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For the blues and the shakes he gets blotto
"All the booze that it takes" is his motto
The keyboard gets drunk
On tequila...ker-plunk!
The music they make is staccato. Hilary Barta
Dan Duryea hits the skids in Black Angel (Roy William Neill, 1946). Title idea by rhapsodic Donald B. Benson. © 2017 Hilary Barta
Poor Danny did not have much luck
Chicks ran when they'd spot him, yelled "Yuck!"
If one gave him a tumble
He'd rave and then crumble
His can in noir plotting was stuck.
David Cairns
Dan Duryea and June Vincent in Black Angel (Roy William Neill, 1946). Limerick © 2017 David Cairns
Perpetual schlub, schmoe and loser
Pathetic night-clubber and boozer
This poor Dan's a sad dope
Has no chance, has no hope
He's no threat, just a substance abuser.
David Cairns
Dan Duryea played more than his share of down and out drunks. And no one did a flophouse alky better than he. With June Vincent in Black Angel (Roy William Neill, 1946). Limerick © 2017 David Cairns
At the kinky old goat Fay Wray's staring
Soon a pinkish wax coat she'll be wearing
But wait! There's the cops!
And the hateful guy drops--
In the drink he will float like a herring.
Surly Hack
Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray visit The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz; 1933), in glorious two-strip Technicolor. We are counting down to Halloween with pre-Code Horror over at LimerWrecks. © 2016 Hilary Barta
You’ll find all us primates in cages
Confined there we fly into rages
It’s then we great apes
From pens make escapes
And wind up decried on front pages. Limerick © 2015 Hilary Barta; Image: The Gorilla (1939)
In Paris, be gay if you please
But careful when playing the tease
A frightening beast
Just might be released--
This paramour hangs out in trees. Jeanette (Patricia Medina) touches "Sultan", the ape (Charles Gemora) in Phantom of the Rue Morgue (Roy Del Ruth; 1954). Limerick © 2015 Hilary Barta
Asian Equation To your horror show villains, a coda From the orient, silk and pagoda You nailed Mr. Moto Who hailed from Kyoto Oh, Lorre, you'd kill it as Yoda. Peter Lorre in Mr. Moto's Last Warning (Norman Foster; 1939). Read all our limericks at LimerWrecks.
A Lass and a Lack
Again Moto ends up alone
No Jennifer, Brenda, or Joan
No adoring young sweet
With amor to entreat,
No "benefits" friend of his own.
Love hangs up on Peter Lorre: Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939).
Moto's Arrest Cure
Mr. Moto should take a vacation Try a break from his chosen vocation But mystery plots Need twists, and need lots And so Moto knows no relaxation. Peter Lorre tries to unwind in Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (Norman Foster; 1939). For more on Mr. Moto and Peter Lorre visit our blog of limericks, [email protected].
Rise and Dine
Each night in his lair he arises
He's a fright, so beware -- he surprises!
Getting up from his "bed"
He will sup as undead
One good bite, bloody-rare, satisfies-es.
Unbeknownst to weak-willed Wilbur (Lou Costello), Count Dracula (Béla Lugosi) is opening his coffin: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton; 1948). Text © 2014 Hilary Barta. Read all my limericks at limerwrecks.com
The Mirror Drac'd
With this dame he'll infuse a connection
But the framing could use a correction
In her neck for a sip
There's a technical slip
What a shame that one views his reflection.
Count Dracula (Béla Lugosi) puts the bite on Dr. Mornay (Lénore Aubert) in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). Read all my Frankenstein film limericks and more at LimerWrecks.com Text © 2014 Hilary Barta
Three Menaces and a Little Lady
With a roster of monsters that's great
It's a hostel for rotters, irate
Plus one wacky li'l chick
Whose poor back has a crick
And whose posture's a lot less than straight.
Surly Hack
The hunchbacked Nina (Jane "Poni" Adams) keeps an eye on Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr), Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens), and the Monster (Glenn Strange), in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945).
Catch all my Frankenstein film limericks at LimerWrecks. Text © 2013 Hilary Barta
R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen
To temptation or terror reacting,
His creations are characters, acting
Moved not inches, but fractions
For convincing smooth actions
Animation is very exacting.
Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 - May 7, 2013). Inspired by King Kong, Ray Harryhausen became the king of stop-motion animation, bringing vivid life and personality to the fantastic. Text © 2013 Hilary Barta
It Came From Beneath the Screen
From the sea comes a beast, today's catch
The police on the beat are no match
Like in gum, they get stuck
And are plumb out of luck
When the thing's giant B-cups attach.
B-movie cups, that is. It Came from Beneath the Sea (Robert Gordon; 1955) features the stop-motion monster work of master animator Ray Harryhausen. Tentacles are putting the squeeze on LimerWrecks. Text © 2013 Hilary Barta
Stalk This Way
Mighty white, like he fell in some chalk
Quite a sight in the dell on a walk
Chaney's Monster's been stained
And soon Lon is de-brained
It ain't right that like Bela he'll talk.
Surly Hack and David Cairns
Ygor has designs on the big guy's body: Lon Chaney Jr and Béla Lugosi in The Ghost of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton; 1942). Text © 2013 Hilary Barta and David Cairns
Cavity Search Party
She's more evil than anyone guessed
Though her sins she has never confessed
Not a care or concern,
When she's bare you will learn
She has nothing to get off her chest.
Barbara Steele is exposed in Black Sunday (Mario Bava; 1960). Black Sundays happens every weekend at LimerWrecks. Text © 2013 Hilary Barta
ZOMBIE FLESH EASTER
It's Easter, give praise, do not mourn
Your deceased savior's raised, is reborn
But these dead, now alive
Open heads to to survive
And will feast on your brains Sunday morn.
Pasty-faced extras lurch through Night of the Living Dead (1968). The title is by David Cairns, and is a nod to Zombies 2, aka Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979). Another limerick from LimerWrecks. Text © 2013 Hilary Barta