OK, let’s see… while searching through for this month’s mystery movies, I found several movies starring Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, and Peter Lorre. The movies featured mad scientists, vampires, monsters, and the living dead. This could only mean that I was searching through the Turner Classic Movies channel’s October schedule. Bring on the fall, and I can’t wait!
I’m going to leave it up to you all to pick and choose your own Halloween movies, but as usual, I will post the mystery movies I found on TCM that will be playing during October 2018:
Monday – October 1, 2018
10:00 AM
THE OUTRAGE (1964)
A Mexican bandit’s crimes receive wildly different interpretations from four witnesses.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:45 AM
NIGHT WATCH (1973)
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw.
C- 99 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – October 2, 2018
12:00 AM
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a mysterious businessman during a luxurious train ride.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman.
C- 128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM
PENTHOUSE (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth.
BW- 89 mins, CC
1:00 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
2:45 PM
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 – October 3, 2018
8:00 PM
THE UNKNOWN (1927)
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow’s armless wonder.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford.
BW- 50 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – October 5, 2018
8:00 PM
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940)
A British agent masquerades as a Nazi officer to protect an inventor and his daughter.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul von Henreid.
BW- 95 mins, CC
10:00 PM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – October 6, 2018
12:00 AM
THE WICKED LADY, THE (1945)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Dir: Leslie Arliss Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc.
BW- 104 mins
10:10 AM
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
Sunday – October 7, 2018
12:00 AM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC
10:00 AM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – October 9, 2018
12:00 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – October 11, 2018
6:45 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
8:15 AM
BEHAVE YOURSELF! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest.
BW- 81 mins, CC
9:45 AM
NOWHERE TO GO (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee.
BW- 87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – October 12, 2018
4:00 AM
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
BW- 99 mins, CC
6:00 AM
FAST LIFE (1932)
An innocent man stands trial for killing the man who tried to steal his wife.
Dir: Harry Pollard Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel.
BW- 82 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – October 13, 2018
10:09 AM
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
Sunday – October 14, 2018
6:30 PM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – October 16, 2018
9:45 AM
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
BW- 110 mins, CC
10:00 PM
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD (1952)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby.
BW- 98 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – October 17, 2018
12:15 PM
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
8:00 PM
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932)
A storm strands travelers in a house full of dangerous eccentrics.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton.
BW- 72 mins
9:30 PM
THE WALKING DEAD (1936)
A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn.
BW- 65 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – October 18, 2018
6:30 AM
YELLOW DUST (1936)
After he’s accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Dir: Wallace Fox Cast: Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olson.
BW- 69 mins
Friday – October 19, 2018
6:00 AM
YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)
A young tough takes the rap for a hardened gangster.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop.
BW- 79 mins, CC
7:30 AM
THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall.
BW- 76 mins
9:00 AM
THE MURDER MAN (1935)
A hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
Dir: Tim Whelan Cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 69 mins, CC
10:15 AM
STRANGE JUSTICE (1932)
A crooked banker and his assistant devise a scheme to frame an ex-con for their crime.
Dir: Victor Schertzinger Cast: Marian Marsh, Reginald Denny, Richard Bennett.
BW- 64 mins
12:45 PM
TWO SECONDS (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 67 mins, CC
5:00 PM
BACK IN CIRCULATION (1937)
A reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay.
BW- 81 mins, CC
6:30 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, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – October 20, 2018
10:09 AM
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
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – October 22, 2018
12:45 PM
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
6:15 PM
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
Tuesday – October 23, 2018
10:00 PM
THE STORY ON PAGE ONE (1960)
Dir: Clifford Odets Cast: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young.
BW- 123 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – October 25, 2018
12:15 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
6:00 PM
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
10:00 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – October 26, 2018
8:00 PM
WHITE LIGHTNING (1973)
A convicted moonshiner helps police track down the bayou bad guys who killed his brother.
Dir: Joseph Sargent Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsley.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – October 27, 2018
10:08 AM
THE SAINT TAKES OVER (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale.
BW- 70 mins, CC
11:30 AM
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1941)
In this short film, a man commits a murder and is tormented by the victim’s beating heart.
BW- 20 mins
Sunday – October 28, 2018
12:00 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC
10:00 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – October 29, 2018
4:00 AM
DIABOLIQUE (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret.
BW- 117 mins
7:45 AM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC
1:15 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
3:45 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
6:15 PM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Wednesday – October 31, 2018
7:30 AM
DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Members of an Irish family are being killed off by one of their own who wishes to inherit the family fortune.
Dir: Francis Coppola Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton.
BW- 75 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
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 2018 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 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.)
KG says
I will be watching/recording all of the Hitchcock movies. I always look forward to them. Thank you for putting this list together each and every month.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
KG, you’re welcome!
sheila ivey says
what about alfred hitchcock movies ????????
KG says
sheila ivey: If you look under the title of each movie, Dana has listed the director. Suspicion, The Lady Vanishes, and Strangers on a Train are all Hitchcock movies. The Thin Man series with William Powell and Myrna Loy are also enjoyable.