Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for November 2024

Fall is finally here! I have been watching a lot of the true crime channel, as well as my black and white, old-time “Bella Lugosi/Vincent Price Halloween themed” movies on the Turner Classic channel, and I’m ready to get back to just watching crime and mystery movies. (As well as reading Cozy Mysteries!) I was surprised to not find a lot of Christmas movies on this month’s Turner Classic Movies roster, but there were a few thrown in. (I think I saw at least one “Little Women” movie tucked in there, and possibly a “Meet Me in St. Louis”.)

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2024

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Friday – November 1, 2024

1:45 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
97 mins

Saturday – November 2, 2024

6:00 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
105 mins

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

Sunday – November 3, 2024

12:30 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

8:30 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins

10:00 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

12:00 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

4:15 PM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

6:00 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

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

Monday – November 4, 2024

10:00 AM 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

10:45 PM Gloria (1980)
When a young boy’s family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Dir: John Cassavetes. Cast: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
123 mins

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

Tuesday – November 5, 2024

9:45 AM The Bribe (1949)
A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
98 mins

1:00 PM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins

11:45 PM 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

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

Wednesday – November 6, 2024

8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins
*****This is a “gotta see it” mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM Niagara (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
92 mins

11:45 PM A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
A college student who is more sinister than he appears tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
94 mins

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Friday – November 8, 2024

1:30 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
106 mins

3:30 AM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

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Saturday – November 9, 2024

1:15 PM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

2:00 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life isn’t so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
85 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

3:30 AM Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson
86 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

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Sunday – November 10, 2024

12:45 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins
*****In French*****

10:00 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins
*****In French*****

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Tuesday – November 12, 2024

12:15 AM The Tong-Man (1919)
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
Dir: William Worthington. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc Robbins
54 mins
*****Silent 1919*****

8:00 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
96 mins

10:00 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

11:45 PM Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
85 mins

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Wednesday – November 13, 2024

1:30 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
91 mins

10:00 AM 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
112 mins

8:00 PM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

10:00 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

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Thursday – November 14, 2024

12:00 AM Mirage (1965)
A biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
109 mins

2:00 AM 23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)
A blind London writer overhears a conversation that reveals a kidnapping plot. Knowing what he heard was true but finding the police don’t believe his story, the man summons the help of his secretary and fiancée to hunt down the kidnappers independently.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
103 mins

4:00 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

4:30 PM Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins

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Friday – November 15, 2024

5:45 AM Crown v. Stevens (1936)
An ex-dancer marries a rich man hoping to pay off a loan shark.
Dir: Michael Powell. Cast: Beatrix Thomson, Patric Knowles, Googie Withers
65 mins

8:45 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
109 mins

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Saturday – November 16, 2024

6:00 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
109 mins

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Sunday – November 17, 2024

12:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

2:00 AM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
120 mins

10:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

11:45 AM 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
83 mins

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Tuesday – November 19, 2024

7:00 AM Frisco Jenny (1933)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins

8:15 AM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

9:30 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
100 mins

11:15 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
106 mins

1:15 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
66 mins

2:30 PM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

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Wednesday – November 20, 2024

6:15 PM Undercover Maisie (1947)
A stranded showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic.
Dir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Mark Daniels
90 mins

8:00 PM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

10:15 PM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
107 mins

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Thursday – November 21, 2024

12:15 AM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

2:00 AM The Bride Wore Black (1968)
When her husband is shot on their wedding day, a newlywed turned widow seeks out the killers and eliminates them one by one in an act of vengeance.
Dir: François Truffaut. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
107 mins
*****In French*****

4:00 AM Blow-Up (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins

8:00 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a really good British movie.*****

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Friday – November 22, 2024

8:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
*****Terrific mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

11:45 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

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Saturday – November 23, 2024

1:30 AM Phantom Lady (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
87 mins

3:15 AM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins

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

Sunday – November 24, 2024

12:00 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins

8:15 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
88 mins
*****Not a mystery – I saw this movie several years ago and was quite taken by it…*****

10:00 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins

8:00 PM 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
100 mins

10:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

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

Monday – November 25, 2024

8:45 AM The Unholy Wife (1957)
An ambitious beauty marries a vintner, then falls for one of his workers.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon
94 mins

12:00 PM Illegal (1955)
A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
88 mins

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

Tuesday – November 26, 2024

4:15 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins
*****This is a “gotta see it” mystery movie.*****

8:00 PM 5 Steps to Danger (1957)
Hitchhiking on a deserted New Mexico road after his car breaks down, John Emmett gets picked up by Ann Nicholson, who is in a rush to reach Santa Fe, N.M. The distraught Ann is being pursued by psychiatrist Frederick Simmons, who has been treating her in Los Angeles since she had a nervous breakdown but she tells John that …
Dir: Henry S. Kesler. Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins

9:30 PM Joe MacBeth (1955)
The classic Shakespearean tale is set inside a gangster’s story.
Dir: Ken Hughes. Cast: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano
90 mins

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

Wednesday – November 27, 2024

1:00 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

10:00 PM Midnight Lace (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
108 mins

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Friday – November 29, 2024

12:00 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
108 mins

2:00 AM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

4:00 AM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins

3:45 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

6:00 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
93 mins

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

Sunday – December 1, 2024

12:30 AM Naked Alibi (1954)
A chief of police detectives who is fired for brutality tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Dir: Jerry Hopper. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
86 mins

2:15 AM 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

4:30 AM Deathtrap (1982)
A formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play, returns to his wife, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics. He tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student…
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

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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 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2024 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.