Well, we’re headed toward a new year >>> and with it, a new year of mystery classics on TCM! So here’s January’s list of great looking mystery movies >>> plus some of my own personal favorites.
January 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
Monday – January 1, 2018
12:00 PM
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 92 mins, CC
***Not a mystery, but the cast is as its best.
7:00 PM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – January 2, 2018
3:30 AM
THE HAPPY THIEVES (1962)
A worldly art thief gets mixed up with murder.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Rex Harrison, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Wiseman.
C- 89 mins, CC
Friday – January 5, 2018
8:45 AM
SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE (1932)
Strange crimes committed by a hypnotized woman are solved by a French detective.
Dir: Edward Sutherland Cast: Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan.
BW- 58 mins
12:30 PM
NINE LIVES ARE NOT ENOUGH (1941)
A reporter tries to solve a series of boardinghouse murders.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland Cast: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason.
BW- 63 mins
5:45 PM
HAVING WONDERFUL CRIME (1945)
Three amateur detectives try to find a missing magician.
Dir: Eddie Sutherland Cast: Pat O’Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis.
BW- 70 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 6, 2018
2:15 AM
THE WILD NORTH (1952)
A Mountie tracks an accused killer through the Canadian wilderness.
Dir: Andrew Marton Cast: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse.
C- 97 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 7, 2018
7:00 PM
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
BW- 93 mins, CC
Monday – January 8, 2018
8:30 AM
M (1951)
When the police hunt for a child killer cramps their style, the criminal underworld tries to track him down.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Luther Adler.
BW- 88 mins
7:00 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.
BW- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:30 PM
10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1970)
A serial killer frames a mentally challenged man.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt.
C- 111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:30 PM
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1969)
A lonely nurse and her gigolo lover murder a string of widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony LoBianco, Mary Jane Higby.
BW- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 10, 2018
2:45 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.
BW- 117 mins, CC
Thursday – January 11, 2018
7:00 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 13, 2018
7:00 PM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C- 114 mins, CC
11:00 PM
MURDER, INC. (1960)
Dir: Burt Balaban Cast: Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan.
BW- 103 mins, CC,
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 14, 2018
9:00 AM
WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains.
BW- 80 mins, CC
3:00 PM
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949)
A crusading lawyer fights to save a juvenile delinquent charged with murder.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, George Macready, Allene Roberts.
BW- 100 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – January 15, 2018
1:00 PM
SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (1960)
A 19th-century lawyer tries to clear a black man of rape and murder charges.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke.
C- 111 mins, CC
Tuesday – January 16, 2018
9:30 PM
THE HEIRESS (1949)
A plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson.
BW- 115 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 17, 2018
9:15 AM
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.
BW- 71 mins, CC
9:15 PM
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
C- 108 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – January 19, 2018
3:00 PM
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.
BW- 66 mins, CC
5:45 PM
WOMAN WANTED (1935)
An innocent woman is chased by both gangsters and the police.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone.
BW- 67 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 21, 2018
1:00 PM
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (1941)
Siamese twins, separated in infancy, join forces to avenge their parents’ murder.
Dir: Gregory Ratoff Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff.
BW- 111 mins, CC
Monday – January 22, 2018
6:30 AM
MILLIE (1931)
A prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughters honor.
Dir: John Francis Dillon Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames.
BW- 85 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 25, 2018
10:45 AM
SON OF A GUNFIGHTER (1966)
A young man stalks his mother’s killers.
Dir: Paul Landres Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook.
C- 92 mins, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – January 26, 2018
9:15 AM
THE PRIZE (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
C- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 27, 2018
9:15 PM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
BW- 84 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 28, 2018
3:00 PM
A COVENANT WITH DEATH (1966)
A lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
Dir: Lamont Johnson Cast: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado.
C- 97 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – January 29, 2018
11:30 AM
CRIME DOCTOR (1943)
A blow on the head forces a renowned psychologist to remember he was once a criminal.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel.
BW- 66 mins
2:15 PM
THE HIDDEN EYE (1945)
Blind detective Duncan Maclaine uses his other senses to piece together confusing clues behind a murder.
Dir: Richard Whorf Cast: Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins.
BW- 69 mins
Tuesday – January 30, 2018
3:00 AM
IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 86 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 31, 2018
12:45 AM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC
5:30 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC
2:45 PM
MISTER BUDDWING (1966)
A man suffering from amnesia confronts a series of women in his search for his memory.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette.
BW- 99 mins, CC
11:15 PM
KLUTE (1971)
A small-town detective searches for a missing man linked to a high-priced prostitute.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi.
C- 114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
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 December 2017 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2017 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.
(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)
For those of you who enjoy the Miss Fisher Mysteries, here’s some good news. Australia is back! This is another very good Australian television mystery series. It’s well-worth your time, mate!
Move over David Suchet! Peter Ustinov also starred in a series of movies based on Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mysteries.