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.

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

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.*****

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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.

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…*****

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

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.

Fall is finally here! I have been watching a lot of the true crime channel, as well as my black and white, old-time “Bella Lugosi/Vincent Price Halloween themed” movies on the Turner Classic channel, and I’m ready to get back to just watching crime and mystery movies. (As well as reading Cozy Mysteries!) I was surprised to not find a lot of Christmas movies on this month’s Turner Classic Movies roster, but there were a few thrown in. (I think I saw at least one “Little Women” movie tucked in there, and possibly a “Meet Me in St. Louis”.)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2024

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

Friday – November 1, 2024

1:45 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

Saturday – November 2, 2024

6:00 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

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

Sunday – November 3, 2024

12:30 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

8:30 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins

10:00 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

12:00 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

4:15 PM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

6:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins

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

Monday – November 4, 2024

10:00 AM Hunt the Man Down (1950)
A lawyer uncovers the secrets behind a decade-old murder case.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
68 mins

10:45 PM Gloria (1980)
When a young boy’s family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Dir: John Cassavetes. Cast: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
123 mins

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

Tuesday – November 5, 2024

9:45 AM 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

1:00 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

11:45 PM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins

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

Wednesday – November 6, 2024

8:00 PM 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
*****This is a “gotta see it” mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM Niagara (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
92 mins

11:45 PM A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
A college student who is more sinister than he appears tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
94 mins

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

Friday – November 8, 2024

1:30 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

3:30 AM 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

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

Saturday – November 9, 2024

1:15 PM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

2:00 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life isn’t so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
85 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

3:30 AM Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson
86 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

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

Sunday – November 10, 2024

12:45 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins
*****In French*****

10:00 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins
*****In French*****

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

Tuesday – November 12, 2024

12:15 AM The Tong-Man (1919)
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
Dir: William Worthington. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc Robbins
54 mins
*****Silent 1919*****

8:00 PM 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

10:00 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

11:45 PM Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
85 mins

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

Wednesday – November 13, 2024

1:30 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor. Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
91 mins

10:00 AM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

8:00 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

10:00 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

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

Thursday – November 14, 2024

12:00 AM Mirage (1965)
A biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
109 mins

2:00 AM 23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)
A blind London writer overhears a conversation that reveals a kidnapping plot. Knowing what he heard was true but finding the police don’t believe his story, the man summons the help of his secretary and fiancée to hunt down the kidnappers independently.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
103 mins

4:00 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

4:30 PM Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins

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

Friday – November 15, 2024

5:45 AM Crown v. Stevens (1936)
An ex-dancer marries a rich man hoping to pay off a loan shark.
Dir: Michael Powell. Cast: Beatrix Thomson, Patric Knowles, Googie Withers
65 mins

8:45 AM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

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

Saturday – November 16, 2024

6:00 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

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

Sunday – November 17, 2024

12:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

2:00 AM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
120 mins

10:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

11:45 AM 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
83 mins

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

Tuesday – November 19, 2024

7:00 AM Frisco Jenny (1933)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins

8:15 AM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

9:30 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

11:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

1:15 PM The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
A society sleuth enlists a little girl’s help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy
66 mins

2:30 PM 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

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

Wednesday – November 20, 2024

6:15 PM Undercover Maisie (1947)
A stranded showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic.
Dir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Mark Daniels
90 mins

8:00 PM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

10:15 PM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
107 mins

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

Thursday – November 21, 2024

12:15 AM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

2:00 AM The Bride Wore Black (1968)
When her husband is shot on their wedding day, a newlywed turned widow seeks out the killers and eliminates them one by one in an act of vengeance.
Dir: François Truffaut. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
107 mins
*****In French*****

4:00 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 I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a really good British movie.*****

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

Friday – November 22, 2024

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
*****Terrific mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

11:45 PM 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

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

Saturday – November 23, 2024

1:30 AM Phantom Lady (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
87 mins

3:15 AM 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

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

Sunday – November 24, 2024

12:00 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins

8:15 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
88 mins
*****Not a mystery – I saw this movie several years ago and was quite taken by it…*****

10:00 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins

8:00 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

10:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

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

Monday – November 25, 2024

8:45 AM The Unholy Wife (1957)
An ambitious beauty marries a vintner, then falls for one of his workers.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon
94 mins

12:00 PM Illegal (1955)
A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
88 mins

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

Tuesday – November 26, 2024

4:15 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
*****This is a “gotta see it” mystery movie.*****

8:00 PM 5 Steps to Danger (1957)
Hitchhiking on a deserted New Mexico road after his car breaks down, John Emmett gets picked up by Ann Nicholson, who is in a rush to reach Santa Fe, N.M. The distraught Ann is being pursued by psychiatrist Frederick Simmons, who has been treating her in Los Angeles since she had a nervous breakdown but she tells John that …
Dir: Henry S. Kesler. Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins

9:30 PM Joe MacBeth (1955)
The classic Shakespearean tale is set inside a gangster’s story.
Dir: Ken Hughes. Cast: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano
90 mins

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

Wednesday – November 27, 2024

1:00 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

10:00 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
108 mins

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

Friday – November 29, 2024

12:00 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

2:00 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 AM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins

3:45 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

6:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins

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

Sunday – December 1, 2024

12:30 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

2:15 AM 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

4:30 AM Deathtrap (1982)
A formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play, returns to his wife, 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

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 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.

Can you believe it’s fall? It’s difficult for me to believe it here in San Antonio! Our heat indexes are either over 100* or, if not that high, close to 100*! I invested in a silk “flower” arrangement from Petals, with fall leaves so I could enjoy the fall colors I’ve been missing – since moving down here years ago for my husband’s job. (My mother sent me an arrangement from Petals, and I’ve wanted to order something from that company for years. Now that we’re thinking of down-sizing probably isn’t the best time to have done that!)

Getting back to the purpose of this blog entry. Here are the mystery and crime movies that I was able to find from the Turner Classic Movies channel roster for October 2024. I’m surprised I found this many mystery/crime movies this month, since as the Halloween month, their schedule is full of Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lore, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, etc, type movies. (Love them!)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – October 2024

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

Wednesday – October 2, 2024

1:00 PM The Guilty (1947)
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Cast: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey
71 mins

4:00 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

6:00 PM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

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

Thursday – October 3, 2024

8:00 PM Sudden Fear (1952)
Wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright, meets Lester Blaine while casting her new play in New York. They meet again on the train ride back, fall in love and marry. Unknown to Myra, Lester has a mistress, Irene Neves, whom he still loves and has married her only for her money.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
110 mins

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

Friday – October 4, 2024

5:00 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

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

Saturday – October 5, 2024

1:45 AM City Hall (1996)
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Dir: Harold Becker. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello
111 mins

8:07 AM The Amazing Mr. Nordill (1947)
This short film focuses on Everett Nordill, a mastermind behind a counterfeiting ring in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Paul Maxey, Leon Ames, John Nesbitt
10 mins

8:26 AM Strange Alibi (1941)
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale
63 mins

6:30 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins

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

Sunday – October 6, 2024

12:00 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

10:00 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

3:15 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

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

Thursday – October 10, 2024

3:00 AM The Death Kiss (1933)
A movie actor is killed while filming a scene.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi
71 mins

4:15 AM Scared to Death (1947)
A beautiful murder victim recalls how she met her untimely end.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton
64 mins

8:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

10:15 PM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

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

Friday – October 11, 2024

2:00 AM The Haunting (1963)
You may not believe in ghosts…but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins

8:00 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

9:30 AM Criminal Court (1946)
An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his cabaret singer sweetheart has been arrested for the crime.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth
63 mins

1:45 PM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins

3:15 PM Mr. Ricco (1975)
A defense lawyer faces down racist killers to prove his black client innocent.
Dir: Paul Bogart. Cast: Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Cindy Williams
98 mins

5:00 PM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
81 mins

***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – October 12, 2024

5:00 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 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist’s investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Dir: Victor Fleming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
113 mins

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

Sunday – October 13, 2024

12:30 AM The Crooked Way (1949)
A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
90 mins

10:00 AM The Crooked Way (1949)
A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
90 mins

12:00 PM House of Women (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger. Cast: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford
85 mins

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

Monday – October 14, 2024

6:00 AM 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. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

8:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

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

Tuesday – October 15, 2024

12:15 AM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
93 mins

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

Wednesday – October 16, 2024

9:30 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

2:00 PM 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

3:30 PM Gambling House (1951)
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix
80 mins

5:00 PM Nocturne (1946)
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

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

Thursday – October 17, 2024

1:15 AM The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
A phony medium tries to prove her protege innocent of murder.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly
72 mins

6:00 AM 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*****

1:45 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

4:00 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

5:45 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

11:45 PM The Wicker Man (1973)
A righteous police officer investigates the disappearance of a young girl. While searching for the missing girl, he comes into contact with the unusual residents of a secluded Scottish isle.
Dir: Robin Hardy. Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
97 mins

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

Saturday – October 19, 2024

7:00 AM The Law in Her Hands (1936)
A lady lawyer for the mob tries to break free of her criminal connections.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull
58 mins

8:26 AM Law of the Underworld (1938)
A respectable citizen lures two innocents into his secret criminal plots.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Chester Morris, Anne Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli
61 mins

5:15 PM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: André de toth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
73 mins

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

Sunday – October 20, 2024

12:30 AM Too Late for Tears (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
99 mins

10:00 AM Too Late for Tears (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
99 mins

2:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

4:00 PM 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

8:00 PM The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson
114 mins

10:00 PM The Human Factor (1980)
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer
115 mins

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

Monday – October 21, 2024

12:15 AM The Lodger (1927)
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault
91 mins

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

Wednesday – October 23, 2024

10:45 PM The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templer lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale
68 mins

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

Thursday – October 24, 2024

1:30 AM Genius at Work (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys
61 mins
*****Possibly more of a comedy than a mystery.*****

8:00 PM The Night Digger (1971)
A drifter with a deadly secret ignites passions in two lonely women.
Dir: Alastair Reid Cast: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay
110 mins

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

Saturday – October 26, 2024

8:29 AM Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy takes on the Claw in this crime thriller.
Dir: John Rawlins Cast: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher
60 mins

4:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

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

Sunday – October 27, 2024

2:00 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 AM Tiger Bay (1959)
A seaman kills his two-timing girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, but is witnessed in the act by a young girl. He kidnaps her for fear she’ll turn him in, but oddly the two strike up a friendship until a detective comes snooping around, using the girl as bait to catch the killer before his ship sails off.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
105 mins

6:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

1:45 PM 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

4:00 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol syares out her window and witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window. She calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

6:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
A newly wed wife refuses to believe that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt…
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

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

Monday – October 28, 2024

8:00 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
110 mins

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 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.