TCM will be celebrating both its 20th Anniversary as well as John Wayne during April. If you happen to be a John Wayne fan, you should be excited about the 58 movies TCM will be airing. (I know my younger brother is looking forward to those movies. they will be airing them (mostly?) during April 21 and the 25th, which explains the fact that I don’t have very many mystery movies showing that week.

Since they are celebrating an anniversary, they will be showing a few shows that might interest those of you who are especially interested in Hollywood’s Golden era. I have annotated some of those movies. As usual, I have included a few movies that are not mysteries, but that I particularly enjoy, and think some of you might also enjoy seeing them.

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April 2014 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Tuesday – April 1, 2014

9:30 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

12:30 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 PM
THE TWELVE CHAIRS (1970)
A fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs.
Dir: Mel Brooks Cast: Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise.
C-93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – April 2, 2014

11:00 AM
THE SCAPEGOAT (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey.
BW-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:45 PM
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)
An ambitious young man sets out to kill everyone who stands between him and a fortune.
Dir: Robert Hamer Cast: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood.
BW-106 mins, CC

2:45 PM
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW-81 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady’s boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom.
C-91 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – April 3, 2014

7:00 AM
LOVER COME BACK (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***OK, I guess I should disclose that I am a Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedies fan. This is not a mystery.***

7:00 PM
THE THRILL OF IT ALL (1963)
A doctor tries to cope with his wife’s newfound stardom as an advertising pitch woman.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis.
C-108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***I guess I’m just a Doris Day comedy fan.This one doesn’t have Rock Hudson in it, however, James Garner comes pretty close. This is not a mystery.***

11:00 PM
SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964)
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***Not a Mystery, however it is a Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy movie, of which (as I mentioned) I am a fan.***

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Friday – April 4, 2014

6:00 AM
MISS PINKERTON (1932)
A private duty nurse gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall.
BW-66 mins
***This movie is based on Mary Roberts Rinehart‘s Miss Pinkerton.*** 

9:45 AM
BABBITT (1934)
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd.
BW-74 mins, CC

12:15 PM
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

4:45 PM
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HELEN? (1971)
After their sons are convicted of murder, two women relocate to Hollywood to start a talent school.
Dir: Curtis Harrington Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver.
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – April 5, 2014

10:45 AM
MGM: WHEN THE LION ROARS, PART I: THE LION ROARS (1992)
Patrick Stewart takes viewers through the history of Hollywood’s greatest film studio, MGM, from its formation in 1924 through the death of its greatest production genius, Irving J. Thalberg. Featuring interviews with Joan Crawford and Groucho Marx.
Dir: Frank Martin Cast: Patrick Stewart, Kirk Kerkorian, R E Turner (Ted).
C-122 mins
***I hope this three-part special is as good as it looks. All three parts will be shown during April.***

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Sunday – April 6, 2014

7:00 AM
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino.
BW-95 mins, CC

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

Monday – April 7, 2014

7:00 PM
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

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

Tuesday – April 8, 2014

6:45 AM
SHERLOCK HOLMES IN DRESSED TO KILL (1946)
Sherlock Holmes sets out to find why people are killing each other over a seemingly inexpensive music box.
Dir: Roy William Neill Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison.
BW-71 mins

9:30 AM
BLACKMAIL (1939)
A man in prison on false charges escapes to save his family from a blackmailer.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart.
BW-81 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
BW-94 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***This is not a mystery, but I just love this movie. You might enjoy it, too.***

8:45 PM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1958)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
BW-116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – April 9, 2014

6:45 AM
KID GLOVE KILLER (1942)
A police scientist investigates the mayor’s murder.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman.
BW-74 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE PRIZE (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
C-135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – April 10, 2014

12:45 AM
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, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM
TRIAL (1955)
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy.
BW-109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:15 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

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

Friday – April 11, 2014

9:00 AM
THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern.
BW-88 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 12, 2014

10:45 AM
MGM: WHEN THE LION ROARS, PART II: THE LION REIGNS SUPREME (1992)
Patrick Stewart takes viewers through the history of Hollywood’s greatest film studio at its height during the thirties and early forties. Featuring interviews with Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford.
Dir: Frank Martin Cast: Patrick Stewart, Kirk Kerkorian, R E Turner (Ted).
C-121 mins
***The second part of this three-part special.***

4:45 PM
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

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

Monday – April 14, 2014

6:00 AM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, CC

10:00 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

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

Wednesday – April 16, 2014

7:00 PM
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993)
A proper British butler sacrifices happiness to remain faithful to his position.
Dir: James Ivory Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve.
C-134 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***This is not a mystery, but is really, really good.***

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

Thursday – April 17, 2014

9:30 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

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

Friday – April 18, 2014

10:00 AM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C-136 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
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

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Saturday – April 19, 2014

10:45 AM
MGM: WHEN THE LION ROARS, PART III: THE LION IN WINTER (1992)
Patrick Stewart takes viewers through the history of Hollywoods greatest film studio as it fades from glory during the fifties. Featuring interviews with Gene Kelly and Charlton Heston.
Dir: Frank Martin Cast: Patrick Stewart, Kirk Kerkorian, R E Turner (Ted).
C-123 mins
***The third and final part of this special.***

7:00 PM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW-88 mins

8:45 PM
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)
A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill.
BW-95 mins, CC

10:30 PM
THE IRON CURTAIN (1948)
This film, based on real events, focuses on the defection of Soviet Embassy code specialist Igor Gouzenko.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc.
BW-87 mins

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Sunday – April 20, 2014

1:00 AM
HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (1970) (horror?)
A bridal design shop owner kills various young brides-to-be.
Dir: Mario Bava Cast: Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti.
C-88 mins

2:45 AM
THE TERROR (1963) (horror?)
A lost soldier discovers a mysterious beauty haunting a half-deserted castle.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight.
C-79 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Tuesday – April 22, 2014

3:00 AM
THOU SHALT NOT: SEX, SIN AND CENSORSHIP IN PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD (2008)
This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history.
C-68 mins, CC
***I had no idea how racy pre-code Hollywood was!***

5:30 PM
1939: HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST YEAR (2009)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood’s greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
C-68 mins, CC
***Why not? Might as well end the TCM anniversary finding out about Hollywood’s greatest year.***

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Sunday – April 27, 2014

2:45 AM
SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden.
BW-116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
BW-86 mins, CC

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Monday – April 28, 2014

3:45 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.
BW-87 mins, CC

6:45 AM
THE UNHOLY NIGHT (1929)
A mad strangler haunts the London fog.
Dir: Lionel Barrymore Cast: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian.
BW-93 mins

10:15 AM
GUILTY HANDS (1931)
A district attorney tries to frame an innocent girl for the murder he committed.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans.
BW-69 mins, CC

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Tuesday – April 29, 2014

4:30 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

3:45 PM
SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)
A reporter fakes insanity to crack a murder committed in an asylum.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans.
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – April 30, 2014

7:00 PM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW-95 mins, CC

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

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. There were a few mystery movies that appeared in my monthly TCM Now Playing that didn’t show up on TCM’s schedule online, so I didn’t add them to the list.)

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during April 2014, please post a comment.

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So, what mystery movies will air on TV during March 2014?

Well, I don’t know about all of them, but I do know about the mystery movies they will be airing on the Turner Classic Movies channel. I have gone through TCM‘s Now Playing for March 2014 (as I do each month) and have come up with the following list of mystery movies. 

March 2014 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Saturday – March 1, 2014

7:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – March 5, 2014

12:15 AM
SALT AND PEPPER (1968)
Two nightclub owners investigate the murder of a secret agent found in their apartment.
Dir: Richard D. Donner Cast: Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM
ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)
A radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page
BW-73 mins

4:00 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
BW-87 mins, CC

7:00 PM
DODSWORTH (1936)
A husband whose wife left him looks for new love in Europe.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas
BW-101 mins, CC
***This is not a mystery, but it is one of my favorite movies.***

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

Thursday – March 6, 2014

6:45 AM
DINKY (1935)
A military school cadet’s mother is framed and sent to prison.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast: Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor
BW-65 mins

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

Friday – March 7, 2014

4:00 PM
COUNT THE HOURS (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey, Dolores Moran
BW-75 mins, CC

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

Saturday – March 8, 2014

9:30 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.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
BW-67 mins, CC

10:45 AM
DARK PASSAGE (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
BW-106 mins, CC

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

Monday – March 10, 2013

7:00 AM
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-74 mins, CC

8:30 AM
BARRICADE (1950)
Two fugitives try to prove the head of a mining camp is a murderer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman
C-75 mins

1:15 PM
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
BW-90 mins

3:00 PM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
BW-101 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – March 11, 2014

11:30 AM
BENGAZI (1955)
Three shady characters team up to search for Nazi gold in the African desert.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson
BW-79 mins, Letterbox Format

3:30 PM
CONFIDENCE GIRL (1952)
A con-artist couple pose as a detective and a psychic.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Tom Conway, Hillary Brooke, Eddie Marr
BW-81 mins

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

Wednesday – March 12, 2014

12:15 AM
HARPER (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
C-121 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:45 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

9:00 AM
RENDEZVOUS (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
BW-94 mins, CC

7:00 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

9:00 PM
ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942)
An American agent tries to keep Axis spies from blowing up the Panama Canal.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
C-96 mins, CC

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

Thursday – March 13, 2014

1:00 AM
THERE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN (1938)
While working on a simple case, married private eyes uncover a murder.
Dir: Alexander Hall Cast: Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor
BW-81 mins

4:30 AM
THE MURDER OF DR. HARRIGAN (1936)
A doctor investigates the murder of a colleague involved in experimental surgery.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge
BW-67 mins

5:45 AM
THE MAN WITH TWO FACES (1934)
An actor uses his skills to protect his sister from her sinister husband.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez
BW-73 mins, CC

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

Saturday – March 15, 2014

9:30 AM
THE PLOT THICKENS (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.
BW-69 mins, CC

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

Sunday – March 16, 2014

5:00 PM
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
BW-112 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – March 18, 2014

8:15 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
BW-78 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – March 19, 2014

10:15 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

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

Saturday – March 22, 2014

9:30 AM
FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
BW-63 mins
***Based on a Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mysteries***

7:00 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine
C-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – March 23, 2014

5:00 AM
LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
BW-103 mins, CC

9:00 PM
NOTORIOUS (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
BW-101 mins, CC

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

Monday – March 24, 2014

1:00 AM
FISTS IN THE POCKET (1965)
A deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family.
Dir: Marco Bellocchio Cast: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masè
BW-105 mins

11:15 AM
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
BW-95 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – March 25, 2014

1:00 PM
MADELEINE (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
BW-115 mins, CC

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

Thursday – March 27, 2014

9:15 AM
THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins.
BW-74 mins
***Based on Erle Stanley Gardner‘s Perry Mason mystery book.***

11:15 AM
RED HOT TIRES (1935)
A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns.
BW-61 mins

1:45 PM
I AM A THIEF (1935)
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
BW-64 mins

3:00 PM
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
BW-82 mins, CC

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

Friday – March 28, 2014

9:45 AM
SHERLOCK HOLMES (1922)
Sherlock Holmes faces off against Professor Moriarty.
Dir: Albert Parker Cast: John Barrymore, Roland Young, Carol Dempster
BW-86 mins
*** This is a silent film.***

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

Saturday – March 29, 2014

2:30 AM
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, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)
A reporter fakes insanity to crack a murder committed in an asylum.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
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

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

Sunday – March 30, 2014

3:00 PM
TOPKAPI (1964)
An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov , Maximilian Schell
C-119 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. There were a few mystery movies that appeared in my monthly TCM Now Playing that didn’t show up on TCM’s schedule online, so I didn’t add them to the list.)

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during March 2014, please post a comment.

If you would like to see more Television and Movies ideas, click on this link.

These are the mystery movies that I have found which will be airing during February 2014. So far I have been able to find mystery movies that will be airing on both the Turner Classic Movie channel and the Hallmark Movie channel.

I have gone through TCM‘s Now Playing for February 2014 and see that there are a lot less mystery movies this month. The reason for this is that they are focusing on the Oscars, and are showing Oscar-related movies for thirty one days in a row. That’s a lot of really good viewing! But since I only focus (for the most part) on mystery movies, I won’t be highlighting all of TCM’s highlighted Oscar movies.

February 2014 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Sunday – February 2

5:00 AM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:15 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, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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Monday – February 3

1:15 AM
SPELLBOUND (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Tuesday – February 4

2:45 PM
Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
C-127 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – February 6

12:15 PM
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, TV-PG, CC

2:30 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, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 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
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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Friday – February 7

5:30 AM
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, TV-PG, CC

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Saturday – February 8

8:00 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:30 AM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:00 PM
THE HEIRESS (1949)
A plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
BW-115 mins, TV-PG, CC
***This is not a mystery, but I absolutely love this movie. Olivia de Havilland is exceptional in this.***

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Monday – February 10

8:30 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-120 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Tuesday – February 11

7:30 AM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC
***I’ve said this before, but this is one of my very favorite Barbara Stanwyck movies. It makes me laugh every time I see it. (This is not a mystery.) ***

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Wednesday – February 12

3:00 PM
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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Saturday – February 15

4:00 AM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
C-82 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – February 16

9:00 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, TV-G, CC

2:30 PM
THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
England’s Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
Dir: Anthony Harvey Cast: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow
C-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
***I think this movie is terrific. (It is not a mystery.)***

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

Monday – February 17

7:00 AM
GAMBIT (1966)
A man dreams of the perfect robbery but can’t seem to pull it off.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – February 18

8:45 AM
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, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 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, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – February 19

1:30 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, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – February 20

5:15 AM
THE LETTER (1929)
A planter’s wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what
happened.
Dir: Jean De Limur Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O. P. Heggie, Reginald Owen
BW-60 mins, TV-PG
***I have never seen this version of The Letter. I have enjoyed the 1940 version with Bette Davis, which they aired on February 2.***)

12:30 PM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday – February 22

12:00 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, TV-PG, CC

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

Tuesday – February 25

12:15 AM
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965)
A British agent infiltrates the enemy by allowing himself to be disgraced at home.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM
LIFEBOAT (1944)
Survivors of a torpedoed boat take in a German Naval officer from the sub that sank them.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
BW-97 mins, TV-14, CC

9:15 AM
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
BW-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – February 26

9:00 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, TV-PG, CC
***Yow! The whole cast is terrific, and Bette Davis is phenomenally brutal! (This is not a mystery.)***

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

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

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Now, on to the mystery movies that will be playing on the Hallmark Movie channel during February 2014. I’m also listing the Hallmark Movie channel mystery movies in Central time zone.

February 2014 Hallmark Movie Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Sunday – February 2 through Monday – February 3

There will be a Murder, She Wrote marathon going all day on the Hallmark Movie channel. It will start at 8:00 AM on Sunday and run through Monday at 4:00 AM.

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Sunday – February 9

8:00 AM
McBride: Fallen Idol
McBride and Phil represent a young man accused of murdering a famous and success lawyer, who is also McBride’s mentor.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, and Matt Lutz.

10:00 AM
McBride: Requiem
In life, Ava Fletcher was a virtuoso classical violinist and a darling of the critics, if not her peers. In death, she’s McBride’s new puzzle, and she’s got a grieving father eager to nail her low-class fiancé. McBride isn’t convinced, especially with an orchestra pit full of suspects all of who have solid motives for snipping Ava’s strings.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois and Matt Lutz

12:00 PM
McBride: Semper Fi
On a quiet street, in a seemingly ordinary home, a horrific crime has occurred, and a fireman and former marine medic is accused of killing his wife and daughters.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

2:00 PM
McBride: The Doctor is Out…Really Out
When therapist George Prescott is murdered, investigator Jim McBride is summoned to questions the doctor’s biggest head cases, including vindictive lovers, jealous colleagues, and vengeful rivals.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois,and Matt Lutz.

4:00 PM
McBride: Tune In For Murder
McBride’s case involves two larger than life radio stars who host the highly successful morning show “Ron and Bob.” But when Ron is murdered and all the evidence points to Bob, McBride and Phil begin investigating and what they turn up are a lot of unanswered questions.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

6:00 PM
McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty?
When Tracy, an aspiring singer breaks up with her longtime boyfriend Joe on the set of a popular talk show, everyone assumes it’s nothing more than tv tabloid hijinks. But when the talk show host turns up dead, all evidence points to Joe. McBride must take center stage and clear his client of murder.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

8:00 PM
McBride: The Chameleon Murder
As a favor to a friend, defense attorney McBride takes on a client accused of murdering a woman. When McBride and his partner Phil investigate the deceased, they discover she had many identities and with each new life she was leading the list of suspects grows larger. Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, Matt Lutz.

10:00 PM
McBride: It’s Murder, Madam
An actress, furious that she has been duped into working at an escort service, goes to confront her boss about the situation. She is shocked when she discovers her boss’s dead body and is later arrested for the murder. Defense attorney McBride takes on the case to prove Marilyn is innocent.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, Matt Lutz.

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Monday – February 10

12:00 AM
McBride: Dogged
The annual L.A. Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canine’s lovely handler.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, and Matt Lutz.

2:00 AM
McBride: Murder Past Midnight
Ex-cop turned defense attorney, Jim McBride takes on a new and very beautiful client accused of murdering her husband.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

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Sunday – February 16

08:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, and William Devane.

10:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Tom Selleck returns to the role of small town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to Stone Cold. His first assignment is to inestigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may or may not be tied in with a local domestic-abuse case.
Also stars Stephen Baldwin and Saul Rubinek.

12:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. When a series of murders takes place, he’s forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
Stars Tom Selleck and Mimi Rodgers.

02:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Tom Selleck returns to the role of Jesse Stone, the troubled police chief of Paradise, Mass. As Stone obsesses on solving a local murder, he also works a domestic violence case and faces a run-in with Boston mobsters that may lead to grave consequences.
Stars Tom Selleck.

04:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and Sean Young.

06:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and William Devane.

08:00 PM
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in Paradise on their own. Jesse pours his energy into his work in an effort to push away his twin demons: booze and women. When his investigation leads to notorious mob boss Gino Fish, Jesse’s pursuit becomes hazardous.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth.

10:00 PM
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in Paradise on their own. Jesse pours his energy into his work in an effort to push away his twin demons: booze and women. When his investigation leads to notorious mob boss Gino Fish, Jesse’s pursuit becomes hazardous.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth.

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Monday- – February 17

12:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Tom Selleck returns to the role of small town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to Stone Cold. His first assignment is to inestigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may or may not be tied in with a local domestic-abuse case.
Also stars Stephen Baldwin and Saul Rubinek.

02:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. When a series of murders takes place, he’s forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
Stars Tom Selleck and Mimi Rodgers.

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(All of the above descriptions were copied from the Hallmark Movie channel site.)

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