My gosh! It’s finally officially summer – but here in San Antonio it feels like our summer months begin in May! Yow-zee — it has been hot (and humid)! But, I’m sure you didn’t com here to see me complain about our weather…

Withour further ado – here are the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during June 2025. (Oh, and there are two Miss Marple movies with Margaret Rutherford that will be playing this month. She’s not your typical Miss Marple…)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2025

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Sunday – June 1, 2025

10:00 AM The Big Steal (1949)
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
71 mins

11:30 AM Respect the Law (1941)
This short film focuses on how minor lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals. Part of the “Crime Does Not Pay” series.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Moroni Olsen, Richard Lane, Frank Orth
20 mins

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

Monday – June 2, 2025

6:30 AM A Shot in the Dark (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
57 mins

7:30 AM Tiger Bay (1959)
A seaman kills his two-timing girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, but is witnessed in the act by a young girl. He kidnaps her for fear she’ll turn him in, but oddly the two strike up a friendship until a detective comes snooping around, using the girl as bait to catch the killer before his ship sails off.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
105 mins

11:30 AM The Decks Ran Red (1958)
Dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford
84 mins

1:00 PM The Ghost Ship (1943)
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett
69 mins

2:15 PM Murder in the Fleet (1935)
Seamen hunt down a deadly saboteur.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick/ Cast: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy
69 mins

3:30 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

4:45 PM Mad Holiday (1936)
A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts
71 mins

6:15 PM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins

10:00 PM Man of the West (1958)
A reformed outlaw is among the passengers who are held hostage when a train is robbed by his former colleagues.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
100 mins

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

Tuesday – June 3, 2025

4:00 AM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins

10:15 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist’s sister’s relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
96 mins

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

Wednesday – June 4, 2025

1:45 PM Lightning Strikes Twice (1935)
A jewel heist leads to murder.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton
63 mins

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

Saturday – June 7, 2025

6:30 AM The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)
Reform school girls trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Dir: Bernard Girard. Cast: Susan Oliver, Linda Plowman, Beverly Long
76 mins

10:30 AM Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)
Bulldog Drummond postpones his wedding to track down a band of bank robbers.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner
56 mins

12:00 AM The Undercover Man (1949)
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
85 mins

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

Sunday – June 8, 2025

10:00 AM The Undercover Man (1949)
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
85 mins

4:15 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

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

Monday – June 9, 2025

6:00 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

8:00 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between them …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

10:00 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
*****Based on the novel by Wilkie Collins****

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

Tuesday – June 10, 2025

4:00 AM The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
A master thief escapes from a Canadian prison farm and makes his way to New York.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer
91 mins

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

Wednesday – June 11, 2025

12:00 AM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins

1:30 AM Good Time Girl (1948)
A British magistrate tells the story of a wayward girl who joins two GI deserters in a crime spree.
Dir: David Macdonald. Cast: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Diana Dors
91 mins

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

Thursday – June 12, 2025

6:30 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

8:00 AM Terror on a Train (1953)
It’s a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
72 mins

9:15 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins

10:45 AM Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
75 mins

12:15 PM The Petrified Forest (1936)
When a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
83 mins

1:45 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

4:00 PM Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
74 mins

5:15 PM High Tide (1947)
A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the circumstances leading up to their predicament.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Cast: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
70 mins

6:30 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

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

Saturday – June 14, 2025

10:25 AM 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
73 mins

3:45 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins

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

Sunday – June 15, 2025

12:15 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins

10:00 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins

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

Monday – June 16, 2025

8:00 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another. Corporate tax lawyer David Burton accepts the case just as torrential rains blanket even the most arid regions of the nation, and is instantly beset with prophetic dreams and apocalyptic …
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

Tuesday – June 17, 2025

2:00 AM Twilight of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
Dir: Boris Sagal. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams
104 mins

6:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman. Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

9:30 AM I Thank a Fool (1962)
A woman once convicted of euthanasia gets a job caring for her prosecutor’s wife.
Dir: Robert Stevens. Cast: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento
100 mins

8:00 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
*****Not a mystery/crime movie. I just love this movie so much, I “have” to post it.*****

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

Wednesday – June 18, 2025

4:30 AM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
86 mins

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

Friday – June 20, 2025

12:30 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

2:15 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

4:15 AM Black Eye (1974)
A private eye stumbles onto a series of murders connected to a movie star’s death.
Dir: Jack Arnold. Cast: Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves
98 mins

9:00 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins

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

Saturday – June 21, 2025

2:30 AM Nine Queens (2000)
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (known as the “nine queens”).
Dir: Fabian Bielinsky Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
115 mins
*****In Spanish*****

6:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins

10:25 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
68 mins

6:15 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

10:00 PM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

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

Sunday – June 22, 2025

12:15 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
96 mins
*****In Japanese*****

10:00 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
96 mins
*****In Japanese*****

6:15 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

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

Monday – June 23, 2025

7:30 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

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

Tuesday – June 24, 2025

11:15 AM 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
73 mins

12:30 PM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

4:15 PM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
68 mins

5:30 PM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
67 mins

6:45 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

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

Wednesday – June 25, 2025

9:45 AM Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)
A race car driver tries to solve a series of track-side murders before he’s next.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton
70 mins

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

Thursday – June 26, 2025

8:00 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

11:30 PM 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

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

Friday – June 27, 2025

1:30 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

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

Saturday – June 28, 2025

10:10 AM 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

1:45 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

8:00 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
107 mins
*****Terrific mystery movie!*****

10:00 PM Chinatown (1974)
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Dir: Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
130 mins

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

Sunday – June 29, 2025

12:30 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins
*****Barbara Stanwyck really delivers in this mystery movie!*****

10:00 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins
*****Barbara Stanwyck delivers in this mystery movie!*****

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

Monday – June 30, 2025

12:30 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
96 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in June, 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 May television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2025 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 almost summer time! It has already been too hot, humid, and downright muggy down here, which makes me wonder what they did back when there were no air conditioners! My brother was going to move down here to be closer to my family, but the weather was something that kept him from finally making the journey. I am guessing that you don’t come to the Cozy Mystery site’s blog to hear me complain about our weather, so here goes…

Here are the mystery and crime movies that I was able to find on the Turner Classic Movies channel that will be aired during May 2025. I hope you are able to find a few you enjoy watching. I have already set up my YouTube TV to record for as far as I can – since there are several mystery/crime movies that I’m looking forward to watching during May.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2025

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Friday – May 2, 2025

6:00 AM 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

10:15 PM The Haunting (1963)
A mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. 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

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

Saturday – May 3, 2025

6:00 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, Edward G. Robinson
110 mins

10:20 AM Bulldog Drummond’s Peril (1938)
Bulldog Drummond hunts down an assassin after a priceless diamond.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell
66 mins

12:15 AM Riffraff (1947)
After lucking into a map to a rich oil field, a man has to dodge those out to steal it.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
80 mins

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

Sunday – May 4, 2025

10:00 AM Riffraff (1947)
After lucking into a map to a rich oil field, a man has to dodge those out to steal it.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
80 mins

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

Tuesday – May 6, 2025

7:30 AM The Light Touch (1951)
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders
93 mins

11:15 AM Scene of the Crime (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman’s murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven
94 mins

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

Wednesday – May 7, 2025

6:00 AM Joe Smith, American (1942)
Nazi spies in search of government secrets kidnap a munitions worker.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Young, Marsha Hunt, Harvey Stephens
63 mins

11:45 AM The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
123 mins

10:00 PM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts.
Dir: René Clément. Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins
*****In French*****

12:00 AM The Vanishing (1988)
A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.
Dir: George Sluizer. Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege
107 mins
*****In Dutch, French, and English*****

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

Thursday – May 8, 2025

1:00 PM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins

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

Friday – May 9, 2025

8:15 AM The Smiling Ghost (1941)
A newswoman investigates a haunted house.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith
71 mins

12:00 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
*****The novel was written by William Wilkie Collins*****

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

Saturday – May 10, 2025

10:25 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
58 mins

1:45 PM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

3:45 PM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
An ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
109 mins

5:45 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

12:15 AM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

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

Sunday – May 11, 2025

6:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
88 mins
*****Not a mystery, but I sure did enjoy this movie…*****

10:00 AM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

6:00 PM 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

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

Monday – May 12, 2025

6:00 AM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins
*****Not a mystery, but I think it’s the best “Little Women” movie ever!*****

6:15 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

8:00 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

10:00 PM The French Connection (1971)
A tough-talking New York City detective and his partner uncover an international drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William Friedkin. Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
104 mins

2:00 AM Mississippi Burning (1988)
FBI agents investigate the murders of civil rights workers in the South.
Dir: Alan Parker. Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
125 mins

4:15 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins

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

Tuesday – May 13, 2025

3:00 PM Missing (1982)
A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son’s wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship.
Dir: Costa-Gavras. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron
122 mins

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

Thursday – May 15, 2025

9:15 AM British Intelligence (1940)
A lady spy uses a British nobleman’s home in her undercover work for the Germans.
Dir: Terry Morse. Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester
62 mins

6:30 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

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

Friday – May 16, 2025

8:00 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins
*****I just watched this very fun movie and recommend it to fans of the old 1940 movies. It’s incredible how they were able to splice in the movie stars from back in the Golden Age of Hollywood.*****

9:45 PM This Gun for Hire (1942)
A hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
80 mins

11:15 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

1:00 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

3:00 AM Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA’s daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
107 mins

5:00 AM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

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

Saturday – May 17, 2025

10:30 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

12:00 AM Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
An aging gangster comes out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped.
Dir: Jacques Becker. Cast: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll
83 mins
*****In French*****

2:00 AM Guns Don’t Argue (1957)
The FBI takes on the Depression’s most notorious criminals.
Dir: Richard C. Kahn. Cast: Myron Healey, Jean Harvey, Paul Dubov
92 mins

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

Sunday – May 18, 2025

10:00 AM Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
An aging gangster comes out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped.
Dir: Jacques Becker. Cast: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll
83 mins
*****In French*****

12:00 PM Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor’s life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
111 mins

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

Monday – May 19, 2025

7:15 AM Skyjacked (1972)
While on route to Los Angeles, a commercial airliner is hijacked to Russia by an unbalanced Vietnam veteran.
Dir: John Guillermin. Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin
100 mins

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

Tuesday – May 20, 2025

4:00 PM The Racket (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
88 mins

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

Wednesday – May 21, 2025

2:30 PM Night Must Fall (1964)
A psychopath worms his way into an elderly woman’s household.
Dir: Karel Reisz. Cast: Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne, Susan Hampshire
101 mins

6:00 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

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

Thursday – May 22, 2025

9:30 AM The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
81 mins

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

Friday – May 23, 2025

7:45 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
59 mins

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
93 mins

10:45 AM The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Dir: Edward J. Montagne. Cast: John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella
64 mins

12:00 PM Scene of the Crime (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman’s murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland .Cast: Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven
94 mins

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

3:30 PM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
74 mins

4:45 PM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

6:15 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

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

Saturday – May 24, 2025

12:00 AM Cornered (1946)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
102 mins

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

Sunday – May 25, 2025

10:00 AM Cornered (1946)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
102 mins

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

Wednesday – May 28, 2025

8:30 AM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins

12:45 PM The Man Who Dared (1939)
Family who witness a murder are pursued by gangsters.
Dir: Crane Wilbur. Cast: Jane Bryan, Henry O’Neill, John Russell
60 mins

4:30 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

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

Saturday – May 31, 2025

10:30 AM Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police (1939)
Bulldog Drummond discovers the house he’s rented for his wedding hides a secret treasure.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner
56 mins

12:00 AM The Big Steal (1949)
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
71 mins

1:30 AM Magnum Force (1973)
Inspector “Dirty Harry” Callahan links vigilante killings to the San Francisco police force.
Dir: Ted Post. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan
122 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in May, 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 April television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2025 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.

Wow-Zee! Spring is a great time to watch mystery and/or crime movies! I’m all in on that sentiment! Here is the list of the mystery/crime movies that I was able to glean from the Turner Classic Movies channel’s April 2025 schedule. I know I shouldn’t have started day one of April with a non-mystery movie, but I think The Catered Affair is such a great movie (with a great cast!) that I just had to tell you about it. It has been aired several times recently, but I “had” to mention it again.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2025

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

Tuesday – April 1, 2025

12:30 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
93 mins
*****This is not a mystery, however it is a very good movie.*****

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

Thursday – April 3, 2025

8:00 PM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

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

Friday – April 4, 2025

12:15 AM Dead End (1937)
A killer returns to his childhood home in a New York City slum to plot his escape from the law.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
92 mins

9:00 AM The Women in His Life (1933)
When his ex-wife is murdered, a hard-living lawyer defends the chief suspect.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon
75 mins

5:15 PM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
68 mins

6:30 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

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

Saturday – April 5, 2025

10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he tries to protect a beautiful heiress from an espionage organization.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: Ray Milland, Sir Guy Standing, Heather Angel
67 mins

8:00 PM 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
120 mins

10:00 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

Sunday – April 6, 2025

12:00 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

10:00 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

10:00 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins

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

Monday – April 7, 2025

8:00 PM Whistling in the Dark (1933)
A mystery writer’s plan for the perfect murder greatly interests a mobster.
Dir: Elliott Nugent. Cast: Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold
79 mins

9:30 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

11:00 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.

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

Tuesday – April 8, 2025

9:45 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

12:15 PM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins

8:00 PM The Killing (1956)
A career criminal recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender, and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

9:45 PM Tension (1949)
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

11:30 PM Johnny O’Clock (1947)
Gambling hall owners get mixed up with a cop on the take, leading to murder and mystery.
Dir: Robert Rossen. Cast: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb
96 mins

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

Wednesday – April 9, 2025

1:30 AM They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
80 mins

3:15 AM The Outfit (1973)
An ex-con takes on the mob to avenge his brother’s death.
Dir: John Flynn. Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Roland Lastarza
102 mins

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

Friday – April 11, 2025

12:00 AM Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
A lawyer and a widow encounter murder on a train ride.
Dir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak
69 mins

6:00 AM 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
73 mins

9:00 AM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

10:15 AM The Firebird (1934)
A young girl’s secret romance is exposed when her lover is murdered.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill
74 mins

4:15 PM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
91 mins

6:00 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
110 mins

8:00 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
100 mins

9:45 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

11:45 PM My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Detective Mike Hammer’s investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
Dir: George A. White. Cast: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake
90 mins

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

Saturday – April 12, 2025

1:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellawayf
113 mins

3:30 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
121 mins

5:45 AM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as “Doc” McCoy – a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison–in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he …
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
A rock thrown through his window sets a gentleman adventurer on a search for enemy agents.
Dir: Norman Lee. Cast: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory
59 mins

6:15 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
95 mins

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

Sunday – April 13, 2025

12:15 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins

10:00 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins

10:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jeison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins
*****Excellent movie.*****

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

Monday – April 14, 2025

8:00 AM The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
71 mins

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

Tuesday – April 15, 2025

11:00 AM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
83 mins

12:30 PM Special Agent (1935)
A government agent poses as a newspaperman to get the goods on a mobster.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
78 mins

2:00 PM Alcatraz Island (1937)
A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Mary Maguire
61 mins

3:15 PM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
81 mins

4:45 PM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins

6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

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

Wednesday – April 16, 2025

12:15 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president’s wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
80 mins

1:30 AM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

3:30 AM Rage (1972)
When an experimental military gas kills a rancher’s son, he sets out to seek answers and retribution.
Dir: George C Scott. Cast: George C Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen
104 mins

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

Friday – April 18, 2025

8:30 AM Murder on Diamond Row (1937)
An out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector hunts a diamond fence known as “The Squeaker,” who is also a killer.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd
77 mins

4:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

6:00 PM Time Without Pity (1957)
A father comes to the aid of his son who is on Death Row.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Michael Redgrave
88 mins

9:30 PM The Saint in New York (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann
72 mins

11:00 PM The Bat (1959)
A female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
Dir: Crane Wilbur. Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
80 mins

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

Saturday – April 19, 2025

12:30 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
74 mins

2:00 AM The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oskar Beregi Sr.
122 mins

4:15 AM Judex (1963)
Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
Dir: Georges Franju. Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
104 mins
*****In French*****

6:00 AM Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
A reformed jewel thief helps detectives track down a criminal.
Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William
82 mins

10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
An old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fiancée.
Dir: Louis King. Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell
64 mins

2:00 PM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

6:15 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

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

Sunday – April 20, 2025

12:00 AM 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

1:45 AM The Mackintosh Man (1973)
A British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda
98 mins

3:45 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

10:00 AM 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

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

Monday – April 21, 2025

6:45 AM Obsession (1949)
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife’s lover in an acid bath.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
96 mins

8:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
113 mins

10:30 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

12:30 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

2:30 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window. She calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

4:15 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

6:15 PM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

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

Tuesday – April 22, 2025

6:15 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
66 mins

7:45 AM Blondie Johnson (1933)
A female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
67 mins

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

Wednesday – April 23, 2025

8:15 AM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins

6:15 PM The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
94 mins

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

Saturday – April 26, 2025

10:30 AM Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge (1937)
Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.
Dir: Louis King. Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell
57 mins

4:15 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

8:00 PM 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
121 mins

10:15 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

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

Sunday – April 27, 2025

12:15 AM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
92 mins

10:00 AM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
92 mins

2:15 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

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

Wednesday – April 30, 2025

7:30 AM 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
76 mins

8:45 AM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

10:30 AM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

12:30 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another. Corporate tax lawyer David Burton accepts the case just as torrential rains blanket even the most arid regions of the nation, and is instantly beset with prophetic dreams and apocalyptic …
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

2:30 PM Twilight of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
Dir: Boris Sagal. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams
104 mins

4:30 PM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

6:30 PM Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
80 mins

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

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 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

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

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

The Turner Classic Movie channel will be showing four Hildegarde Withers movies this month. When I think of Stuart Palmer’s older, British amateur sleuth, I think of Edna May Oliver. (The fourth Hildegarde movie stars Helen Broderick as Hildegarde Withers.) Of course, Hildegarde is accompanied by a police detective who she is able to lead on to the correct solution of the crimes they (as in she!) solves. (You may be interested in checking out Stuart Palmer’s page on my Cozy Mystery site…) I have also had the pleasure of watching the Hildegard movies that feature ZaSu Pitts as Hildegarde, but the channel won’t be airing those this month.

Another thing I want to bring to your attention is the fact that the Turner Classic Movie channel will be featuring a day of Alfred Hitchcock movies on March 12. They will be starting the day with a documentary called “Becoming Hitchcock – The Legacy of Blackmail”. I’m looking forward to this! The day will continue by showing five more of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies and his only comedy. I’m fortunate that I enjoy watching some movies over and over, and then over again!

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – March 2025

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

Saturday – March 1, 2025

7:30 AM Five Star Final (1931)
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H. B. Warner
89 mins

9:00 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

2:15 AM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

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

Sunday – March 2, 2025

10:00 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
97 mins

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

Monday – March 3, 2025

6:00 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

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

Tuesday – March 4, 2025

9:15 AM Blackwell’s Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
71 mins

4:30 PM They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he’s killed an opponent in the ring.
Dir: Busby Berkeley. Cast: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson
92 mins

6:15 PM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

5:00 AM A Shot in the Dark (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
57 mins

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

Wednesday – March 5, 2025

1:15 PM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
74 mins

2:45 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
72 mins

8:15 AM Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she’s sent to prison.
Dir: Howard Bretherton & William Keighley. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
69 mins

9:30 AM Gambling Lady (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien
66 mins

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

Friday – March 7, 2025

8:00 PM 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

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

Saturday – March 8, 2025

2:45 AM Purple Noon (1961)
An angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts…
Dir: René Clément. Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins
*****In French*****

10:10 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
66 mins

5:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

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

Sunday – March 9, 2025

12:30 AM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

3:30 AM 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

5:00 AM Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn. Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
56 mins

10:00 AM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

1:45 PM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
84 mins

8:00 PM 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
*****I usually don’t watch mystery movies from the 60s on, but I’m glad I took a chance on this really good one.*****

10:15 PM Evil Under the Sun (1982)
A detective trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
Dir: Guy Hamilton. Cast: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
117 mins

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

Tuesday – March 11, 2025

8:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins
*****Excellent mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM 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
134 mins

12:30 AM The Getaway (1972)
A convict makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison.
Once free, he tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust…
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

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

Wednesday – March 12, 2025

2:45 AM The Anderson Tapes (1971)
After ten years in prison, a thief tries to adjust to improved surveillance methods.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam
99 mins

4:45 AM 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

6:30 AM Becoming Hitchcock – The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
A reflection on the development of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films – Blackmail (1929).
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. Cast: Elvis Mitchell (narrator), Alfred Hitchcock
72 mins

8:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

10:00 AM Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
A quarrelsome couple discovers their marriage isn’t legal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond
89 mins
*****Alfred Hitchcock’s only comedy.*****

12:00 PM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

2:00 PM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

4:00 PM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood. Now, as Eve plays a game of cat and mouse with …
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 mins

6:00 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins

8:00 PM The Lady Eve (1941)
A shy millionaire, homeward bound after two years collecting snakes in the Brazilian jungle, encounters a gold-digger aboard an ocean liner.
Dir: Preston Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
97 mins
*****A very good comedy – not a mystery.*****

9:45 PM Ball of Fire (1942)
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
111 mins
*****Here’s another very good non-mystery comedy movie.*****

11:45 PM Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
94 mins
*****This is not a mystery movie. It’s one of my very favorite Christmas movies.*****

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

Thursday – March 13, 2025

9:30 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
65 mins

11:00 AM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****This is not a mystery movie. It’s a truly terrific Christmas movie.*****

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

Saturday – March 15, 2025

1:30 AM Blood Simple (1984)
An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins

3:15 AM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins

4:45 AM The Gay Falcon (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins
66 mins

10:15 AM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
71 mins

4:15 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

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

Sunday – March 16, 2025

12:00 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

6:00 AM A Fine Pair (1969)
A detective gets involved with a beautiful jewel thief.
Dir: Francesco Maselli. Cast: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian
115 mins

7:45 AM They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969)
A casino blackjack dealer plots to hijack and rob an armored car.
Dir: Antonio Isasi Isasmendi. Cast: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb
129 mins

10:00 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

2:15 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

5:45 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

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

Monday – March 17, 2025

6:00 PM Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
116 mins

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

Tuesday – March 18, 2025

10:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins
*****I said this before… this is an excellent mystery movie.*****

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

Wednesday – March 19, 2025

12:00 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
132 mins

4:30 AM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
72 mins gbh

8:00 AM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood. Now, as Eve plays a game of cat and mouse with …
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 mins

8:00 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
107 mins

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

Thursday – March 20, 2025

1:30 AM Witness to Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
83 mins

3:00 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins

5:45 AM The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
81 mins

9:15 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller of an artist who can only find inspiration in murder and of the two women who inspire him, the two women he loves – The Two Mrs. Carrolls.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

11:00 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

1:00 PM Crime of Passion (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
84 mins

4:15 PM The Double Man (1967)
Russian secret service officials attempt to kidnap a CIA officer and replace him with a double of their own.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill
105 mins

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

Friday – March 21, 2025

2:00 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

4:00 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
132 mins

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

Saturday – March 22, 2025

12:15 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

10:05 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
74 mins

6:00 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

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

Sunday – March 23, 2025

12:00 AM Clash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan
104 mins

10:00 AM Clash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan
104 mins

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

2:00 PM Kind Lady (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle
76 mins

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

Wednesday – March 26, 2025

10:30 AM The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle
66 mins

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

Thursday – March 27, 2025

10:00 PM Gambit (1966)
Comedic caper revolves around a professional thief who recruits a Eurasian nightclub singer to go along with him on a planned burglary of a statuette owned by a wealthy Arab.
Dir: Ronald Neame. Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
109 mins

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

Friday – March 28, 2025

12:00 AM 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

2:00 AM 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
84 mins

3:30 AM They Came To Rob Las Vegas (1969)
A casino blackjack dealer plots to hijack and rob an armored car.
Dir: Antonio Isasi Isasmendi. Cast: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb
129 mins

6:30 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins

12:30 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

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

Saturday – March 29, 2025

6:00 AM This Could Be the Night (1957)
A schoolteacher gets a secretarial job at a gangster-run nightclub.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa
103 mins

10:10 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
66 mins

4:30 PM The Bribe (1949)
A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
98 mins

6:15 PM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
86 mins

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

Sunday – March 30, 2025

12:15 AM 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
76 mins

2:00 AM She (1965)
Explorers uncover a lost kingdom ruled by an immortal queen.
Dir: Robert Day. Cast: Ursula Andress, John Richardson, Peter Cushing
106 mins

10:00 AM 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
76 mins

8:00 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
95 mins

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

Monday – March 31, 2025

10:30 AM Picture Snatcher (1933)
An ex-con brings his crooked ways to a job as a news photographer.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
77 mins

12:00 PM Marked Woman (1937)
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
96 mins

2:00 PM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

4:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

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

Tuesday – April 1, 2025

5:00 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president’s wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
80 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in March, 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 February television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2025 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.