# Movies where knives are prominently featured **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792 "2014-08-04T15:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/21 "2014-08-04T17:31:29Z")
The Outsiders Force 10 From Navarrone Revenge ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/22 "2014-08-04T17:33:59Z")
Dune. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/23 "2014-08-04T17:35:52Z")
Not just knives but your basic kitchen sink in [Natural Born Killers diner scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCTtY96B_iw) (I do love the POV of the knife, though!) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/24 "2014-08-04T17:47:13Z")
(It’s A) Swashbuckler [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VG5-cbrfj8k/hqdefault.jpg "SWASHBUCKLER Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG5-cbrfj8k) I still want a knife-harness like Cudjo uses. (I also still want a pair of _Rollerball - the original version_ gloves in case anyone is interested in sending me a Christmas present.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/25 "2014-08-04T17:53:58Z")
Silverado Inglourious Basterds The Godfather (Luca Brasi) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/26 "2014-08-04T18:05:03Z")
Machete ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/27 "2014-08-04T18:15:39Z")
Couldn’t place the movie… I had vague memories of two guys in a fight, a belt knife held to the protagonist’s face, someone pleading with him not to kill him and him nicking the guy’s face as he moved away. Platoon ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/28 "2014-08-04T18:19:18Z")
Any [Wolverine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwQ8FTmlLM)film [Machete](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16020r--oM) [Macbeth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusU90ov8pQ) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/29 "2014-08-04T18:34:40Z")
[The Crow](http://youtu.be/3Lq9NGTN8Pc) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/30 "2014-08-04T18:35:41Z")
Okay, swords, but they’re technically just long knives. [Errol Flynn 1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uog-mJYyloQ), Captain Blood [Errol Flynn 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10fR31jC1w), Robin Hood [Errol Flynn 3](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQy0KIWeFjA), Don Giovanni [Gene Kelly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TxP2QIX1VU), The Three Musketeers ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/31 "2014-08-04T18:37:36Z")
There was an early 3D movie [The Charge at Feather River (1953)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045621/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2) where one of the 3D effects was of a bunch of people throwing knives “directly into the camera” (as it were). But the standout feature of that movie that made it to YouTube is the now famous [The Very First Wilhelm Scream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5F2C0CYlA) (no clip of the knives that I could find.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/32 "2014-08-04T18:44:37Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Although knives aren’t featured throughout it, I can’t resist mentioning [Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Garrett_and_Billy_the_Kid), [Sam Peckinpah](http://badassdigest.com/2013/03/10/the-badass-hall-of-fame-sam-peckinpah/)’s last film (and almost forgotten which is a shame). A nitpick but _Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid_ was hardly Peckinpah’s last film. It was the tenth of the fifteen movies he directed. His final movie was _The Osterman Weekend_ in 1983. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/33 "2014-08-04T19:32:14Z")
[Jiro Dreams of Sushi](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/34 "2014-08-04T19:58:45Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A nitpick but _Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid_ was hardly Peckinpah’s last film. It was the tenth of the fifteen movies he directed. His final movie was _The Osterman Weekend_ in 1983. You are, of course, absolutely right. I meant to have said it was his last _western_. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/35 "2014-08-04T20:02:19Z")
[The Cross And The Switchblade](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068428/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/36 "2014-08-04T20:03:03Z")
Fritz Lang’s [M](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eCeLBv5lJdg/S_AZgm06p0I/AAAAAAAACGs/wAaQuV9azvw/s1600/M_knives.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/37 "2014-08-04T20:34:29Z")
Chinatown. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/38 "2014-08-04T20:59:15Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Magnificent Seven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-paVv6zTk) I must have seen Coburn on TV before this, and it looks like he may have been in at least one more movie before it, but this definitely put him on my map. Several others in the cast got their boost into stardom here as well. Love that scene! > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Chinatown. Indeed! =============================== There’s an older Western I can’t even remember the title for that had a guy (I think) sitting on the porch of an isolated farm/ranch house at dusk or in very low light and he had to have been yards away from the nearest bushes or undergrowth or someplace another might be hiding. All of a sudden a knife sticks up in the banister next to his head and even as the kid I was at the time I have forever since wondered how the hell somebody could throw a knife from that distance and have it stick up next to this guy. There must be many other scenes like it, but that one has stuck I my mind to this day. Does it sound at all familiar to any of you? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/39 "2014-08-04T21:07:27Z")
Ratatouille (Kitchen use only) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/40 "2014-08-04T21:13:42Z")
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