{"id":15182,"date":"2013-12-30T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2014-01-21T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:54:21","slug":"upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished going through TCM\u2019s\u00a0Now Playing<\/em>\u00a0for January 2014. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) At first it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to find a lot of mystery movies, but then I saw that Thursday, January 30 has lots and lots of mysteries being shown.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m listing the movies in\u00a0<\/span>Central time zone<\/strong>. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during January 2014, please post a comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Julia just posted a comment telling us:<\/p>\n

From Saturday, January 4 at 5:00 AM<\/strong> through Monday, January 6 ending at 5:00 AM<\/strong>, the Hallmark Movie Channel<\/strong> will be airing a Diagnosis Murde<\/strong><\/em>r <\/strong>marathon.<\/p>\n

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I just discovered this:<\/p>\n

From Sunday, January 19 at 4:00 AM<\/strong> through Monday, January 20 at 4:00 AM<\/strong> the Hallmark Movie Channel<\/strong> will be airing a Mystery Woman<\/strong> marathon.<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – January 5<\/span><\/h2>\n

7:00 AM
\nTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY<\/strong> (1945)
\nA man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
\nDir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
\nBW-110 mins, TV-G, CC
\n(Watch for a young Angela Lansbury in the role of Sibyl Vane.)<\/p>\n

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

Monday – January 6<\/h2>\n

12:00 PM
\nTHE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE<\/strong> (1946)
\nIllicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
\nDir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
\nBW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nLADY IN THE LAKE<\/strong> (1947)
\nPhilip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
\nDir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
\nBW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

8:30 PM
\nTHE THIRD MAN<\/strong> (1949)
\nA man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
\nDir: Carol Reed Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
\nBW-104 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday- January 7<\/h2>\n

3:00 PM
\nGILDA<\/strong> (1946)
\nA gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir: Charles Vidor Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
\nBW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – January 11<\/h2>\n

9:30 AM
\nTHE PENGUIN POOL MURDER<\/strong> (1932)
\nA feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
\nDir: George Archainbaud Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
\nBW-65 mins, TV-G, CC
\n(Based on a\u00a0Stuart Palmer<\/a>\u00a0Hildegarde Withers mystery.)<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – January 12<\/h2>\n

11:00 AM
\nVICTOR\/VICTORIA<\/strong> (1982)
\nAn unemployed female singer poses as a female impersonator and becomes a star.
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
\nC-134 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
\n(Not a mystery, but a really good movie.)<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nANASTASIA<\/strong> (1956)
\nA group of exiled Russians claim to have found the living daughter of the Tsar, presumed executed in 1918.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
\nC-105 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

9:00 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

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

Tuesday – January 14<\/h2>\n

10:30 PM
\nMARLOWE<\/strong> (1969)
\nDetective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
\nDir: Paul Bogart Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor
\nC-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Thursday – January 16<\/h2>\n

1:30 AM
\n12 ANGRY MEN<\/strong> (1957)
\nA jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
\nDir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
\nBW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Friday – January 17<\/h2>\n

2:30 PM
\nABOVE SUSPICION<\/strong> (1943)
\nA honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
\nDir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
\nBW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – January 18<\/h2>\n

9:30 AM
\nMURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD<\/strong> (1934)
\nA schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
\nDir: George Archainbaud Cast: James Gleason, Edna May Oliver, Bruce Cabot.
\nBW-72 mins, TV-G
\n(Another movie this month which is based on a Stuart Palmer<\/a>\u00a0Hildegarde Withers mystery.)<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nLIFEBOAT<\/strong> (1944)
\nSurvivors of a torpedoed boat take in a German Naval officer from the sub that sank them.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
\nBW-97 mins, TV-14, CC<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – January 19<\/h2>\n

5:00 AM
\nTHE TWO MRS. CARROLLS<\/strong> (1947)
\nA woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
\nBW-99 mins, TV-G, CC
\n(I really enjoyed this movie. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Barbara Stanwyck is in it!)<\/p>\n

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

Monday – January 20<\/h2>\n

5:00 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

Tuesday – January 21<\/h2>\n

6:00 AM
\nSPECIAL INVESTIGATOR<\/strong> (1936)
\nA crooked criminal lawyer discovers his brother has been killed by one of the gangsters he kept out of prison.
\nDir: Louis King Cast: Richard Dix, Margaret Callahan, Erik Rhodes
\nBW-61 mins, TV-G<\/p>\n

1:30 PM
\nBANNERLINE<\/strong> (1951)
\nAn idealistic small-town reporter tries to fight corruption.
\nDir: Don Weis Cast: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore
\nBW-87 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

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

Wednesday – January 22<\/h2>\n

9:45 AM
\nSCARLET STREET<\/strong> (1945)
\nA middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
\nBW-102 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nTHE WRONG MAN<\/strong> (1956)
\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

Thursday – January 23<\/h2>\n

12:15 PM
\nARE YOU LISTENING?<\/strong> (1932)
\nA radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
\nDir: Harry Beaumont Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page
\nBW-73 mins, TV-G<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – January 25<\/h2>\n

5:30 AM
\nTHE THIN MAN GOES HOME<\/strong> (1945)
\nOn a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: Richard Thorpe Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
\nBW-101 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

9:30 AM
\nMURDER ON A HONEYMOON<\/strong> (1935)
\nA schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
\nDir: Lloyd Corrigan Cast: Edna May Oliver , James Gleason , Lola Lane .
\nBW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
\n(I believe only three of Stuart Palmer<\/a>‘s Hildegarde Withers mysteries starring Edna Mae Oliver were made into movies, which means that all three are playing this month on TCM.)<\/p>\n

11:15 PM
\nROLLERCOASTER<\/strong> (1977)
\nA terrorist spreads a climate of fear by attacking amusement parks across the U.S.
\nDir: James Goldstone Cast: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms
\nC-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Monday – January 27<\/h2>\n

2:30 AM
\nSTRANGERS ON A TRAIN<\/strong> (1951)
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\nBW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

2:15 PM
\n<\/span>THE VELVET TOUCH<\/strong> (1948)
\n<\/span>After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
\n<\/span>Dir: John Gage Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
\n<\/span>BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/span><\/p>\n

5:30 PM
\nCAUSE FOR ALARM<\/strong> (1951)
\nA woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
\nDir: Tay Garnett Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
\nBW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – January 29<\/h2>\n

7:00 PM
\nTHE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE<\/strong> (1962)
\nA Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
\nDir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
\nBW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
\n(Another Angela Lansbury movie.)<\/p>\n

9:15 PM
\nTHE HARVEY GIRLS<\/strong>\u00a0(1946)
\nStraitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
\nDir: George Sidney Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger
\nC-101 mins, TV-G, CC
\n[OK, so this is not a mystery by any means, but if you want to see a very young Angela Lansbury (and as I recall – listen to her sing) you won’t want to miss her in this movie playing a “lady of the night”.]<\/p>\n

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Thursday – January 30<\/h2>\n

(Today appears to be author \u00a0S. S. Van Dine’s Detective Philo Vance’s celebratory day!)<\/p>\n

7:15 AM
\nTHE BISHOP MURDER CASE<\/strong> (1930)
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a series of murders inspired by Mother Goose rhymes.
\nDir: Nick Grind\u00e9 Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
\nBW-87 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

8:45 AM
\nTHE KENNEL MURDER CASE<\/strong> (1933)
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
\nBW-73 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

10:00 AM
\nTHE DRAGON MURDER CASE<\/strong> (1934)
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
\nDir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
\nBW-67 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

11:15 AM
\nTHE CASINO MURDER CASE<\/strong> (1935)
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
\nBW-83 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

12:45 PM
\nTHE GARDEN MURDER CASE\u00a0<\/strong>(1936)
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
\nBW-61 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

2:00 PM
\nCALLING PHILO VANCE<\/strong> (1939)
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
\nDir: William Clemens Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
\nBW-62 mins, TV-G, CC<\/p>\n

3:15 PM
\nI LOVE A MYSTERY<\/strong> (1945)
\nA detective tries to protect a man who has predicted his murder will take place in three days.
\nDir: Henry Levin Cast: Jim Bannon, Nina Foch, George Macready
\nBW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

4:30 PM
\nTHE DEVIL’S MASK<\/strong> (1946)
\nA detective tries to identify a shrunken head found in a crashed cargo plane.
\nDir: Henry Levin Cast: Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane
\nBW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

5:45 PM
\nTHE THE UNKNOWN<\/strong> (1946)
\nA woman with amnesia hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
\nDir: Henry Levin Cast: Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Jeff Donnell
\nBW-71 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

9:15 PM
\nWHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?<\/strong> (1962)
\nA crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
\nDir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
\nBW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

11:45 PM
\nDELLA<\/strong> (1964)
\nA wealthy, reclusive woman holds a dark secret in this rare Joan Crawford film.
\nDir: Robert Gist, Cast: Joan Crawford, Paul Burke, Diane Baker
\nC-68 mins, TV-PG, CC<\/p>\n

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Friday – January 31<\/h2>\n

2:45 AM
\nTHE KARATE KILLERS<\/strong> (1967)
\nThe men from U.N.C.L.E. fight off karate-chopping henchmen to track down a secret formula.
\nDir: Barry Shear Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jill Ireland.
\nC-93 mins, TV-PG<\/p>\n

6:30 AM
\nBERSERK!<\/strong> (1967)
\nA lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
\nDir: Jim O’Connolly Cast: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
\nC-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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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

Oh, and here’s a list of some mystery movies that will be airing on the Hallmark Movie channel on the weekend of January 25 and 26, with a few on Monday, January 27<\/strong><\/a>.<\/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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