Wow! I can’t believe we’re already at the end of the year! Pretty soon we’ll all have to re-teach ourselves the proper date. However, before we move into 2019, we have one more month…

While I was finding the mystery movies that will be shown on the Turner Classic Movies channel, I went ahead and also annotated the Christmas movies. There really is nothing like watching an old (Golden) Hollywood Christmas movie. I hope some of you try to fit a few of them into your December television-viewing time.

I noticed that TCM will again show the Thin Man movies on New Year’s Eve. Some of you have written that you watch them every December 31st.

Also, I want to mention that all three of the Hildegarde Withers movies (based on Stuart Palmer’s Cozy Mystery series) that star Edna May Oliver will be shown this month, as well as one that featured another actress.

Enjoy your December movie viewing!

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

Saturday – December 1

7:08 AM
THE 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.
*****This mystery movie is based on Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series. Edna May Oliver starred as Hildegarde in three of the movies, which are all airing this month.*****

BW- 65 mins, CC

11:00 AM
THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir:  Archie L. Mayo Cast:  Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin.
BW- 82 mins, CC

6:45 PM
THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir:  Henry Koster Cast:  Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 109 mins, CC

9:00 PM
CRACK-UP (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir:  Irving Reis Cast:  Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 93 mins, CC

11:00 PM
MAGNUM FORCE (1973)
A maverick San Francisco police detective hunts down a band of vigilante cops.
Dir:  Ted Post Cast:  Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan.
C- 122 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – December 2

3:30 AM
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)
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.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 115 mins, CC

5:30 AM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)
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.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 69 mins, CC

7:00 AM
CRACK-UP (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir:  Irving Reis Cast:  Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 93 mins, CC

8:45 AM
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.
*****This is a very good Judy Holliday non-mystery movie.*****
BW- 101 mins, CC

10:45 AM
THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
*****I love this non-mystery movie.*****
Dir:  Richard Brooks Cast:  Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
BW- 94 mins, CC

12:30 PM
BELLS ARE RINGING (1960)
An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients’ lives.
Dir:  Vincente Minnelli Cast:  Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark.
*****You can’t go wrong watching a Judy Holliday movie! This is a non-mystery movie.*****
C- 126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir:  Stanley Donen Cast:  Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
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.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 99 mins, CC

7:00 PM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
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.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Monday – December 3

5:00 PM
THE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
BW- 73 mins, CC

6:30 PM
THE DRAGON MURDER CASE (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  H. Bruce Humberstone Cast:  Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot.
BW- 67 mins, CC

7:45 PM
THE CASINO MURDER CASE (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook.
BW- 83 mins, CC

9:15 PM
THE BISHOP MURDER CASE (1930)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a series of murders inspired by Mother Goose rhymes.
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  Nick Grindé Cast:  Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young.
BW- 87 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE GARDEN MURDER CASE (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume.
BW- 61 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – December 4

12:15 AM
CALLING PHILO VANCE (1939)
Society sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  William Clemens Cast:  James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill.
BW- 62 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – December 5

4:45 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir:  Richard O. Fleischer Cast:  William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC

6:00 AM
THE TATTOOED STRANGER (1950)
Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Dir:  Edward J. Montagne Cast:  John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella.
BW- 64 mins, CC

7:15 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 Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC

10:15 AM
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders.
BW- 100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 PM
SCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman’s murder.
Dir:  Roy Rowland Cast:  Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven.
BW- 94 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE NAKED CITY (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir:  Jules Dassin Cast:  Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
BW- 96 mins, CC

3:30 PM
THE BIG COMBO, THE (1955)
A police detective tries to convict a mob boss by going to the man’s girlfriend.
Dir:  Joseph Lewis Cast:  Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy.
BW- 84 mins

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

Saturday – December 8

7:08 AM
MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
*****Based on Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  George Archainbaud Cast:  James Gleason, Edna May Oliver, Bruce Cabot.
BW- 72 mins

7:00 PM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  William Keighley Cast:  Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW- 113 mins, CC

9:00 PM
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.
BW- 101 mins

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

Sunday – December 9

5:15 AM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie. I think it’s probably my very favorite.*****
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 101 mins, CC

7:00 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.
BW- 101 mins

9:00 AM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

5:00 PM
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles.
BW- 115 mins, CC

7:15 PM
O. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE (1952)
Five stories reveal O. Henry’s gift for the surprise ending.
Dir:  Henry Koster Cast:  John Steinbeck, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 118 mins, CC

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

Monday – December 10

3:00 AM
WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1933)
A mystery writer’s plan for the perfect murder greatly interests a mobster.
Dir:  Elliott Nugent Cast:  Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold.
BW- 79 mins,

7:00 AM
DAY OF RECKONING (1933)
A man’s nagging wife drives him to crime.
Dir:  Charles Brabin Cast:  Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle.
BW- 69 mins

11:15 AM
MURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
Dir:  Harry Beaumont Cast:  Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle.
BW- 63 mins, CC

12:30 PM
THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE (1933)
When his ex-wife is murdered, a hard-living lawyer defends the chief suspect.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon.
BW- 75 mins

7:15 PM
PATHS OF GLORY (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir:  Stanley Kubrick Cast:  Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
BW- 88 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – December 11

1:45 PM
SUPER SLEUTH (1937)
A movie detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Dir:  Ben Stoloff Cast:  Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli.
BW- 70 mins, CC

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

Thursday – December 13

5:00 AM
THE PROWLER (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir:  Joseph Losey Cast:  Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Friday – December 14

10:00 AM
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)
A big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
Dir:  Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast:  Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong.
BW- 63 mins, CC

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

Saturday – December 15

7:08 AM
MURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
*****Based on Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  Lloyd Corrigan Cast:  Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane.
BW- 74 mins, CC

9:00 AM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
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.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Sunday – December 16

12:30 AM
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir:  David Miller Cast:  Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
C- 108 mins, CC

3:00 AM
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Ernst Lubitsch Cast:  Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

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

Monday – December 17

7:00 AM
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

9:00 AM
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
Dir:  Phil Karlson Cast:  John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster.
BW- 99 mins, CC

5:00 PM
LADY ON A TRAIN (1945)
A young woman enlists a mystery writer to help her solve a murder when the corpse vanishes.
Dir:  Charles David Cast:  Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce.
BW- 94 mins

7:00 PM
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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – December 18

12:45 AM
COVER-UP (1949)
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.
BW- 83 mins

2:15 AM
BACKFIRE (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir:  Vincent Sherman Cast:  Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – December 19

5:45 AM
THE NITWITS (1935)
Two cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir:  George Stevens Cast:  Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating.
BW- 82 mins, CC

6:00 AM
THE KEYHOLE (1933)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he’s been hired to frame.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell.
BW- 69 mins

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

Thursday – December 20

6:30 PM
YOU NEVER CAN TELL (1951)
Poisoned after inheriting its master’s estate, a dog comes back to Earth to find its killer.
Dir:  Lou Breslow Cast:  Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden.
BW- 78 mins

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

Friday – December 21

4:30 AM
TEN LITTLE INDIANS (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
*****This is based on an Agatha Christie mystery.*****
Dir:  George Pollock Cast:  Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian.
C- 90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – December 22

5:00 PM
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie. It is one of my very favorite Christmas movies.*****
Dir:  Mitchell Leisen Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
BW- 94 mins, CC

7:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
*****This is a terrific non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 101 mins, CC

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

Sunday – December 23

12:45 AM
A CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (1964)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast:  Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 86 mins

3:00 AM
SCROOGE (1935)
The legendary miser searches his past, present and future to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Henry Edwards Cast:  Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Maurice Evans.
BW- 78 mins

7:00 AM
BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952)
A widow discovers her handyman is an escaped mental patient.
Dir:  Harry Horner Cast:  Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes.
BW- 77 mins, CC

8:45 AM
O. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE (1952)
Five stories reveal O. Henry’s gift for the surprise ending.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Henry Koster Cast:  John Steinbeck, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe.
BW- 118 mins, CC

5:00 PM
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY (1952)
A minister’s family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  George More O’Ferrall Cast:  Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton.
BW- 83 mins

7:00 PM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951)
Ghosts visit a miser during the holidays to teach him the errors of his ways.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Brian Desmond-Hurst Cast:  Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Monday – December 24

4:30 AM
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
*****This is a non-mystery movie and probably the best Little Women movie >>> anyway that’s my opinion…*****
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
BW- 115 mins, CC

9:30 AM
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Ernst Lubitsch Cast:  Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
BW- 99 mins, CC

11:15 AM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Don Hartman Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
BW- 87 mins, CC

1:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie. It is my very favorite Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 101 mins, CC

5:00 PM
THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Henry Koster Cast:  Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
BW- 109 mins, CC

7:00 PM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
BW- 69 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – December 25

12:30 PM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  William Keighley Cast:  Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW- 113 mins, CC

2:45 PM
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
Dir:  Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles.
BW- 115 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – December 26

4:45 AM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir:  Frank Capra Cast:  Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW- 118 mins, CC

7:00 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

2:30 PM
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

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

Thursday – December 27

5:00 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

6:45 PM
THE PITFALL (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir:  Andre DeToth Cast:  Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt.
BW- 86 mins, CC

10:30 PM
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

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

Saturday – December 29

3:30 AM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir:  Leigh Jason Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW- 80 mins, CC

7:07 AM
MURDER ON A BRIDLE PATH (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****
Dir:  Edward Killy Cast:  James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer.
BW- 66 mins, CC

7:00 PM
KEEPER OF THE FLAME (1943)
A reporter digs into the secret life of a recently deceased political hero.
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf.
BW- 101 mins, CC

9:00 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Sunday – December 20

7:00 AM
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir:  Billy Wilder Cast:  Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
BW- 108 mins, CC

5:00 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

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

Monday – December 31

4:00 AM
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
BW- 99 mins, CC

5:45 AM
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

7:30 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.
BW- 112 mins, CC

9:30 AM
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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

11:30 AM
SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir:  Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson.
BW- 97 mins, CC

1:15 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

3:15 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.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

For those of you who are interested, I have two lists on my Cozy Mystery site that include a lot of great Christmas movie titles:

Christmas : Favorite Classic Holiday Movies: Old, Black & White… and a Few In Color (not mysteries)

Christmas : Favorite Holiday Movies – More Recent, In Color (not mysteries)

Well, it’s finally getting cool (and rainy!) here in San Antonio… perfect weather for staying inside and watching an old mystery movie. This month, Turner Classic Movies will be showing some of the Torchy Blane mystery movies (starring Glenda Farrell). I watched them a while back when TCM aired them, and thought they were enjoyable. She’s sort of a grown-up version of Nancy Drew… although she is a little more “spunky”. You may enjoy them…

Here are the Torchy Blane movies:

1. Smart Blonde
2. Fly-Away Baby
3. The Adventurous Blonde
4. Blondes at Work
5. Torchy Blane in Panama
6. Torchy Gets Her Man
7. Torchy Blane in Chinatown
8. Torchy Runs for Mayor
9. Torchy Blane… Playing with Dynamite

(My husband told me it would be easier for you all to “translate” the time from Eastern rather than my usual Central, so I’m going to start posting the Eastern times.)

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

Friday – November 2, 2018

6:45 AM
RASHOMON (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura.
BW- 89 mins

10:15 AM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC

12:15 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Saturday – November 3, 2018

10:07 AM
THE SAINT IN PALM SPRINGS (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle.
BW- 66 mins, CC

12:00 PM
PANIC IN THE STREETS (1950)
A killer evades the police not knowing he has a deadly plague.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes.
BW- 96 mins

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

Sunday – November 4, 2018

12:15 AM
THE SNIPER (1952)
An unhappy man goes on a killing spree.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr.
BW- 88 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE SNIPER (1952)
An unhappy man goes on a killing spree.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr.
BW- 88 mins, CC

1:45 PM
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.
BW- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – November 5, 2018

8:00 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, but if you DVR/tape movies for the Christmas season, I definitely recommend taping this!*****

5:30 PM
HEAT LIGHTNING (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster.
BW- 63 mins, CC

11:15 PM
THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell.
C- 77 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – November 6, 2018

12:45 AM
THE SECRET BRIDE (1935)
A district attorney secretly marries the daughter of a man he’s trying to convict.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Warren William, Glenda Farrell.
BW- 64 mins

2:30 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

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

Wednesday – November 7, 2018

1:15 AM
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

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

Thursday – November 8, 2018

12:45 PM
MUSIC FOR MADAME (1937)
An opera star trying to make it big in Hollywood gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
Dir: John Blystone Cast: Nino Martini, Joan Fontaine, Alan Mowbray.
BW- 81 mins

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

Sunday – November 11, 2018

12:00 AM
THE THREAT (1949)
An escaped con kidnaps the people he thinks put him behind bars.
Dir: Felix Feist Cast: Michael O’Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw.
BW- 66 mins

10:00 AM
THE THREAT, THE (1949)
An escaped con kidnaps the people he thinks put him behind bars.
Dir: Felix Feist Cast: Michael O’Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw.
BW- 66 mins

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

Monday – November 12, 2018

6:30 PM
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
*****I haven’t seen this, so am not sure how mystery-ish it is…*****

8:00 PM
SMART BLONDE (1936)
An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw.
BW- 59 mins, CC

9:15 PM
THE ADVENTUROUS BLONDE (1937)
Reporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
Dir: Frank MacDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel.
BW- 61 mins

10:30 PM
FLY AWAY BABY (1937)
Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver.
BW- 60 mins

11:45 PM
BLONDES AT WORK (1938)
Even a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW- 63 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – November 13, 2018

1:00 AM
TORCHY BLANE IN CHINATOWN (1938)
A daring lady reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW- 58 mins, CC

2:15 AM
TORCHY GETS HER MAN (1938)
Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW- 63 mins, CC

3:30 AM
TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)
After digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW- 60 mins, CC

4:45 AM
HERE COMES CARTER (1936)
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel.
BW- 58 mins, CC

7:15 AM
THE NURSE’S SECRET (1941)
When her patient is murdered, a private-duty nurse investigates the crime.
Dir: Noel M. Smith Cast: Lee Patrick, Regis Toomey, Julie Bishop.
BW- 64 mins

10:30 AM
NIGHT NURSE (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell.
BW- 72 mins, CC

3:15 PM
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1969)
A lonely nurse and her gigolo lover murder a string of widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony LoBianco, Mary Jane Higby.
BW- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – November 15, 2018

6:15 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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

8:15 AM
A SCANDAL IN PARIS (1946)
An elegant conman gets himself appointed chief of police so he can rob Paris at leisure.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis.
BW- 100 mins, CC

12:00 PM
LURED (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW- 103 mins

9:30 PM
KIND LADY (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle.
BW- 76 mins, CC

11:00 PM
MURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle.
BW- 63 mins, CC

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

Friday – November 16, 2018

5:30 PM
RANCHO NOTORIOUS (1952)
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend’s killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer.
C- 89 mins, CC

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

Saturday – November 17, 2018

2:15 AM
SISTERS (1973)
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.
C 92 mins

4:00 AM
EYES OF A STRANGER (1981)
Dir: Ken Wiederhorn Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Disanti, Lauren Tewes.
BW- 85 mins, CC

10:08 AM
THE SAINT’S VACATION (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar vies with Nazi agents for possession of a mysterious music box.
Dir: Leslie Fenton Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae.
BW- 61 mins, CC

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

Sunday – November 18, 2018

12:00 AM
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey.
BW- 99 mins, CC

2:00 AM
THE SEVEN UPS (1973)
New York City cops wage a war against assorted hoods and criminals after one of their own is brutally killed by a hoodlum.
Dir: Philip D’Antoni Cast: Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon.
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 AM
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Monday – November 19, 2018

6:00 AM
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
BW- 99 mins, CC

10:00 AM
HIGH WALL (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 99 mins, CC

4:15 PM
THE KEYHOLE (1933)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he’s been hired to frame.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell.
BW- 69 mins

6:45 PM
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.
BW- 58 mins

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

Tuesday – November 20, 2018

2:45 AM
I’VE GOT YOUR NUMBER (1934)
Two telephone engineers try to clear a woman of criminal charges.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joan Blondell, Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 69 mins

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

Wednesday – November 21, 2018

11:30 PM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1942)
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.
BW- 113 mins, CC
*****Here’s another non-mystery movie that you may enjoy DVR-ing/taping for the Christmas season.*****

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

Saturday – November 24, 2018

10:08 AM
THE SAINT MEETS THE TIGER (1943)
The Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
Dir: Paul Stein Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod.
BW- 69 mins, CC

8:00 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders.
BW- 138 mins, CC
*****Yow! “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” (Not a mystery.)*****

10:30 PM
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, Peter Falk.
C- 124 mins, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – November 25, 2018

12:45 AM
THE KILLING (1956)
A team of specialists plots a daring racetrack robbery, but they don’t reckon with human frailty.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards.
BW- 84 mins, CC

2:30 AM
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993)
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
Dir: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:30 AM
FAST AND LOOSE (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane investigate the killing of a noted collector.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen.
BW- 80 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE KILLING (1956)
A team of specialists plots a daring racetrack robbery, but they don’t reckon with human frailty.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards.
BW- 84 mins, CC

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

Monday – November 26, 2018

3:45 PM
GIRL MISSING (1933)
A new bride disappears from her honeymoon hotel the same night a dead body pops up.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon, Mary Brian.
BW- 69 mins

11:00 PM
BUREAU OF MISSING PERSONS (1933)
A police chief helps a young bride find her missing husband or at least his corpse.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell.
BW- 73 mins

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

Tuesday – November 27, 2018

9:15 AM
MURDER IN THE FLEET (1935)
Seamen hunt down a deadly saboteur.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy.
BW- 70 mins

8:00 PM
A SOLDIER’S STORY (1984)
During World War II, an African-American officer investigates a murder that may have been racially motivated.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Howard E Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – November 28, 2018

6:00 AM
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.
BW- 86 mins, CC

11:00 AM
ROUGHSHOD (1949)
A rancher tries to save his fellow stagecoach passengers from a murderous enemy.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr..
BW- 88 mins, CC

6:30 PM
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

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

Thursday – November 29, 2018

6:00 AM
DOCTOR X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy.
C- 76 mins, CC

7:30 AM
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939)
A murderer returns from the grave with a thirst for blood.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris.
BW- 62 mins, CC

12:30 PM
OBSESSION (1949)
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife’s lover in an acid bath.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne.
BW- 98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 PM
EXPERIMENT ALCATRAZ (1951)
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford.
BW- 59 mins, CC

5:00 PM
SIGNPOST TO MURDER (1965)
A convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing.
Dir: George Englund Cast: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare.
BW- 77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Friday – November 30, 2018

12:15 AM
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW- 90 mins, CC

2:00 AM
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1979)
Three crooks plot to steal a fortune in gold from a moving train.
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down.
C- 111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM
Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin.
C- 127 mins

9:30 AM
THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY (1937)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery.
BW- 98 mins, CC

11:15 AM
THE LAW AND THE LADY (1951)
A society jewel thief falls for one of her marks.
Dir: Edwin H. Knopf Cast: Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas.
BW- 104 mins, CC

1:15 PM
TWO SMART PEOPLE (1946)
In New Orleans, lady crook tries to steal a con man’s hidden loot.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Saturday – December 1, 2018

12:15 AM
THE MANCHU EAGLE MURDER CAPER MYSTERY (1975)
Dir: Dean Hargrove Cast: Gabriel Dell, Will Geer, Joyce Van Patten.
BW- 80 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 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2018 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and  Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

OK, let’s see… while searching through for this month’s mystery movies, I found several movies starring Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, and Peter Lorre. The movies featured mad scientists, vampires, monsters, and the living dead. This could only mean that I was searching through the Turner Classic Movies channel’s October schedule. Bring on the fall, and I can’t wait!

I’m going to leave it up to you all to pick and choose your own Halloween movies, but as usual, I will post the mystery movies I found on TCM that will be playing during October 2018:

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

Monday – October 1, 2018

10:00 AM
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

11:45 AM
NIGHT WATCH (1973)
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw.
C- 99 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – October 2, 2018

12:00 AM
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a mysterious businessman during a luxurious train ride.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman.
C- 128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 AM
PENTHOUSE (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth.
BW- 89 mins, CC

1:00 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

2:45 PM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – October 3, 2018

8:00 PM
THE UNKNOWN (1927)
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow’s armless wonder.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford.
BW- 50 mins

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

Friday – October 5, 2018

8:00 PM
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940)
A British agent masquerades as a Nazi officer to protect an inventor and his daughter.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul von Henreid.
BW- 95 mins, CC

10:00 PM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Saturday – October 6, 2018

12:00 AM
THE WICKED LADY, THE (1945)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Dir: Leslie Arliss Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc.
BW- 104 mins

10:10 AM
THE SAINT STRIKES BACK (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan.
BW- 64 mins, CC

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

Sunday – October 7, 2018

12:00 AM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC

10:00 AM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – October 9, 2018

12:00 AM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)

A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW- 101 mins, CC

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

Thursday – October 11, 2018

6:45 AM
A CRY IN THE NIGHT (1956)
A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Dir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood.
BW- 75 mins

8:15 AM
BEHAVE YOURSELF! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest.
BW- 81 mins, CC

9:45 AM
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.
BW- 87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – October 12, 2018

4:00 AM
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
BW- 99 mins, CC

6:00 AM
FAST LIFE (1932)
An innocent man stands trial for killing the man who tried to steal his wife.
Dir: Harry Pollard Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel.
BW- 82 mins

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

Saturday – October 13, 2018

10:09 AM
THE SAINT IN LONDON (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
Dir: John Paddy Carstairs Cast: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns.
BW- 72 mins, CC

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

Sunday – October 14, 2018

6:30 PM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – October 16, 2018

9:45 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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

10:00 PM
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD (1952)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – October 17, 2018

12:15 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.
BW- 81 mins, CC

8:00 PM
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932)
A storm strands travelers in a house full of dangerous eccentrics.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton.
BW- 72 mins

9:30 PM
THE WALKING DEAD (1936)
A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn.
BW- 65 mins, CC

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

Thursday – October 18, 2018

6:30 AM
YELLOW DUST (1936)
After he’s accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Dir: Wallace Fox Cast: Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olson.
BW- 69 mins

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

Friday – October 19, 2018

6:00 AM
YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)
A young tough takes the rap for a hardened gangster.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop.
BW- 79 mins, CC

7:30 AM
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.
BW- 76 mins

9:00 AM
THE MURDER MAN (1935)
A hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
Dir: Tim Whelan Cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 69 mins, CC

10:15 AM
STRANGE JUSTICE (1932)
A crooked banker and his assistant devise a scheme to frame an ex-con for their crime.
Dir: Victor Schertzinger Cast: Marian Marsh, Reginald Denny, Richard Bennett.
BW- 64 mins

12:45 PM
TWO SECONDS (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 67 mins, CC

5:00 PM
BACK IN CIRCULATION (1937)
A reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay.
BW- 81 mins, CC

6:30 PM
YOU CAN’T ESCAPE FOREVER (1942)
Although she’s been demoted to writing the advice column, a newspaper woman still tries to expose a racketeer.
Dir: Jo Graham Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 78 mins, CC

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

Saturday – October 20, 2018

10:09 AM
THE SAINT’S DOUBLE TROUBLE (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale.
BW- 67 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 22, 2018

12:45 PM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 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

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

Tuesday – October 23, 2018

10:00 PM
THE STORY ON PAGE ONE (1960)
Dir: Clifford Odets Cast: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young.
BW- 123 mins

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

Thursday – October 25, 2018

12:15 AM
THE HAPPY THIEVES (1962)
A worldly art thief gets mixed up with murder.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Rex Harrison, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Wiseman.
C- 89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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.
BW- 109 mins, CC

10:00 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

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

Friday – October 26, 2018

8:00 PM
WHITE LIGHTNING (1973)
A convicted moonshiner helps police track down the bayou bad guys who killed his brother.
Dir: Joseph Sargent Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsley.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – October 27, 2018

10:08 AM
THE SAINT TAKES OVER (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale.
BW- 70 mins, CC

11:30 AM
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1941)
In this short film, a man commits a murder and is tormented by the victim’s beating heart.
BW- 20 mins

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

Sunday – October 28, 2018

12:00 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC

10:00 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 29, 2018

4:00 AM
DIABOLIQUE (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret.
BW- 117 mins

7:45 AM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC

1:15 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.
BW- 134 mins, CC

3:45 PM
HUSH… HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964)
A wealthy southern spinster fights to keep her family’s secrets hidden.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 133 mins, CC

6:15 PM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – October 31, 2018

7:30 AM
DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Members of an Irish family are being killed off by one of their own who wishes to inherit the family fortune.
Dir: Francis Coppola Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton.
BW- 75 mins, CC

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

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 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2018 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and  Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

Another month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for September!

September 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Saturday – September 1, 2018

11:00 AM
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
BW- 108 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE LOCKET (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum.
BW- 85 mins, CC

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

Monday – September 3, 2018

10:45 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – September 4, 2018

11:45 AM
HOTEL RESERVE (1946)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
Dir: Victor Hanbury Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell.
BW- 79 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – September 5, 2018

2:30 AM
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

12:15 PM
DANGEROUS MISSION (1954)
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix.
C- 75 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE BAT (1959)
A female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
Dir: Crane Wilbur Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Friday – September 7, 2018

12:00 AM
A SOLDIER’S STORY (1984)
During World War II, an African-American officer investigates a murder that may have been racially motivated.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Howard E Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 AM
ROUGHSHOD (1949)
A rancher tries to save his fellow stagecoach passengers from a murderous enemy.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr..
BW- 88 mins, CC

7:00 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.
BW- 70 mins, CC

5:00 PM
JEZEBEL (1938)
A tempestuous Southern belle’s willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent.
BW- 104 mins, CC

*****If you love “Gone with the Wind” – you’ll probably love this non-mystery movie.*****

7:00 PM
BIG HEAT, THE (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW- 90 mins, CC

11:00 PM
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

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

Saturday – September 8, 2018

11:15 PM
DESPERATE (1947)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 9, 2018

3:45 AM
21 DAYS (1940)
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir: Basil Dean Cast: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier.
BW- 75 mins, CC

9:00 AM
DESPERATE (1947)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Monday – September 10, 2018

1:45 PM
A CRY IN THE NIGHT (1956)
A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Dir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood.
BW- 75 mins

3:15 PM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
BW- 84 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – September 11, 2018

1:30 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.
BW- 73 mins, CC

2:45 PM
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.

C- 108 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – September 12, 2018

8:15 AM
MURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane.
BW- 74 mins, CC
*****This is based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series. Edna May Oliver is excellent as Miss Withers.*****

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

Sunday – September 13, 2018

5:00 PM
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
BW- 105 mins, CC
*****If you haven’t seen this classic comedy, be sure to try to watch it. It’s a non-mystery.*****

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

Friday – September 14, 2018

6:45 AM
AFTER OFFICE HOURS (1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin.
BW- 72 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 15, 2018

7:00 PM
PANIC IN THE STREETS (1950)
A killer evades the police not knowing he has a deadly plague.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes.
BW- 96 mins

9:00 PM
THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (1950)
Married jewel thieves struggle with infidelity, federal agents and the deadly smallpox virus.
Dir: Earl McEvoy Cast: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop.
BW- 76 mins

11:00 PM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 16, 2018

9:00 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Monday – September 17, 2018

5:00 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.
C- 108 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – September 18, 2018

5:15 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.
BW- 64 mins, CC

6:30 AM
THE GAY FALCON (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 67 mins, CC

10:15 AM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – September 19, 2018

7:00 PM
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
C- 127 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – September 20, 2018

8:15 AM
SIDE STREET (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig.
BW- 83 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 22, 2018

11:00 PM
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- 94 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 23, 2018

9:00 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- 94 mins, CC

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

Monday – September 24, 2018

5:00 AM
HAT, COAT AND GLOVE (1934)
A lawyer gets mixed up in a net of intrigue when he witnesses a suicide.
Dir: Worthington Miner Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Robbins, John Beal.
BW- 65 mins, CC

7:30 AM
SOCIETY LAWYER (1939)
A lawyer plays with fire when he gets mixed up with underworld types.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo.
BW- 78 mins, CC

9:00 AM
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE (1937)
A young lawyer defends a hillbilly girl who killed her father in self defense.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 83 mins

10:30 AM
ON TRIAL (1939)
A novice lawyer must defend a killer.
Dir: Terry Morse Cast: Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Edward Norris.
BW- 61 mins

1:00 PM
SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR (1936)
A crooked criminal lawyer discovers his brother has been killed by one of the gangsters he kept out of prison.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Richard Dix, Margaret Callahan, Erik Rhodes.
BW- 61 mins

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

Wednesday – September 26, 2018

4:45 AM
MR. RICCO (1975)
A defense lawyer faces down racist killers to prove his black client innocent.
Dir: Paul Bogart Cast: Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala.
C- 98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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4:00 PM
THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright.
BW- 116 mins, CC
*****Excellent non-mystery movie.*****

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

Friday – September 28, 2018

5:30 AM
NINE LIVES ARE NOT ENOUGH (1941)
A reporter tries to solve a series of boardinghouse murders.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland Cast: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason.
BW- 63 mins

6:45 AM
GAMBLING ON THE HIGH SEAS (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy Cast: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland.
BW- 55 mins, CC

7:45 AM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh.
BW- 83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:15 AM
THE NAKED CITY (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
BW- 96 mins, CC

11:00 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.
C- 119 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:15 PM
UNDERCURRENT (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum.
BW- 116 mins, CC

5:15 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

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

Saturday – September 29, 2018

9:07 AM
THE SAINT IN NEW YORK (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann.
BW- 72 mins, CC

11:00 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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in September, 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 August 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2018 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and  Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)