Which Movies had scenes where Actors used straight/safety razors ?

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Can you remember the moment where you spotted an actor or actrice grabbing for a Straight razor or some vintage Gillette or a Merkur.
and you got excited because you can identify the tools used or are glad your favorite actor knows what he is doing because he is whipping up that lather like a maniac with a badger brush ?


Name the movie if you can remember , the actor and even greater if you have a screen shot.

Kill Bill 2 -2004 -

Uma Thurman gets burried alive ,they put her into a coffin.
she manages to grab a straight razor from her boots and cut loose her hands while she is burried deep under the ground.

The New Galactica Battlestar Series -2004-

Season 1 - Dont remember which episode.

Edward James Olmos who plays Adama can be seen shaving with a Gillette Blackhandle vintage and cuts himself while shaving his neck. (the cut was for the movie he is a good enough shaver to not be so dumb)

Season 3 - Episode 4 Exodus 2

Edward James Olmos has finally gotten the people back who he had to leave behind for 4 months on a planet. The people had been living there for a year already but he kept into space with his space ship. the crew all grew some more weight on themselfs and def. let their hair and moustache grow.
To celebrate this what better to do then a nice shave so he cuts his moustache off as close as possible and fire's up his Merkur Vision.

[Mottern Man]

Blazing Saddles!
Also to add to Kill Bill - Resivor Dogs also has one

[DragonBoy]

The captain in Pan´s Labyrinth uses a straight in the beginning of the movie..

[moviemaniac]

The captain in Pan´s Labyrinth uses a straight in the beginning of the movie..
thanks, will be looking for that scene at the movies tonight :)

[PalmettoB]

Wasn't it in Rio Bravo, 1971, that John Wayne got a straight shave from Angie Dickinson?

[_JP_]

M*A*S*H

Both the movie and the TV series. A combination of straight, double edge, and single edge razors.

[bearbeard]

James Bond in Goldfinger pulls a fatboy razor out on the plane ride to the states. It had a hidden transmitter encased within it that he placed in the heel of his shoe. (if I remember correctly)

[bearbeard]

Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter.

[LX_Emergency]

Both the main actors in Schindlers list use a straight (very badly but still)

[Zachster]

DE sightings:

In "The Aviator" there's a scene where Ava Gardner is shaving Howard Hughes with a DE, preparing him for the senate hearings after he'd let himself go to seed. The razor looked really crusty -- maybe this was intentional, to highlight Hughes' germ phobia. She didn't do a very good job...

"The Graduate" -- Dustin Hoffman's character trying to shave while his mother is nagging him.

"Carnal Knowledge" -- Art Garfunkel's character trying to shave while Jack Nicholson is haranguing him.

I think the reason the shaving scenes stuck with me when I saw those last two movies (long before I was into DE razors), was how careful both men were being about their shaves -- unlike Ava, they actually knew what they were doing...

[Smedley]

Curly of the Three Stooges in "Halfwits Holiday" (1946) uses a safety razor. :D

[Bob O.]

Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia...in the middle of the desert.

[Htownmmm]

Cedric the Entertainer in........

Barbershop of course.



Marty

[St. Croix]

"What's New Pussycat". Woody Allen, yes, Woody Allen shaves with a straight. Well, that's the premise.

St. Croix

[jfl]

Antonio Banderas uses a straight razor in Desperado.

Jim

[DragonBoy]

The Bridge on the River Kwai - contains at least two scenes where they use straights..

[DMS]

Greystoke - The Legend Of Tarzan.

[bearbeard]

Copying Beethoven, Anna Holz (Diane Kruger) shaves Beethoven (Ed Harris) with a straight razor.

[grunt]

Hello to everyone. Saving Pvt. Ryan has a scene as does Band of Brothers.

[Mottern Man]

Anyone remember Rounders?

Ed Norton and MATT DAMON (say it in your Team America voice) go to a barbershop and get a good shave?

[ltlsuz]

The opening scene of the "Untouchables" with Al Pacino in a barber chair

[Smedley]

I was going through the "Extras" DVD for Chaplin's The Great Dictator and they had a silent where Charlie played a barber. When he was stropping, he was using a metal file. And the barber chair was like another character in the short. Definitely worth a look if you are into Chaplin, or barber chairs. :D

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This weeks Series in Heroes shows the evil man Sylar shaving his beard before he visits his mother.

My heart skipped some beats ! when I saw the angle he was using and he used the straight in one motion from neck over the cheek area in one Sweep ! never seen such a move ever ! on top he holds the razor at a 90 ! :eek: :eek: degree angle compared to the skin so your actually scraping the beard very odd ! but he pulls it off nonetheless something you have to see for yourself.

its a typical Dubl Duck scale on the razor..anyways serie is fresh so you can easily find it online.

[TorzJohnson]

Don't forget Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs. :eek:

[qhsdoitall]

They completely dulled the blade and he's using it like a scraper. They don't want to risk an actor's neck.

[moses]

They completely dulled the blade and he's using it like a scraper. They don't want to risk an actor's neck.

Indeed. Not like anybody in any of these movies is ACTUALLY shaving.

Btw, can't forget Key Largo. Speaking of the above, I want to see someone talking like that while a barber is actually shaving them with a sharp razor....

-Mo

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They completely dulled the blade and he's using it like a scraper. They don't want to risk an actor's neck.

Boooo thats a money shot they are trying to pull off making the bad guy look way more bad by using a cut throat razor the whimp..the dubbed it with audio where you can clearly hear alot of whiskers being cut again for the money shot.

man someone could seriously hurt himself if he would copy that move....

[Hawkeye5]

Bogart shaves with a straight in "The African Queen".
Brando also shaves with a straight in "Last Tango in Paris".

[bg42]

Mr Peen in the Thin Red Line( I think that was the title) he did it all wrong and looked as if he could remove his lip or nose at any second with the straight he had ,actually it was quite amusing to watch
Kind regas Peter

[rick]

Hello to everyone. Saving Pvt. Ryan has a scene as does Band of Brothers.


Sorry for being so tardy but......

Welcome to TSD, my man ! :D

[bearbeard]

The captain in Pan´s Labyrinth uses a straight in the beginning of the movie..

Just saw this myself. They also show him lathering up with a brush. Looked like he was using some col. conk!!!

Pretty good shaving scene.

[Padron]

I just watched Pans Labyrinth this weekend, It has a couple scenes with the captain of the army? shaving with a straight.


It was a interesting movie, it reminds me I need to learn Spanish, movie is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Check it...

[Edcculus]

Just watching M*A*S*H. In the episode "Alcoholics Unanimous", BJ is using a straight.

[WaterBoo]

The "doc" in Flying Leathernecks is shaving with a DE in one of the scenes in a tent.

WaterBoo

[PalmettoB]

Grunt and Waterboo, welcome to the Shave Den, gentlemen!

[WaterBoo]

Thank you for the welcome.

WaterBoo

[jramire2]

There's a scene in Hannibal where a girl is shaving a guys chest w/a DE. This is one of Hannibals "victims" and is towards the end of the movie.

On a different note, does anyone remembers the commercials of the twentysomething guy who's going to live in his corolla/sentra/whatever car for a week?

Well, I collect comics as well, and there's a picture of this guy shaving in his car using his rearview mirror. He's using a mach 3 or whatever, but lo and behold right next to the stickshift is a badger brush and shaving mug.

Fellas, to me that says something when a big co. like Nissan or Toyota puts a badger brush in one of their ads.

cool.

~Joshua

[qhsdoitall]

Original "Dr. DoLittle". The circus owner was shaving with a str8 when Dr. DoLittle was proposing to use the Pushme Pullyou as an act to raise money to buy a ship to find the Giant Pink Snail. I swear, I'm not making this up! :D

[TraderJoe]

Dirty Dozen

.....has quite a bit of talk about shaving, including a scene with a brush & lather. Though the guys refuse to shave after a while, they eventually break down and clean up :D

[sysiphus]

"Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life"--The British Officer (John Cleese) shaves with a straight.

[JustMe]

The Planet of the Apes,

Charlton Heston, shaves with a big ol' knife. If that's not mans man then I don't know what is.

[Queen of Blades]

Welcome to The Shave Den, JustMe!

[qhsdoitall]

Tony Curtis uses a str8 while stopped next to a lake. His mirror is hanging from a tree. He didn't have a spot of shadow to begin with but you know how it is with actors looking perfect at all times. Bet that str8 had no edge on it. :D

[echophonic]

Harrison Ford was using a DE to get rid of his beard in The Fugitive after he escaped from the train.

[IsaacRN]

Rounders.......when matt damon and ed norton are finishing up a marathon session....they go and get a str8 shave.....and Matt says.i fell like im gonna get whacked in this thing :P

[Queen of Blades]

Rounders.......when matt damon and ed norton are finishing up a marathon session....they go and get a str8 shave.....and Matt says.i fell like im gonna get whacked in this thing :P

Will beat ya to this one.

Of course. :D

[Mottern Man]

Will beat ya to this one.

Of course. :D

What can I say. Its a gift

MATT DAMON!

[Queen of Blades]

MATT DAMON!

Joe. :D

[Mottern Man]

Joe. :D

Dream much JoAnna? :rofl

[Queen of Blades]

Dream much JoAnna? :rofl

Not about Joe. :p

[Mottern Man]

Not about Joe. :p

BOW CHIKA WOW WOW! :rofl

[Zeni]

Watched Repulsion, Roman Polanski's movie from 1965, last night. Catherine Denueve's sister's boyfriend shaves with a straight. Later Catherine kills the landlord with the straight.:D

[Iacchus]

In Pitch Black, Vin Diesel's character shaves his head with a makeshift shiv.

[Hawkeye5]

Oooo, Catherine Denueve, she could cut me up anytime. :rofl

[Edcculus]

Towards the end of the Patriot, one of the English generals is getting a straight shave.

[IsaacRN]

The Color Purple

Whoopi shaves Danny Glover

[IsaacRN]

Also a Barber Straight scene in THe Godfather.

[sysiphus]

Spy Game. Redford shaves with what appears to be a Fat Boy in Beruit.

[Smedley]

No shave, but one of the "dialogue cards" in Buster Keaton's silent film Sherlock Jr. has the following:

His assistant ---
Gillette.

A Gem who was Ever-Ready
in a bad scrape.

[oskar]

Scent of a woman: Al Pacino gets a straigth razor shave. If that shave was a real one, the barber would have to be admired cos his customer just keeps talking and turning his head... :signs107
Papillon: Steve McQueen nearly gets a straight razor shave, but after the barber feels insulted he refuses to shave him although he is already latered up.
Later on the two escape, and Papillon gets his shave after all - on a little boat jumping up and down the waves. ::mat
Greetings
oskar

[johnniegold]

Seven Year Itch w/Marilyn Monroe.

Tom Ewell's boss is shaving with a straight at the sink in his office.

Tom Ewell talking to his secretary about his wife being away for the summer:

"I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Just this morning I fixed myself a peanut butter sandwich and two whiskey sours."

[steamroller of funk]

In Gangs of New York both Liam Neeson and Leonardo DiCaprio use a straight plus i believe Brendan Gleeson gets a shave havent seen it in a while though.

[jbcohen]

My son was watching Spongebob one evening when I walked on by. I caught a glimpes of Sponge Bob driving a boat while shaving with what looked like to me to be a Super Speed.

[Mottern Man]

North by Northwest

Last Tango In Paris

Live and Let Die (bond kills a snake with aftershave too). ::

[hyperwarp]

Pan's Labyrinth has several straight razor shaving scenes.

This one won "best foreign" film a year or two ago. Beautiful movie. Altho, the
good guys are cast as the bad guys IMHO.

In Espanol with Ingy sub-titles.

[IsaacRN]

Im in the process of watching that movie.

[qhsdoitall]

Im in the process of watching that movie.

I started to watch it but never got to finish it. Has some shock effect in what I've seen so far.

[Infotech]

The Apartment - Jack Lemon uses a DE

Band of Brothers - Can't recall the episode but towards the end of one scene LT. Winters is shown beginning his shave. It shows him breaking the top layer of ice out of his water, dipping the brush in, and lathering up. It's in the middle of a battle field in the dead of a cold, snowy winter.

[jbcohen]

Next - Nicholas Cage uses a Gillette Super Adjustable Gold plated early in the movie then loses all respect by using a Gillette Good News later in the movie. In Final Draft Deborah Odell comits suicide with a straight.

[fritz]

Ewww! Lends realistic meaning to the phrase "cut throat razor"!

[jbcohen]

The movie was a bit twisted.

[Infotech]

For a Few Dollars More - Cint Eastwood/Lee Van Cleaf

One of the bad guys is getting a shave in a barber shop. When his buddy gets him for help to fight Monco, he stops the barber mid shave and gets shot down with half bbs and half beard :rofl

[Sejanus]

In the movie Seven Samurai, the lead character (Shimada Kanbei) gets his head shaved bald with a Japanese style straight. NO LATHER, just cold river water.. :D

[Gordo]

First post, and I am a movie nerd. In Brian DePalma's DRESSED TO KILL, Angie Dickinson gets a straight razor used on her to slice her up.:sick013

Morbid I know, but it stuck with me.

[Sejanus]

Welcome Gordo!

[IsaacRN]

Anyone mention Reservoir Dogs yet?

[Sejanus]

Anyone mention Reservoir Dogs yet?

I would assume so, but if not you win! :cool:

[owen]

flipping channels yesterday I saw woody allen in sleeper shaving with a straight. stopped flipping when I saw his face all lathered up he took a couple of strokes down the side of his face then next scene. back to flipping channels.

[Mottern Man]

CSI

“Fallen Idols” Episode

Sara holds up a straight (looked like a 5/8 spike point) and says do you trust me? Then the camera pans to a well lathered Grissom. Before fading to black she takes a stroke (dose not pull skin taunt).

[Jack Bauer]

Event Horizon has a scene where one of the actors shaves with a straight.

Chris

[Queen of Blades]

The movie Phenomenon (1996), Kyra Sedgwick uses a safety razor, a super speed? ;), to shave John Travolta. Using canned goo though!! :eek:

[gugi]

'Un Chien Andalou' (1929) - in the prologue Bunuel strops his straight razor, many people like to skip the actual usage a minute later :)
It's a 17min movie, one of my favorites, and I think it's his first movie as a director.

[Tommynick]

Over the weekend, one of the movie channels were running the Andy Hardy series with Mickie Rooney. In one scene Young Andy was shaving with a Gem.

[qhsdoitall]

Tin Man on Sci-Fi station. The character, "Tin Man", carries a str8.

[qhsdoitall]

The Golden Compass. Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel is shown with one.

[Racso_MS]

Haven't read the whole thread, but just watched "Grumpy Ole Men" with Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau. Jack Lemon has a scene where he's using a De in preparation for a night out with Ann Margaret.

One of the funniest damn movies I've ever seen... :rofl

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Uses a DE.

[Padron]

The movie Eastern Promises, has a couple straight scenes, but they aren't shaving :eek:

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The movie Eastern Promises, has a couple straight scenes, but they aren't shaving :eek:

Yeah I posted that Padron but the image was too graphic so they took it down I forgot to post the movie name again.. pretty gruelsome !

[IsaacRN]

I still want to see that movie

[mastermute]

Saving Pvt. Ryan

Wasn't than movie called "Shaving Ryan's Privates"?

-- Did anyone mention "Reservoir Dogs" yet? :rofl

[IsaacRN]

Dogs has been mentioned :P

[redorchestra]

No one mentioned the HBO series "DEADWOOD" yet. There are probably more scenes but ...
In season 2 Francis Wollcot kills a 2 prostitutes and the Madam with a straight.

I know it has already been mentioned but I just watched Battlestar galactica Season 3. Early in the season Admiral Adama uses a Merkur, later Helo is seen lathering with a brush (really thin lather, must be conserving) but he is never shown shaving. Later, maybe the second to last or the last episode, Adama lathers up with a brush, a bit better than Helo's lather. Again he pulls out his merkur, and again he cuts his neck. I bet they are running low on DEs.
Merkur should make a BSG special based on the centurion design.

[jbcohen]

This is a movie that my wife picked up at the local library. While watching it last night I saw the main character use on of my favorite shavers. I recognized it as a 48 Gillette Super Speed.

[Sejanus]

Cool.. but there is a thread already about Movies and razors. Right below this one...

[jbcohen]

Sorry must have missed it will post over there.

[seamus402]

I cannot believe no one has mentioned Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan and his 20/8 Straight Razor Shave. His blade was unconventional and did not look comfortable to wield.

[Padron]

The movie called Silk, has a brief straight shave scene....the rest of it is pretty slow and uneventful though....

[Hefledthescene]

dare i mention sweeney todd? im sure its been mentioned. but it was an amazing movie, and i have yet to see a set of straights that i like better than the seven day set he has in the movie.



ahh...im afraid i have a mancrush on mr. depp...:eek:

[Diggity]

Can't believe no one has mentioned "The Untouchables" when DeNiro was getting a straight edge shave and gets a nick.

[lucky]

Looks like Nicholas Cage could use some help on his blade angle! Edward G. Robinson gets shaved with a straight in "Key Largo".

[tjgriffin]

Adrian Bordie in Darjeeling Limited sahve with his fathers DE in the men's room at a train station. It's a slant, I think a Hoffritz.

Ethan Hawke shaves his entire body with a straight to keep from shedding skin and hair the can reveal his true identity.

[dmikel]

Clark Gable in "The Tall Men" shaves with a straight and even lathers up for a second pass.

[mastermute]

In Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0788026/), James Purefoy as Beau Brummell shaves with a straight razor. Unfortunately it's more of a "theatrical shave" than a real shave, but I like the way he wears a towel over his shoulder to wipe the razor while shaving.

It was a very good film, maybe a bit naïvely in it's cinematography, but nevertheless a pleasnt film to watch. Made me order the book it is based upon (Amazon US (http://www.amazon.com/Beau-Brummell-Ian-Kelly/dp/0340836997/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1207257114&sr=11-1)/Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beau-Brummell-Ian-Kelly/dp/0340836997/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1207257114&sr=11-1))

[mastermute]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6L615Wfo

[Queen of Blades]

3 sightings this weekend, so far.......

Full Metal Jacket (1987); The scene where Joker meets up with Cowboy in "Nam, Cowboy appears to be using a DE.

Iron Man (2008); Not sure how much to say here, as it's still opening weekend for this movie, but there is a DE in use in a scene of this film.

From the Previews; coming up Adam Sandler movie "You Don't Mess With Zohan";
Scene where Adam Sandler's character, Zohan, is shaving with a straight razor.

[qhsdoitall]

The Adams Family Movie. Uncle Fester is head shaved with a str8 by his pretend mother.

[aprentistsorcier]

Straight: If I don't mistake Burt Lancaster in "Il Gattopardo" 1953

[Scruffy1]

Three's Company, the episode where Mr. Roper listens to Jack, Chrissy and Jack's girl friend in the drain. Jack is shaving with a DE razor but uses canned cream.

[tjgriffin]

Just watched The Hulk (2003, Ang Lee). Eric Bana shaves his neck with a Merkur HD long in two scenes, once as Banner, and once a twisted Hulk memory of the other scene in which Banner wipes the fog off the mirror to reveal The Hulk who proceeds to break through the mirror and grab Banner by the throat.

[808Chaney]

I liked the scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr. Blonde slashes the cops face then cuts off his ear with a straight. He then picks up the ear and talks into it. IIRC he said "Can ya hear me?"
Also, in a couple episodes of lost there are shaving scenes. Come to think of it though I don't think they were DE's but Desmond is shaving in "The Hatch" when they finally get the door opened and then John Lock is in the bathroom shaving when somebody else is showering. John says something like "The steam opens up my pores"

[tjgriffin]

I liked the scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr. Blonde slashes the cops face then cuts off his ear with a straight. He then picks up the ear and talks into it. IIRC he said "Can ya hear me?"


Though I'm not sure that counts as a shaving scene! :)


Also, in a couple episodes of lost there are shaving scenes. Come to think of it though I don't think they were DE's but Desmond is shaving in "The Hatch" when they finally get the door opened and then John Lock is in the bathroom shaving when somebody else is showering. John says something like "The steam opens up my pores"

It was Jack in the shower. And then Locke "causally" mentions that he thought it'd be a good time to talk about their "problem," referring to The Other they were holding in the ex-gun locker. That scene was so husband and wifey, I was cracking up!

[808Chaney]

Though I'm not sure that counts as a shaving scene! :)

No I guess it doesn't but it made me laugh my arse off.

It was Jack in the shower. And then Locke "causally" mentions that he thought it'd be a good time to talk about their "problem," referring to The Other they were holding in the ex-gun locker. That scene was so husband and wifey, I was cracking up!

So true... I'm looking forward to tonights episode. I just started watching it last year. I rented all the dvd's so I could catch up and now I have to wait a week between episodes ARGH! I used to buycott the show because when they are filming in downtown Honolulu streets they reap havoc on our already screwed up traffic. I got over it though and started watching and am now totally hooked. Sorry to stray off topic. Wont happen again.

[Automaton-Tim]

Speed Racer.

[freemartin]

I watched North By Northwest this weekend. It's been mentioned, but it is a memorable scene with Cary Grant using Eva Marie Saint's a comically-tiny travel DE and Brush in the restroom of a train station.

Memorable scene in the second season of Deadwood, where Garret Dillihunt's character Mr. Wolcott, "Settles Accounts" at a brothel with a straight razor.

[Milton]

The Royal Tenenbaums- Richie shaves with a GEM