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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for March 2025

February 20, 2025

The Turner Classic Movie channel will be showing four Hildegarde Withers movies this month. When I think of Stuart Palmer’s older, British amateur sleuth, I think of Edna May Oliver. (The fourth Hildegarde movie stars Helen Broderick as Hildegarde Withers.) Of course, Hildegarde is accompanied by a police detective who she is able to lead on to the correct solution of the crimes they (as in she!) solves. (You may be interested in checking out Stuart Palmer’s page on my Cozy Mystery site…) I have also had the pleasure of watching the Hildegard movies that feature ZaSu Pitts as Hildegarde, but the channel won’t be airing those this month.

Another thing I want to bring to your attention is the fact that the Turner Classic Movie channel will be featuring a day of Alfred Hitchcock movies on March 12. They will be starting the day with a documentary called “Becoming Hitchcock – The Legacy of Blackmail”. I’m looking forward to this! The day will continue by showing five more of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies and his only comedy. I’m fortunate that I enjoy watching some movies over and over, and then over again!

Crossfire ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – March 2025

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

Saturday – March 1, 2025

7:30 AM Five Star Final (1931)
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H. B. Warner
89 mins

9:00 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

2:15 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

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

Sunday – March 2, 2025

10:00 AM 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

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

Monday – March 3, 2025

6:00 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

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

Tuesday – March 4, 2025

9:15 AM Blackwell’s Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
71 mins

4:30 PM They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he’s killed an opponent in the ring.
Dir: Busby Berkeley. Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson
92 mins

6:15 PM 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

5:00 AM A Shot in the Dark (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
57 mins

Thirteen Women ***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – March 5, 2025

1:15 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

2:45 AM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
72 mins

8:15 AM Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she’s sent to prison.
Dir: Howard Bretherton & William Keighley. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
69 mins

9:30 AM Gambling Lady (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien
66 mins

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

Friday – March 7, 2025

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 – March 8, 2025

2:45 AM Purple Noon (1961)
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
*****In French*****

10:10 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
66 mins

5:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

Velvet Touch, The ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – March 9, 2025

12:30 AM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

3:30 AM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

5:00 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

10:00 AM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

1:45 PM 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

8:00 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
*****I usually don’t watch mystery movies from the 60s on, but I’m glad I took a chance on this really good one.*****

10:15 PM Evil Under the Sun (1982)
A detective trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
Dir: Guy Hamilton. Cast: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
117 mins

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

Tuesday – March 11, 2025

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
*****Excellent mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
134 mins

12:30 AM The Getaway (1972)
A convict makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison.
Once free, he 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

The Lady Vanishes ***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – March 12, 2025

2:45 AM The Anderson Tapes (1971)
After ten years in prison, a thief tries to adjust to improved surveillance methods.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam
99 mins

4:45 AM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

6:30 AM Becoming Hitchcock – The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
A reflection on the development of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films – Blackmail (1929).
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. Cast: Elvis Mitchell (narrator), Alfred Hitchcock
72 mins

8:00 AM 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

10:00 AM Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
A quarrelsome couple discovers their marriage isn’t legal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond
89 mins
*****Alfred Hitchcock’s only comedy.*****

12:00 PM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

2:00 PM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

4:00 PM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood. Now, as Eve plays a game of cat and mouse with …
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 mins

6:00 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins

8:00 PM The Lady Eve (1941)
A shy millionaire, homeward bound after two years collecting snakes in the Brazilian jungle, encounters a gold-digger aboard an ocean liner.
Dir: Preston Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
97 mins
*****A very good comedy – not a mystery.*****

9:45 PM Ball of Fire (1942)
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
111 mins
*****Here’s another very good non-mystery comedy movie.*****

11:45 PM Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
94 mins
*****This is not a mystery movie. It’s one of my very favorite Christmas movies.*****

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

Thursday – March 13, 2025

9:30 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
65 mins

11:00 AM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****This is not a mystery movie. It’s a truly terrific Christmas movie.*****

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

Saturday – March 15, 2025

1:30 AM Blood Simple (1984)
An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins

3:15 AM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins

4:45 AM The Gay Falcon (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins
66 mins

10:15 AM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
71 mins

4:15 PM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

Gun Crazy ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – March 16, 2025

12:00 AM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

6:00 AM A Fine Pair (1969)
A detective gets involved with a beautiful jewel thief.
Dir: Francesco Maselli. Cast: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian
115 mins

7:45 AM They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969)
A casino blackjack dealer plots to hijack and rob an armored car.
Dir: Antonio Isasi Isasmendi. Cast: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb
129 mins

10:00 AM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

2:15 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

5:45 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

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

Monday – March 17, 2025

6:00 PM 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

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

Tuesday – March 18, 2025

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
*****I said this before… this is an excellent mystery movie.*****

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

Wednesday – March 19, 2025

12:00 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

4:30 AM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
72 mins gbh

8:00 AM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood. Now, as Eve plays a game of cat and mouse with …
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 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
107 mins

The Man With A Cloak ***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – March 20, 2025

1:30 AM Witness to Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
83 mins

3:00 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

5:45 AM The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
81 mins

9:15 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller of an artist who can only find inspiration in murder and of the two women who inspire him, the two women he loves – The Two Mrs. Carrolls.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

11:00 AM 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

1:00 PM Crime of Passion (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
84 mins

4:15 PM The Double Man (1967)
Russian secret service officials attempt to kidnap a CIA officer and replace him with a double of their own.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill
105 mins

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

Friday – March 21, 2025

2:00 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

4:00 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

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

Saturday – March 22, 2025

12:15 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

10:05 AM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
74 mins

6:00 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

Clash By Night ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – March 23, 2025

12:00 AM Clash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan
104 mins

10:00 AM Clash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan
104 mins

12:00 PM Lured (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
102 mins

2:00 PM Kind Lady (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle
76 mins

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

Wednesday – March 26, 2025

10:30 AM The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle
66 mins

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

Thursday – March 27, 2025

10:00 PM Gambit (1966)
Comedic caper revolves around a professional thief who recruits a Eurasian nightclub singer to go along with him on a planned burglary of a statuette owned by a wealthy Arab.
Dir: Ronald Neame. Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
109 mins

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

Friday – March 28, 2025

12:00 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

2:00 AM 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
84 mins

3:30 AM They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969)
A casino blackjack dealer plots to hijack and rob an armored car.
Dir: Antonio Isasi Isasmendi. Cast: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb
129 mins

6:30 PM 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

12:30 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

This Could Be the Night ***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – March 29, 2025

6:00 AM This Could Be the Night (1957)
A schoolteacher gets a secretarial job at a gangster-run nightclub.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa
103 mins

10:10 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy. Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
66 mins

4:30 PM The Bribe (1949)
A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
98 mins

6:15 PM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
86 mins

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

Sunday – March 30, 2025

12:15 AM Count the Hours! (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran
76 mins

2:00 AM She (1965)
Explorers uncover a lost kingdom ruled by an immortal queen.
Dir: Robert Day. Cast: Ursula Andress, John Richardson, Peter Cushing
106 mins

10:00 AM Count the Hours! (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran
76 mins

8:00 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

Picture Snatcher ***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – March 31, 2025

10:30 AM Picture Snatcher (1933)
An ex-con brings his crooked ways to a job as a news photographer.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
77 mins

12:00 PM Marked Woman (1937)
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
96 mins

2:00 PM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

4:00 PM 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

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

Tuesday – April 1, 2025

5:00 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president’s wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
80 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 2025 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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for February 2025

January 23, 2025

It seems to me there are fewer mystery movies that are being aired this month. I don’t think it’s because February is such a short month. When I was compiling this list I noticed that the Turner Classic Movies was doing a lot of “theme days” – it seems that none of the theme days were dedicated to mystery movies. However, there still are several really good ones such as Double Indemnity (1944) on February 4, several of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, and Gaslight (1944) on February 25, and several other newer ones.

12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition) with Special Features ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – February 2025

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

Saturday – February 1, 2025

4:00 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

6:00 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

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
*****Not a mystery. Very good movie.*****

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

Tuesday – February 4, 2025

12:15 AM 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
107 mins
*****Excellent mystery movie.*****

2:15 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

4:15 AM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
95 mins

8:00 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

4:00 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
*****Not really a mystery – a murder trial which is more of a comedy…*****

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

Wednesday – February 5, 2025

7:15 AM The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews
78 mins

10:00 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

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

Thursday – February 6, 2025

9:15 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

Three Billboards ***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – February 8, 2025

10:00 PM Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Discover what happens after a flinty small-town woman places messages on a trio of billboards asking local police why her daughter’s murder hasn’t been solved.
Dir: Martin McDonagh. Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
115 mins

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

Sunday – February 9, 2025

2:30 AM 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

10:15 PM Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
114 mins

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

Tuesday – February 11, 2025

3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

5:30 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

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

Thursday – February 13, 2025

8:00 AM The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
96 mins

10:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
110 mins

11:30 PM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

Marty ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 14, 2025

10:00 PM 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
94 mins
*****Not a mystery. Very good movie.*****

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

Saturday – February 15, 2025

7:00 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

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

Monday – February 17, 2025

4:45 AM 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

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

Wednesday – February 19, 2025

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 Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras. Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
125 mins

6:00 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

Bad Day at Black Rock ***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 20, 2025

12:15 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

4:00 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
91 mins

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

Saturday – February 22, 2025

12:00 PM 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

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

Sunday – February 23, 2025

8:00 PM All the President’s Men (1976)
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.
138 mins

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

Monday – February 24, 2025

8:00 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

10:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

Gaslight ***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 25, 2025

12:00 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

2:00 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

4:00 AM 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

6:00 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

11:30 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
190 mins

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (Anniversary Edition) ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 28, 2025

11:30 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

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

Saturday – March 1, 2025

9:00 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

2:15 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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in February, 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 January television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2025 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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for January 2025

December 24, 2024

2025! Can you believe it’s here?!? (I can’t…)

First off, Happy Holidays to everyone!

As usual, I have tried to glean all of the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during the month – in this case, January 2025. There are two things that stand out for me: one is a four movie-run of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies and the other is a three movie-run of movies based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegarde Withers books.

On Sunday, January 5, three of Stuart Palmer’s Cozy Mystery novels will be brought to life in the following three movies: “The Penguin Pool Murder”, “Murder on the Blackboard”, and “Murder on a Honeymoon”. All three of these movies star Edna May Oliver (I just love her movies!) and James Gleason. I can’t even remember how many times I have watched these movies — but I do know it’s quite a few times!

The second thing I want to point out is that Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “The 39 Steps” will air on Wednesday, January 22. They will be immediately followed by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Young and Innocent” and then “The Lady Vanishes”. There are four other Hitchcock movies that will be aired during January: “Spellbound” on the 3rd, and then “Blackmail” and “Murder!” on the 16th. The fourth of his movies is (what I believe) his only comedy: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” airing on the 2nd. I don’t think I have seen either of the ones that the Turner Classic Movies channel is showing on the 16th – those are from way back in 1929 and 1930.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – January 2025

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

Thursday – January 2, 2025

6:15 AM Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
A happily married couple discover a murder victim in their closet.
Dir: Robert Be Sinclair. Cast: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
67 mins

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

11:45 PM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins

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

Friday – January 3, 2025

1:30 AM Blow-Up (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins

8:00 PM Spellbound (1945)
A psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, and it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac, who may also be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
111 mins

10:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
126 mins

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

Saturday – January 4, 2025

12:15 AM Nightmare (1956)
A New Orleans musician experiences a nightmare in which he sees himself killing a man and awakens to find blood on himself and bruises on his neck. Worried that it may have actually happened, he tries to reconstruct his actions to find out the truth.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell
89 mins

2:00 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

3:45 AM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
64 mins

6:15 PM Sapphire (1959)
A “light-skinned” black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London’s bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
92 mins
*****Remember, this very dated “crime” movie was from the 1950s.*****

SUSPENSE ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 5, 2025

12:00 AM Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owner’s business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
100 mins

6:00 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

10:00 AM Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owner’s business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
100 mins

8:00 PM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
66 mins

9:15 PM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
71 mins

10:45 PM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
74 mins

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

Monday – January 6, 2025

4:30 AM McQ (1974)
A Seattle policeman tries to settle an unjust score.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
116 mins

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

Tuesday – January 7, 2025

4:30 AM McQ (1974)
A Seattle policeman tries to settle an unjust score.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
116 mins

8:00 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
64 mins

8:00 PM Scarface (1932)
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
90 mins

11:15 PM You and Me (1938)
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
94 mins

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

Wednesday – January 8, 2025

2:30 AM Side Street (1929)
Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.
Dir: Malcolm St. Clair. Cast: Tom Moore, Owen Moore, Matt Moore
74 mins

4:00 AM The Woman Racket (1930)
A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
Dir: Robert Ober. Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
70 mins

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

Friday – January 10, 2025

4:30 PM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins

 

6:30 PM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

The Purple Gang

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

Saturday – January 11, 2025

6:30 AM The Purple Gang (1960)
The story of the infamous gang of bootleggers, hijackers, and killers in 1920’s Detroit.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards
85 mins

2:00 PM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins

3:30 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

8:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
103 mins
*****Excellent Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy!*****

10:00 PM The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
A small-time investor takes on the management of a major corporation.
Dir: Richard Quine. Cast: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
99 mins
*****Judy Holliday was a comedy gem! Not a mystery.*****

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

Sunday – January 12, 2025

12:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

1:45 AM The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle
101 mins

10:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

4:15 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, Vanessa Redgrave
98 mins

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

Monday – January 13, 2025

9:30 AM Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney tries to frame an innocent girl for the murder he committed.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis
69 mins

3:00 PM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins

The Big House Triple-Feature (English, Spanish, French) ***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – January 14, 2025

8:15 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

8:00 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
92 mins

9:45 PM 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

11:30 PM Invisible Stripes (1940)
On his release from prison, a crook tries to stop his brother from following in his footsteps.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden
82 mins

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

Wednesday – January 15, 2025

3:00 AM Taxi! (1932)
A feisty independent cab driver fights off a crooked syndicate.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
70 mins

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

Thursday – January 16, 2025

12:15 AM Blackmail (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
99 mins

2:00 AM Murder! (1930)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Nora Baring, Miles Mander
92 mins

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

Saturday – January 18, 2025

2:00 PM 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

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

Sunday – January 19, 2025

3:30 AM The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
67 mins

5:00 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
76 mins

6:00 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

Intruder In The Dust [Remaster] ***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – January 20, 2025

2:00 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

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

Tuesday – January 21, 2025

12:15 AM 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

8:45 AM Black Legion (1937)
During the Great Depression, a man is passed over for a promotion which goes to a hard working Polish immigrant. Feeling cheated, he joins a secret, racist organization and goes on a nighttime raid …
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore
80 mins

10:15 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

8:00 PM 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

9:30 PM Johnny Angel (1946)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
79 mins

***** ***** ***** *****A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston
87 mins

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

Wednesday – January 22, 2025

12:45 AM Race Street (1948)
A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell
79 mins

8:00 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

9:30 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins

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

Thursday – January 23, 2025

12:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
70 mins

2:00 AM 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

6:15 PM Nazi Agent (1942)
An Allied sympathizer discovers his twin brother is a Nazi spy.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher
82 mins

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

Saturday – January 25, 2025

6:15 PM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

Woman on the Run (The Film Detective Restored Version) ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 26, 2025

12:00 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

10:00 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

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

Tuesday – January 28, 2025

3:00 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

8:00 PM Johnny Allegro (1949)
A reformed hoodlum gets mixed up with counterfeiters and a deadly manhunt.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready
81 mins

9:30 PM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth/ Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

11:00 PM A Dangerous Profession (1950)
A bail bondsman is asked to raise money to free his girlfriend’s husband.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien
79 mins

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

Wednesday – January 29, 2025

12:15 AM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

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

Thursday – January 30, 2025

8:00 PM The French Connection (1971)
A tough-talking New York City detective and his partner uncover an international drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William Friedkin. Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
104 mins

10:00 PM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins

20,000 Years In Sing Sing ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – January 31, 2025

7:45 AM 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
81 mins

4:45 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
83 mins

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

Saturday – February 1, 2025

2:15 AM The Last Wave (1977)
This is an Australian mystery revolving around a trial of five Aborigines accused of murder.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in January, 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 December television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 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:

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for December 2024

November 27, 2024

My goodness, it’s difficult to believe that this TCM listing is for the last month we will be posting “2024” on our correspondence. Good grief, where has this year gone?

As usual, I have listed the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during this month. But, since I just can’t get enough Christmas good-will movies, and think that perhaps you also are interested in them, I have tried to list the Christmas movies the channel will be broadcasting. Some of my very favorites (Christmas in Connecticut, Remember the Night, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Desk Set, well, my list of favorites goes on and on…)

So, there should be plenty of feel-good Christmas movies along with our mystery/crime movies to watch this month.
(Oh, by the way, Turner Classic Movies will be playing The Thin Man movies on Tuesday, December 31. I sort of remember they skipped a year recently.)

Beast of the City ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2024

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

Sunday – December 1, 2024

10:00 AM Naked Alibi (1954)
A chief of police detectives who is fired for brutality tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Dir: Jerry Hopper. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
86 mins

4:00 PM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) — Christmas
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins

6:00 PM The Bishop’s Wife (1948) — Christmas
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins

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

Thursday – December 5, 2024

6:00 AM The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins

10:15 AM The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
A boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children’s home.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon
70 mins

12:00 PM Death on the Diamond (1934)
A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton
71 mins

1:30 PM Hide-Out (1934)
Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edward Arnold
82 mins

3:00 PM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

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

Friday – December 6, 2024

9:00 AM My Forbidden Past (1951)
A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
81 mins

Pete Kelly's Blues ***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – December 7, 2024

6:15 AM Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with a gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb. Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
95 mins

4:00 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) — Christmas
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins

6:15 PM Holiday Affair (1949) — Christmas
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

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

Sunday – December 8, 2024

12:00 AM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins

10:00 AM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins

11:45 AM A Christmas Carol (1938) — Christmas
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins

8:00 PM Born to Be Bad (1950)
An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins

Nowhere To Go [DVD] [1958] ***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – December 10, 2024

8:00 PM Nowhere to Go (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
87 mins

10:00 PM The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
An age-resisting private girls-school teacher grows eccentric and vicarious through her young students. Set in 1930s Edinburgh.
Dir: Ronald Neame. Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
116 mins
*****Not a mystery – but it’s a terrific movie.*****

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

Wednesday – December 11, 2024

8:00 PM The Fallen Idol (1948)
A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey
95 mins

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

Thursday – December 12, 2024

2:00 PM Killer McCoy (1947)
A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth
103 mins

Scarlet Pages ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – December 13, 2024

7:00 AM Numbered Men (1930)
A convict learns that a fellow prisoner has been messing with his woman.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett
70 mins

8:15 AM Scarlet Pages (1930)
A female attorney makes a startling discovery about the woman she’s defending from murder charges.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Elsie Ferguson, John Halliday, Marion Nixon
66 mins

10:45 AM Night Waitress (1936)
A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth
59 mins

12:00 PM Paid (1930)
A young innocent plots revenge after being sent to prison unjustly.
Dir: Sam Wood. Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost
80 mins

1:30 PM The Widow From Chicago (1930)
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother’s death.
Dir: Edward Cline. Cast: Alice White, Neil Hamilton, Edward G. Robinson
64 mins

4:00 PM The Woman Racket (1930)
A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
Dir: Robert Ober. Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
70 mins

5:30 PM Framed (1930)
A nightclub hostess seeks revenge against a police inspector, yet falls in love with his son.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde
62 mins

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

Saturday – December 14, 2024

12:45 AM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

4:00 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — Christmas
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins

6:00 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) — Christmas
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins

On Borrowed Time ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – December 15, 2024

12:30 AM Black Gravel (1961)
In post-WWII Germany, people struggle with shortages of everything, including housing, water, food, and clothing. A military base being built for several thousand American soldiers provides an economic opportunity that some try to take advantage of. Also known by the German title ‘Schwarzer Kies’.
Dir: Helmut Käutner. Cast: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy
113 mins
*****In German*****

6:00 AM On Borrowed Time (1939)
An old man and his grandson trap Death in a tree.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
99 mins
*****Not a mystery, but I remember enjoying it a lot. The cast is fantastic.*****

10:00 AM Black Gravel (1961)
In post-WWII Germany, people struggle with shortages of everything, including housing, water, food, and clothing. A military base being built for several thousand American soldiers provides an economic opportunity that some try to take advantage of. Also known by the German title ‘Schwarzer Kies’.
Dir: Helmut Käutner. Cast: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy
113 mins
*****In German*****

6:00 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945) — Christmas
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****I love this movie!*****

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

Monday – December 16, 2024

8:00 PM Auntie Mame (1958) — Christmas
An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton Dacosta. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
143 mins

10:30 PM Metropolitan (1990) — Christmas
A group of friends from New York’s haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.
Dir: Whit Stillman. Cast: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
98 mins

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

Tuesday – December 17, 2024

12:15 AM Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Dick Hogan
80 mins

7:15 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
113 mins
*****Not a mystery, but very good.*****

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

Thursday – December 19, 2024

6:00 AM Quicksand (1950)
Petty theft leads a mechanic into a life of crime.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates
79 mins

7:30 AM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins

10:30 AM King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
A gangster rises to the top of the gambling racket.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Mickey Rooney
106 mins

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – December 20, 2024

8:00 AM 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 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) — Christmas
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins

12:00 AM The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — Christmas
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins

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

Saturday – December 21, 2024

7:30 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins

10:30 AM A Christmas Carol (1938) — Christmas
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins

2:00 PM Little Women (1949) — Christmas
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
121 mins

8:00 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) — Christmas
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins

10:15 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) — Christmas
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins

2:15 AM Miracle on Main Street (1939) — Christmas
On Christmas Eve, a couple hiding from the police find an abandoned baby and decide to raise the child.
Dir: Steve Sekely. Cast: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr.
78 mins

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

Sunday – December 22, 2024

10:00 AM 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 The Holly and the Ivy (1952) — Christmas
A minister’s family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.
Dir: George More O’Ferrall. Cast: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
80 mins

8:00 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945) — Christmas
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****I love, love, love this Christmas movie!*****

10:00 PM Remember the Night (1940) — Christmas
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
94 mins
*****This is another Christmas movie I love, love, love to watch!*****

12:00 AM Christmas Past (1925) — Christmas
A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.
Dir: Charles M. Seay, Frank E. Kleinschmidt, J. Searle Dawley. Cast: Barry O’Moore, Julian Reed, Marc McDermott
120 mins

Larceny, Inc. (1942) ***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – December 23, 2024

6:15 AM Compliments of the Season (1930) — Christmas
In this film, a criminal attempting to go straight stops a young lady on Christmas eve from committing suicide. Vitaphone Release 1094-1095.
Dir: Arthur Hurley. Cast: Eric Dressler, Lenita Lane, Pat O’Brien
13 mins

8:30 AM I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948)
A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to find the genuine killer.
Dir: William Nigh. Cast: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey
70 mins

2:00 PM 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

4:00 PM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins

8:00 PM Holiday Affair (1949) — Christmas
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

9:45 PM Desk Set (1957) — Christmas
An efficiency expert introduces his amazing new machine that can answer anything to a TV researcher and her staff, but it threatens to put them out of work.
Dir: Walter Lang. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
103 mins

11:45 PM Meet John Doe (1941) — Christmas
A reporter’s fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
123 mins

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

Tuesday – December 24, 2024

2:00 AM The Thin Man (1934) — Christmas
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
91 mins

3:45 AM Cover Up (1949) — Christmas
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton
85 mins

5:15 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) — Christmas
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
85 mins

6:45 AM Three Godfathers (1936) — Christmas
Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski. Cast: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
82 mins

8:15 AM Big Business (1929) — Christmas
A quarrel between two Christmas tree salesmen and a potential customer leads to a wave of destruction.
Dir: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
19 mins
*****Silent.)

8:45 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) — Christmas
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
85 mins

10:15 AM Bundle of Joy (1956) — Christmas (I’m not sure if it’s Christmas or not…)
A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
Dir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
98 mins

12:00 PM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) — Christmas
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins

2:00 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) — Christmas
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins

4:15 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945) — Christmas
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

6:15 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — Christmas
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins

8:00 PM The Bishop’s Wife (1948) — Christmas
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster. Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins

10:00 PM Room for One More (1952) — Christmas
New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
Dir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle
98 mins

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

Wednesday – December 25, 2024 – Merry Christmas!

12:00 AM A Christmas Carol (1938) — Christmas
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins

1:30 AM Beyond Tomorrow (1940) — Christmas
A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger
84 mins

4:30 AM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
78 mins

6:00 AM Star in the Night (1945) — Christmas
Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Baggett, Anthony Caruso
21 mins

6:30 AM Never Say Goodbye (1946) — Christmas
A husband tries to win back his wife before she can divorce him.
Dir: James V. Kern. Cast: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson
97 mins

8:30 AM All Mine to Give (1957) — Christmas
Pioneer children fight to build a new family after their parents die.
Dir: Allen Reisner. Cast: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson
110 mins

12:00 PM Little Women (1933) — Christmas
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins
*****If you’re only going to watch one “Little Women” movie, this is the one I would recommend.

4:15 PM Holiday Affair (1949) — Christmas
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

6:00 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) — Christmas
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins

Background to Danger (Remastered Edition) ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – December 27, 2024

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 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

1:30 PM Conflict (1945)
A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
86 mins

3:00 PM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins

4:45 PM Three Strangers (1946)
Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
92 mins

6:30 PM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
86 mins

8:00 PM Le Samourai (1967)
When a professional hitman is seen by witnesses leaving the scene of a killing, his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon
105 mins
*****In French*****

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

Saturday – December 28, 2024

12:15 AM Blood Simple (1984)
An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins

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

Sunday – December 29, 2024

12:15 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
*****Great Noir Alley movie! Thank you Eddie Muller!****

10:00 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

2:00 PM 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

8:00 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

10:30 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
107 mins

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

Monday – December 30, 2024

10:00 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
*****I wondered if I was going to like this movie. Once I watched it, I became a fan!*****

2:15 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
89 mins

4:00 AM House on Haunted Hill (1958)
The owner of a supposedly haunted mansion offers $10,000 to anyone dumb enough to attempt to spend the night there.
Dir: William Castle. Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
75 mins
*****I’m not sure if this is just a “horror” movie or if it qualifies as a mystery…*****

The Complete Thin Man Collection (BD) [6 disc collection) [Blu-ray] ***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – December 31, 2024

9:15 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
91 mins

11:00 AM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
110 mins

1:00 PM Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins

2:45 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

4:30 PM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins

6:15 PM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins

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

Wednesday – January 1, 2025!

12:30 AM Repeat Performance (1947) — New Year’s
On New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Dir: Alfred Werker. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in December, 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 November television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for November 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.

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