Scanty Shanties
Limerwrecks just came back from sabbatical
With a section that’s Blackbeard-fanatical
It’s dotted with rhymes
About nautical crimes
In a text you’ll say smacks of piratical.
We had some pirate-based limericks at Limerwrecks, and you can read them all by following this link. Rated Arrh!
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October 4, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Limericks ahoy!
October 4, 2014 at 8:29 pm
My favorite bit in “Crimson Pirate” is Lancaster approaching the villain in drag, smiling with absolute assurance this is working.
And it is, after a fashion. Villain asides to somebody the local girls aren’t anything to write home about.
October 4, 2014 at 10:00 pm
Though the movie is pretty shoddy by Siodmak’s standards, it’s a lot of fun. Probably best to see it as a kid, though.
October 5, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Speaking of Siomak’s standards I recently caught up with The Great Sinner, his adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “The Gambler” with a screenplay by Christopher Isherwood and Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck and Melvyn Douglas in the leading roles. Astonishing. Ava is gobsmackingly gorgeous as always but she gives a truly great performance as well.
October 5, 2014 at 3:07 pm
He more or less discovered her in The Killers… I like The Great Sinner, it’s bloated and unewieldy and apparently a fragment of its original four-hour form (an out-of-control prestige production which Siodmak tried in vain to rein in) but still beautiful and even dynamic in places.
October 5, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Four hours? How Rivetteian.
October 5, 2014 at 4:06 pm
It might’ve been intolerable, but then again, it might’ve been great!