So, the year’s coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean that mystery movies will be coming to an end! I’m pretty busy with the holidays, so let’s get right to the movies!
Tuesday – January 1
6:45 AM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW- 80 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 2
2:30 AM
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
6:00 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, CC
7:45 AM
ARSENE LUPIN (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley.
BW- 84 mins, CC
Friday – January 4
2:00 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 5
8:29 AM
SOMEWHERE IN SONORA (1933)
A young cowhand gets roped into the outlaw’s life when he’s falsely accused of a crime.
Dir: Mack V. Wright Cast: John Wayne, Duke, Henry B. Walthall.
BW- 58 mins, CC
10:08 AM
THE PLOT THICKENS (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr..
BW- 69 mins, CC
*****This movie is based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegarde Mystery Series.*****
1:30 PM
THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern.
BW- 88 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 6
4:00 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, Constance Collier.
C- 93 mins, CC
7:45 AM
NIGHT MUST FALL (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty.
BW- 116 mins, CC
10:00 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
Monday – January 7
11:00 AM
DARK PASSAGE (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 106 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 9
6:15 AM
SAGEBRUSH TRAIL (1933)
A man, wrongly imprisoned for murder, escapes to track down the real killer.
Dir: Armand Schaefer Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler.
BW- 53 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 10
1:15 AM
PANIC IN THE STREETS (1950)
A killer evades the police not knowing he has a deadly plague.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes.
BW- 96 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 12
10:08 AM
FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord.
BW- 63 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Witherspoon Mystery Series.*****
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 13
12:00 AM
LURED (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW- 103 mins
10:00 AM
LURED (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW- 103 mins
1:45 PM
GILDA (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
BW- 110 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – January 14
6:00 AM
EMERGENCY CALL (1933)
A promising surgeon discovers his hospital is run by gangsters.
Dir: Edward Cahn Cast: Bill Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan.
BW- 61 mins
11:45 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
Tuesday – January 15
3:45 Am
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
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 16
6:00 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
*****I’m not sure if this is actually a mystery, fantasy, or horror movie…”*****
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 17
8:00 AM
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
10:45 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, Letterbox Format
2:30 PM
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
6:30 PM
ARSENE LUPIN (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley.
BW- 84 mins, CC
Friday – January 18
6:15 AM
THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin.
BW- 82 mins, CC
8:00 PM
SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden.
BW- 117 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 19
4:15 AM
STRAIT-JACKET (1964)
Murder follows an axe murderer home when she’s released from a mental hospital.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson.
BW- 93 mins, CC
8:29 AM
THE STAR PACKER (1934)
A U.S. Marshall takes on the job of defeating a mysterious criminal.
Dir: R. N. Bradbury Cast: John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George Hayes.
BW- 55 mins,
10:08 AM
THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 74 mins, CC
1:45 PM
THE PROWLER (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell.
BW- 93 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 20
12:00 AM
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
BW- 95 mins, CC
10:00 AM
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
BW- 95 mins, CC
2:00 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
Monday – January 21
2:45 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – January 22
12:30 AM
A SOLDIER’S STORY (1984)
During World War II, an African-American officer investigates a murder that may have been racially motivated.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Howard E Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 24
7:30 AM
MIDNIGHT SHADOW (1939)
A young girl must decide which of her suitors robbed and killed her father.
Dir: George Randol Cast: Frances Redd, Buck Woods, Richard Bates.
BW- 52 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – January 25
6:30 AM
WASHINGTON STORY (1952)
A reporter in search of government corruption falls for a congressman.
Dir: Robert Pirosh Cast: Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern.
BW- 82 mins, CC
Sunday – January 27
2:15 AM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
C- 108 mins, CC
8:00 PM
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh.
BW- 82 mins, CC
9:45 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 28
10:00 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 30
1:30 PM
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964)
A mysterious killer stalks a design house’s models.
Dir: Mario Bava Cast: Eva Bartok, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Reiner.
C- 88 mins
3:00 PM
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
5:30 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
Thursday – January 31
2:30 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
*****Based on the Daphne du Maurier novel.*****
7:15 AM
SOMEWHERE IN SONORA (1933)
A young cowhand gets roped into the outlaw’s life when he’s falsely accused of a crime.
Dir: Mack V. Wright Cast: John Wayne, Duke, Henry B. Walthall.
BW- 58 mins, CC
9:45 AM
THE FIGHTING GRINGO (1939)
A cowboy tries to clear an innocent Mexican rancher of murder charges.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Lupita Tovar, Lucio Villegas.
BW- 59 mins
11:00 AM
TROUBLE IN SUNDOWN (1939)
A man’s friend searches for the real crooks when he’s accused of robbery and murder.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Rosalind Keith, Ray Whitley.
BW- 60 mins, CC
12:15 PM
COME ON DANGER (1942)
When a woman turns outlaw, she’s suspected of murder.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley.
BW- 59 mins
1:30 PM
SAGEBRUSH LAW (1943)
A Western bank president is framed on embezzlement charges.
Dir: Sam Nelson Cast: Tim Holt, Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, Joan Barclay.
BW- 56 mins
5:00 PM
GUNS OF HATE (1948)
Two drifters are falsely accused of murder.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin.
BW- 62 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – February 1
3:15 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
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in January, be sure to leave a comment below!
In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the December 2018 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 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.)
