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.)

Yikes! I have just finished my February 2020 Turner Classic Movies mystery movies blog entry, but where’s Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley? I just take it for granted that these weekly treats will show up late Saturday nights and early Sunday mornings. However, I can’t find them! And, what’s worse is that February 2020 doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of mystery movies for those of us who look forward to them. What a big let down! Instead, TCM is focusing on Oscar winning movies. (I sort of remember the same thing happening last year.) Oscar winning movies are great, but so are noir alley movies!

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

Sunday – February 2nd

9:00 AM
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941)
A scientist’s investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner.
BW- 113 mins, CC

11:00 AM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – February 5th

10:45 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

9:15 PM
THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979)
A television newswoman stumbles onto deadly secrets at a nuclear power plant.
Dir: James Bridges Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Rita Taggart.
C- 122 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – February 6th

2:00 PM
KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1950)
A spirited widow hires a daredevil jungle scout to find a lost treasure in diamonds.
Dir: Compton Bennett Cast: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson.
C- 102 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 7th

12:15 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW- 86 mins, CC

4:30 AM
NONE SHALL ESCAPE (1944)
A Nazi officer on trial for war crimes thinks back on his past.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Saturday – February 8th

2:30 AM
MISTER BUDDWING (1966)
A man suffering from amnesia confronts a series of women in his search for his memory.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette.
BW- 99 mins, CC

2:30 PM
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

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

Sunday – February 9th

1:00 AM
THE PLAYER (1992)
A rising producer tries to cover up the accidental killing of a screenwriter who was stalking him.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward.
C- 124 mins, Letterbox Format

5:45 AM
MYSTERY STREET (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – February 11th

3:15 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

11:00 AM
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

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

Friday – February 14th

11:15 AM
FURY (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel.
BW- 92 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE FIRM (1993)
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman.
BW- 155 mins, CC

9:45 PM
A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
When a Marine dies on a US Navy base, two fellow Marines stand trial for murder.
Dir: Rob Reiner Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore.
C- 138 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – February 15th

3:00 PM
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

5:00 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC

9:00 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

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

Sunday – February 16th

1:00 AM
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.
C- 149 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 AM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:30 PM
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
A fledgling FBI agent enlists a psychopath’s help in catching a serial killer.
Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn.
C- 118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – February 18th

7:45 AM
RAFFLES (1930)
A distinguished British gentleman hides his true identity as a notorious jewel thief.
Dir: Harry d’Abbadie D’Arrast Cast: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – February 19th

5:00 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

8:45 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C- 115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – February 20th

11:15 AM
EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (1944)
A small-town doctor tries to help a beautiful woman with a deranged husband.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas.
BW- 91 mins, CC

2:45 PM
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
BW- 112 mins, CC

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

Saturday – February 22nd

7:00 AM
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.
BW- 116 mins, CC

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

Sunday – February 23rd

4:00 AM
KIND LADY (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury.
BW- 78 mins, CC

3:00 PM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Monday – February 24th

5:00 PM
THAT MAN FROM RIO (1964)
A pilot gets mixed up in an international search for stolen art.
Dir: Philippe de Broca Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais.
C- 116 mins

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

Tuesday – February 25th

1:30 AM
THE PROFESSIONALS (1966)
A corrupt rancher hires four soldiers of fortune to rescue his wife from kidnappers.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan.
C- 118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:45 AM
THE NAKED SPUR (1953)
A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan.
C- 92 mins, CC

8:30 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

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

Wednesday – February 26th

3:00 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

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

Thursday – February 27th

9:00 PM
THE KISS OF DEATH (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 28th

12:15 PM
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN (1972)
A self-appointed judge cleans up a corrupt western town twice.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs.
C- 123 mins, CC

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

Friday – February 29th – Enjoy your extra (leap) day!

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

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 January 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 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.)