It’s time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies!

As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries that I think are definitely worth looking at (in addition to some others from my favorite actors and actresses…) Tuesday the 29th will be particularly noteworthy, as it will feature a marathon of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies – a must-see for any true fan of classic cinema, mystery movies >>> or both!

The end of the month will also feature the beginnings of this year’s Christmas movies – you should be able to pick them out starting on the 30th!

I’m not posting any Hallmark mystery movies because they will be showing holiday movies during the month, at least as far into the future as they let us see.

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November 2016 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Tuesday – November 1, 2016

7:15 AM
TWENTY PLUS TWO (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast:  David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill.
BW-103 mins, CC

12:00 PM
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

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

Wednesday – November 2, 2016

4:30 PM
THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961)
An assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he’s prosecuting for murder is his son.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast:  Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters.
BW-103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – November 3, 2016

8:30 AM
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

12:00 PM
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-100 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
BW-75 mins, CC

3:15 PM
EXECUTIVE ACTION (1973)
Rogue intelligence agents, politicians, greedy capitalists, and assassins plot and carry out an assassination.
Dir: David Miller Cast:  Burt Lancaster, Will Geer, Gilbert Green.
C-91 mins, CC

5:00 PM
NIGHT MOVES (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast:  Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark.
C-100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – November 5, 2016

7:45 AM
THE CROOKED WAY (1949)
A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast:  John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew.
BW-86 mins, CC

9:15 PM
BADLANDS (1973)
A young tough guy and his teen-aged girlfriend take off on a killing spree.
Dir: Terrence Malick Cast:  Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates.
C-94 mins, CC

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

Sunday – November 6, 2016

2:45 AM
HE KNOWS YOU’RE ALONE (1980)
A killer stalks a brides-to-be.
Dir: Armand Mastroianni Cast:  Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Caitlin O’Heaney.
C-94 mins

3:15 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

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

Tuesday – November 8, 2016

2:00 PM
CLOUDS OVER EUROPE (1939)
When enemy agents steal plans for an experimental plane, the test pilot fights to clear his name.
Dir: Tim Whelan Cast:  Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson.
BW-79 mins

8:15 PM
SABOTEUR (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger.
BW-109 mins, CC

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

Thursday – November 10, 2016

7:00 PM
OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967)
Afraid of being separated, a family of children keep their mother’s death a secret.
Dir: Jack Clayton Cast:  Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin.
BW-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
THE INNOCENTS (1961)
A governess convinces herself the children in her charge are haunted.
Dir: Jack Clayton Cast:  Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins.
BW-99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – November 11, 2016

7:45 AM
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)
A big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast:  Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong.
BW-63 mins, CC

11:45 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

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

Saturday – November 12, 2016

5:00 AM
A CRY IN THE NIGHT (1956)
A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Dir: Frank Tuttle Cast:  Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood.
BW-75 mins

12:15 PM
HE RAN ALL THE WAY (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry Cast:  John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford.
BW-78 mins

1:45 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, Letterbox Format
*****If you haven’t seen this movie yet, be prepared to be surprised by the Miss Marple portrayal!*****

7:00 PM
BLITHE SPIRIT (1945)
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Dir: David Lean Cast:  Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond.
C-97 mins

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

Sunday – November 13, 2016

2:30 AM
MELINDA (1972)
A black disc jockey sets out to avenge his girlfriend’s murder.
Dir: Hugh A. Robertson Cast:  Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee.
C-109 mins

8:00 PM
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

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

Wednesday – November 16, 2016

12:00 PM
WHISTLING IN DIXIE (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast:  Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft.
BW-74 mins, CC

1:30 PM
WHISTLING IN BROOKLYN (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast:  Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers.
BW-87 mins, CC

3:00 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

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

Thursday – November 17, 2016

7:00 AM
A FINE PAIR (1969)
A detective gets involved with a beautiful jewel thief.
Dir: Francesco Maselli Cast:  Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian.
C-90 mins, CC

8:45 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-152 mins, CC

5:15 PM
SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964)
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast:  Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****Not a mystery. A delightful Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie…*****

7:00 PM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery. This movie has me laughing every time I see it.*****

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Friday – November 18, 2016

6:00 AM
GAMBLING LADY (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien.
BW-66 mins, CC

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

Saturday – November 19, 2016

4:45 PM
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 PM
FUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966)
The British send their top secret agent to help a Soviet intelligence officer defect.
Dir: Guy Hamilton Cast:  Michael Caine, Eva Renzi, Paul Hubschmid.
C-102 mins

11:00 PM
BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (1967)
A retired spy gets mixed up with plans to overthrow Communism using a new supercomputer.
Dir: Ken Russell Cast:  Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley.
C-108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – November 21, 2016

11:00 AM
SHIP AHOY (1942)
A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast:  Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr.
BW-95 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – November 22, 2016

5:00 AM
GRAND CENTRAL MURDER (1942)
A detective investigates an actress’s murder in a train car.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast:  Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker.
BW-74 mins, CC

8:00 AM
KILLER MCCOY (1947)
A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast:  Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth.
BW-104 mins, CC

11:30 AM
DIAL 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast:  Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King.
BW-75 mins, CC

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

Sunday – November 27, 2016

1:00 PM
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

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

Monday – November 28, 2016

8:15 AM
ROUGHSHOD (1949)
A rancher tries to save his fellow stagecoach passengers from a murderous enemy.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast:  Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr..
BW-88 mins, CC

1:45 PM
CHANDLER (1971)
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
Dir: Paul Magwood Cast:  Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier.
C-86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 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

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

Tuesday – November 29, 2016

*****Alfred Hitchcock marathon day!*****

5:00 AM
YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont.
BW-83 mins

6:15 AM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
BW-75 mins, CC

7:45 AM
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

9:30 AM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW-110 mins, CC

11:30 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

1:15 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

3:15 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

5:00 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

10:30 PM
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
Dir: John Farrow Cast:  Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW-95 mins, CC

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Wednesday – November 30, 2016

5:00 AM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
BW-87 mins, CC

6:30 AM
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-115 mins, CC

12:45 PM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast:  Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
BW-69 mins, CC,

2:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-101 mins, CC

5:00 PM
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast:  Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
BW-99 mins, CC

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Normally this is where I would discuss the Hallmark mystery movies that are coming out in the upcoming month… but I’ve already discussed most of them in this recent post!

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in November, 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 October 2016 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2016

And of course, 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

Well, you would think the weather is getting nicer… and it might be where you live… but here in San Antonio, aka the Land Seasons Forgot, it is still at least 90 degrees every day lately. So I hope the rest of you are enjoying the beginning of Fall, but out here it looks like we’ll be indoors and enjoying tv mystery movies for a while longer!

I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries that I think are definitely worth looking at (plus some others from my favorite actors and actresses…) The biggest marathon this month for mystery fans is the Torchy Blaine series on the 21st. There will also be a lot of Christopher Lee films this month, including marathons of both the Fu Manchu series and the Dracula series. I’m also a fan of the Dr. Kildare series, which will be showing on the 7th – while not a mystery series, I do enjoy this series very much.

I’ve been having even more trouble than usual lately trying to keep up with the Hallmark Channel’s mystery schedule. So I’ve decided to at least highlight their upcoming big movie premiers going foward (though in this case I’ve already discussed these in greater detail in another post). I hate to do this, as I know some people really enjoy looking at the Hallmark material, but it is just so much work considering how Hallmark doesn’t really schedule an entire month at a time.

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October 2016 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Saturday – October 1, 2016

7:15 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-100 mins, CC
*****Based on the Daphne du Maurier mystery novel.

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

Sunday – October 2, 2016

3:00 PM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl Cast:  Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain.
C-110 mins, CC
*****YOW!!! Gene Tierney is unforgettable in this role!*****

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

Tuesday – October 4, 2016

12:30 PM
THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE (1959)
The skipper of a sunken ship stands trial for negligence.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast:  Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave.
C-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – October 5, 2016

7:00 AM
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

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

Thursday – October 6, 2016

2:30 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-93 mins, CC

1:45 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-120 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

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

Friday – October 7, 2016

*****Dr. Kildare Marathon below is not a mystery series. Lionel Barrymore & Lew Ayres are terrific!*****

5:00 AM
YOUNG DR. KILDARE (1938)
A medical school graduate must choose between a small-town practice and a big-city internship.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver.
BW-82 mins, CC

6:30 AM
CALLING DR. KILDARE (1939)
A young doctor treats a gangster and falls for the man’s kid sister.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-86 mins, CC

8:00 AM
THE SECRET OF DR. KILDARE (1939)
A young doctor tries to help a woman suffering from psychosomatic blindness.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill.
BW-84 mins, CC

9:30 AM
DR. KILDARE’S STRANGE CASE (1940)
A young doctor uses pioneering methods to treat a mental patient.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-77 mins, CC

11:00 AM
DR. KILDARE GOES HOME (1940)
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-79 mins, CC

12:30 PM
DR. KILDARE’S CRISIS (1940)
A young doctor’s marriage could be called off when the bride’s brother is diagnosed with epilepsy.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-75 mins, CC

2:00 PM
THE PEOPLE VS. DR. KILDARE (1941)
An ice skater sues a young doctor for malpractice.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-78 mins, CC

3:30 PM
DR. KILDARE’S WEDDING DAY (1941)
A young doctor’s wedding turns into a tragic event.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day.
BW-83 mins, CC

5:00 PM
DR. KILDARE’S VICTORY (1942)
A young doctor with a broken heart succumbs to the lure of a socialite.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Ayars.
BW-93 mins, CC

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

Saturday – October 8, 2016

1:30 PM
PATHS OF GLORY (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast:  Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
BW-88 mins, CC

9:00 PM
CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)
An aging woman hires a matchmaker to find her independent granddaughter a man.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver Cast:  Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk.
C-97 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery. A feel-good movie. I love it!*****

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

Sunday – October 9, 2016

1:00 AM
THE ZODIAC KILLER (1971)
San Francisco police try to track down a vicious serial killer.
Dir: Tom Hanson Cast:  Hal Reed, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch.
C-87 mins

2:30 AM
THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1977)
A small Texas town is terrorized by a hooded serial killer.
Dir: Charles B Pierce Cast:  Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells.
C-90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM
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
*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie! Olivia de Havilland isn’t my idea of a “plain young woman” but that’s what TCM says and what the director/producer wanted her to be…*****

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

Monday – October 10, 2016

2:30 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

5:45 PM
ALIAS JOHN PRESTON (1956)
A small-town businessman is haunted by memories of an evil woman.
Dir: David MacDonald Cast:  Christopher Lee.
BW-71 mins,

10:45 PM
THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU (1967)
The Asian warlord plots to destroy his archival in Scotland Yard.
Dir: Jeremy Summers Cast:  Christopher Lee, Tony Ferrer, Tsai Chin.
C-91 mins

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

Tuesday – October 11, 2016

12:30 AM
NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (1972)
A police inspector and a doctor investigate the murders of a large fortune’s trustees.
Dir: Peter Sasdy Cast:  Christopher Lee.
C-90 mins

2:15 AM
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970)
A police superintendent investigates a serial killer who drains his victims’ blood.
Dir: Gordon Hessler Cast:  Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing.
C-95 mins

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

Tuesday – October 11, 2016

12:00 PM
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1952)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton Cast:  Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW-81 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – October 12, 2016

5:00 AM
THE GARDEN MURDER CASE (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast:  Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume.
BW-61 mins, CC
*****This is based on an S. S. Van Dine crime novel.*****

3:00 PM
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

4:30 PM
FIND THE BLACKMAILER (1943)
A private eye hunts for the talking bird that holds the key to a murder.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast:  Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart.
BW-56 mins

7:00 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

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

Thursday – October 13, 2016

2:15 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, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
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
*****Watch out! Bette Davis is at her best!*****

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

Saturday – October 14, 2016

8:00 AM
RED HOT TIRES (1935)
A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast:  Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns.
BW-61 mins

9:15 AM
BURN ‘EM UP O’CONNOR (1939)
A race car driver tries to solve a series of track-side murders before he’s next.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick Cast:  Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton.
BW-70 mins

7:00 PM
THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1939)
An attorney tries to protect the sole heir to a millionaire¿s creepy estate.
Dir: Elliott Nugent Cast:  Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal.
BW-74 mins

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

Saturday – October 15, 2016

7:00 PM
THE INNOCENTS (1961)
A governess convinces herself the children in her charge are haunted.
Dir: Jack Clayton Cast:  Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins.
BW-99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – October 16, 2016

1:00 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-104 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 17, 2016

10:30 AM
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast:  Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane.
BW-87 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – October 19, 2016

5:00 AM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl Cast:  Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain.
C-110 mins, CC
*****Since this movie has already played this month, I’m guessing TCM really wants you to watch it!*****

10:30 AM
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
*****Based on a Raymond Chandler mystery.*****

12:15 PM
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
*****Yikes! Don’t mess with Martha Ivers!*****

2:15 PM
DETOUR (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast:  Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake.
BW-68 mins, CC

3:30 PM
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast:  Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford.
BW-71 mins, CC

4:45 PM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast:  Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW-92 mins, CC

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

Thursday – October 20, 2016

12:45 PM
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

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

Friday – October 21, 2016

*****This is the Torchy Blane marathon I mentioned in my intro.*****

11:30 AM
TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)
After digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast:  Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-60 mins, CC

12:45 PM
BLONDES AT WORK (1938)
Even a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast:  Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-64 mins

2:00 PM
TORCHY BLANE IN CHINATOWN (1938)
A daring lady reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast:  Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-58 mins, CC

3:00 PM
TORCHY GETS HER MAN (1938)
Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast:  Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-63 mins

4:15 PM
FLY AWAY BABY (1937)
Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast:  Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver.
BW-60 mins

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

Saturday – October 22, 2016

12:15 AM
PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE (1954)
A mad scientist uses an ape to murder his enemies.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina.
C-84 mins, CC
*****Edgar Allan Poe always delivers!*****

1:00 PM
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

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

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

Sunday – October 23, 2016

7:00 AM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW-110 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, CC

*****Back to back excellent movies above and below. Not mysteries.*****

5:00 PM
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)
A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-93 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 24, 2016

*****Today & tomorrow they’ll be showing a whole lot of paranormal movies in honor of Halloween.*****

5:00 AM
IS MY FACE RED? (1932)
A gossip columnist witnesses a gangland killing.
Dir: William Seiter Cast:  Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond.
BW-66 mins

7:30 AM
UNASHAMED (1932)
A society girl’s brother goes on trial for killing her lover.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast:  Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone.
BW-76 mins, CC

*****Not a mystery series below.*****

7:00 PM
HORROR OF DRACULA (1958)
The legendary count tries to turn his enemies’ women into his bloodthirsty brides.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast:  Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough.
C-81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:30 PM
DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1965)
Four travelers unwittingly revive the bloodsucking count.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast:  Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir.
C-90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1969)
Dracula goes after the niece of the monsignor who destroyed his castle.
Dir: Freddie Francis Cast:  Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson.
C-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – October 25, 2016

12:00 AM
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970)
Count Dracula takes revenge on the businessmen who killed his faithful servant.
Dir: Peter Sasdy Cast:  Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford.
C-91 mins

1:45 AM
THE SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)
Investigating his brother’s murder leads a man to Castle Dracula.
Dir: Roy Ward Baker Cast:  Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley.
C-96 mins

3:30 AM
DRACULA A.D. 1972 (1972)
Cult members unwittingly resurrect Dracula in swinging London.
Dir: Alan Gibson Cast:  Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham.
C-96 mins, CC

5:15 AM
THE F.B.I. STORY (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast:  James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton.
C-149 mins, Letterbox Format

8:00 AM
CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders.
BW-104 mins, CC

11:45 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

7:00 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

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

Wednesday – October 26, 2016

8:00 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

9:15 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

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

Thursday – October 27, 2016

11:30 PM
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

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

Friday – October 28, 2016

12:45 PM
THE HOUSEKEEPER’S DAUGHTER (1939)
A gangster’s moll runs home to mother, with reporters and amateur detectives hot on her tail.
Dir: Hal Roach Cast:  Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, John Hubbard.
BW-80 mins, CC

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

Saturday – October 29, 2016

1:45 AM
THE UNINVITED (1944)
A brother and sister buy a house with a ghostly secret.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast:  Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp.
BW-99 mins, CC

6:30 AM
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks.
BW-66 mins, CC

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

Sunday – October 30, 2016

7:00 AM
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
*****Based on the Wilkie Collins novel.*****

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

2:45 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

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

Monday – October 31, 2016

3:00 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

6:15 AM
CAT PEOPLE (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Simone Simon , Tom Conway , Jane Randolph .
BW-73 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

10:30 PM
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast:  Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee.
C-87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 AM
SCREAM OF FEAR (1961)
A wheelchair-bound heiress doubts her sanity when she sees her dead father’s body around the family estate.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast:  Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd.
BW-81 mins, CC

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

October 2016 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Sunday – October 9, 2016

8:00 PM Central
Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery
*****PREMIER*****
IMDB: When Henry Roth is hired to find the best Italian chef for a new high-end eatery, murder was not on the menu. As the body count climbs, Henry and Maggie find themselves at the heart of another mystery with deadly consequences. Stars Dylan Neal & Brooke Burns. Based on the mysteries by Peter King.

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

Sunday – October 16, 2016

8:00 PM Central
The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
*****PREMIER*****
Aurora Teagarden is a beautiful young librarian with a passion for solving murders. After an exhaustive search for the perfect home, Aurora finally purchases her dream house, unaware of its murky history. As she prepares to move in, Aurora discovers that the family who once lived there mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Stars Candace Cameron Bure & Yannick Bisson. Based on the mysteries by Charlaine Harris.

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

Sunday – October 23, 2016

8:00 PM Central
Murder, with Love: A Hailey Dean Mystery
*****PREMIER*****
(No information is available at this time.)
Stars Kellie Martin
Based on the mysteries by Nancy Grace.

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in October, 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 September 2016 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2016

And of course, 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

So school is starting, the weather is getting nicer (some places… here in San Antonio it is still very hot!), and maybe you’re not spending as much time in front of the tv this season. Still, there are plenty of great options if you’re still looking for a nice mystery movie!

I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries that I think are definitely worth looking at (plus some others from my favorite actors and actresses…) You’re especially in luck if you are a fan of the Falcon series, as there is a marathon scheduled for this classic George Sanders/Tom Conway mystery series that will be airing on September 2nd!

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

September 2016 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Thursday – September 1, 2016

10:45 AM
MURDER BY AN ARISTOCRAT (1936)
A blackmailer’s murder tears apart a well-off family.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast:  Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, Claire Dodd.
BW-60 mins, CC

1:30 PM
THE LONE WOLF STRIKES (1940)
A reformed jewel thief helps an heiress retrieve a stolen necklace.
Dir: Sidney Salkow Cast:  Warren William, Joan Perry, Eric Blore.
BW-67 mins

7:00 PM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery. Terrific comedy!*****

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

Friday – September 2, 2016

The Falcon is back!

5:15 AM
THE GAY FALCON (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins.
BW-67 mins, CC

6:30 AM
A DATE WITH THE FALCON (1941)
The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason.
BW-63 mins, CC

7:45 AM
THE FALCON TAKES OVER (1942)
A society sleuth and a lady reporter try to track down a murderous thug’s lost girlfriend.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast:  George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason.
BW-63 mins, CC

9:00 AM
THE FALCON’S BROTHER (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan Cast:  George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph.
BW-63 mins, CC

10:15 AM
THE FALCON STRIKES BACK (1943)
A society sleuth is framed for murder by criminals running a war-bond racket.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast:  Tom Conway, Harriet Hilliard, Jane Randolph.
BW-66 mins, CC

11:30 AM
THE FALCON IN DANGER (1943)
A society sleuth tracks a lost plane carrying $100,000.
Dir: William Clemens Cast:  Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard.
BW-70 mins, CC

12:45 PM
THE FALCON AND THE CO-EDS (1944)
A society sleuth investigates murder at a girls’ school.
Dir: William Clemens Cast:  Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday.
BW-68 mins, CC

2:00 PM
THE FALCON OUT WEST (1944)
A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas murder.
Dir: William Clemens Cast:  Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale.
BW-64 mins, CC

3:15 PM
THE FALCON IN MEXICO (1944)
A society sleuth travels South of the border to investigate an art dealer’s murder.
Dir: William Berke Cast:  Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha MacVicar.
BW-70 mins, CC

4:30 PM
THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD (1944)
A society sleuth tours the movie capital, where he uncovers an actor’s murder.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast:  Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg.
BW-67 mins, CC

5:45 PM
THE FALCON IN SAN FRANCISCO (1945)
A society sleuth enlists a little girl’s help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast:  Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy.
BW-66 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 3, 2016

6:45 AM
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

8:45 AM
CODE OF THE SECRET SERVICE (1939)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast:  Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr..
BW-58 mins

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

Sunday – September 4, 2016

3:00 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

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

Thursday – September 8, 2016

5:00 AM
WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast:  Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford.
BW-78 mins, CC

6:30 AM
THE CUCKOOS (1930)
Two tramps-turned-fortune-tellers try to solve a kidnapping.
Dir: Paul Sloane Cast:  Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, June Clyde.
BW-97 mins

8:15 AM
BEHIND THE HEADLINES (1937)
A radio station’s newsman rushes to the rescue of his peer, who has been kidnapped by bank robbers.
Dir: Richard Rosson Cast:  Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Donald Meek.
BW-58 mins

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

Friday – September 9, 2016

4:45 PM
BELLS ARE RINGING (1960)
An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients’ lives.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast:  Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark.
C-126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****Not a mystery. Judy Holliday is absolutely terrific in every movie she’s in!*****

7:00 PM
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
A surveillance expert uncovers a murder plot within a corrupt corporation.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast:  Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield.
C-114 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 10, 2016

8:30 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

1:45 PM
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1952)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton Cast:  Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW-81 mins, CC

11:15 PM
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

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

Sunday – September 11, 2016

3:00 AM
BLACK EYE (1974)
A private eye stumbles on a series of murders connected to a movie star’s death.
Dir: Jack Arnold Cast:  Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves.
C-98 mins

7:15 AM
AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1947)
An upstanding politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a youthful indiscretion.
Dir: Alexander Korda Cast:  Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Hugh Williams.
C-93 mins, CC

9:00 AM
MR. LUCKY (1943)
A gambling-ship owner is out to fleece a beautiful society woman, but falls in love.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast:  Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford.
BW-100 mins, CC

11:00 AM
AGATHA (1979)
A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie.
Dir: Michael Apted Cast:  Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton.
C-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – September 16, 2016

1:00 PM
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

9:00 PM
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
Two New York narcotics cops set out to bust a French drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William Friedkin Cast:  Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider.
C-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
NIGHT MOVES (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast:  Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark.
C-100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 17, 2016

1:00 AM
THE SPLIT (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng Cast:  Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine.
C-90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM
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

5:00 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

7:00 AM
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast:  Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy.
BW-96 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 18, 2016

5:15 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

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

Monday – September 19, 2016

10:00 AM
PROBLEM GIRLS (1953)
A reform school doctor uncovers a murder plot.
Dir: E. A. Dupont Cast:  Helen Walker, Ross Elliott, Susan Morrow.
BW-71 mins

10:30 PM
BACKGROUND TO DANGER (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast:  George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-80 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – September 20, 2016

5:15 AM
JOE SMITH, AMERICAN (1942)
Nazi spies in search of government secrets kidnap a munitions worker.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast:  Robert Young, Marsha Hunt, Harvey Stephens.
BW-63 mins, CC

11:30 AM
THE YELLOW CANARY (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox Cast:  Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam.
BW-84 mins

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

Wednesday – September 21, 2016

2:15 AM
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN (1950)
A good-hearted ice cream man’s efforts to help a young woman turn him into a murder suspect.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast:  Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace.
BW-80 mins

5:15 AM
GIRL MISSING (1933)
A new bride disappears from her honeymoon hotel the same night a dead body pops up.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast:  Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon, Mary Brian.
BW-69 mins

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

Thursday – September 22, 2016

9:15 PM
THE SECRET SIX (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill Cast:  Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown.
BW-84 mins, CC

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

Friday – September 23, 2016

7:00 AM
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

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

Saturday – September 24, 2016

7:30 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

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

Monday – September 26, 2016

12:00 PM
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

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

Tuesday – September 27, 2016

10:30 PM
FOUL PLAY (1978)
An innocent woman stumbles onto a plot to murder the pope.
Dir: Colin Higgins Cast:  Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith.
C-116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – September 28, 2016

8:45 AM
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast:  Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge.
BW-90 mins

10:30 AM
SHADOW OF DOUBT (1935)
Murder charges threaten an actress’s marriage plans.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast:  Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Bruce, Constance Collier.
BW-74 mins, CC

3:45 PM
THE VELVET TOUCH (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage Cast:  Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor.
BW-97 mins, CC

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

Friday – September 30, 2016

12:00 PM
ALGIERS (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast:  Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr.
BW-99 mins

5:30 PM
THE RACKET (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan.
BW-89 mins, CC

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in September, 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 August 2016 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2016

And of course, 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