Shot/Countershot

A mirror-maze shoot-out is crazy
What appears to be true gets quite hazy
The antagonists shatter
In fragments and scatter
When smoke clears they're all slew -- call Scorsese!

David Cairns

Everett Sloane, Orson Welles, and Rita Hayworth crack up in The Lady From Shanghai (Welles; 1947)

Shanghai Lowdown

This honey's too hot for a nun
She's done for, from shots from a gun
In every direction
Her severed reflection
This funhouse is rotten, not fun.

Rita Hayworth is The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles; 1947).

Holey Matrimony

The Bannisters, Elsa and Art
Should manage to dwell far apart
Their life, joined in wedlock
Is strife, strain and deadlock
Till - BANG! - each is shelled through the heart.

David Cairns

Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane can't face each other in a hall of mirrors: The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles; 1947).

Shanghai Canoodle

For a picnic, they tarry on shore 
There wickedness, there to explore
Dirty tricks is their game
At the Mick they take aim
Will the thickheaded square learn the score?  

Glenn Anders, Everett Sloane, and Rita Hayworth all have plans for Irish sailor Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai (Welles; 1947).

Sliding Down Elsa Bannister

She'd rate as first mate on your ship
But wait -- she's one date you should skip
Her lips start to pucker
She trips up some sucker
Too late! Watch your fate take a dip.


Rita Hayworth is Elsa Bannister, aka The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles; 1947).

SeaUnworthy

You've signed with this seasickly crew
You'll find that all three are askew
They fight just like sharks
And their bite will leave marks
They're the kind that they feed at the zoo.


Sailor Orson Welles gets tangled up wih Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, and Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai (Welles; 1947).

Seaman Worst Class

Beware of offensive attorneys
Who spare no expense when on journeys
And strut not on yachts
Where nutjobs hatch plots
Seafarers that dense end on gurneys.

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles star in the dark and wacky film noir, The Lady From Shanghai (Welles; 1947).