I keep thinking we can’t already be this close to end of 2023! It seems like it was this time of year just two months ago, and here we are, already approaching a new year!

On Thursday, November 2, the Turner Classic Movie channel will be showing all three of the 1940s “Whistling” mystery movies. They starred Red Skelton as a bumbling detective with his own radio show. S. Sylvan Simon was the director for each of these movies: Whistling in the Dark – 1941, Whistling in Dixie – 1942, and Whistling in Brooklyn – 1943. Wally Benton (Skelton) somehow manages to sleuth out the murderers in all three of these comedic mystery movies.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2023

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Wednesday – November 1, 2023

11:15 AM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
74 mins

12:45 PM Love Is a Racket (1932)
A beautiful girl convinces a reporter to cover up her involvement in a murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee
72 mins

6:30 PM Midnight Mary (1933)
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Dir: William Wellman. Cast: Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone
71 mins

10:00 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

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

Thursday – November 2, 2023

12:00 AM Super Fly (1972)
Charismatic, big-time Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest drives expensive cars and plans one last big score to escape his life of violence. When corrupt cops working for the Mob learn of his plan, they try to make Priest a partner rather than arrest him.
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr. Cast: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris
96 mins

12:15 PM 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
77 mins

1:45 PM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
74 mins

3:00 PM Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers
87 mins

4:30 PM Washington Melodrama (1941)
A philanthropic businessman is framed for murder during a lobbying trip to Washington.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor
78 mins

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

Friday – November 3, 2023

11:30 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

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

Saturday – November 4, 2023

2:00 PM I See A Dark Stranger (1946)
An Irish woman who hates the English turns Nazi spy.
Dir: Frank Launder. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
112 mins

10:00 PM The Big Boss (1971)
A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.
Dir: Lo Wei. Cast: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien
100 mins
***** In Cantonese, Mandarin, & Thai*****

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

Sunday – November 5, 2023

12:00 AM Abandoned (1949)
When a newspaper crime reporter helps a woman try to find her sister’s illegitimate baby, they discover a baby-adoption racket.
Dir: Joe Newman. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler
79 mins

10:00 AM Abandoned (1949)
When a newspaper crime reporter helps a woman try to find her sister’s illegitimate baby, they discover a baby-adoption racket.
Dir: Joe Newman. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler
79 mins

11:45 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
116 mins

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

Monday – November 6, 2023

10:15 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
108 mins

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

Tuesday – November 7, 2023

8:00 PM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

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

Wednesday – November 8, 2023

4:00 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
86 mins

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

Thursday – November 9, 2023

12:45 AM Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
An African-American man is hired to find a woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal.
Dir: Carl Franklin. Cast: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals
102 mins

11:30 AM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
62 mins

3:45 PM Bewitched (1945)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Dir: Arch Oboler. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry H. Daniels Jr.
65 mins

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

Friday – November 10, 2023

6:15 PM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

8:00 PM Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
80 mins

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

Sunday – November 12, 2023

12:00 AM Cry Terror! (1958)
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens
96 mins

2:00 AM Cat O’Nine Tails (1971)
A blind man and a reporter investigate a break-in at a center for genetic research.
Dir: Dario Argento. Cast: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
112 mins

4:00 AM Eyes in the Night (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed
80 mins

12:00 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
65 mins

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

Tuesday – November 14, 2023

8:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
91 mins

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

Wednesday – November 15, 2023

1:30 AM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins

3:00 AM The Todd Killings (1971)
Based on the true story of ’60s thrill-killer Charles Schmid (“The Pied Piper of Tucson”).
Dir: Barry Shear. Cast: Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda Montgomery
93 mins

6:00 AM Before Dawn (1933)
Detectives compete to solve the murders at a mysterious mansion.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland
60 mins

7:15 AM The Unholy Night (1929)
A mad strangler haunts the London fog.
Dir: Lionel Barrymore. Cast: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian
92 mins

10:30 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
64 mins

12:00 PM 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
76 mins

3:15 PM The Hidden Hand (1942)
The body count rises during the competition for a family inheritance.
Dir: Ben Stoloff. Cast: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop
66 mins

4:30 PM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
64 mins

5:45 PM Mystery House (1938)
A detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
Dir: Noel Smith. Cast: Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel
61 mins

6:45 PM The White Cockatoo (1935)
Crooks and killers try to stop a young woman from proving her claim to an inheritance.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly
73 mins

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

Friday – November 17, 2023

6:00 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
76 mins

7:30 AM Too Late For Tears (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don Defore, Dan Duryea
99 mins

9:15 AM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins

10:30 AM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
95 mins

12:15 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

1:30 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

3:15 PM 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
92 mins

5:00 PM The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
72 mins

6:15 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
96 mins

8:00 PM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Police patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm
89 mins

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

Saturday – November 18, 2023

2:00 AM The Incident (1967)
Two rowdy teens board a New York City subway and terrorize the passengers.
Dir: Larry Peerce. Cast: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
107 mins

4:00 AM Alphabet City (1984)
A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
Dir: Amos Poe. Cast: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow
85 mins

3:30 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins

5:00 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
83 mins

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

Sunday – November 19, 2023

12:00 AM Strange Bargain (1949)
A young bookkeeper is framed for his boss’s murder.
Dir: Will Price. Cast: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Henry Morgan
68 mins

1:45 AM Dressed To Kill (1980)
After wife and mother Kate Miller discusses her sexual frustrations with her psychiatrist, she goes to meet her husband at a museum. At the museum, she meets a strange man who she follows to a cab and then has sex with him at his apartment. After the affair, Kate is brutally murdered in the elevator by a blonde woman.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
104 mins

4:00 AM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

10:00 AM Strange Bargain (1949)
A young bookkeeper is framed for his boss’s murder.
Dir: Will Price. Cast: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Henry Morgan
68 mins

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

Monday – November 20, 2023

12:15 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

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

Tuesday – November 21, 2023

7:15 AM The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
67 mins

8:45 AM Don’t Turn ‘Em Loose (1936)
A ruthless convict threatens to reveal that the head of the parole board is his father.
Dir: Ben Stoloff. Cast: Lewis Stone, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
68 mins

10:00 AM Convict’s Code (1939)
A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. When he is released on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.
Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Cast: Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer
62 mins

11:15 AM They All Come Out (1939)
The getaway driver for a gang of thieves is captured by the police and sent to a prison, where he contemplates a life of reform.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell
70 mins

3:15 PM Man to Man (1931)
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
Dir: Allan Dwan. Cast: Phillips Holmes, Grant Mitchell, Lucille Powers
68 mins

10:15 PM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
95 mins

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

Wednesday – November 22, 2023

4:45 AM Chandler (1971)
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
Dir: Paul Magwood. Cast: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier
88 mins

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

Friday – November 24, 2023

6:00 AM Their Big Moment (1934)
A phony psychic conjures up a real ghost who asks her to solve his murder.
Dir: James Cruze. Cast: Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, William Gaxton
68 mins

8:00 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
108 mins

10:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

12:00 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
108 mins

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

Saturday – November 25, 2023

4:15 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins

6:00 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
106 mins

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

Sunday – November 26, 2023

12:00 AM Storm Fear (1956)
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother’s home.
Dir: Cornel Wilde. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea
88 mins

4:00 AM The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
A kidnapped gangster turns his captors into a crack band of crooks.
Dir: Ken Annakin. Cast: Vittorio De Sica, Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner
110 mins

10:00 AM Storm Fear (1956)
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother’s home.
Dir: Cornel Wilde. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea
88 mins

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

Monday – November 27, 2023

6:30 PM The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.
Dir: Leslie S. Hiscott. Cast: Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding, Ian Fleming
75 mins

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

Tuesday – November 28, 2023

8:00 PM The Big Heat (1953)
A hard-boiled and uncorruptable cop investigates a string of murders and single-handedly exposes an organized crime cartel.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando
90 mins

9:45 PM Human Desire (1954)
An unhappy wife seduces a veteran into helping her get rid of her husband.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
90 mins

11:30 PM Naked Alibi (1954)
A chief of police detectives who is fired for brutality tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Dir: Jerry Hopper. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
86 mins

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

Wednesday – November 29, 2023

1:15 AM The Good Die Young (1954)
Four thieves think back on the problems that led them to a daring heist.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart
98 mins

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

Thursday – November 30, 2023

8:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
Walter Burns is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper’s star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife. She’s tired of the business and is ready to settle down with a new beau. But (as Walter well knows) she has one weakness, she can’t quite resist a juicy scoop.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
92 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery, but with Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, and Ralph Bellamy, it’s great fun!*****

11:15 PM The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
A criminal has plastic surgery done to change his identity but loses his memory during the operation.
Dir: Harry Lachman. Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Marian Marsh, Thurston Hall
73 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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2023 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.

Oh my goodness, it’s October again! I say this probably every October, but here goes again: I love the old movies during this month that star actors like Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Boris Karloff. I don’t know what it is that attracts me to these old, black and white “horror” movies, and by “horror” – I mean nothing like today’s horror movies! Anyway, I haven’t listed those movies, but there will be plenty of them sprinkled throughout October.

For those of you who enjoy the 1930s and 1940s detective movies that are based on fiction novels, Philo Vance (written by S. S. Van Dine) and Perry Mason (written by Erle Stanley Gardner) will be shown on Monday, October 23. Be sure to set up your modes of DVR-ing.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – October 2023

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Tuesday – October 3, 2023

8:00 PM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Young Charlie is a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle Charlie is a serial killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
108 mins

10:00 PM Dressed To Kill (1980)
After wife and mother discusses her sexual frustrations with her psychiatrist, she goes to meet her husband at a museum. At the museum, she meets a strange man who she follows to a cab and then has sex with him at his apartment. After the affair, Kate is brutally murdered in the elevator by a blonde woman …
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
104 mins

12:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

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

Saturday – October 7, 2023

1:45 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
127 mins

3:45 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
110 mins

8:31 AM Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)
Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond attempt to track down the murderer of a scientist who had invented a “death-ray” device.
Dir: James P. Hogan. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner
57 mins

10:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

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

Sunday – October 8, 2023

12:15 AM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
110 mins

10:00 AM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
110 mins

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

Monday – October 9, 2023

6:45 AM Blind Alibi (1938)
A man pretends to be blind to foil blackmailers.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli
62 mins

1:00 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
93 mins

2:45 PM Cairo (1963)
Master thieves set their sights on King Tut’s jewels in this remake of The Asphalt Jungle.
Dir: Wolf Rilla. Cast: George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama
91 mins

4:30 PM The Fake (1953)
An American investigator in London discovers that a posh museum’s da Vinci is a fake.
Dir: Godfrey Grayson. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams
80 mins

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

Tuesday – October 10, 2023

1:30 AM Dangerous Mission (1954)
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King. Cast: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix
75 mins

3:00 AM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

10:45 AM The Death Kiss (1933)
A movie actor is killed while filming a scene.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi
75 mins

6:45 PM The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
66 mins

8:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

10:00 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

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

Wednesday – October 11, 2023

1:45 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

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

8:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins

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

Thursday – October 12, 2023

10:00 PM I Accuse! (1958)
True story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
Dir: Jose Ferrer. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
99 mins

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

Saturday – October 14, 2023

6:00 PM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

8:00 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

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

Sunday – October 15, 2023

12:00 AM The Big Caper (1957)
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
Dir: Robert Stevens. Cast: Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory
84 mins

10:00 AM The Big Caper (1957)
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
Dir: Robert Stevens. Cast: Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory
84 mins

3:45 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

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

Monday – October 16, 2023

6:00 AM Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Bulldog Drummond must race to Africa to save his friend from a madman.
Dir: Louis King. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner
60 mins

12:30 PM Port Afrique (1956)
Returning to his home in French Morocco, an ex-army flier finds his wife dead and suspects murder.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Pier Angeli, Eugene Deckers, Pat O’Mera
92 mins

8:00 PM Saboteur (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
108 mins

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

Tuesday – October 17, 2023

12:30 AM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

10:00 PM Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
An aging and mad spinster, haunted by her one and only lover’s murder, lives alone with her maid in a large mansion, until her cousin arrives with a plot to drive her even madder and inherit the family’s wealth.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten
133 mins

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

Thursday – October 19, 2023

11:45 AM Miracles for Sale (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
71 mins

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

Friday – October 20, 2023

2:45 AM The Heiress (1949)
A plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
115 mins
*****Not a mystery movie – but well worth watching!*****

11:30 AM Star Witness (1931)
An old man who witnessed a crime is threatened by gangsters.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell
68 mins

10:00 PM The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
A man frames his brother for murder to secure the family fortune for himself.
Dir: Joe May. Cast: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price
89 mins

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

Saturday – October 21, 2023

1:30 AM The Haunting (1963)
A mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins

3:45 AM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

6:30 PM 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
83 mins

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

Sunday – October 22, 2023

12:00 AM Casque d’Or (1952)
The year is 1898. A beautiful woman named Marie, also known as Casque d’Or, has fallen in love with a carpenter named Manda. The problem is Marie is the girlfriend of a hoodlum in the Leca gang. So in order to have the lovely Marie, Manda faces and defies the gang and kills Leca.
Dir: Jacques Becker. Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
96 mins
*****In French*****

10:00 AM Casque d’or (1952)
The year is 1898. A beautiful woman named Marie, also known as Casque d’Or, has fallen in love with a carpenter named Manda. The problem is Marie is the girlfriend of a hoodlum in the Leca gang. So in order to have the lovely Marie, Manda faces and defies the gang and kills Leca.
Dir: Jacques Becker. Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
96 mins
*****In French*****

12:00 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
95 mins

2:00 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

4:15 PM The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

6:00 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
108 mins

8:00 PM Mirage (1965)
A biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
109 mins

10:00 PM Marnie (1964)
A woman with a penchant for stealing money from the places she works as a receptionist marries one of her bosses who knows she’s guilty. He then proceeds to try to uncover the mysteries surrounding her past.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
130 mins

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

Monday – October 23, 2023

6:00 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Quick-witted private investigator Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin”, which is curiously signed the Bishop. Vance is on the case but the pressure to uncover the …
Dir: David Burton. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
88 mins

7:45 AM The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Perry Mason tries to find out if a long-lost heiress is the real thing.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel
70 mins

10:30 AM The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
80 mins

12:00 PM The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith. Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr.
60 mins

1:15 PM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
62 mins

2:30 PM The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Two reporters interested in different stories write about a murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon.Cast: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne
74 mins

4:00 PM The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
Perry Mason’s honeymoon with Della Street is interrupted by the murder of a scandal-sheet publisher.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Winifred Shaw
63 mins

5:15 PM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
83 mins

6:45 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
62 mins

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

Tuesday – October 24, 2023

7:45 AM The People Against O’Hara (1951)
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, Diana Lynn
102 mins

9:30 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
81 mins

11:00 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
93 mins

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

Wednesday – October 25, 2023

5:45 PM 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
116 mins

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

Friday – October 27, 2023

10:15 AM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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

Saturday – October 28, 2023

11:30 AM A Gun in His Hand (1945)
In this short film, a man joins the police force with the intention of getting away with crimes.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Ray Teal, Arthur Space, Anthony Caruso
18 mins

2:30 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

8:00 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock.Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
119 mins

10:15 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

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

Sunday – October 29, 2023

12:00 AM Experiment in Terror (1962)
A master criminal tries to force a bank teller to help him pull off a big heist.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
123 mins

2:30 AM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

4:15 AM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins

10:00 AM Experiment in Terror (1962)
A master criminal tries to force a bank teller to help him pull off a big heist.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
123 mins

12:15 PM The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
91 mins
*****Not a mystery movie. I have seen this movie a few times and end up liking it even more each time!*****

6:00 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
110 mins

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

Monday – October 30, 2023

2:00 AM Cure (1997)
A Tokyo detective is investigating a series of brutal murders in which each victim is found with an “X” carved into their chest. Their killers are apprehended nearby in a trance-like state with no memory of their acts. The detective enlists the help of a psychiatrist to establish a link between the murderers.
Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cast: Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
115 mins
*****In Japanese*****

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

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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2023 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.