{"id":14659,"date":"2013-10-30T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2013-10-31T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:03:03","slug":"upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-november-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have found these mystery movies from TCM\u2019s\u00a0Now Playing<\/em>\u00a0for November 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) I have tried to limit the list to the mysteries I could find, but I just couldn’t keep myself from listing some of my favorite old comedies.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m listing the movies in\u00a0Central time zone<\/strong>. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during November 2013, please post a comment.<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Friday, November 1, 2013<\/h2>\n

(***While neither of today’s listed movies are mysteries, they are a lot of fun to watch.)<\/p>\n

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) \u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>
\nA newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
\nDir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
\nBW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) \u00a09:00 PM<\/strong>
\nAn unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
\nDir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.
\nBW-92 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 2, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE MAD MISS MANTON \u00a0(1938) \u00a02:00 AM<\/strong>
\nA daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
\nBW-80 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (1967) \u00a07:00 AM<\/strong>
\nA fortune hunter agrees to wed a temperamental woman so his friend can court her\u00a0sister. (***It is a delight to watch Taylor and Burton in this Shakespearean movie.)
\nDir: Franco Zeffirelli Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack.
\nC-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday, November 4, 2013<\/h2>\n

OLD ACQUAINTANCE (1943) \u00a07:15 AM<\/strong>
\nTwo writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives. (***Not a mystery, but Davis and Hopkins are great in this.)
\nDir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young.
\nBW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948) \u00a011:30 AM<\/strong>
\nClassic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW-109 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

HUNT THE MAN DOWN (1950) \u00a01:30 PM<\/strong>
\nLawyer uncovers secret behind a decade-old murder case.
\nDir: George Archainbaud Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson.
\nBW-68 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 6, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE KILLERS (1946) \u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>
\nAn insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
\nDir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.
\nBW-102 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/h2>\n

Monday, November 11, 2013<\/h2>\n

CROSSFIRE (1947) \u00a08:00 AM<\/strong>
\nA crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
\nBW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 12, 2013<\/h2>\n

FAST AND FURIOUS (1939) \u00a04:30 PM<\/strong>
\nMarried book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant.
\nDir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
\nBW-73 mins, TV-G<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 13, 2013<\/h2>\n

WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) \u00a07:00 AM<\/strong>
\nOpposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter. (***Not a mystery but Tracy and Hepburn are quite a duo.)
\nDir: George Stevens Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
\nBW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

NOTORIOUS (1946) \u00a09:00 AM<\/strong>
\nA U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
\nBW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 14, 2013<\/h2>\n

MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) \u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>
\nA young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy\u00a0widow.
\nDir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready.
\nBW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/h2>\n

Friday, November 15, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE TALL TARGET (1951) \u00a012:00 AM<\/strong>
\nA detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
\nDir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
\nBW-78 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

DEAD RECKONING (1947) \u00a09:45 AM<\/strong>
\nA tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
\nDir: John Cromwell Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky.
\nBW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 16, 2013<\/h2>\n

IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939) \u00a012:15 AM<\/strong>
\nA runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee.
\nBW-86 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

DECEPTION (1946) \u00a07:15 AM<\/strong>
\nA woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
\nDir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
\nBW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Sunday, November 17, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE BIG HEAT (1953) \u00a09:15 AM<\/strong>
\nA police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to\u00a0bring down a powerful gangster.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
\nBW-90 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday, November 18, 2013<\/h2>\n

COMET OVER BROADWAY (1938) \u00a01:15 PM<\/strong>
\nA stage star’s rampant ambition leads to murder.
\nDir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel.
\nBW-70 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 19, 2013<\/h2>\n

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953) \u00a03:30 PM<\/strong>
\nA landlady suspects her mysterious new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
\nDir: Hugo Fregonese Cast: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer.
\nBW-82 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) \u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
\nBW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 20, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE SELLOUT (1951) 10:15 AM<\/strong>
\nA small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
\nDir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
\nBW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

MISTER 880 (1950) \u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>
\nA beloved old man is secretly Mister 880, an amateurish counterfeiter.
\nDir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn.
\nBW-90 mins, CC<\/p>\n

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)<\/strong>\u00a0 8:45 PM<\/strong>
\nAn aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals. (*** This is not a mystery movie. Watch for a young William Shatner before his Star Trek days.)
\nDir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark.
\nBW-179 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Friday, November 22, 2013<\/h2>\n

STAR OF MIDNIGHT (1935) \u00a01:30 PM<\/strong>
\nA New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
\nDir: Stephen Roberts Cast: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly.
\nBW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC,<\/p>\n

BALL OF FIRE (1942) \u00a011:00 PM<\/strong>
\nA group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster\u00a0boyfriend. (*** I should probably warn you all that I am a Barbara Stanwyck fan. Even so, this comedy is really quite good.)
\nDir: Howard Hawks Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka.
\nBW-112 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 23, 2013<\/h2>\n

MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) \u00a05:00 PM<\/strong>
\nDetective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
\nBW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 26, 2013<\/h2>\n

BULLITT (1968) \u00a08:00 PM<\/strong>
\nWhen mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates\u00a0the case on his own.
\nDir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
\nC-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

NAKED CITY (1948) \u00a011:00 PM<\/strong>
\nA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
\nDir: Jules Dassin Cast: Barry Fitzgerald , Howard Duff , Dorothy Hart .
\nBW-96 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 27, 2013<\/h2>\n

WHITE HEAT (1949) \u00a01:00 AM<\/strong>
\nA government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien.
\nBW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968) \u00a04:45 AM<\/strong>
\nA bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring\u00a0him in.
\nDir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
\nC-102 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 28, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961) \u00a06:15 AM<\/strong>
\nAn assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he’s prosecuting for murder is his son.
\nDir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters.
\nBW-103 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Friday, November 29, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE LADY EVE (1941) \u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>
\nA lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him. (*** One of the best Barbara Stanwyck comedies.)
\nDir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
\nBW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 30, 2013<\/h2>\n

THE WRONG MAN (1956) \u00a09:15 PM<\/strong>
\nA musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
\nBW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.<\/p>\n

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don\u2019t change their line-up!)<\/p>\n

If you would like to see more\u00a0Television and Movies ideas<\/strong><\/a>, click on this link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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