The month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for April!
First, I’m not going to discuss them seperately, but TCM will have a biblical themed movie marathon for Easter, April 1. So if you’re interested in Bible based movies, be sure to take a look!
April 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
Tuesday – April 3, 2018
3:00 PM
PILLOW TALK (1959)
A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*** Not a mystery. Great Rock Hudson/Doris Day comedy.
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – April 4, 2018
3:45 AM
CHINA PASSAGE (1937)
Murder and jewel theft plague a China-bound steamer.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton.
BW- 64 mins, CC
9:15 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
10:30 AM
PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62 (1933)
A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he’s investigating.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly.
BW- 66 mins, CC
1:15 PM
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
5:30 PM
THE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
BW- 73 mins, CC
Thursday – April 5, 2018
2:00 AM
JIMMY THE GENT (1934)
An unscrupulous detective makes a killing locating missing heirs.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 68 mins, CC
5:30 AM
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
7:15 AM
DEAD RINGER (1964)
A woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford.
BW- 116 mins, CC
4:15 PM
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
7:00 PM
THE LODGER (1944)
The inhabitants of a boarding house fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar.
BW- 84 mins, CC
8:45 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 – April 6, 2018
2:45 AM
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (1982)
A father returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child.
Dir: Terry Hughes Cast: George Hearn, Angela Lansbury, Cris Groenendall.
C- 140 mins, CC
5:15 AM
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
7:30 AM
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
11:30 PM
THE PHANTOM OF PARIS (1931)
A magician is charged with killing his fiancee’s father.
Dir: John S. Robertson Cast: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone.
BW- 74 mins, CC
Saturday – April 7, 2018
7:00 AM
HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE (1936)
Robert Benchley attempts to teach the audience what it takes to be a successful detective in this short film.
Dir: Felix E. Feist Cast: Robert Benchley, Dewey Robinson, Arthur Hoyt.
BW- 9 mins
3:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – April 8, 2018
9:00 AM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – April 9, 2018
5:00 AM
THE MOONLIGHTER (1953)
A former jailbird makes good after the wrong man is accused for his crime.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond.
BW- 78 mins, CC
5:30 PM
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
BW- 82 mins, CC
Tuesday – April 10, 2018
9:30 AM
TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
BW- 66 mins, CC
1:45 PM
CROSSROADS (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor.
BW- 83 mins, CC
3:15 PM
HYSTERIA (1965)
An amnesiac stumbles on to a murder plot.
Dir: Freddie Francis Cast: Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne.
BW- 85 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – April 11, 2018
2:45 PM
VIRGINIA CITY (1940)
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott.
BW- 121 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – April 12, 2018
5:30 AM
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
6:45 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
8:00 AM
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
11:15 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
1:15 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
3:00 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
5:00 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,
Saturday – April 14, 2018
11:00 AM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
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
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – April 15, 2018
5:00 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
9:00 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – April 18, 2018
11:00 AM
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter.
BW- 103 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – April 21, 2018
12:30 PM
THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS (1959)
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith.
BW- 137 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
7:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:00 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
11:15 PM
CRY DANGER (1951)
An innocent ex-con sets out to find the real criminals.
Dir: Robert Parrish Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman.
BW- 79 mins, CC
Sunday – April 22, 2018
3:00 AM
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray.
C- 107 mins, CC
9:00 AM
CRY DANGER (1951)
An innocent ex-con sets out to find the real criminals.
Dir: Robert Parrish Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman.
BW- 79 mins, CC
7:00 PM
WONDER MAN (1945)
A murdered nightclub star possesses a mild-mannered look-alike to bring his killers to justice.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen.
C- 98 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – April 27, 2018
12:30 AM
THE WRONG BOX (1966)
Two elderly brothers plot to kill each other for a fortune.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine.
C- 106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Monday – April 30, 2018
4:15 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
7:00 PM
BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW- 102 mins, CC
***Not a mystery. Very good Judy Holliday movie.***
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in April, 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 March 2018 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 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.)
I am so looking forward to seeing “Early Man” – a claymation movie which is being advertised all over. So, with that in mind, forgive me for going (again!) off the Cozy Mystery topic. I enjoy these movies so much that I have decided to tell you all about some of these movies that I definitely recommend for those of you who may enjoy the “inner child” type of movies.
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Yes, yes, I know I have said I wouldn’t be doing these Hallmark M & M entries – because the channels website is so difficult (and secretive!) to navigate, but I spent some time on it today looking around and thought I would tell you about some upcoming mystery movies I noticed. (They actually have a new website format which I find even more difficult than their previous format!)