In the book KING SOLOMON’S MINES, one of the explorers is shaving with a new fangled “safety razor” when a knife hits the tree near his head. He mentioned that if he had been using a straight razor he would have cut his own throat.
Funny, in the CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED comics of the 1950s they show this scene with the explorer using a straight razor.
Bad, bad Leroy Brown
He got a gun in his pocket for fun
and a razor in his shoe.
Say Captain, if we join the army can we carry our razors?
If we carry our razors in this war (yak,yak,yak,)
We’ll cut dose Germans to the core (yak,yak,yak)
I may be singing loud but a razor in a crowd
does more execution than a fourty four!(Yak,yak,yak)
They’ll be no dogone Kaiser,
If we carry our razors in this war!
Oh, that’s funny!
And (I know it’s not the book) King Solomon’s Mines with Stewart Granger is one of my go-to, fun-time movies.