And So Died Riabouchinska

Last night I watched a bunch of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on DVD. The first story I saw, "The Derelicts" was a comedy episode in which the inventor of a successful product kills his business partner so he can keep all the money for himself, but the murder is witnessed by two homeless guys who blackmail the inventor for $1000 a month and also move themselves into his expensive apartment, where they proceed to eat him out of house and home and steal anything they can get their hands on. It was very funny. The second episode was a bizarre one called "And So Died Riabouchinska", which was based on a Ray Bradbury story, it revolves around a murder in a theatre which is investigated by a tough detective (an early role for Charles Bronson), and his prime suspect is a successful ventriloquist (played by Claude Rains) who has a deeply strange connection with his dummy. The third story was called "Safe Conduct" and was basically a spy story, set on a train travelling from Communist East Germany to the West where an American journalist meets a local sports star who persuades her to smuggle an expensive watch through the customs, but when they get to the checkpoint he denounces her to the authorities.

It was another very quiet and dull day at work, as usual, but at least that's it over with for another week. I honestly can't believe that it's been over three weeks since I came back from North America.