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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for April 2025

March 23, 2025

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.

Klute (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] ***** ***** ***** *****

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

The Narrow Margin ***** ***** ***** *****

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

They Won't Believe Me [DVD] ***** ***** ***** *****

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

The Postman Always Rings Twice ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Five Minutes To Live 1961 ***** ***** ***** *****

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

The Set-Up [DVD] ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Count the Hours (1953) ***** ***** ***** *****

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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for March 2025

February 20, 2025

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!

Crossfire ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Thirteen Women ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Velvet Touch, The ***** ***** ***** *****

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

The Lady Vanishes ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Gun Crazy ***** ***** ***** *****

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

The Man With A Cloak ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Clash By Night ***** ***** ***** *****

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

This Could Be the Night ***** ***** ***** *****

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

Picture Snatcher ***** ***** ***** *****

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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for February 2025

January 23, 2025

It seems to me there are fewer mystery movies that are being aired this month. I don’t think it’s because February is such a short month. When I was compiling this list I noticed that the Turner Classic Movies was doing a lot of “theme days” – it seems that none of the theme days were dedicated to mystery movies. However, there still are several really good ones such as Double Indemnity (1944) on February 4, several of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, and Gaslight (1944) on February 25, and several other newer ones.

12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition) with Special Features ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – February 2025

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

Saturday – February 1, 2025

4:00 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

6:00 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

8:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
138 mins
*****Not a mystery. Very good movie.*****

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

Tuesday – February 4, 2025

12:15 AM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
*****Excellent mystery movie.*****

2:15 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal 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

4:15 AM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
95 mins

8:00 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
119 mins

4:00 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
*****Not really a mystery – a murder trial which is more of a comedy…*****

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

Wednesday – February 5, 2025

7:15 AM The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews
78 mins

10:00 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

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

Thursday – February 6, 2025

9:15 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

Three Billboards ***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – February 8, 2025

10:00 PM Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Discover what happens after a flinty small-town woman places messages on a trio of billboards asking local police why her daughter’s murder hasn’t been solved.
Dir: Martin McDonagh. Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
115 mins

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

Sunday – February 9, 2025

2:30 AM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

10:15 PM Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
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
114 mins

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

Tuesday – February 11, 2025

3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

5:30 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

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

Thursday – February 13, 2025

8:00 AM The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
96 mins

10:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
110 mins

11:30 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

Marty ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 14, 2025

10:00 PM Marty (1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
94 mins
*****Not a mystery. Very good movie.*****

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

Saturday – February 15, 2025

7:00 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

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

Monday – February 17, 2025

4:45 AM 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

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

Wednesday – February 19, 2025

8:00 AM 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

10:00 AM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras. Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
125 mins

6:00 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

Bad Day at Black Rock ***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 20, 2025

12:15 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

4:00 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

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

Saturday – February 22, 2025

12:00 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

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

Sunday – February 23, 2025

8:00 PM All the President’s Men (1976)
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr.
138 mins

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

Monday – February 24, 2025

8:00 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

10:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

Gaslight ***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 25, 2025

12:00 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

2:00 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

4:00 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: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
117 mins

6:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
80 mins

11:30 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
190 mins

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (Anniversary Edition) ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 28, 2025

11:30 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
132 mins

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

Saturday – March 1, 2025

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

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for January 2025

December 24, 2024

2025! Can you believe it’s here?!? (I can’t…)

First off, Happy Holidays to everyone!

As usual, I have tried to glean all of the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during the month – in this case, January 2025. There are two things that stand out for me: one is a four movie-run of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies and the other is a three movie-run of movies based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegarde Withers books.

On Sunday, January 5, three of Stuart Palmer’s Cozy Mystery novels will be brought to life in the following three movies: “The Penguin Pool Murder”, “Murder on the Blackboard”, and “Murder on a Honeymoon”. All three of these movies star Edna May Oliver (I just love her movies!) and James Gleason. I can’t even remember how many times I have watched these movies — but I do know it’s quite a few times!

The second thing I want to point out is that Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “The 39 Steps” will air on Wednesday, January 22. They will be immediately followed by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Young and Innocent” and then “The Lady Vanishes”. There are four other Hitchcock movies that will be aired during January: “Spellbound” on the 3rd, and then “Blackmail” and “Murder!” on the 16th. The fourth of his movies is (what I believe) his only comedy: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” airing on the 2nd. I don’t think I have seen either of the ones that the Turner Classic Movies channel is showing on the 16th – those are from way back in 1929 and 1930.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – January 2025

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

Thursday – January 2, 2025

6:15 AM Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
A happily married couple discover a murder victim in their closet.
Dir: Robert Be Sinclair. Cast: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
67 mins

3:15 PM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

11:45 PM 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

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

Friday – January 3, 2025

1:30 AM Blow-Up (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins

8:00 PM Spellbound (1945)
A psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, and it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac, who may also be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
111 mins

10:00 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
126 mins

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

Saturday – January 4, 2025

12:15 AM Nightmare (1956)
A New Orleans musician experiences a nightmare in which he sees himself killing a man and awakens to find blood on himself and bruises on his neck. Worried that it may have actually happened, he tries to reconstruct his actions to find out the truth.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell
89 mins

2:00 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
95 mins

3:45 AM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
64 mins

6:15 PM Sapphire (1959)
A “light-skinned” black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London’s bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
92 mins
*****Remember, this very dated “crime” movie was from the 1950s.*****

SUSPENSE ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 5, 2025

12:00 AM Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owner’s business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
100 mins

6:00 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

10:00 AM Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owner’s business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
100 mins

8:00 PM 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

9:15 PM 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

10:45 PM 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

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

Monday – January 6, 2025

4:30 AM McQ (1974)
A Seattle policeman tries to settle an unjust score.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
116 mins

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

Tuesday – January 7, 2025

4:30 AM McQ (1974)
A Seattle policeman tries to settle an unjust score.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
116 mins

8:00 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
64 mins

8:00 PM Scarface (1932)
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
90 mins

11:15 PM You and Me (1938)
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
94 mins

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

Wednesday – January 8, 2025

2:30 AM Side Street (1929)
Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.
Dir: Malcolm St. Clair. Cast: Tom Moore, Owen Moore, Matt Moore
74 mins

4:00 AM The Woman Racket (1930)
A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
Dir: Robert Ober. Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
70 mins

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

Friday – January 10, 2025

4:30 PM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins

 

6:30 PM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

The Purple Gang

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

Saturday – January 11, 2025

6:30 AM The Purple Gang (1960)
The story of the infamous gang of bootleggers, hijackers, and killers in 1920’s Detroit.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards
85 mins

2:00 PM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins

3:30 PM Ice Station Zebra (1968)
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
148 mins

8:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
103 mins
*****Excellent Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy!*****

10:00 PM The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
A small-time investor takes on the management of a major corporation.
Dir: Richard Quine. Cast: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
99 mins
*****Judy Holliday was a comedy gem! Not a mystery.*****

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

Sunday – January 12, 2025

12:00 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

1:45 AM The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle
101 mins

10:00 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

4:15 PM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West, Vanessa Redgrave
98 mins

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

Monday – January 13, 2025

9:30 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
69 mins

3:00 PM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins

The Big House Triple-Feature (English, Spanish, French) ***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – January 14, 2025

8:15 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

8:00 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
92 mins

9:45 PM 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
93 mins

11:30 PM Invisible Stripes (1940)
On his release from prison, a crook tries to stop his brother from following in his footsteps.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden
82 mins

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

Wednesday – January 15, 2025

3:00 AM Taxi! (1932)
A feisty independent cab driver fights off a crooked syndicate.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
70 mins

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

Thursday – January 16, 2025

12:15 AM Blackmail (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
99 mins

2:00 AM Murder! (1930)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Nora Baring, Miles Mander
92 mins

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

Saturday – January 18, 2025

2:00 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins

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

Sunday – January 19, 2025

3:30 AM The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
67 mins

5:00 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
76 mins

6:00 PM 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, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

Intruder In The Dust [Remaster] ***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – January 20, 2025

2:00 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

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

Tuesday – January 21, 2025

12:15 AM 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

8:45 AM Black Legion (1937)
During the Great Depression, a man is passed over for a promotion which goes to a hard working Polish immigrant. Feeling cheated, he joins a secret, racist organization and goes on a nighttime raid …
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore
80 mins

10:15 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

8:00 PM Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
80 mins

9:30 PM Johnny Angel (1946)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
79 mins

***** ***** ***** *****A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston
87 mins

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

Wednesday – January 22, 2025

12:45 AM Race Street (1948)
A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell
79 mins

8:00 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

9:30 PM 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

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

Thursday – January 23, 2025

12:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
70 mins

2:00 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

6:15 PM Nazi Agent (1942)
An Allied sympathizer discovers his twin brother is a Nazi spy.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher
82 mins

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

Saturday – January 25, 2025

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

Woman on the Run (The Film Detective Restored Version) ***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 26, 2025

12:00 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

10:00 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

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

Tuesday – January 28, 2025

3:00 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

8:00 PM Johnny Allegro (1949)
A reformed hoodlum gets mixed up with counterfeiters and a deadly manhunt.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready
81 mins

9:30 PM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth/ Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

11:00 PM A Dangerous Profession (1950)
A bail bondsman is asked to raise money to free his girlfriend’s husband.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien
79 mins

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

Wednesday – January 29, 2025

12:15 AM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

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

Thursday – January 30, 2025

8:00 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

10:00 PM 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

20,000 Years In Sing Sing ***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – January 31, 2025

7:45 AM 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
81 mins

4:45 PM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
83 mins

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

Saturday – February 1, 2025

2:15 AM The Last Wave (1977)
This is an Australian mystery revolving around a trial of five Aborigines accused of murder.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2024 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.

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