Day #22,293

Walk km 12,570-12,580: through Piedmont Park again

Movie #2178: Ruthless (1948, Edgar G Ulmer)

Here's a bit of cinematic history. A poverty row studio taking the big gamble on an "A" picture. Since Eagle-Lion studios are no longer with us I guess we can assume that this was a failure.
I've only seen Ulmer's shoestring budget pictures so this is quite a change. I think he does quite a good job here. Unfortunately, the plot of a ruthless man doing whatever it takes to claw his way to the top of a financial empire doesn't really appeal to me.

Movie rewatch: Night Of The Comet (Thom E Eberhardt, 1984)

I remember liking this back in the day when I had the movie channel on cable TV (about 25 years ago). I guess I was desperate for good movies. It's OK. The plot is "last people on earth" - one of my favourites. Some nice comedy bits too.
But those 80s fashions and music: yuck! Except for Cyndi Lauper of course.

TV Episode #42: Rebound: The Witness (1952, Bernard Girard)

About as grimy as they come. Twobit burglars who live in a fleabag hotel decide they have to murder a witness to their latest heist in order to preserve their freedom. Looks like life in the state pen would be more luxurious. Lee Marvin is the cop. Directed by Bernard "The Party Crashers" Girard.

Day #22,292

Walk km 12,557-12,570: 5 Points via Piedmont Park

Lake Clara Meer
approx km 12,560 Piedmont Park

Movie #2177: Les Bonnes Femmes (1960, Claude Chabrol)

This appears to be a kind of love letter to women. All the women here are charming and all the men are louts. The problem is: the women are still attracted to the men. The big tip off is the older salesclerk Louise who keeps her handkerchief from when she was a little girl which was soaked in the blood of a guillotined serial rapist/murderer.

Day #22,291

Walk km 12,550-12,557: to PeachTree at Ponce De Leon via Georgia Tech

street scene
approx km 12,554 Snyder Street

Movie rewatch: Artists And Models (1955, Frank Tashlin)

Tashlin's epic! I watched this so long ago that I'd forgotten that this was a musical. Obviously, my favourite musical of all time. Dazzling colour. Perky Shirley MacLaine. Goofy Jerry. Dean croons. Oodles of gags and one-liners (loved the "Rear Window" gag). Plotline concerns evil Murdoch publishing empire! This Murdoch publishing empire was rotting kids minds with comic books. The current Murdoch rots the minds of much older children.

Movie #2175: Smart Blonde (1937, Frank McDonald)

First of the Torchy Blane series. Just a regular whodunit with added bonus of sassy Glenda Farrell as Torchy.

Movie #2176: Monkey On My Back (1957, Andre De Toth)

Another superior directing job by Andre DeToth. However, this one is only a biopic so nothing to write home about.

Movie Rewatch: Monsieur Hire (1989, Patrice Leconte)
This is the remake of Duvivier's "Panique" so I thought I'd watch it again to see how it compares. Not well. Whereas the original was a tale that pitted ignorance against intelligence, this version is just a love triangle. 

Day #22,289-290

Walk km 12,537-12,539: MARTA station at Arts Center to 25th Street
Walk km 12,539-12,541: to the drug store on PeachTree
Walk km 12,541-12,550: to Civic Center

approx 12,543 corner of PeachTree and PeachTree (Atlanta)

Day #22,288

TV Episode #39: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Derelicts (Robert Stevenson, 1956)
I think they missed a good plot turn here. A businessman murders the man who holds his IOU because he needs all this money for his high maintenance wife. A bum sees him do it and starts blackmailing him. He even starts to live in the other guy's house. The guy tells his wife that the bum is a cousin. The wife wants him thrown out. The wife finds out about the murder and that the bum is a blackmailer. She turns on the charm to get the IOU off the bum. Bum says he may look like a bum but he's got 10 large (plus the blackmail money). Right here, the wife should have dumped her husband and taken up with the bum/blackmailer. A bum with a trophy wife! Great twist. However, the story plays out according to Hoyle.

TV Episode #40: Thriller:Rose's Last Summer (1960, Arthur Hiller)

From a story by Margaret "Mrs Ross MacDonald" Millar! Starring faded screen queen Mary Astor! And it's actually good. This was a few years before Bette Davis and Joan Crawford tossed their pride away and played batty old faded screen queens for the big screen.

Movie #2174: The Crazy Family (1984, Gakuryu Ishii)

More silly than crazy. Family antics aren't really that funny.

TV Episode #40:  Thriller: The Twisted Image (1960, Arthur Hiller)

All stops pulled out for season #1 episode #1 of Thriller. Leslie Neilson must put up with 2 loonies in his company. One wants to marry him (he's already married) and the other one wants to be him. Mayhem ensues.