{"id":14896,"date":"2013-11-30T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=14896"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:22:24","slug":"upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have found these mystery movies from TCM\u2019s\u00a0Now Playing<\/em>\u00a0for December 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) There are less mystery movies being shown this month because of TCM’s great holiday line-up of movies.<\/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 December 2013, please post a comment.<\/p>\n

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

Monday – December 2, 2013<\/h2>\n

7:30 AM
\nTHE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE<\/strong> (1938)
\nA doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart.
\nBW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 AM
\nTORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR<\/strong> (1939)
\nAfter digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
\nDir: Ray McCarey Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW-60 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

10:15 AM
\nHAVING WONDERFUL CRIME<\/strong> (1945)
\nThree amateur detectives try to find a missing magician.
\nDir: Eddie Sutherland Cast: Pat O’Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis.
\nBW-70 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

11:30 AM
\nTHE BIG STEAL<\/strong> (1949)
\nSeduction and murder follow the theft of an Army payroll.
\nDir: Don Siegel Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix.
\nBW-71 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

3:15 PM
\nSTOP, YOU’RE KILLING ME<\/strong> (1952)
\nThe surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
\nDir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson.
\nBW-86 mins, TV-G<\/p>\n

4:45 PM
\nDEATH OF A SCOUNDREL<\/strong> (1956)
\nA Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
\nDir: Charles Martin Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
\nBW-120 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday – December 3, 2013<\/h2>\n

11:00 PM
\nTHE BIG HEAT<\/strong> (1953)
\nA police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
\nBW-90 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

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

Thursday – December 5, 2013<\/h2>\n

8:00 AM
\nANGEL FACE<\/strong> (1953)
\nAn unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
\nDir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
\nBW-91 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

11:45 AM
\nANATOMY OF A MURDER<\/strong> (1959)
\nA small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
\nDir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
\nBW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nBUNNY LAKE IS MISSING<\/strong> (1965)
\nA distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
\nDir: Otto Preminger Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim.
\nBW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

11:00 PM
\nIN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT<\/strong> (1967)
\nA black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
\nDir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
\nC-110 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Friday – December 6, 2013<\/h2>\n

7:45 AM
\nBLACKMAIL<\/strong> (1929)
\nA shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton.
\nBW-86 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

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

Monday – December 9, 2013<\/h2>\n

5:15 PM
\n13 GHOSTS<\/strong> (1960)
\nA family inherits a house haunted by 13 ghosts and a living killer.
\nDir: William Castle Cast: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner.
\nBW-82 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday – December 10, 2013<\/h2>\n

2:15 AM
\nMEMORIES OF MURDER<\/strong> (2003)
\nA big-city detective helps two inept small-town cops investigate a serial killer.
\nDir: Joon-ho Bong Cast:\u00a0Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim.
\nC-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Friday – December 13, 2013<\/h2>\n

10:00 AM
\nGRAND CENTRAL MURDER<\/strong> (1942)
\nA detective investigates an actress’s murder in a train car.
\nDir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker.
\nBW-74 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – December 14, 2013<\/h2>\n

12:00 AM
\nCHINATOWN<\/strong> (1974)
\nA Los Angeles private eye unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder, then joins his seductive widow to unearth the corruption behind the crime.
\nDir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Perry Lopez.
\nC-130 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Monday – December 16, 2013<\/h2>\n

8:30 AM
\nSCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE: WHITE CORRIDORS<\/strong> (1956)
\nAn American tourist fights to get the staff of a British hospital to believe she’s witnessed a murder.
\nDir: Ted Post Cast:\u00a0Linda Darnell, John Bentley, Scott Forbes.
\nBW-26 mins, TV-PG,<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday – December 17, 2013<\/h2>\n

8:45 PM
\nREMEMBER THE NIGHT<\/strong> (1940) \u00a0*** This is a Christmas movie, not a mystery. I really like it. >>> It gets the two stars of Double Indemnity<\/em> together in a different venue.
\nAn assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
\nDir: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
\nBW-94 mins, TV-G, CC,<\/p>\n

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

Friday – December 20, 2013<\/h2>\n

9:00 PM
\nTHE BIG HEAT<\/strong> (1953)
\nA police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
\nBW-90 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

1:00 AM
\nTHE STEPFORD WIVES<\/strong> (1975)
\nA recent arrival in suburbia suspects a sinister reason for the local women’s model behavior.
\nDir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson.
\nC-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – December 22, 2013<\/h2>\n

1:00 PM
\nCHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT<\/strong> (1945) ***This is probably my very favorite Christmas movie. I watch it once every year. It is not a mystery.
\nA homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW-102 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday – December 24, 2013<\/h2>\n

*****Neither of today’s movies are mystery movies. However, they are really good Christmas movies with phenomenal casts.<\/p>\n

10:15 AM
\nTHE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941)<\/strong>
\nAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
\nDir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
\nBW-113 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nCHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT<\/strong>\u00a0(1945)
\nA homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW-102 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

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

Thursday – December 26, 2013<\/h2>\n

5:00 AM
\nTHE NARROW MARGIN<\/strong> (1952)
\nA tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
\nDir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
\nBW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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

Friday – December 27, 2013<\/h2>\n

8:45 PM
\nOUT OF THE PAST<\/strong> (1947)
\nA private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
\nBW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – December 28, 2013<\/h2>\n

7:00 PM
\nGASLIGHT<\/strong> (1944)
\nA newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
\nDir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
\nBW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 PM
\nSUSPICION<\/strong> (1941)
\nA wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
\nBW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

11:00 PM
\nLEAVE HER TO HEAVEN<\/strong> (1945)
\nA beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
\nDir: John M. Stahl Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain.
\nC-110 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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

Monday – December 30, 2013<\/h2>\n

10:30 PM
\nTHE CHEAP DETECTIVE<\/strong> (1978)
\nA private dick tackles two tough cases while trying to clear himself of a murder charge.
\nDir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan.
\nC-92 mins, TV-14, 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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