The month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for April!

First, I’m not going to discuss them seperately, but TCM will have a biblical themed movie marathon for Easter, April 1. So if you’re interested in Bible based movies, be sure to take a look!

April 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Tuesday – April 3, 2018

3:00 PM
PILLOW TALK (1959)
A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir:  Michael Gordon Cast:  Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*** Not a mystery. Great Rock Hudson/Doris Day comedy.

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

Wednesday – April 4, 2018

3:45 AM
CHINA PASSAGE (1937)
Murder and jewel theft plague a China-bound steamer.
Dir:  Edward Killy Cast:  Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton.
BW- 64 mins, CC

9:15 AM
THE KEYHOLE (1933)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he’s been hired to frame.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell.
BW- 69 mins

10:30 AM
PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62 (1933)
A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he’s investigating.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly.
BW- 66 mins, CC

1:15 PM
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

5:30 PM
THE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 5, 2018

2:00 AM
JIMMY THE GENT (1934)
An unscrupulous detective makes a killing locating missing heirs.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 68 mins, CC

5:30 AM
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

7:15 AM
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

4:15 PM
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

7:00 PM
THE LODGER (1944)
The inhabitants of a boarding house fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Dir:  John Brahm Cast:  Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar.
BW- 84 mins, CC

8:45 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

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

Friday – April 6, 2018

2:45 AM
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (1982)
A father returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child.
Dir:  Terry Hughes Cast:  George Hearn, Angela Lansbury, Cris Groenendall.
C- 140 mins, CC

5:15 AM
BACK IN CIRCULATION (1937)
A reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
Dir:  Ray Enright Cast:  Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay.
BW- 81 mins, CC

7:30 AM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 121 mins, CC

11:30 PM
THE PHANTOM OF PARIS (1931)
A magician is charged with killing his fiancee’s father.
Dir:  John S. Robertson Cast:  John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone.
BW- 74 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 7, 2018

7:00 AM
HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE (1936)
Robert Benchley attempts to teach the audience what it takes to be a successful detective in this short film.
Dir:  Felix E. Feist Cast:  Robert Benchley, Dewey Robinson, Arthur Hoyt.
BW- 9 mins

3:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir:  Norman Jewison Cast:  Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir:  Lewis Allen Cast:  Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC

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

Sunday – April 8, 2018

9:00 AM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir:  Lewis Allen Cast:  Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC

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

Monday – April 9, 2018

5:00 AM
THE MOONLIGHTER (1953)
A former jailbird makes good after the wrong man is accused for his crime.
Dir:  Roy Rowland Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond.
BW- 78 mins, CC

5:30 PM
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Dir:  Nicholas Ray Cast:  Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – April 10, 2018

9:30 AM
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

1:45 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

3:15 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

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

Wednesday – April 11, 2018

2:45 PM
VIRGINIA CITY (1940)
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott.
BW- 121 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 12, 2018

5:30 AM
SUPER SLEUTH (1937)
A movie detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Dir:  Ben Stoloff Cast:  Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli.
BW- 70 mins, CC

6:45 AM
MURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir:  Lloyd Corrigan Cast:  Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane.
BW- 74 mins, CC

8:00 AM
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)
A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith.
BW- 99 mins, CC

11:15 AM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC

1:15 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

3:00 PM
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

5:00 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,

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

Saturday – April 14, 2018

11:00 AM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
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

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

Sunday – April 15, 2018

5:00 AM
NIGHT NURSE (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir:  William A. Wellman Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell.
BW- 72 mins, CC

9:00 AM
MYSTERY STREET (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – April 18, 2018

11:00 AM
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 21, 2018

12:30 PM
THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS (1959)
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir:  Vincent Sherman Cast:  Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith.
BW- 137 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir:  Norman Jewison Cast:  Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir:  Lewis Milestone Cast:  Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
C- 127 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM
CRY DANGER (1951)
An innocent ex-con sets out to find the real criminals.
Dir:  Robert Parrish Cast:  Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman.
BW- 79 mins, CC

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

Sunday – April 22, 2018

3:00 AM
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir:  Peter Weir Cast:  Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray.

C- 107 mins, CC

9:00 AM
CRY DANGER (1951)
An innocent ex-con sets out to find the real criminals.
Dir:  Robert Parrish Cast:  Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman.
BW- 79 mins, CC

7:00 PM
WONDER MAN (1945)
A murdered nightclub star possesses a mild-mannered look-alike to bring his killers to justice.
Dir:  Bruce Humberstone Cast:  Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen.
C- 98 mins, CC

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

Friday – April 27, 2018

12:30 AM
THE WRONG BOX (1966)
Two elderly brothers plot to kill each other for a fortune.
Dir:  Bryan Forbes Cast:  John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine.
C- 106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – April 30, 2018

4:15 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

7:00 PM
BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW- 102 mins, CC
***Not a mystery. Very good Judy Holliday movie.***

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in April, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the March 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2018 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.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

The month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for March!

March 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Thursday – March 1, 2018

10:15 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

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

Friday – March 2, 2018

2:00 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

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

Sunday – March 4, 2018

9:00 AM
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW- 90 mins, CC

3:00 PM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir:  Stanley Donen Cast:  Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – March 5, 2018

3:15 AM
ZOU ZOU (1934)
A singing star tries to clear a childhood friend of murder charges.
Dir:  Marc AllTgret Cast:  Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey.
BW- 85 mins

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

Tuesday – March 6, 2018

4:00 PM
CAUSE FOR ALARM (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir:  Tay Garnett Cast:  Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling.
BW- 74 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – March 7, 2018

3:30 AM
SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)
A reporter fakes insanity to crack a murder committed in an asylum.
Dir:  Samuel Fuller Cast:  Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans.
C- 101 mins, CC

7:00 PM
DICK TRACY (1945)
Dick is faced with a series of murders in which the victims all come from different social and economic backgrounds.
Dir:  William Berke Cast:  Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki.
BW- 61 mins, CC

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

Thursday – March 8. 2018

2:30 AM
STEP BY STEP (1946)
The FBI trails a young couple suspected of stealing government plans.
Dir:  Phil Rosen Cast:  Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore.
BW- 61 mins

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

Friday – March 9, 2018

9:15 AM
HUSH… HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964)
A wealthy southern spinster fights to keep her family’s secrets hidden.
Dir:  Robert Aldrich Cast:  Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 133 mins, CC

9:00 PM
LARCENY, INC. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir:  Lloyd Bacon Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Saturday – March 10, 2018

7:00 AM
RIDE HIM, COWBOY (1932)
A cowboy tames a wild horse suspected of killing a man, then rides out to find the real culprit.
Dir:  Fred Allen Cast:  John Wayne, Duke, Ruth Hall.
BW- 55 mins, CC

7:00 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

11:00 PM
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

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

Sunday – March 11, 2018

9:00 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

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

Tuesday – March 13, 2018

4:00 PM
CONSPIRATOR (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Dir:  Victor Saville Cast:  Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – March 14, 2018

9:30 AM
SKY MURDER (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne.
BW- 72 mins

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

Saturday – March 17, 2018

3:45 AM
NIGHT WATCH (1973)
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Dir:  Brian G. Hutton Cast:  Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw.
C- 99 mins, CC

11:00 PM
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

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

Sunday – March 18, 2018

12:45 AM
BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)
A Texas bar owner hires a private eye to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend.
Dir:  Joel Coen Cast:  John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya.
C- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 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, Peter Falk.
C- 124 mins, Letterbox Format

9:00 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir:  Edward Dmytryk Cast:  Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW- 86 mins, CC

7:00 PM
MADIGAN (1968)
NYC police detective Madigan has 72 hours to find the mobster who got away with his gun.
Dir:  Donald Siegel Cast:  Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens.
C- 101 mins, CC

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

Monday – March 19, 2018

12:30 PM
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (1934)
After escaping prison, an innocent man seeks revenge on the men who framed him.
Dir:  Rowland V. Lee Cast:  Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern.
BW- 113 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – March 20, 2018

8:15 AM
THE GAZEBO (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir:  George Marshall Cast:  Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner.
BW- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 AM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir:  Howard Hawks Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW- 114 mins, CC

12:15 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

2:00 PM
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

3:30 PM
THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 109 mins, CC

5:30 PM
BLACKMAIL (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton.
BW- 86 mins

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

Thursday – March 22, 2018

7:00 PM
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Dir:  Billy Wilder Cast:  William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim.
BW- 110 mins, CC

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

Friday – March 23, 2018

7:00 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

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

Saturday – March 24, 2018

3:00 PM
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir:  David Miller Cast:  Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
C- 108 mins, CC

5:00 PM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW- 105 mins, CC

11:00 PM
NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir:  Harold F. Kress Cast:  Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy.
BW- 81 mins

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

Sunday – March 25, 2018

12:45 AM
DEATHTRAP (1982)
A blocked playwright plots to kill a beginner and steal his script.
Dir:  Sidney Lumet Cast:  Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon.
C- 116 mins, CC

3:00 AM
TIME AFTER TIME (1979)
When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, author H.G. Wells travels to modern-day San Francisco to track him down.
Dir:  Nicholas Meyer Cast:  Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen.
C- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 AM
NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir:  Harold F. Kress Cast:  Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy.
BW- 81 mins

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

Monday – March 26, 2018

1:00 AM
THE WALLS OF MALAPAGA (1949)
A murderer becomes involved with a waitress and her daughter.
BW- 87 mins

9:30 AM
THEIR BIG MOMENT (1934)
A phony psychic conjures up a real ghost who asks her to solve his murder.
Dir:  James Cruze Cast:  ZaSu Pitts, Slim Summerville, William Gaxton.
BW- 68 mins

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

Friday – March 30, 2018

9:00 PM
THE LONG HAUL (1957)
A veteran is lured into crime by his boss’s sultry mistress.
Dir:  Ken Hughes Cast:  Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen.
BW- 88 mins, Letterbox Format

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in March, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the February 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2018 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.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

January’s coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for February! It’s a short month, of course… though unfortunately, it’s also going to be a bit thin on mystery movies.

February 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Thursday – February 1, 2018

11:00 AM
THE STRIP (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir:  Leslie Kardos Cast:  Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Saturday – February 3, 2018

6:30 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

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

Monday – February 5, 2018

2:15 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

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

Tuesday  – February 6, 2018

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

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

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

Friday – February 9, 2018

7:00 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir:  Robert Aldrich Cast:  Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
BW- 134 mins, CC

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

Sunday – February 11, 2018

6:00 AM
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

2:30 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- 104 mins, CC

4:30 PM
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir:  Richard Brooks Cast:  Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe.
BW- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – February 16, 2018

12:30 PM
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

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

Monday – February 19, 2018

4:00 AM
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir:  William Dieterle Cast:  Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard.
BW- 116 mins, CC

8:00 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

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

Tuesday – February 20, 2018

11:15 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

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

Friday – February 23, 2018

7:00 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

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

Saturday – February 24, 2018

1:15 AM
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

1:15 PM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – February 25, 2018

7:00 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

11:00 AM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

12:45 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

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

Tuesday – February 27, 2018

6:30 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

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

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

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 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2018 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.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

Well, we’re headed toward a new year >>> and with it, a new year of mystery classics on TCM! So here’s January’s list of great looking mystery movies >>> plus some of my own personal favorites.

January 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Monday – January 1, 2018

12:00 PM
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
Dir:  Howard Hawks Cast:  Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 92 mins, CC
***Not a mystery, but the cast is as its best.

7:00 PM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir:  Stanley Donen Cast:  Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – January 2, 2018

3:30 AM
THE HAPPY THIEVES (1962)
A worldly art thief gets mixed up with murder.
Dir:  George Marshall Cast:  Rex Harrison, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Wiseman.
C- 89 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 5, 2018

8:45 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

12:30 PM
NINE LIVES ARE NOT ENOUGH (1941)
A reporter tries to solve a series of boardinghouse murders.
Dir:  A. Edward Sutherland Cast:  Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason.
BW- 63 mins

5:45 PM
HAVING WONDERFUL CRIME (1945)
Three amateur detectives try to find a missing magician.
Dir:  Eddie Sutherland Cast:  Pat O’Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis.
BW- 70 mins, CC

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

Saturday – January 6, 2018

2:15 AM
THE WILD NORTH (1952)
A Mountie tracks an accused killer through the Canadian wilderness.
Dir:  Andrew Marton Cast:  Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse.
C- 97 mins, CC

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

Sunday – January 7, 2018

7:00 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

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

Monday – January 8, 2018

8:30 AM
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

7:00 PM
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir:  Richard Brooks Cast:  Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe.
BW- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:30 PM
10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1970)
A serial killer frames a mentally challenged man.
Dir:  Richard Fleischer Cast:  Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt.
C- 111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 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

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

Wednesday – January 10, 2018

2:45 AM
THE FORMULA (1980)
A detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
Dir:  John G. Avildsen Cast:  George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller.
BW- 117 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 11, 2018

7:00 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

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

Saturday – January 13, 2018

7:00 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

11:00 PM
MURDER, INC. (1960)
Dir:  Burt Balaban Cast:  Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan.
BW- 103 mins, CC,

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

Sunday – January 14, 2018

9:00 AM
WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir:  John Farrow Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains.
BW- 80 mins, CC

3:00 PM
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949)
A crusading lawyer fights to save a juvenile delinquent charged with murder.
Dir:  Nicholas Ray Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, George Macready, Allene Roberts.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 15, 2018

1:00 PM
SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (1960)
A 19th-century lawyer tries to clear a black man of rape and murder charges.
Dir:  John Ford Cast:  Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke.
C- 111 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 16, 2018

9:30 PM
THE HEIRESS (1949)
A plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir:  William Wyler Cast:  Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson.
BW- 115 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 17, 2018

9:15 AM
DEATH ON THE DIAMOND (1934)
A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
Dir:  Edward Sedgwick Cast:  Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton.
BW- 71 mins, CC

9:15 PM
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir:  David Miller Cast:  Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
C- 108 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 19, 2018

3:00 PM
GAMBLING LADY (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir:  Archie Mayo Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien.
BW- 66 mins, CC

5:45 PM
WOMAN WANTED (1935)
An innocent woman is chased by both gangsters and the police.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone.
BW- 67 mins, CC

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

Sunday – January 21, 2018

1:00 PM
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (1941)
Siamese twins, separated in infancy, join forces to avenge their parents’ murder.
Dir:  Gregory Ratoff Cast:  Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 22, 2018

6:30 AM
MILLIE (1931)
A prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughters honor.
Dir:  John Francis Dillon Cast:  Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames.
BW- 85 mins

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

Thursday – January 25, 2018

10:45 AM
SON OF A GUNFIGHTER (1966)
A young man stalks his mother’s killers.
Dir:  Paul Landres Cast:  Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook.
C- 92 mins, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – January 26, 2018

9:15 AM
THE PRIZE (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir:  Mark Robson Cast:  Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
C- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – January 27, 2018

9:15 PM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir:  Rudolph Maté Cast:  Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
BW- 84 mins, CC

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

Sunday – January 28, 2018

3:00 PM
A COVENANT WITH DEATH (1966)
A lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
Dir:  Lamont Johnson Cast:  George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado.
C- 97 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 29, 2018

11:30 AM
CRIME DOCTOR (1943)
A blow on the head forces a renowned psychologist to remember he was once a criminal.
Dir:  Michael Gordon Cast:  Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel.
BW- 66 mins

2:15 PM
THE HIDDEN EYE (1945)
Blind detective Duncan Maclaine uses his other senses to piece together confusing clues behind a murder.
Dir:  Richard Whorf Cast:  Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins.
BW- 69 mins

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

Tuesday – January 30, 2018

3:00 AM
IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 31, 2018

12:45 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

5:30 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC

2:45 PM
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

11:15 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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in December, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the December 2017 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2017 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.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)