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So I was watching old spaghetti westerns last night while I wrote the DEMP test in Doing it Right, and just as I finished up, another one came on... It was in widescreen, and it showed a bunch of guys taking over a village sneakily, gagging a barber and his son, and then giving some guy a shave.
When the fake barber tried to cut the dude's throat, he pressed a big ol' revolver up against the (bad?) guy's crotch, making him give the customer a proper shave.

Lots of tension as the shave happens and the other guys outside the barber shop reach for their guns.

Then all hell breaks loose and the customer shoots everyone rediculously fast.

He leaves a ten dollar tip for the real barber, then leaves.

The real barber and his son come out of the closet, remark upon the huge tip, and then the son says something like "How'd he do it, pa? I only heard one shot!"

The point of all this is... I fell asleep at this point because the commercials started and never found out what the name of the movie was. And I want to know the name of this movie so I can find it again.

Help? You folks are probably my best bet, considering how y'all collectively seem to know everything about anything from before my time.

What station or channel?

getTV I think...

WWW.get.TV has their schedule, including yesterday's. Maybe one of the plot synopsis write-ups will ring a bell?

That is, unless the EMP blew out their servers?

I happened to remember the title of the one before, so I figured it out by the titles. It was My Name is Nobody.

Good opening scene, no doubt about that.

Thanks Dave.

GlytchMeister wrote:I happened to remember the title of the one before, so I figured it out by the titles. It was My Name is Nobody.

Good opening scene, no doubt about that.

Thanks Dave.

Beat me to it! I knew the title by the time I was reading the second sentence...
My Name is Nobody (imdb.com, Wikipedia), starring Terrence Hill. One of my favorite movies ever. Just watched it again, recently (found it on YouTube...)
Apparently, it's a good thing I watched it when I did, as it's no longer there...

A remarkably silly film (i say that approvingly) - no-one has mentioned that the guy getting the shave is Henry Fonda.

Not directed by Sergio Leone.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:A remarkably silly film (i say that approvingly) - no-one has mentioned that the guy getting the shave is Henry Fonda.

I was in a hurry when I first replied in this thread... Otherwise, I would have.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Not directed by Sergio Leone.

However...

Wikipedia wrote:The film was directed by Tonino Valerii and, in some scenes, by Sergio Leone. It was written by Leone, Fulvio Morsella and Ernesto Gastaldi. Leone was also the uncredited executive producer.

Wikipedia wrote:By the 1970s, the spaghetti Western had almost become a parody of itself. The serious westerns were primarily violent, low-budget films that were barely distributed outside of Italy. Meanwhile, slapstick parodies of the genre were becoming more popular. Sergio Leone and his team decided that if anyone was going to make the ultimate "joke" version of the genre, they should be the ones. Terence Hill was cast for his box-office draw and because he had already starred in the successful spaghetti films They Call Me Trinity and its sequel Trinity Is Still My Name.

Wikipedia wrote:Leone directed several scenes of the film, including the opening scene and the final showdown with the Wild Bunch, but Tonino Valerii was the overall director. After the film's release, it was promoted as a Sergio Leone film, much to the frustration of both men.

GlytchMeister wrote:a bunch of guys taking over a village sneakily, gagging a barber and his son, and then giving some guy a shave.
When the fake barber tried to cut the dude's throat, he pressed a big ol' revolver up against the (bad?) guy's crotch, making him give the customer a proper shave.

Lots of tension as the shave happens and the other guys outside the barber shop reach for their guns.

Then all hell breaks loose and the customer shoots everyone rediculously fast.

He leaves a ten dollar tip for the real barber, then leaves.

The real barber and his son come out of the closet, remark upon the huge tip, and then the son says something like "How'd he do it, pa? I only heard one shot!"

That scene ends with the barber's son asking if anyone is faster on the draw, to which the father replies that nobody's faster on the draw, nobody...

The next scene cuts to Terrence Hill "fishing" (standing in the river, waiting, then suddenly pouncing in and catching a rather large fish, just as Jack Beauregard - Henry Fonda - rides by, so he shows off his fish.) In another scene, when Fonda asks Hill who he is, he merely says "nobody"...

The last scene is of Terrence Hill getting a shave, with the continuation of a long voiceover from Fonda, which ends with:
"P.S.: Just one more piece of advice from an old-timer: When you're getting a shave and a cut, be sure the right man's wearing a jacket!" (and we see Hill do a repeat of the stickup behind the barber's bum from the first scene, except he's not holding a gun, but using his hand in much the same way as kids point their index finger as a mock gun.)

I should have hypheanted "not-directed".

Friends of mine were on the New Orleans set (they redressed a stretch of street in the Quarter and a piece of the waterfront).

According to them, the official director would say (in Italian, i assume) "Okay - We'll put the camera here, and we'll have those extras over there, watching, and those extras running to clear the street, and the photographer will set up his camera over there to get a shot but he'll have trouble with the flash powder and so..."

And then when he was finished, he'd turn to Sergio, who was sitting on the sidelines, and say "What do you think, Sergio?" and Leone would say "Siu" and they'd do the shot, or Leone would say "No" and he'd reset the whole thing a different way.

(If you check the IMDB "Goofs" section, there are some by me in there, referring to anachronisms in the NOLa street scene and other things.)

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And he doesn't just grab the fish - he grabs a live fly out of the air, puts it on top of the water, and when the fish rises to take the fly, he hits it with a club.

Also, there's a rather funny film in-joke moment in the graveyard scene.

GlytchMeister wrote:You folks are probably my best bet, considering how y'all collectively seem to know everything about anything from before my time.

SF Fans say "AKICF" - "All Knowledge is Contained in Fandom" (I am acquainted with the son of a Nobel winner because we met through running a World SF Con.)

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Of course, i went to high school with the great nephew of a Nobel winner, come to think.