I hope everyone is having a good holiday season! Here’s hoping that 2022 will be better than the last few years… and also, here’s a quick update about next month’s mystery movies airing on Turner Classic Movies.
Of particular note is a Thin man marathon, an annual TCM tradition, which will span both the last hours of 2021 and the first hours of 2022.
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – January 2022
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Saturday – January 1, 2022
1:45 AM 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins
3:30 AM 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins
5:15 AM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins
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Sunday – January 2, 2022
12:30 AM Repeat Performance (1947)
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. Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins
8:00 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
10:00 AM Repeat Performance (1947)
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. Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins
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Tuesday – January 4, 2022
4:00 AM Comet over Broadway (1938)
A stage star’s rampant ambition leads to murder.
Dir: Busby Berkeley. Actors: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
69 mins
5:30 PM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy. Actors: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
56 mins
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Thursday – January 6, 2022
8:00 PM Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
80 mins
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Friday – January 7, 2022
1:15 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Actors: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lobianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins
5:00 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Actors: Edmond O’brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins
8:00 AM Payment Deferred (1932)
A milquetoast kills for money and finds it a hard habit to break.
Dir: Lothar Mendes. Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan,
Dorothy Peterson
75 mins
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Saturday – January 8, 2022
4:30 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins
6:00 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
110 mins
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Sunday – January 9, 2022
12:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)
A womanizing carnival man becomes a nightclub clairvoyant – using people on his way up.
Dir: Edmund Goulding. Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
111 mins
10:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)
A womanizing carnival man becomes a nightclub clairvoyant – using people on his way up.
Dir: Edmund Goulding. Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
111 mins
2:45 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins
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Wednesday – January 12, 2022
8:00 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. Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
134 mins
10:30 PM The Boston Strangler (1968)
The true story of the extensive police manhunt for a serial killer in Boston who had strangled a number of young women in the early 60s.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Actors: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
116 mins
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Friday – January 14, 2021
2:30 AM The Onion Field (1979)
When his partner is killed by a disturbed ex-con, a policeman struggles to regain his confidence.
Dir: Harold Becker. Actors: John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales
122 mins
4:45 AM 10 Rillington Place (1971)
A serial killer frames a mentally challenged man.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Actors: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt
109 mins
6:45 AM The Strangler (1964)
Completely dominated by his neurotic, bed-ridden mother, an overweight lab technician develops a doll fetish and a bad habit of murdering nurses.
Dir: Burt Topper. Actors: Victor Buono, David Mclean, Diane Sayer
89 mins
8:00 PM Hell Drivers (1957)
An ex-con tries to go clean and gets a job working as a truck driver, but then he discovers that his peers in the union are scamming money by creating phantom drivers on the payroll and splitting the extra cash amongst themselves.
Dir: Cy Endfield. Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
108 mins
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Saturday – January 15, 2022
3:30 AM Melinda (1972)
A disc jockey sets out to avenge his girlfriend’s murder.
Dir: Hugh A. Robertson. Actors: Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta Mcgee
109 mins
1:30 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. Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins
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Sunday – January 16, 2022
12:30 AM The Mob (1951)
A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
Dir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
87 mins
10:00 AM The Mob (1951)
A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
Dir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
87 mins
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Tuesday – January 18, 2022
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. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins
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Friday – January 21, 2022
6:45 AM The Man with Two Faces (1934)
An actor uses his skills to protect his sister from her sinister husband.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez
72 mins
9:45 AM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins
11:30 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley. Actors: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
78 mins
1:00 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. Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins
2:45 PM Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Actors: Doris Day ,Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
99 mins
4:30 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. Actors: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins
6:00 PM Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
116 mins
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Sunday – January 23, 2022
12:00 AM Over-Exposed (1956)
A woman gets a job as a photographer at a nightclub where she specializes in getting candid shots of patrons – with a little extortion on the side.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Actors: Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom
80 mins
10:00 AM Over-Exposed (1956)
A woman gets a job as a photographer at a nightclub where she specializes in getting candid shots of patrons – with a little extortion on the side.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Actors: Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom
80 mins
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Monday – January 24, 2022
9:15 AM 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. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins
8:00 PM Transgression (1931)
When her lover is killed, a straying wife tries to intercept the confession she mailed her husband.
Dir: Herbert Brenon. Actors: Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Ricardo Cortez
70 mins
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Tuesday – January 25, 2022
7:45 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Actors: Hugh O’brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
89 mins
9:30 AM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Actors: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins
1:45 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife thinks she witnessed a murder, but no one believes her – including her husband.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins
3:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Actors: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
6:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins
10:15 PM A Cry in the Dark (1988)
The true story of a woman put on trial for the murder of her baby who maintains the child was in fact taken by a wild dingo.
Dir: Fred Schepis.i Actors: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves
121 mins
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Wednesday – January 26, 2022
8:30 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins.
3:30 PM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins
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Thursday – January 27, 2022
8:00 PM A Place in the Sun (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress’ heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy.
Dir: George Stevens. Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
122 mins
10:15 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Actors: Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
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Friday – January 28, 2022
12:15 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson Actors: John Mcintire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins
2:00 AM I Want to Live! (1958)
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Dir: Robert Wise. Actors: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
120 mins
4:15 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. Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins
6:15 AM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Actors: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
115 mins
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Saturday – January 29, 2022
12:00 PM The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Actors: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
149 mins
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Sunday – January 30, 2022
12:00 AM Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Flirtatious music hall singer is implicated in a murder.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant
106 mins
10:00 AM Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
Flirtatious music hall singer is implicated in a murder.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant
106 mins
4:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Actors: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins
8:00 PM The Verdict (1982)
An alcoholic lawyer struggles to redeem himself by pursuing a high-stakes malpractice case.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Actors: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason
122 mins
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Monday – January 31, 2022
11:00 PM Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney tries to frame an innocent girl for the murder he committed.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans
71 mins
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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 2021 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2021 on Turner Classic Movies channel
Christmas : Favorite Classic Holiday Movies: Old, Black & White… and a Few In Color (not mysteries)
Christmas : Favorite Holiday Movies – More Recent, In Color (not mysteries)
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.
I know this is the Cozy Mystery site and I should only be telling you about Cozy Mystery movies, however, a lot of you have told me you enjoy getting these lists of Christmas movies. This will be the last one, since the Hallmark channels will be wrapping their new movies up right before Christmas 2021. I am hoping that they will put out as many mystery movies next year as the Christmas movies they are showing this Christmas season! Here’s hoping!!!
If you’re looking for Christmas movies that won’t be found on either of the Hallmark channels, here are some ideas:
Guess what I just found! The Lifetime channel is featuring lots of all NEW Christmas movies. I know the Cozy Mystery site should only be writing to tell you about mystery movies, but I couldn’t resist making this Christmas movie list. I wasn’t able to get all of the synopses, but from the ones I posted, you’ll be able to identify quite a few stars: Reba McEntire, Smoky Robinson, Melissa Joan Hart, John Schneider, Tia Mowry, Haylie Duff, Mario Lopez, ETC… the list goes on and on…
Make sure you set up your DVRs or watch the movies live on your favorite “watching-TV” chair/sofa, put your feet up, and relax. Enjoy the Christmas cheer!