# Fake barber scene in western **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 8, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955 "2022-10-08T21:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/1 "2022-10-08T21:34:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/2 "2022-10-08T22:02:29Z")
I’m not seeing a similar situation on this page except for _Nobody_. > **[Dangerously Close Shave - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DangerouslyCloseShave)** > > Until relatively recently, hairy apes like you and I had two options when it came to dealing with unkempt hair; either you just hacked it short, or you took an Absurdly Sharp Blade and proceeded to scrape your skin, possibly off. Thus evolved the … ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/3 "2022-10-08T22:30:17Z")
High Plains Drifter has a good barbershop scene, though not quite what you described. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QUwYHqTKRp4/maxresdefault.jpg "High Plains Drifter - Shave and a hot bath") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwYHqTKRp4) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/4 "2022-10-09T00:09:50Z")
What can you say about a barber with such a ridiculous combover? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/5 "2022-10-09T00:27:23Z")
That the second-best barber in town isn’t very good? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/6 "2022-10-09T00:32:05Z")
For starters. Such a puling character. OMG! you don’t think he handles dentistry, too? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/7 "2022-10-09T00:36:25Z")
My favorite “close shave” story: > **[Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Return Of Verge Likens - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7n62ke)** > > Watch Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Return Of Verge Likens - Beats5379 on Dailymotion ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/8 "2022-10-09T00:50:55Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > For starters. Such a puling character. OMG! you don’t think he handles dentistry, too? 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! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/9 "2022-10-09T00:52:04Z")
You know it. (“Galoots” is a great word.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/10 "2022-10-09T03:50:23Z")
You Malcontent! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/11 "2022-10-09T12:57:37Z")
This trope also appears in Gangster movies. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/12 "2022-10-09T13:03:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > What can you say about a barber with such a ridiculous combover? “I’m a barber, not a hair-stylist!” ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/13 "2022-10-09T13:07:38Z")
the one that sticks in my mind is not from a western but rather when FBI man Gene Hackman confronts Brad Dourif’s racist cop in “Mississippi burning” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZCZyxZYgKIg/maxresdefault.jpg "Mississippi Burning (1988) - A Razor-Sharp Interrogation Scene (10/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZyxZYgKIg) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/14 "2022-10-09T16:27:34Z")
Sweeney Todd isn’t exactly a western, but certainly has its version of the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955/15 "2022-10-10T18:42:16Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > This trope also appears in Gangster movies 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.