Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
I don’t have too much news this month, but what I do have is very good! Two pieces of news this month – both about the same author, which is a rarity!
Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico) will be putting out another entry in the Catering Hall Mystery Series (which she writes under the name Maria DiRico), titled The Witless Protection Program. With the other still-unreleased title Four Parties and a Funeral, this will bring the series to a total of five entries!
Here is the list of new releases for October 17 to October 23! Well, just the one release, but still…
Edward Marston (aka Keith Miles and Conrad Allen): The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case (This will be the 20th in the Railway Detective Mystery Series.)
Oh my goodness! Where has the year gone? It’s hard to believe that 2022 is almost over!
Beside listing the mystery movies that will be playing during November 2022 on the Turner Classic Movies channel, I have also tried to list the Christmas movies they will be playing. It’s never too early to start taping them… especially since they have been airing Christmas advertisements on TV since September 29! Good grief!
Anyway, here are the mystery movies that will be on the Turner Classic Movies channel during November 2022.
***** ***** ***** *****
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2:15 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
*****More of a comedy than an actual murder mystery. Very good movie.*****
10:00 PM Thief (1981)
A safecracker tries to outrun the mob so he can retire.
Dir: Michael Mann. Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson
123 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
6:15 AM Scaramouche (1923)
A French rebel masquerades as a clown so that he can avenge his friend’s murder.
Dir: Rex Ingram. Cast: Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro
131 mins
*****This is a silent movie.*****
***** ***** ***** *****
9:15 AM Hotel Reserve (1946)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
Dir: Victor Hanbury. Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell
79 mins
12:45 PM Hunt the Man Down (1950)
A lawyer uncovers the secrets behind a decade-old murder case.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
68 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
6:15 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins
12:00 AM City of Fear (1959)
An escaped convict heads for Los Angeles not realizing he’s stolen a deadly radioactive mineral.
Dir: Irving Lerner. Cast: Vince Edwards, John Archer, Steven Ritch
81 mins
3:45 AM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins
10:00 AM City of Fear (1959)
An escaped convict heads for Los Angeles not realizing he’s stolen a deadly radioactive mineral.
Dir: Irving Lerner. Cast: Vince Edwards, John Archer, Steven Ritch
81 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
5:45 AM Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
After trying to rescue a fleeing girl on the road one night, lowlife detective Mike Hammer is drawn into investigating first a murder, then the whereabouts of a mysterious box that seems to have prompted the crime.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
104 mins
9:30 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins
11:00 AM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
86 mins
4:00 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
8:30 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Evans, Carroll Baker, Zsa Zsa Gabor
108 mins
10:30 AM Double Danger (1938)
A jewel thief faces surprising competition when he tries to rob the police commissioner’s home.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Donald Meek
62 mins
2:45 PM They Met in Bombay (1941)
Rival jewel thieves on the run find love in the Far East.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre
86 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
4:15 AM Cry Terror! (1958)
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens
96 mins
6:00 AM The Decks Ran Red (1958)
Dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford
84 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
11:30 AM Dark Shadows (1944)
A psychiatrist investigates the murder of another psychiatrist.
Dir: Walter Hart. Cast: William Tannen, Dorothy Adams, Paul Langton
21 mins
3:15 PM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel Mccrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
119 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
12:00 AM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
95 mins
10:00 AM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
95 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
2:15 PM The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
78 mins
4:00 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
95 mins
8:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins
10:00 PM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman. Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
123 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
10:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
1:00 AM The Verdict (1982)
An alcoholic lawyer struggles to redeem himself by pursuing a high-stakes malpractice case.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason
122 mins
3:15 AM The MacKintosh Man (1973)
A British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda
98 mins
8:00 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****Christmas movie.*****
10:00 PM The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Dejected by his efforts to raise money to build a cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham beseeches heaven for guidance, and is visited immediately by Dudley, who claims to be an angel. Henry is skeptical, then annoyed when Dudley ingratiates himself into the household as his assistant, and worse, wins the attentions of Henry’s …
Dir: Henry Koster. Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins
*****Christmas movie*****
***** ***** ***** *****
12:00 AM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins
*****Christmas movie*****
4:00 AM Road Games (1981)
A truck driver’s attempt to find a vanished hitchhiker leads police to suspect him of her murder.
Dir: Richard Franklin. Cast: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward
93 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
12:30 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
109 mins
2:30 AM Absence of Malice (1981)
An ambitious reporter unwittingly slanders a businessman under federal investigation.
Dir: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
116 mins
10:00 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
109 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
2:00 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. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
10:00 AM Little Women (1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
121 mins
*****Christmas movie*****
8:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
1:45 AM 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
116 mins
11:00 AM The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins
*****Christmas movie.*****
***** ***** ***** *****
12:30 AM Death of a Cyclist (1958)
A professor is having an affair with the adulterous wife of a wealthy businessman. On one of their interludes, they run over and kill a cyclist. They decide to leave the scene of the crime and let it go unreported for fear their identities and their tryst will be discovered.
Dir: Juan Antonio Bardem. Cast: Lucia Bose, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corra
86 mins
*****In Spanish*****
10:00 AM Death of a Cyclist (1958)
A professor is having an affair with the adulterous wife of a wealthy businessman. On one of their interludes, they run over and kill a cyclist. They decide to leave the scene of the crime and let it go unreported for fear their identities and their tryst will be discovered.
Dir: Juan Antonio Bardem. Cast: Lucia Bose, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corra
86 mins
*****In Spanish*****
***** ***** ***** *****
11:00 AM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
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 2022 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2022 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.
Here is the list of new releases for October 10 to October 16!
Donna Andrews: Dashing Through the Snowbirds (This will be the 32nd in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series.)
Alice Duncan: Christmas Angels (This will be the 7th in the Mercy Allcut Mystery Series.)
Carolyn Haines: Bones of Holly (This will be the 24th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series.)
Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): The Plot and the Pendulum (This will be the 13th in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.)
David Rosenfelt: Santa’s Little Yelpers (This will be the 26th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series.)
