Yikes! I have just finished my February 2020 Turner Classic Movies mystery movies blog entry, but where’s Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley? I just take it for granted that these weekly treats will show up late Saturday nights and early Sunday mornings. However, I can’t find them! And, what’s worse is that February 2020 doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of mystery movies for those of us who look forward to them. What a big let down! Instead, TCM is focusing on Oscar winning movies. (I sort of remember the same thing happening last year.) Oscar winning movies are great, but so are noir alley movies!

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

Sunday – February 2nd

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 113 mins, CC

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

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

Wednesday – February 5th

10:45 AM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

9:15 PM
THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979)
A television newswoman stumbles onto deadly secrets at a nuclear power plant.
Dir: James Bridges Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Rita Taggart.
C- 122 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – February 6th

2:00 PM
KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1950)
A spirited widow hires a daredevil jungle scout to find a lost treasure in diamonds.
Dir: Compton Bennett Cast: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson.
C- 102 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 7th

12:15 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW- 86 mins, CC

4:30 AM
NONE SHALL ESCAPE (1944)
A Nazi officer on trial for war crimes thinks back on his past.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Saturday – February 8th

2:30 AM
MISTER BUDDWING (1966)
A man suffering from amnesia confronts a series of women in his search for his memory.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette.
BW- 99 mins, CC

2:30 PM
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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

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

Sunday – February 9th

1:00 AM
THE PLAYER (1992)
A rising producer tries to cover up the accidental killing of a screenwriter who was stalking him.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward.
C- 124 mins, Letterbox Format

5:45 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 Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – February 11th

3:15 AM
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
BW- 115 mins, CC

11:00 AM
JULIE (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 14th

11:15 AM
FURY (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel.
BW- 92 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE FIRM (1993)
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman.
BW- 155 mins, CC

9:45 PM
A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
When a Marine dies on a US Navy base, two fellow Marines stand trial for murder.
Dir: Rob Reiner Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore.
C- 138 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – February 15th

3:00 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.
BW- 105 mins, CC

5:00 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC

9:00 PM
KEY LARGO (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Sunday – February 16th

1:00 AM
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.
C- 149 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 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 Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:30 PM
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
A fledgling FBI agent enlists a psychopath’s help in catching a serial killer.
Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn.
C- 118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – February 18th

7:45 AM
RAFFLES (1930)
A distinguished British gentleman hides his true identity as a notorious jewel thief.
Dir: Harry d’Abbadie D’Arrast Cast: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – February 19th

5:00 PM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW- 112 mins, CC

8:45 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C- 115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – February 20th

11:15 AM
EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (1944)
A small-town doctor tries to help a beautiful woman with a deranged husband.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas.
BW- 91 mins, CC

2:45 PM
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.
BW- 112 mins, CC

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

Saturday – February 22nd

7:00 AM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
BW- 116 mins, CC

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

Sunday – February 23rd

4:00 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.
BW- 78 mins, CC

3:00 PM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Monday – February 24th

5:00 PM
THAT MAN FROM RIO (1964)
A pilot gets mixed up in an international search for stolen art.
Dir: Philippe de Broca Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais.
C- 116 mins

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

Tuesday – February 25th

1:30 AM
THE PROFESSIONALS (1966)
A corrupt rancher hires four soldiers of fortune to rescue his wife from kidnappers.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan.
C- 118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 AM
THE NAKED SPUR (1953)
A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan.
C- 92 mins, CC

8:30 PM
NIGHT MUST FALL (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty.
BW- 116 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – February 26th

3:00 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 121 mins, CC

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

Thursday – February 27th

9:00 PM
THE KISS OF DEATH (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 28th

12:15 PM
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN (1972)
A self-appointed judge cleans up a corrupt western town twice.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs.
C- 123 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 29th – Enjoy your extra (leap) day!

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

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 January 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2020 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.

(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Happy 2020 New Year! Can you believe we have come this far — after all the hoopla of the “Y2K” idiocy exactly twenty years ago? Yep, those were the days!

When I was compiling this list of mystery movies that will be shown on the Turner Classic Movies channel, a few things stood out: 1) TCM is featuring “futuristic” movies on the first day of the month (although I’m not sure they’re as “futuristic” as 2020) as well as some movies featuring mobsters. AND 2) Wednesday the eighth features mysterious mansions.

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

Thursday – January 2nd

9:15 AM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW- 95 mins, CC

11:00 AM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

3:00 PM
ADAM’S RIB (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
BW- 101 mins, CC
(*****This is not a mystery movie, but it is quite good. Also, if stars one of my very favorite actresses: Judy Holliday.)

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

Friday – January 3rd

9:45 AM
COQUETTE (1929)
A Southern belle’s flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Dir: Sam Taylor Cast: Mary Pickford, John Mack Brown, Matt Moore.
BW- 76 mins, CC

12:30 PM
THE BLACK BOOK (1949)
Opponents plot to bring down Robespierre during the French Revolution.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart.
BW- 89 mins, CC

2:15 PM
ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)
A German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
Dir: William Cameron Menzies Cast: Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
BW- 72 mins, CC

3:45 PM
THE WHIP HAND (1951)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Dir: William Cameron Menzies Cast: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier.
BW- 82 mins, CC

5:15 PM
THINGS TO COME (1936)
Two generations of philosophers try to bring an end to war.
Dir: William Cameron Menzies Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Saturday – January 4th

5:00 AM
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
BW- 99 mins, CC
(*****This is not a mystery movie, but it is delightful.*****)

7:31 AM
GO DOWN DEATH (1944)
Gangsters try to frame a minister out to clean up their Southern town.
Dir: Spencer Williams Cast: Myra D. Hemmings, Samuel H. James, Eddye L. Houston.
BW- 54 mins

11:00 PM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW- 114 mins, CC

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

Sunday  – January 5th

1:15 AM
THE KISS OF DEATH (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray.
BW- 99 mins, CC

3:00 AM
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles.
BW- 111 mins, CC

9:00 AM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW- 114 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 6th

12:15 PM
HUNT THE MAN DOWN (1950)
Lawyer uncovers secrets behind a decade-old murder case.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson.
BW- 68 mins, CC

7:00 PM
SCANDAL: THE TRIAL OF MARY ASTOR (2018)
Dir: Alexa Foreman
BW- 62 mins, CC
(*****Apparently there really was a Mary Astor trial. I can’t wait to see this documentary…*****)

10:00 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 7th

12:00 AM
SCANDAL: THE TRIAL OF MARY ASTOR (2018)
Dir: Alexa Foreman
BW- 62 mins, CC

3:30 AM
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh.
BW- 82 mins, CC

2:45 PM
OUTLAW BLUES (1977)
Suspected of murdering the country-western star who stole his song, an ex-convict takes it on the lam.
Dir: Richard Heffron Cast: Susan Saint James, Curtis Harris, Jan Cobler.
C- 101 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 8th

5:15 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.
BW- 109 mins, CC

9:15 AM
THE TERROR (1963)
A lost soldier discovers a mysterious beauty haunting a half-deserted castle.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight.
C- 79 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:45 AM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:45 PM
BEFORE DAWN (1933)
Detectives compete to solve the murders at a mysterious mansion.
Dir: Irving Pichel Cast: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland.
BW- 61 mins, CC

2:00 PM
HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958)
A millionaire offers total strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long.
BW- 75 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 9th

9:15 AM
FIRST LADY (1937)
A U.S. president’s granddaughter fights a femme fatale to groom her husband for the White House.
Dir: Stanley Logan Cast: Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise.
BW- 83 mins, CC

10:45 AM
THE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD (1933)
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise.
BW- 76 mins, CC

12:15 PM
MILLIE (1931)
A prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughters honor.
Dir: John Francis Dillon Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames.
BW- 84 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE FIREBIRD (1934)
A young girl’s secret romance is exposed when her lover is murdered.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 74 mins

4:30 PM
PERSONAL MAID’S SECRET (1935)
A maid’s ability to pick stock market winners keeps her employer in the money.
Dir: Arthur Greville Collins Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Anita Louise.
BW- 58 mins, CC

5:45 PM
BRIDES ARE LIKE THAT (1936)
A young man uses flattery to beat out a romantic rival.
Dir: William McGann Cast: Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Joseph Cawthorn.
BW- 67 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE PHENIX CITY STORY (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant.
BW- 100 mins, CC

9:45 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 10th

5:00 AM
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman.
BW- 68 mins, CC

7:45 AM
ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947)
When a Quaker girl nurses a notorious gunman back to health, he tries to adopt her peaceful ways.
Dir: James Edward Grant Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey.
BW- 100 mins

1:00 PM
DANGER SIGNAL (1945)
A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
BW- 78 mins, CC

2:30 PM
FLAMINGO ROAD (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 94 mins, CC

4:15 PM
INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN (1956)
Scientific experiments accidentally revive an executed criminal and make him impervious to harm, prompting him to seek revenge on his former partners.
Dir: Jack Pollexfen Cast: Lon Chaney [Jr.], Casey Adams, Marian Carr.
BW- 71 mins, CC

9:00 PM
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954)
A playboy becomes a doctor to right the wrong he’s done to a sightless widow.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – January 11th

7:29 AM
THE ADVENTURES OF JANE ARDEN (1939)
A reporter poses as a jewel smuggler to unmask a criminal gang.
Dir: Terry Morse Cast: Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson.
BW- 58 mins

11:00 AM
GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (1947)
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield.
BW- 118 mins, CC

9:00 PM
THE OUTRAGE (1964)
A Mexican bandit’s crimes receive wildly different interpretations from four witnesses.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
THE BIG NIGHT (1951)
An emotional teenager takes on the mob when gangsters beat up his father.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: John Barrymore Jr., Preston Foster, Joan Lorring.
BW- 75 mins, CC

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

Sunday  – January 12th

9:00 AM
THE BIG NIGHT (1951)
An emotional teenager takes on the mob when gangsters beat up his father.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: John Barrymore Jr., Preston Foster, Joan Lorring.
BW- 75 mins, CC

10:30 AM
A WOMAN’S FACE (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt.
BW- 106 mins, CC

9:15 PM
THE LATE SHOW (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
C- 93 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 13th

9:45 AM
MAKE ME A STAR (1932)
A grocery clerk goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, ZaSu Pitts.
BW- 86 mins, CC

11:15 AM
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? (1932)
A drunken director whose career is fading helps a waitress become a Hollywood star.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton.
BW- 88 mins, CC

1:00 PM
THE PERILS OF PAULINE (1947)
The world’s worst actress rises to stardom as serial queen Pearl White.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe.
C- 92 mins, CC

12:15 AM
THE JUGGLER (1953)
A Jewish refugee fights to overcome the psychological effects of his World War II experiences.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart.
BW- 86 mins, CC

2:00 AM
THE STRANGER (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 14th

5:30 AM
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1948)
A philosophical drunk encourages his friends to live their dreams to the hilt.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris.
BW- 105 mins

9:30 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.
BW- 79 mins, CC

11:00 AM
GAMBLING HOUSE (1951)
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix.
BW- 80 mins, CC

12:30 PM
THE BIG STEAL (1949)
Seduction and murder follow the theft of an Army payroll.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix.
BW- 71 mins, CC

8:45 PM
WEEKEND WITH FATHER (1951)
Love blooms when two single parents send their children off to camp.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Gigi Perreau.
BW- 83 mins, CC

12:00 AM
WASHINGTON STORY (1952)
A reporter in search of government corruption falls for a congressman.
Dir: Robert Pirosh Cast: Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern.
BW- 82 mins, CC

1:30 AM
IT’S A GREAT FEELING (1949)
When nobody at Warner Bros. will work with him, movie star Jack Carson decides to turn an unknown into his co-star.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson.
C- 85 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 15th

2:30 PM
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (1935)
A blacksmith’s rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son’s Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast: Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 16th

5:00 AM
AFFAIR WITH A STRANGER (1953)
A playwright and his wife search the past for the key to saving their troubled marriage.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Mary Jo Tarola.
BW- 87 mins, CC

8:45 AM
IS MY FACE RED? (1932)
A gossip columnist witnesses a gangland killing.
Dir: William Seiter Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond.
BW- 66 mins, CC

12:00 AM
TRUE CONFESSIONS (1981)
A police detective clashes with his brother, a monsignor, during a murder investigation.
Dir: Ulu Grosbard Cast: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – January 17th

8:30 AM
HI, NELLIE! (1934)
A crusading newspaper editor keeps digging into corruption, even when he’s forced to write advice to the lovelorn.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks.
BW- 75 mins, CC

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

Saturday – January 18th

7:28 AM
NIGHT SPOT (1938)
An undercover cop tries to catch a gang of jewel thieves at a high-society nightclub.
Dir: Christy Cabanne Cast: Parkyakarkus, Allan Lane, Gordon Jones.
BW- 60 mins

11:00 AM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW- 88 mins, CC

12:45 PM
THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (1950)
Dir: Felix E. Feist Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall.
BW- 82 mins, CC

11:15 PM
THE CAPTIVE CITY (1952)
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Sunday  – January 19th

7:00 AM
THE SINGING MARINE (1937)
A young Marine develops an inflated ego after winning a talent contest.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Dick Powell, Doris Weston, Lee Dixon.
BW- 105 mins, CC

9:00 AM
THE CAPTIVE CITY (1952)
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy.
BW- 91 mins, CC

11:00 AM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW- 92 mins, CC,

1:00 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.
BW- 105 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

9:30 PM
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)
A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 21st

1:00 AM
THE TALL TARGET (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
BW- 78 mins, CC

11:15 PM
RATON PASS (1951)
A beautiful woman tries to seduce her way into ruling the West.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran.
BW- 84 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 22nd

6:30 AM
A WOMAN’S FACE (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt.
BW- 106 mins, CC

8:30 AM
ABOVE SUSPICION (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt.
BW- 91 mins, CC

10:15 AM
WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford.
BW- 78 mins, CC

7:00 PM
INCENDIARY BLONDE (1945)
In this true story, Texas Guinan rises from Wild West shows to become New York’s ?Queen of the Nightclubs? during Prohibition.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Cordoba, Charles Ruggles.
C- 113 mins

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

Thursday – January 23rd

5:30 PM
SPORTING BLOOD (1940)
A young man trying to rebuild the family racing stables falls for the daughter of a bitter rival.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Robert Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Lewis Stone.
BW- 82 mins

11:00 PM
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952)
When her brother marries, a 12-year-old girl faces the awkward pains of adolescence.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon de Wilde.
BW- 89 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 24th

11:00 PM
THE YAKUZA (1974)
Trying to help a kidnapped girl puts a private eye on the wrong side of the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith.
C- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – January 25th

7:32 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.
BW- 57 mins

11:00 PM
TRY AND GET ME! (1950)
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson.
BW- 92 mins, CC

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

Sunday  – January 26th

1:00 AM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

9:00 AM
TRY AND GET ME! (1950)
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson.
BW- 92 mins, CC

11:00 AM
AN INNOCENT AFFAIR (1948)
Doing business with an ex-flame drives an ad man’s wife mad with jealousy.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Chas. “Buddy” Rogers.
BW- 87 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THREE SMART GIRLS (1937)
The daughters of a divorced couple try to keep their father from remarrying.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady.
BW- 84 mins, CC

9:00 PM
IT’S A DATE (1940)
Mother-and-daughter singers vie for the same man and the same stage part.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 28th

9:00 PM
PAT NEAL IS BACK (1968)
This promotional short focuses on Patricia Neal’s return to motion pictures with “The Subject Was Roses” (1968) after her near-fatal stroke.
Dir: Edward Beyer
C- 8 mins

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

Wednesday – January 29th

6:15 AM
DR. CRIPPEN (1963)
The real-life story of a doctor who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife.
Dir: Robert Lynn Cast: Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar.
BW- 98 mins, CC

7:00 PM
OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928)
A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Joan Crawford, John Mack Brown, Nils Asther.
BW- 84 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 30th

1:00 AM
IT (1927)
A shop girl turns party girl to land her boss.
Dir: Clarence Badger Cast: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin.
BW- 77 mins

6:45 AM
ANOTHER FACE (1935)
Plastic surgery turns a gangster into a movie star.
Dir: Christy Cabanne Cast: Wallace Ford, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks.
BW- 69 mins, CC

8:15 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.
BW- 106 mins, CC

10:15 AM
NORA PRENTISS (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor’s life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 31st

9:45 AM
SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman.
BW- 86 mins, CC

1:15 PM
THE ACTRESS (1953)
True story of Ruth Gordon’s early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright.
BW- 91 mins, CC

3:00 PM
AFFAIR WITH A STRANGER (1953)
A playwright and his wife search the past for the key to saving their troubled marriage.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Mary Jo Tarola.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

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 2019 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2019 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.

(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

P.S. Good grief! I mistakenly wrote that Joan Blondell is TCM’s January 2020 featured star of the month. She was the featured star for December 2019, so I took that part off my introductory paragraph.