The Cozy Mystery List Blog

It’s the 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…) This month, we can look forward to an Alfred Hitchcock marathon on the 1st! Since he has a number of mystery themed movies (as well as many non-mystery classics), I’m certainly looking forward to it!

Another date worth remembering is the 20th, when TCM will be showing a “The Saint” mystery marathon, adapted of course from the works of classic mystery author Leslie Charteris!

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January 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Sunday – January 1, 2017

5:00 AM
ROPE (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
C-81 mins, CC

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

8:15 AM
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
A U.S. scientist pretends to defect to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova.
C-128 mins, CC

10:30 AM
FAMILY PLOT (1976)
A phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris.
C-120 mins, CC

12:30 PM
PSYCHO (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin.
BW-109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 PM
THE BIRDS (1963)
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy.
C-119 mins, CC,

7:00 PM
VERTIGO (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
C-130 mins, CC

9:15 PM
REAR WINDOW (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
C-114 mins, CC

11:15 PM
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey.
BW-108 mins, CC

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Monday – January 2, 2017

1:15 AM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie.
C-120 mins, CC

3:30 AM
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick.
C-99 mins, CC

5:15 AM
THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill Cast:  Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke.
BW-67 mins, CC

6:30 AM
SCARED TO DEATH (1947)
A beautiful murder victim recalls how she met her untimely end.
Dir: Christy Cabanne Cast:  Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton.
C-68 mins

7:45 AM
BEWITCHED (1945)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Dir: Arch Oboler Cast:  Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry H. Daniels Jr..
BW-65 mins, CC

9:00 AM
THE DARK TOWER (1943)
A romantic triangle involving a hypnotist and two trapeze artists threatens to destroy a circus.
Dir: John Harlow Cast:  Herbert Lom,
BW-93 mins, CC

2:00 PM
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Cast:  Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
BW-81 mins, CC

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Tuesday – January 3, 2017

4:30 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

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Wednesday – January 4, 2017

3:30 AM
EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley Cast:  James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan.
BW-92 mins, CC

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Thursday – January 5, 2017

8:15 PM
TORCHY PLAYS WITH DYNAMITE (1939)
A female reporter gets herself arrested so she can interview a gangster’s moll.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast:  Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy.
BW-59 mins, CC

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Friday – January 6, 2017

3:45 AM
GAMBLING ON THE HIGH SEAS (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy Cast:  Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland.
BW-55 mins, CC

6:00 AM
PRIVATE DETECTIVE (1939)
Rival detectives fall in love when they’re forced to work together.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast:  Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson.
BW-56 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast:  Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall.
C-113 mins, CC

9:00 PM
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

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Saturday – January 7, 2017

3:00 AM
A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (1969)
A beautiful ghost inspires a painter to commit murder.
Dir: Elio Petri Cast:  Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret.
C-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM
COVER-UP (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast:  William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton.
BW-83 mins

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

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Monday – January 9, 2017

8:15 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

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Tuesday – January 10, 2017

7:30 AM
DECEPTION (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast:  Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
BW-112 mins, CC,

1:45 PM
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948)
A crook on the lam poses as a psychiatrist.
Dir: Steve Sekely Cast:  Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz.
BW-83 mins, CC

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Wednesday – January 11, 2017

3:45 AM
CONVICTS 4 (1962)
A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
Dir: Millard Kaufman Cast:  Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston.
BW-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
PSYCHO (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin.
BW-109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
THE KILLERS (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast:  Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-102 mins, CC

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Thursday – January 12, 2017

11:30 AM
THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts Cast:  William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason.
BW-81 mins, CC

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Friday – January 13, 2017

3:15 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

5:15 AM
CRIME BY NIGHT (1944)
Married detectives investigating a small-town murder uncover a spy ring.
Dir: William Clemens Cast:  Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson.
BW-73 mins, CC

5:00 PM
WHEN WERE YOU BORN? (1938)
An astrologer tries to help the police catch a killer.
Dir: William McGann Cast:  Margaret Lindsay, Anna May Wong, Lola Lane.
BW-65 mins

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Saturday – January 14, 2017

7:00 AM
NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940)
True story of Rogers’ Rangers and their fight to open up new frontiers for Colonial America.
Dir: King Vidor Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan, Robert Young.
C-127 mins, CC

7:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast:  Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Sunday – January 15, 2017

2:30 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast:  Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders.
BW-138 mins, CC

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Friday – January 20, 2017

4:30 AM
MAKE YOUR OWN BED (1944)
Detectives masquerade as butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning.
BW-82 mins

7:00 PM
THE SAINT IN NEW YORK (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast:  Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann.
BW-72 mins, CC

8:30 PM
THE SAINT STRIKES BACK (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan.
BW-64 mins, CC

9:45 PM
THE SAINT IN LONDON (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
Dir: John Paddy Carstairs Cast:  George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns.
BW-72 mins, CC

11:15 PM
THE SAINT’S DOUBLE TROUBLE (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast:  George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale.
BW-67 mins, CC

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Saturday – January 21, 2017

12:30 AM
THE SAINT IN PALM SPRINGS (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle.
BW-66 mins, CC

1:45 AM
THE SAINT’S VACATION (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar vies with Nazi agents for possession of a mysterious music box.
Dir: Leslie Fenton Cast:  Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae.
BW-61 mins, CC

3:00 AM
THE SAINT MEETS THE TIGER (1943)
The Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
Dir: Paul Stein Cast:  Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod.
BW-69 mins, CC

7:00 PM
BOOMERANG (1947)
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast:  Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb.
BW-88 mins, CC

8:45 PM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast:  Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW-97 mins, CC

10:30 PM
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders.
BW-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Sunday – January 22, 2017

12:15 AM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW-80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast:  Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
BW-96 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast:  David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast:  Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
C-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Monday – January 23, 2017

11:00 PM
ODD MAN OUT (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast:  James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan.
BW-116 mins

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Tuesday – January 24, 2017

3:15 AM
THEY MET IN THE DARK (1943)
A naval commander tries to find the beautiful spy who tricked him into revealing secrets.
Dir: Carl Lamac Cast:  James Mason,
BW-91 mins

7:15 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

9:00 AM
SCARF (1951)
An escaped mental patient tries to prove he’s not a serial killer.
Dir: E. A. Dupont Cast:  John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton.
BW-87 mins

8:45 PM
HOUSE OF WOMEN (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger Cast:  Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford.
BW-85 mins, CC

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Thursday – January 26, 2017

4:45 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

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Saturday – January 28, 2017

11:00 AM
DIARY OF A MADMAN (1963)
The body of a French magistrate is taken over by the soul of a murderer.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg Cast:  Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield.
C-97 mins, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
THE LATE SHOW (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast:  Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
C-93 mins, CC

8:45 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

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Sunday – January 29, 2017

2:00 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

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Monday – January 30, 2017

10:00 AM
ESCAPE IN THE DESERT (1945)
In this remake of The Petrified Forest, Nazi spies infiltrate a hotel in the American Southwest.
Dir: Edward A. Blatt Cast:  Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning.
BW-79 mins

1:15 PM
SHADOW OF A WOMAN (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley Cast:  Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince.
BW-78 mins

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If you’re particularly 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 2016 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 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