Here is next month’s list of mystery (and some personal favorites of mine) movies on Turner Classic Movies for next month, June 2020…

I don’t have a lot to say about next month – there will be plenty of movies, but not really any particularly noteworthy marathons or any other obvious structure to what I personally want to see.

So, I hope you enjoy the June lineup! 

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

Monday – June 1

9:30 AM
A STRANGER IN TOWN (1943)
A Supreme Court justice on vacation takes on crooked small-town politicians.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers.
BW- 67 mins

11:30 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – June 2

2:30 AM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C- 114 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – June 3

2:45 AM
MYSTERY HOUSE (1938)
A detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel.
BW- 57 mins

4:00 AM
THE PATIENT IN ROOM 18 (1938)
A hospitalized detective probes the murder of a fellow patient.
Dir: Bobby Connolly Cast: Patric Knowles, Ann Sheridan, Eric Stanley.
BW- 59 mins, CC

5:15 AM
THE GREAT O’MALLEY (1937)
A ruthless cop gets mixed up with a man who’s only turned to crime to help his crippled daughter.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Pat O’Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 6

7:29 AM
THE FIGHTING GRINGO (1939)
A cowboy tries to clear an innocent Mexican rancher of murder charges.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Lupita Tovar, Lucio Villegas.
BW- 59 mins

11:00 AM
THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke.
BW- 67 mins, CC

12:15 PM
M (1951)
When the police hunt for a child killer cramps their style, the criminal underworld tries to track him down.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Luther Adler.
BW- 88 mins

2:00 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 7

9:00 AM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 8

1:15 AM
JUDEX (1963)
Remake of a silent serial, concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger. (In French)
Dir: Georges Franju Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob.
BW- 98 mins

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

Tuesday – June 9

7:00 AM
DESERT PASSAGE (1952)
A cowboy doesn’t realize the man he’s been hired to drive to Mexico is an outlaw.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed.
BW- 61 mins, CC

9:45 AM
ROUGH RIDERS’ ROUNDUP (1939)
A suspended Texas ranger sets out to catch the outlaws who killed his partner.
Dir: Joe Kane Cast: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton.
BW- 53 mins

11:30 PM
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.
BW- 78 mins

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

Friday – June 12

8:45 PM
VICTIM (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 13

11:00 AM
THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin.
BW- 82 mins, CC

12:30 PM
GUN CRAZY (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger.
BW- 87 mins, CC

2:15 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

11:15 PM
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
A ruthless contract killer balks when he discovers his next hit is a woman.
Dir: Irving Lerner Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 14

3:00 AM
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (1952)
A Union officer goes undercover to root out Confederate raiders.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian.
C- 93 mins, CC

9:00 AM
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
A ruthless contract killer balks when he discovers his next hit is a woman.
Dir: Irving Lerner Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 15

9:45 AM

I CONFESS (1953)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.
BW- 95 mins, CC

7:00 PM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (1975)
Dir: Dick Richards Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 16

9:00 PM
THE UNFAITHFUL (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott.
BW- 109 mins

11:00 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – June 17

11:00 AM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – June 18

8:30 PM
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
BW- 92 mins

10:15 PM
KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962)
A young businessman and a hitchhiker develop a deadly rivalry during a boating weekend. (In Polish)
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.
BW- 94 mins

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

Friday – June 19

12:00 AM
PALE FLOWER (1964) (In Japanese)
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki.
BW- 96 mins, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM
SIDE STREET (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig.
BW- 83 mins, CC

8:30 AM
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.
BW- 84 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC

12:00 PM
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster.
BW- 99 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE PITFALL (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt.
BW- 86 mins, CC

3:30 PM
NIAGARA (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
C- 89 mins, CC

11:00 PM
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 20

1:00 AM
HARDCORE (1979)
Dir: Paul Schrader Cast: George C Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley.
BW- 108 mins, CC

3:00 AM
THE NEW CENTURIONS (1972)
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: George C Scott, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson.
BW- 103 mins, CC

7:26 AM
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..
BW- 60 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

11:15 PM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 21

1:15 AM
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr..
C- 138 mins, CC

9:00 AM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 22

8:15 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 23

2:15 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.
C- 111 mins, CC

5:00 AM
TIGER BAY (1959)
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills.
BW- 107 mins, CC

3:15 PM
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.
BW- 115 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery, however, out of all the “Little Women” movies I have seen, I think this one is the best.*****

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

Thursday – June 25

1:00 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.
BW- 86 mins, CC
*****Margaret Rutherford starred in four Miss Marple movies. “Murder Ahoy” is not on this three-feature showing today.*****

2:30 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.
BW- 81 mins, CC

4:15 PM
MURDER MOST FOUL (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell.
BW- 91 mins, CC

11:15 PM
PETE KELLY’S BLUES (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – June 26

5:30 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.
BW- 64 mins, CC

1:00 PM
SCENT OF MYSTERY (1960)
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Beverly Bentley.
BW- 109 mins, Letterbox Format

3:00 PM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW- 100 mins, CC

5:00 PM
M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke.
BW- 110 mins

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

Saturday – June 27

7:27 AM
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN (1938)
An insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell.
BW- 62 mins, CC

7:00 PM
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964)
A typical day in the life of the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison.
BW- 87 mins, CC
*****AND Ringo!*****Not a mystery.*****

11:00 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 28

9:00 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

3:00 PM
ADAM’S RIB (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
BW- 101 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery. Tracy and Hepburn at their best AND the wonderful Judy Holliday.*****

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

Monday – June 29

5:00 AM
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.
BW- 72 mins

6:15 AM
SINNER TAKE ALL (1936)
Members of a wealthy family are murdered one-by-one.
Dir: Erroll Taggart Cast: Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia.
BW- 74 mins

7:45 AM
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..
BW- 60 mins, CC

9:00 AM
HOMICIDE (1949)
Killers scare a murder witness into silence.
Dir: Felix Jacoves Cast: Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda.
BW- 77 mins, CC

10:30 AM
BODYGUARD (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed.
BW- 63 mins, CC

11:45 AM
POSTMARK FOR DANGER (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Terry Moore, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester.
BW- 78 mins, Letterbox Format

1:15 PM
MURDER IS MY BEAT (1955)
After a businessman is found dead, two detectives scramble to find the killer.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Paul Langton, Barbara Payton, Robert Shayne.
BW- 77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM
SOUTH OF SUEZ (1940)
A murder defendant falls for his alleged victim’s daughter.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, George Tobias.
BW- 86 mins, CC

4:15 PM
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.
BW- 57 mins, CC

5:15 PM
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS (1972)
A small-town sheriff attempts to clear a Doberman of murder charges.
Dir: James Goldstone Cast: James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook.
C- 98 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 30

5:00 AM
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.
BW- 74 mins, CC

9:00 AM
STORM WARNING (1951)
A model on vacation discovers that her sister’s husband is a murderous Ku Klux Klansman.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day.
BW- 93 mins, CC

1:00 PM
THE PHENIX CITY STORY, (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant.
BW- 100 mins, CC

5:00 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW- 106 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2020 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 above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their time at home as much as they can, considering the circumstances… I also hope that this will help give people something to look forward to in May!

May will be Edward G. Robinson month. He definitely had some classic mystery and mystery-ish movies, so there should be plenty to look forward to there!

Here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies that I was able to find which will air during May 2020.

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

Saturday – May 2

1:15 AM
MANIAC (1963)
A beautiful woman seduces a drifter so he can help free her murderous husband from an insane asylum.
Dir: Michael Carreras
BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM
STOP ME BEFORE I KILL (1961)
After surviving an accident, a race car driver begins to suffer violent impulses.
Dir: Val Guest Cast: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis.
BW- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:28 AM
YOU CAN’T BUY LUCK (1937)
A racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 60 mins, CC

11:00 PM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 3

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

9:00 AM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW- 97 mins, CC

8:30 PM
THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (1933)
Dir: Phil Goldstone Cast: Cora Sue Collins, Zita Johann, Alan Dinehart.
BW- 65 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – May 6

12:15 PM
FAST AND FURIOUS (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
BW- 73 mins, CC

8:00 PM
PICCADILLY (1929)
In this silent film, the dancers at a London nightclub get wrapped up in jealousy and murder.
Dir: E. A. Dupont Cast: Charles Laughton,
BW- 109 mins

10:00 PM
DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1937)
A young woman tracks down the smugglers who killed her father.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe.
BW- 62 mins

11:30 PM
PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN (1940)
Asian sleuth Mr. Wong fights to keep a killer from winning control of a rich oil deposit.
Dir: Phil Rosen Cast: Keye Luke, Grant Withers, Lotus Long.
BW- 62 mins

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

Thursday – May 7

1:00 AM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW- 95 mins, CC

6:45 AM
THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960)
A veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robber.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey.
BW- 114 mins, CC

8:45 AM
THE SECRET PARTNER (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee.
BW- 91 mins, CC

10:30 AM
VICTIM (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price.
BW- 100 mins, CC

2:15 PM
WOMAN OF STRAW (1964)
A rich old man’s nurse and his nephew plot his murder.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson.
C- 117 mins, CC

11:30 PM
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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 8

1:30 AM
BULLETS OR BALLOTS (1936)
A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane.
BW- 82 mins, CC

4:30 AM
TWO SECONDS (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 67 mins, CC

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

Saturday – May 9

11:00 AM
THE THIRD MAN (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles.
BW- 105 mins, CC

11:00 PM
MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 10

9:00 AM
MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – May 12

8:00 AM
UNDERCURRENT (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum.
BW- 116 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – May 13

7:00 PM
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta.
BW- 81 mins, CC

8:30 PM
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955)
An Army investigator infiltrates a Tokyo crime syndicate to solve a colleague’s murder.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi.
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – May 14

7:15 AM
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne.
BW- 107 mins, CC

3:15 PM
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939)
A murderer returns from the grave with a thirst for blood.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris.
BW- 62 mins, CC

8:45 PM
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life ain’t so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 85 mins, CC

10:30 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 15

12:15 AM
THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 87 mins, CC

5:00 AM
HOTEL RESERVE (1946)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
Dir: Victor Hanbury Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell.
BW- 79 mins, CC

4:30 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

7:00 PM
RANSOM! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen.
BW- 102 mins, CC

9:00 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW- 106 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE NIGHT HOLDS TERROR (1955)
Escaped convicts take over a suburban home.
Dir: Andrew Stone Cast: Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards.
BW- 86 mins, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – May 16

1:15 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 17

9:00 AM
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta.
BW- 81 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 96 mins, CC

5:15 PM
NIAGARA (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
C- 89 mins, CC

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

Monday – May 18

6:15 AM
DOCTOR X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy.
C- 76 mins, CC

7:45 AM
THE MURDER OF DR. HARRIGAN (1936)
A doctor investigates the murder of a colleague involved in experimental surgery.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge.
BW- 67 mins

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

Tuesday – May 19

8:15 AM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
BW- 134 mins, CC

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

Thursday – May 21

3:00 PM
NIGHT MUST FALL (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty.
BW- 116 mins, CC

5:00 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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

10:30 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 22

12:30 AM
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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

4:15 AM
ILLEGAL (1955)
A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe.
BW- 88 mins, CC

6:00 AM
BLACKMAIL (1939)
A man in prison on false charges escapes to save his family from a blackmailer.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Saturday – May 23

11:00 PM
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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 24

9:00 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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – May 26

9:00 AM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Thursday – May 28

10:30 AM
TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea.
BW- 101 mins, CC

9:00 PM
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 29

9:45 AM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark.
BW- 107 mins, CC

7:00 PM
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
A petty thief accidentally steals a communist spy’s purse.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter.
BW- 80 mins, CC

10:30 PM
NIAGARA (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
C- 89 mins, CC

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

Saturday – May 30

12:30 AM
DARK SHADOWS (1944)
This short film focuses on a psychiatrist investigating the murder of another psychiatrist.
Dir: Walter Hart Cast: Dorothy Adams, John Vosper, Paul Langton.
BW- 22 mins

7:28 AM
GENIUS AT WORK (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
BW- 61 mins

11:15 PM
A KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – May 31

9:00 AM
A KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2020 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 above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Spring is finally here! It looks like the Turner Classic Movies channel will be celebrating it by showing a bunch of “old futuristic science fiction” type of movies. Anyway, that’s certainly their agenda on Tuesday the seventh… On Thursday the second they will be airing all sorts of “You Can’t… ” movies. Friday the tenth appears to be a sort of tribute to radio shows. On Easter Sunday TCM will be celebrating the day by airing biblical movies as well as “Easter Parade”. Tuesday the fourteenth brings us amnesia galore! And, there will be days dedicated to famous dancers: Monday the thirteenth features Gene Kelly while Wednesday the fifteenth will have Fred Astaire putting on this tap shoes. On Wednesday the twenty-ninth, the circus is coming to TCM.

Here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies that I was able to find which will air during April 2020.

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

Wednesday – April 1, 2020

4:30 PM
HIGH AND LOW (1963)
Kidnappers mistake a chauffeur’s son for the child of a wealthy businessman.
Dir:  Akira Kurosawa Cast:  Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa.
BW- 144 mins, Letterbox Format

10:45 PM
RASHOMON (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir:  Akira Kurosawa Cast:  Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura.
BW- 89 mins

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

Thursday – April 2, 2020

2:30 AM
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957)
Spurred by his wife and a witch’s prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.
Dir:  Akira Kurosawa Cast:  Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura.
BW- 110 mins

9:15 AM
YOU CAN’T BUY LUCK (1937)
A racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
Dir:  Lew Landers Cast:  Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 60 mins

10:30 AM
YOU CAN’T ESCAPE FOREVER (1942)
Although she’s been demoted to writing the advice column, a newspaper woman still tries to expose a racketeer.
Dir:  Jo Graham Cast:  George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 78 mins, CC

12:00 PM
YOU CAN’T BUY EVERYTHING (1934)
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Dir:  Charles F. Riesner Cast:  May Robson, Jean Parker, Lewis Stone.
BW- 82 mins

1:30 PM
YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)
A young tough takes the rap for a hardened gangster.
Dir:  Lewis Seiler Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop.
BW- 79 mins, CC

9:00 PM
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
Gunmen hold a New York subway train and its passengers for ransom.
Dir:  Joseph Sargent Cast:  Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam.
C- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
KLUTE (1971)
A small-town detective searches for a missing man linked to a high-priced prostitute.
Dir:  Alan J. Pakula Cast:  Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi.
C- 114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – April 3, 2020

1:15 AM
FINGERS (1978)
Dir:  James Toback Cast:  Zack Norman, Frank Pesce, Harvey Keitel.
BW- 90 mins, CC

3:00 AM
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER (1975)
Dir:  Milton Katselas Cast:  Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Stephen Elliott.
BW- 112 mins, CC

1:15 PM
MAKE YOUR OWN BED (1944)
Detectives masquerade as butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning.
BW- 82 mins

5:30 PM
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.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 4, 2020

11:00 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.
BW- 73 mins, CC

11:00 PM
ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)
A German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
Dir:  William Cameron Menzies Cast:  Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
BW- 72 mins, CC

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

Sunday – April 5, 2020

7:00 AM
ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey.
BW- 103 mins, CC

9:00 AM
ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)
A German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
Dir:  William Cameron Menzies Cast:  Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
BW- 72 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 7, 2020

7:00 PM
CRY OF THE CITY (1948)
Dir:  Robert Siodmak Cast:  Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark.
BW- 95 mins, CC

9:00 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

10:45 PM
HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)
After killing a cop, a burglar fights to evade the police.
Dir:  Alfred Werker Cast:  Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts.
BW- 79 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – April 8, 2020

12:15 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

4:00 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.
BW- 96 mins, CC

9:00 PM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – April 10, 2020

6:30 AM
ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)
A radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
Dir:  Harry Beaumont Cast:  William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page.
BW- 73 mins

12:30 PM
ONE FATAL HOUR (1936)
A radio-station manager tries to keep tabloid journalists from reviving a 20-year-old murder case.
BW- 57 mins, CC

3:00 PM
GENIUS AT WORK (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir:  Leslie Goodwins Cast:  Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
BW- 61 mins

4:15 PM
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 11, 2020

11:00 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.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – April 12, 2020

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – April 13, 2020

7:00 PM
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir:  John Farrow Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price.
BW- 120 mins, CC

9:15 PM
MACAO (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir:  Josef von Sternberg Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 14, 2020

10:15 AM
JOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)
Before she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Dir:  William Keighley Cast:  Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
BW- 65 mins, CC

1:00 PM
CROSSROADS (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir:  Jack Conway Cast:  William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor.
BW- 83 mins, CC

2:30 PM
TWO IN THE DARK (1936)
A man with amnesia fights to prove himself innocent of murder.
Dir:  Ben Stoloff Cast:  Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford.
BW- 74 mins, CC

4:00 PM
TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir:  Anthony Mann Cast:  Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
BW- 66 mins, CC

5:15 PM
HYSTERIA (1965)
An amnesiac stumbles on to a murder plot.
Dir:  Freddie Francis Cast:  Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne.
BW- 85 mins, CC

10:45 PM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW- 88 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 16, 2020

7:00 AM
THE NARROW CORNER (1933)
A man on the run for murder tries to escape fate in the Pacific islands.
Dir:  Alfred E. Green Cast:  Douglas Fairbanks, Patricia Ellis, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 69 mins

7:00 PM
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.
C- 100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 18, 2020

1:15 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

3:00 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.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 PM
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.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Sunday – April 19, 2020

9:00 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.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Monday – April 20, 2020

9:30 AM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

11:15 AM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW- 88 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 21, 2020

5:00 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.
C- 106 mins

7:00 AM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

8:45 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.
BW- 72 mins, CC

10:00 AM
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.
BW- 86 mins, CC

11:30 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

1:15 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.
C- 105 mins, CC

3:15 PM
JULIE (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Dir:  Andrew L. Stone Cast:  Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan.
BW- 97 mins, CC

5:00 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir:  Terence Young Cast:  Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
C- 108 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 23, 2020

8:00 AM
THE HUMAN FACTOR (1980)
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer.
BW- 115 mins, CC

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

Friday – April 24, 2020

7:00 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 25, 2020

2:45 PM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir:  Tay Garnett Cast:  Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC

11:15 PM
WICKED WOMAN (1954)
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Dir:  Russell Rouse Cast:  Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton.
BW- 76 mins

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

Sunday – April 26, 2020

9:00 AM
WICKED WOMAN (1954)
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Dir:  Russell Rouse Cast:  Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton.
BW- 76 mins

9:00 PM
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955)
An Army investigator infiltrates a Tokyo crime syndicate to solve a colleague’s murder.
Dir:  Samuel Fuller Cast:  Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi.
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – April 28, 2020

1:30 AM
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.
C- 93 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 30, 2020

9:00 AM
THE UNFAITHFUL (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir:  Vincent Sherman Cast:  Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott.
BW- 109 mins

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

Friday – May 1, 2020

3:30 AM
SISTERS (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir:  Brian De Palma Cast:  Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning.
C- 92 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2020 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 above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Great news for those of us who enjoy Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley – he’s back with the noir mysteries he selects for us to watch. I know Turner Classic Movies likes to show Oscar-winning movies during every February, but (to me!) it seems a shame they can’t spare just four hours every week during February for those of us who are totally addicted to these mystery movies – as well as Mr. Muller’s terrific introductions and wrap-ups at the beginning/end of each film noir he presents. Oh well, at least February is the shortest month of the year…

Without further ado, here are the mystery movies Turner Classic

Movies channel will be showing during March 2020:

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

Sunday – March 1st

5:15 AM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

7:00 AM
‘G’ MEN (1935)
A mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann
Dvorak.
BW- 86 mins, CC

12:30 PM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Monday – March 2nd

1:30 PM

THE WINDOW (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW- 73 mins, CC
*****Wow! It’s Della Street!*****

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

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

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

Tuesday – March 3rd

10:15 AM
THE BEAST OF THE CITY (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – March 4th

5:00 AM
SATAN MET A LADY (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth.
BW- 74 mins, CC

6:30 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.
BW- 112 mins, CC
*****I have seen this movie a few times over the years and can’t quite remember if it truly qualifies as a mystery…*****

8:30 AM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark.
BW- 107 mins, CC

10:30 AM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW- 95 mins, CC

12:15 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
BW- 134 mins, CC

2:45 PM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 PM
DEAD RINGER (1964)
A woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford.
BW- 116 mins, CC

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

Thursday – March 5th

5:00 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.
BW- 115 mins, CC

1:00 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Friday – March 6th

9:15 AM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

11:45 AM
BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW- 102 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery, but Judy Holliday is at her best!*****

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

Saturday – March 7th

1:15 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 121 mins, CC

5:15 PM
TEN LITTLE INDIANS (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian.
C- 90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***An adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel.*****

11:00 PM
RIDE THE PINK HORSE (1947)
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde.
BW- 101 mins

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

Sunday – March 8th

2:00 AM
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.
BW- 86 mins, CC
*****A rather different type of adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s novel.*****

2:45 AM
MURDER MOST FOUL (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell.
BW- 91 mins, CC
*****Another rather different type of adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s novel.*****

9:00 AM
RIDE THE PINK HORSE (1947)
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde.
BW- 101 mins

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

Wednesday – March 11th

7:00 AM
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.
C- 60 mins, CC

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

Friday – March 13th

3:45 AM
BULLDOG DRUMMOND COMES BACK (1937)
An old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fiancée.
Dir: Louis King Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell.
BW- 59 mins, CC

4:45 AM
STRANGE JUSTICE (1932)
A crooked banker and his assistant devise a scheme to frame an ex-con for their crime.
Dir: Victor Schertzinger Cast: Marian Marsh, Reginald Denny, Richard Bennett.
BW- 64 mins, CC

7:45 AM
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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Saturday – March 14th

7:30 AM
SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE (1932)
Strange crimes committed by a hypnotized woman are solved by a French detective.
Dir: Edward Sutherland Cast: Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan.
BW- 58 mins, CC

7:00 PM
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr..
C- 138 mins, CC

11:30 PM
I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)
A celebrity promoter is accused of murdering one of his clients.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Sunday – March 15th

9:00 AM
I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)
A celebrity promoter is accused of murdering one of his clients.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Friday – March 20th

5:15 AM
A CRIMINAL IS BORN (1938)
This short film tells the story of how a young man starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Dir: Leslie Fenton Cast: Dave Durand, Norman Phillips Jr., Dorothy Vaughan.
BW- 20 mins

1:00 PM
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1969)
A lonely nurse and her gigolo lover murder a string of widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony LoBianco, Mary Jane Higby.
BW- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – March 21st

7:29 AM
TORCHY BLANE IN PANAMA (1938)
An ambitious newspaper woman traces bank robbers to an ocean liner.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy.
BW- 59 mins

5:00 PM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C- 114 mins, CC

7:00 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.
C- 105 mins, CC

9:00 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
C- 108 mins, CC

11:00 PM
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
BW- 92 mins

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

Sunday – March 22nd

9:00 AM
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
BW- 92 mins

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

Wednesday – March 25th

6:45 AM
JAMAICA INN (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie.
BW- 99 mins, CC

8:45 AM
THE FALLEN SPARROW (1943)
Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak.
BW- 94 mins, CC

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

Thursday – March 26th

12:30 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.
BW- 74 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE KILLING (1956)
A team of specialists plots a daring racetrack robbery, but they don’t reckon with human frailty.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards.
BW- 84 mins, CC

3:15 PM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW- 112 mins, CC

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

Friday – March 27th

6:15 AM
THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR (1937)
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Dame May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone.
BW- 67 mins, CC

7:30 AM
SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden.
BW- 117 mins, CC

5:00 PM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – March 28th

12:00 AM
AFTER OFFICE HOURS (1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin.
BW- 72 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 74 mins, CC

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

Sunday – March 29th

5:00 AM
BIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL (1935)
A portrait painter is reunited with a lost love when her upcoming memoirs threaten his political career.
Dir: Edward H. Griffith Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Edward Everett Horton.
BW- 83 mins, CC

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 74 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2020 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 above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)