Just watched “My Name is Nobody” one of the spaghetti westerns from the early 70’s. Henry Fonda is getting a shave from a ‘bad guy’ posing as a barber, who is getting ready to cut his throat. Fonda’s character is wise to the ruse, and pulls a gun on the bad guy, who changes his tune and actually provides a shave.
I think I’ve seen this same situation in another such western…and I think it was a Sergio Leone movie, but I’m not sure. Sergio Leone was associated with “My Name is Nobody” so it wouldn’t surprise me if the ‘fake barber’ scene was redone for different movies.
THing is…I don’t know where I’ve seen that particular barber shop situation before. I wasn’t “High Plains Drifter” where there were 3 killings from a hidden gun in the chair. It was a situation where the ‘bad guy’ was convinced to not slash the protagonist’s throat when he gets a gun shoved in his gut from the chair.
On the other hand, he’s canny and confident enough to turn the chair away from the mirror and door when he sees those galoots approaching. Clint should have filled him full of lead too!
Possibly because one of the most famous Mob hits - on Albert Anastasia - went down in a barbershop, while he was getting a shave and had his face swaddled in hot towels.
Although the killer wasn’t the barber, but a couple of gunmen.
