Straight Razors and Movies

[vschwager]

Well,

I thought it would be interesting starting a post listing all "great" movies with straight razor shaving scenes, my contribution, right on top of my head:

Last Tango in Paris
The Leopard
Bitter Moon

The Bitter Moon shave is obviously fake (Peter Coyote is using a completely wrong shaving hangle), even though I am sure none of them was shaving with a real straight, but were already clean shaven and were "merely" pretending to be shaving...

For DE shaves, I would use a separate post in case...

 

[BOGARTUS]

Most realistic shave I have ever seen. Obviously done by a real barber.

Edward G. Robinsons shave in, Key Largo

 

[Steerpike]

The guy in GATACA shaves with a straight, but he's holding it at 90 degrees to the skin
I like the scene in Dracula when he shaves, it's a little different to the book but cool all the same.

 

[vschwager]

That's right! I had forgotten about Dracula!

There is a movie where Clint Eastwood is shaving with a Straight, which one is it? I cannot remember....maybe High Plains Drifter, or Unforgiven...?

 

[farace]

I've never seen The Leopard, although I've read the book (I'm assuming this is the same story).

I read yesterday that Tim Burton is currently filming Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp. I would imagine that straight razors might make an appearance in that film.

 

[Tinzien]

Not a movie, but there was the brief use of a straight razor as a weapon in last week's episode of "The Unit".

 

[TstebinsB]

William Holden gives himself a real shave in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)

 

[Taz]

Barber Shop

 

[addicted]

Sin City

 

[ouch]

El Topo (perhaps the sickest movie ever made).

 

[boboakalfb]

Lawrence of Arabia...Untouchables.

 

[TstebinsB]

El Topo (perhaps the sickest movie ever made).

Una pelicula clásica

 

[SilverKarn]

Casualties of War also has a short shaving scene in it

 

[farace]

Almost forgot the slicing eyeball scene in Dali/Bunuel's Un chien andalou.

 

[Hawkeye5]

Bogart shaves with a straight in "The African Queen".

 

[modern man]

El Topo (perhaps the sickest movie ever made).

The priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby?

Thats nothing, You have not seen Combat Shock or Freaks or, or..........

 

[hedliniv]

Rushmore

 

[firebox]

Definitely Key Largo. " that was a close shave.... closer than he got from Angel"

 

[gglockner]

Not really a shaving scene... Kill Bill

 

[ouch]

I want a Hattori Hanzo razor.