scenes in movies

Originally Posted by Steelforge

... and a young turkish mob kid runs in and slits (well - saws) his throat with a yellow handled cut throat razor.

Call me sad but I was trying to identify the razor rather than follow the plot line...

There are many levels of things "wrong" with that....

WOW that was funny!

"Sweeney Todd, The Demon of Fleet Street" - has been done several times through the years and, of course, the Johnny Depp version will be coming out in December. I just finished seeing the BBC version with Ray Winston, made in 2006. - and, WOW! That was quite a movie. Bloody as hell! The straight was used quite frequently throughout the movie. Interesting, the straight he used was not a folding one. At one time, while a customer was in the barber chair, he walked to his table and gave it a few passes on his sharpener. It didn't seem to be a stone(I don't know what it was - it made a kind of grating sound), but he only sharpened it on one side. It must have been a Japanese str8 razor because of only one bevel on one side, I guess.

I've seen a lot of movies where a straight is used briefly, but in this movie the straight razor played at least a supporting roll in the movie it was used so much. Besides the cutting of many customer's throats, it showed many close ups of the razor on the skin during an actual shave. This was an incredable movie to watch! Not for the faint of heart.

I look forward to the Johnny Depp version

Black Cat, White Cat - by Emir Kusturica

Le Volleur (a.k.a. The Thief of Paris) - by Louis Malle

Lawrence of Arabia - by David Lean

came across a old western called "the last hunt" Two different times the lead actor was shown shaving with his bowie knive(buffalo hunter) one time he was scraping his throat at a 90 degree angle(never would have caught that before finding this site). Then once he is getting out of a barber chair(no shave scene) tells the barber "give me some of that smell juice(?)) barber says "Bay rum $1). Had to chuckle to myself.

Just saw a scene in 7 years in Tibet with Brad Pit....I said something and my wife just rolled her eyes.

Originally Posted by mrcleanhead

Two come to mind. The stooges short where Curly shaves himself on the train and licks the blade . Then says "I look more and more like Barrymore." Btw, I think that's Drew Barrymore's Grandfather(?) John he's looking at in the picture. Doesn't he shave a potato too? (I may have my stooges episodes mixed so correct me if I'm wrong.) The second is High Plains Drifter or maybe some other Clint spaghetti western where he is getting a shave and shoots three hombres.

There is also the Stooge short ''An Ache In Every Stake'', where the Stooges are ice delivery-men. They end up in the customers kitchen posing as cooks. Moe tells Curly to ''shave some ice'', so Curly does just that and puts the ice block in a chair and literally shaves it with a straight. Classic Stooge episode!

I just saw a movie recently with someone using a straight. I forget the name, but he was using it totally wrong, he was basically moving the razor backward instead of forward.

In one of the James Bond movies 007 shaves the leg of his Bond girl. That's my fav.

Opening scene of "Eastern Promises".

Okay, I'll contribute to this resurrected thread. I didn't see anybody mention the scene from Papillon where Steve McQueen propositions the young trustee (Maturette, I think?)to keep a guard busy during an escape attempt. The young trustee shaving Papillion with a str8, offended by McQueen's presumption regarding his sexuality, abruptly brings the blade up against his neck: "You think I'm a whore, dont you?" Papillon doesn't get his shave after all. One of my all-time favorite movies!