Oh, my! It’s already May! I’m getting this Turner Classic Mystery Movies list ready in mid April, and already we’ve had several days in the mid 80s. It’s going to be a hot summer for us down here in San Antonio!

I don’t usually do this, but I’m going to highlight three mystery movies that the Turner Classic channel will be showing during May 2024. Two of them are directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and one by Otto Preminger. Hitchcock’s are the 1940 Rebecca (based on the terrific novel by Daphne du Maurier) and the 1938 The Lady Vanishes (based on Ethel Lina White’s novel The Wheel Spins). I haven’t seen either of them in a few years, so I’m going to be sure to “tape” them this time when they are shown. Rebecca will be playing on Wednesday the 1st and The Lady Vanishes on Wednesday the 22nd. The third movie I want to highlight is the 1944 Laura, directed by Otto Preminger. It will be aired on Wednesday the 1st. I’ll be “taping” this one also since I haven’t seen it in years.

Also, I want to tell you about two Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery movies Turner will be showing: the 1961 Murder She Said and the 1963 Murder at the Gallop. They are “very sixties movies” – don’t expect a quiet time with this Miss Marple! (They’ll be airing on Sunday, May 12.)

Three Falcon movies will be airing this month: The Falcon Takes Over, The Falcon’s Brother, and The Falcon in Danger. George Sanders started the Falcon mystery movies and then his brother (literally!) took over the role of the sleuth. The three movies will be aired on the first three Saturdays of the month.

***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2024

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Wednesday – May 1, 2024

8:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

9:45 PM Rebecca (1940)
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by the memory of his first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
115 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – May 2, 2024

12:15 AM Marnie (1964)
A woman with a penchant for stealing money from the places she works as a receptionist marries one of her bosses who knows she’s guilty. He then proceeds to try to uncover the mysteries surrounding her past.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
130 mins

2:45 AM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffmyu7an, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

6:30 AM The Angry Hills (1959)
A World War II correspondent fights to get strategic information out of occupied Greece.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Mueller
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 3, 2024

10:45 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

12:30 PM The Unholy Three (1930)
A ventriloquist, a strong man and a midget form a criminal alliance.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent
72 mins

8:00 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – May 4, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
A society sleuth and a lady reporter try to track down a murderous thug’s lost girlfriend.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason
63 mins

3:45 PM The Liquidator (1966)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff. Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
104 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 5, 2024

12:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

10:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

10:15 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – May 7, 2024

11:30 AM The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
90 mins

4:15 PM Brother Orchid (1940)
After a failed hit, a mob chief recuperates in a monastery.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart
90 mins

8:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – May 11, 2024

10:08 AM The Falcon’s Brother (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan. Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
63 mins

2:45 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

4:30 PM Roadblock (1951)
An insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels. Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
73 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 12, 2024

12:45 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
59 mins

2:15 AM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

4:00 AM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins

10:00 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
59 mins

3:45 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – May 13, 2024

12:45 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

11:45 PM Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
A Chinese princess gets caught between the ruthless warlord Fu Manchu and a handsome secret agent.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa
70 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – May 14, 2024

1:00 AM Daughter of Shanghai (1938)
A young woman tracks down the smugglers who killed her father.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe
63 mins

6:00 AM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

6:00 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – May 16, 2024

7:15 AM Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins

10:15 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

12:00 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

2:00 PM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

4:00 PM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

6:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 17, 2024

11:30 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

2:00 PM The Venetian Affair (1967)
A reporter investigates an American diplomat’s murder in Venice.
Dir: Jerry Thorpe. Cast: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr
92 mins

11:30 PM The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
The fact-based events surrounding the murder of a young woman at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta in 1913. Originally shown as a TV mini-series.
Dir: William Hale. Cast: Richard Jordan, Peter Gallagher, William H. Macy, Jack Lemmon
251 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – May 18, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon in Danger (1943)
A society sleuth tracks a lost plane carrying $100,000.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard
73 mins

3:15 PM The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
149 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 19, 2024

12:00 AM Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Dir: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Misako Watanabe
79 mins
*****In Japanese*****

10:00 AM Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Dir: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Misako Watanabe
79 mins

3:45 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – May 21, 2024

1:00 PM Mr. and Mrs. North (1941)
A happily married couple discover a murder victim in their closet.
Dir: Robert B. Sinclair. Cast: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
67 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – May 22, 2024

1:45 PM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 31, 2024

3:30 PM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as “Doc” McCoy – a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison–in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali Macgraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

5:45 PM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet/ Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

8:00 PM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
74 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in May, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the April television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2024 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

Finally, it’s spring! Well, I say that for those of you who live in areas where you can actually enjoy the spring time. As I prepared the Turner Classic Movies channel’s April schedule of mystery and crime movies (in March), we have already had several days in the 80s. I’ve mentioned many times that we experience two seasons down here in San Antonio – humid and hot AND tepid and cool – yet still humid. So, we now see ourselves in the humid/hot/tropical-feeling weather. I sure do miss the four seasons!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2024

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Monday – April 1, 2024

11:15 AM The Unholy Three (1925)
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 2, 2024

12:15 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
113 mins
****Not a mystery – but quite a funny classic. Jean Harlow is a treasure to watch!*****

5:30 AM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

10:45 AM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
63 mins

2:30 PM ‘G’ Men (1935)
A mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
85 mins

5:30 PM The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Perry Mason tries to find out if a long-lost heiress is the real thing.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel
70 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – April 3, 2024

10:00 PM The Wild One (1953)
A vicious biker gang terrorizes a small town while their leader falls for a local girl.
Dir: Laslo Benedek. Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
79 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 4, 2024

4:15 AM The Formula (1980)
A detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
Dir: John G. Avildsen. Cast: George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
117 mins

6:15 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

10:00 AM Two Smart People (1946)
In New Orleans, a lady crook tries to steal a con man’s hidden loot.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – April 5, 2024

6:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

8:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
106 mins
*****A classic mystery movie!*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 6, 2024

10:08 AM Babbitt (1934)
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd
74 mins

11:30 AM Money to Loan (1939)
This looks at the criminal lengths that loan sharks go to get individuals to pay back their loans.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Lester Dorr, Alan Dinehart, Warren Mccollum
21 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 7, 2024

12:00 AM Violence (1947)
A female reporter goes undercover within a Neo-Nazi group, then loses her memory.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Nancy Coleman, Michael O’shea, Sheldon Leonard
72 mins

10:00 AM Violence (1947)
A female reporter goes undercover within a Neo-Nazi group, then loses her memory.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Nancy Coleman, Michael O’shea, Sheldon Leonard
72 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 9, 2024

8:00 PM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins

10:00 PM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
86 mins

11:45 PM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – April 10, 2024

1:30 AM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins

3:00 AM The Vanishing (1988)
A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.
Dir: George Sluizer. Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege
107 mins
*****In English, French, & Dutch*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 11, 2024

9:00 AM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
81 mins

10:30 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
80 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – April 12, 2024

4:45 PM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts.
Dir: René Clément. Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins

8:00 PM Bullets or Ballots (1936)
A maverick cop gets thrown off the force in disgrace, and goes to the city’s gang lords and offers to join their side, helping them to get around the police. But in fact, he is still a cop, and is working undercover to break apart the gangs.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton Maclane
77 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 14, 2024

12:15 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

7:30 AM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

10:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – April 15, 2024

2:30 AM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

4:30 AM The Petrified Forest (1936)
When a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
83 mins

9:45 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 16, 2024

9:00 AM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins

Wednesday – April 17, 2024

2:30 AM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

4:30 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 18, 2024

3:15 PM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

8:00 PM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 20, 2024

10:08 AM Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)
A race car driver tries to solve a series of track-side murders before he’s next.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton
70 mins

4:30 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 21, 2024

12:00 AM Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
92 mins

6:00 AM Crime and Punishment, U.S.A. (1959)
In an update of the Dostoyevsky classic novel, a murderer believes he can escape the penalties of justice.
Dir: Denis Sanders. Cast: Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes
96 mins

10:00 AM Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
92 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – April 22, 2024

1:45 PM Ice Station Zebra (1968)
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
148 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 23, 2024

1:45 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 27, 2024

4:15 AM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

11:30 AM The Skull Murder Mystery (1932)
In this short, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion when the skeleton of a man is dug up in an alley. Vitaphone Release 1348-1349.
Dir: Joseph Henabery. Cast: Paul Guilfoyle, Harry Mestayer, Donald Meek
21 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 28, 2024

5:45 PM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

4:00 AM Hit Man (1973)
A racketeer tears up L.A.’s underworld searching for his brother’s killer.
Dir: George Armitage. Cast: Bernie Casey, Pamela Grier, Lisa Moore
90 mins

8:00 PM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 30, 2024

1:45 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

3:45 PM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
117 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in April, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the March television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2024 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

Oh boy! It’s not even March and already the weather man is predicting highs in the 80s for us down here! Yow! It’s going to be a hot summer! And, what better way to spend hot days than watching old mystery movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel… It could be just me thinking this, but March doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of mystery movies scheduled.

I guess I should just be glad that the weather hasn’t given us 100* days yet down here…

***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – March 2024

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FRIDAY, March 1

12:00 PM The Heiress (1949)
A plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
115 mins
*****Really good movie, however, it’s not a mystery.*****

4:15 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.n
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, March 2

12:15 AM Marty (1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
91 mins
*****Another really good movie – even though it’s not a mystery.*****

8:15 AM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

12:00 PM Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
A defense lawyer takes on a case of a man accused of murdering a bartender who apparently raped his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
160 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, March 4

10:00 AM The Little Foxes (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
116 mins
*****I think I’m finding more non-mystery good movies than mysteries! This is a terrific film but not a mystery.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

TUESDAY, March 5

8:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins
*****Here’s another really good movie – AND it’s a mystery!*****

***** ***** ***** *****

WEDNESDAY, March 6

8:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
138 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, March 7

11:45 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
119 mins

2:00 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, March 9

11:00 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, March 11

6:00 AM They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
93 mins

7:45 AM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins

11:30 AM Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
80 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

TUESDAY, March 12

7:15 AM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

9:00 AM The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
Turn-of-the-century Irish patriots plan to overthrow the British government.
Dir: John Guillermin. Cast: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole
85 mins

6:00 PM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 mins

10:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

WEDNESDAY, March 13

12:00 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
****Not a serious mystery movie, but it does deal with an attempted murder trial.gh*****

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, March 14

6:30 AM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
83 mins

8:00 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irving Kershner. Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
83 mins

9:30 AM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
103 mins

11:30 AM Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn. Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
56 mins

1:45 PM Crime in the Streets (1956)
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell
91 mins

3:30 PM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, March 16

2:30 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, March 17

12:00 AM Le Samourai (1967)
A dedicated professional killer lies fully clothed in his monochromed apartment, then goes off to a day at the office: stealing a car, killing a man in a nightclub, setting up an ironclad alibi, and outsmarting the police. Two problems: his anonymous employers don’t trust him and he’s left one witness behind …
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon
95 mins
*****In French*****

8:00 AM Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
116 mins

10:00 AM Le Samourai (1967)
A dedicated professional killer lies fully clothed in his monochromed apartment, then goes off to a day at the office: stealing a car, killing a man in a nightclub, setting up an ironclad alibi, and outsmarting the police. Two problems: his anonymous employers don’t trust him and he’s left one witness behind …
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon
95 mins
*****In French*****

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, March 18

7:30 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins

9:00 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

8:00 PM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

TUESDAY, March 19

12:30 PM Blondes at Work (1938)
Even a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
Dir: Frank Mcdonald. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy
60 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

WEDNESDAY, March 20

11:30 AM M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
99 mins

6:45 PM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
74 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, March 21

6:45 AM Cairo (1963)
Master thieves set their sights on King Tut’s jewels in this remake of The Asphalt Jungle.
Dir: Wolf Rilla. Cast: George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama
91 mins

5:45 PM The Haunting (1963)
A mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins

10:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins
*****Here’s another really good movie – AND it’s a mystery!*****

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, March 23

6:00 AM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window. She witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window, she calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

8:00 PM Brannigan (1975)
A Chicago police detective has to bring a crook home from London.
Dir: Douglas Hickox. Cast: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson
111 mins

10:00 PM Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
An Arizona deputy sheriff is sent to New York City to extradite an escaped killer he tracked down.
Dir: Donald Siegel. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
94 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, March 24

12:00 AM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
84 mins

10:00 AM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
84 mins

9:30 PM Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
101 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, March 25

6:00 AM The Saint in London (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
Dir: John Paddy Carstairs. Cast: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns
72 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY, March 29

2:30 AM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, March 30

12:30 AM What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971)
After their sons are convicted of murder, two women relocate to Hollywood to start a talent school.
Dir: Curtis Harrington. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver
101 mins

6:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

10:15 PM Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
Mob assassins fall in love, neither realizing what the other does for a living.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston
129 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, March 31

12:30 AM Pushover (1954)
A police detective falls for the bank robber’s girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Dir: Richard Quine. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak
88 mins

10:00 AM Pushover (1954)
A police detective falls for the bank robber’s girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Dir: Richard Quine. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak
88 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in March, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the February television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2024 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.