It’s time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies!<\/p>\n
As usual, I\u2019m posting the Turner Classic Movies<\/strong> channel mysteries that I think are definitely worth looking at (in addition to\u00a0some others from my favorite actors and actresses\u2026) Tuesday the 29th will be particularly noteworthy, as it will feature a marathon of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies – a must-see for any true fan of classic cinema, mystery movies >>> or both!<\/p>\n The end of the month will also feature the beginnings of this year’s Christmas movies – you should be able to pick them out starting on the 30th!<\/p>\n I’m not posting any Hallmark mystery movies because they will be showing holiday movies during the month, at least as far into the future as they let us see.<\/p>\n ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:15 AM 12:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:30 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM 12:00 PM 1:45 PM 3:15 PM 5:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:45 AM 9:15 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:45 AM 3:15 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 PM 8:15 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:00 PM 9:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:45 AM 11:45 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 12:15 PM 1:45 PM 7:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:30 AM 8:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 PM 1:30 PM 3:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:00 AM 8:45 AM 5:15 PM 7:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:45 PM 9:00 PM 11:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:00 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 8:00 AM 11:30 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:15 AM 1:45 PM 3:30 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n *****Alfred Hitchcock marathon day!*****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 6:15 AM 7:45 AM 9:30 AM 11:30 AM 1:15 PM 3:15 PM 5:00 PM 10:30 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 6:30 AM 12:45 PM 2:00 PM 5:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****\u00a0***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Normally this is where I would discuss the Hallmark\u00a0mystery movies that are coming out in the upcoming month… but\u00a0I’ve already discussed most of them in this recent post<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in November, be sure\u00a0to leave a comment below!<\/p>\n In case you\u2019re interested in seeing the rest of this month\u2019s television mystery movies, here\u2019s the October\u00a02016 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\nNovember\u00a02016\u00a0Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):<\/h3>\n
Tuesday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a01, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nTWENTY PLUS TWO<\/strong> (1961)
\nWhen a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Joseph M. Newman Cast:\u00a0 David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill.
\nBW-103 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTORM WARNING<\/strong> (1951)
\nA model on vacation discovers that her sister’s husband is a murderous Ku Klux Klansman.
\nDir:\u00a0Stuart Heisler Cast:\u00a0 Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day.
\nBW-93 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday\u00a0\u2013 November 2, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nTHE YOUNG SAVAGES<\/strong>\u00a0(1961)
\nAn assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he’s prosecuting for murder is his son.
\nDir:\u00a0John Frankenheimer Cast:\u00a0 Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters.
\nBW-103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nThursday\u00a0\u2013 November 3, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nCONSPIRATOR (1949)
\n<\/strong>A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
\nDir:\u00a0Victor Saville Cast:\u00a0 Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng.
\nBW-87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nJAMAICA INN (1939)
\n<\/strong>A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie.
\nBW-100 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH\u00a0(1934)
\n<\/strong>A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
\nBW-75 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nEXECUTIVE ACTION (1973)
\n<\/strong>Rogue intelligence agents, politicians, greedy capitalists, and assassins plot and carry out an assassination.
\nDir:\u00a0David Miller Cast:\u00a0 Burt Lancaster, Will Geer, Gilbert Green.
\nC-91 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nNIGHT MOVES (1975)
\n<\/strong>An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
\nDir:\u00a0Arthur Penn Cast:\u00a0 Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark.
\nC-100 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday\u00a0\u2013 November 5, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nTHE CROOKED WAY (1949)
\n<\/strong>A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
\nDir:\u00a0Robert Florey Cast:\u00a0 John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew.
\nBW-86 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBADLANDS (1973)
\n<\/strong>A young tough guy and his teen-aged girlfriend take off on a killing spree.
\nDir:\u00a0Terrence Malick Cast:\u00a0 Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates.
\nC-94 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday\u00a0\u2013 November 6, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nHE KNOWS YOU’RE ALONE (1980)
\n<\/strong>A killer stalks a brides-to-be.
\nDir:\u00a0Armand Mastroianni Cast:\u00a0 Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Caitlin O’Heaney.
\nC-94 mins<\/p>\n
\nD.O.A. (1950)
\n<\/strong>The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
\nDir:\u00a0Rudolph Mat\u00e9 Cast:\u00a0 Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
\nBW-84 mins, CC<\/p>\nTuesday\u00a0\u2013 November 8, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nCLOUDS OVER EUROPE (1939)
\n<\/strong>When enemy agents steal plans for an experimental plane, the test pilot fights to clear his name.
\nDir:\u00a0Tim Whelan Cast:\u00a0 Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson.
\nBW-79 mins<\/p>\n
\nSABOTEUR (1942)
\n<\/strong>A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger.
\nBW-109 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a010, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nOUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967)
\n<\/strong>Afraid of being separated, a family of children keep their mother’s death a secret.
\nDir:\u00a0Jack Clayton Cast:\u00a0 Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin.
\nBW-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nTHE INNOCENTS (1961)
\n<\/strong>A governess convinces herself the children in her charge are haunted.
\nDir:\u00a0Jack Clayton Cast:\u00a0 Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins.
\nBW-99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nFriday\u00a0\u2013 November 11, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nTHE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)
\n<\/strong>A big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
\nDir:\u00a0Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast:\u00a0 Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong.
\nBW-63 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nFOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
\n<\/strong>An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW-121 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a012, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nA CRY IN THE NIGHT (1956)
\n<\/strong>A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
\nDir:\u00a0Frank Tuttle Cast:\u00a0 Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood.
\nBW-75 mins<\/p>\n
\nHE RAN ALL THE WAY (1951)
\n<\/strong>A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
\nDir:\u00a0John Berry Cast:\u00a0 John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford.
\nBW-78 mins<\/p>\n
\nMURDER AT THE GALLOP (1963)
\n<\/strong>Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
\nDir:\u00a0George Pollock Cast:\u00a0 Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson.
\nBW-81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
\n*****If you haven’t seen this movie yet, be prepared to be surprised by the Miss Marple portrayal!*****<\/p>\n
\nBLITHE SPIRIT (1945)
\n<\/strong>A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
\nDir:\u00a0David Lean Cast:\u00a0 Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond.
\nC-97 mins<\/p>\nSunday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a013, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nMELINDA (1972)
\n<\/strong>A black disc jockey sets out to avenge his girlfriend’s murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Hugh A. Robertson Cast:\u00a0 Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee.
\nC-109 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE NARROW MARGIN (1952)
\n<\/strong>A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
\nDir:\u00a0Richard Fleischer Cast:\u00a0 Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
\nBW-72 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a016, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nWHISTLING IN DIXIE (1942)
\n<\/strong>A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
\nDir:\u00a0S. Sylvan Simon Cast:\u00a0 Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft.
\nBW-74 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nWHISTLING IN BROOKLYN (1943)
\n<\/strong>A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
\nDir:\u00a0S. Sylvan Simon Cast:\u00a0 Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers.
\nBW-87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)
\n<\/strong>An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Anthony Mann Cast:\u00a0 Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
\nBW-66 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a017, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nA FINE PAIR (1969)
\n<\/strong>A detective gets involved with a beautiful jewel thief.
\nDir:\u00a0Francesco Maselli Cast:\u00a0 Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian.
\nC-90 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nICE STATION ZEBRA (1968)
\n<\/strong>A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
\nDir:\u00a0John Sturges Cast:\u00a0 Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan.
\nC-152 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964)
\n<\/strong>When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
\nDir:\u00a0Norman Jewison Cast:\u00a0 Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
\nC-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
\n*****Not a mystery. A delightful Rock Hudson\/Doris Day movie…*****<\/p>\n
\nTHE LADY EVE (1941)
\n<\/strong>A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
\nDir:\u00a0Preston Sturges Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
\nBW-94 mins, CC
\n*****Not a mystery. This movie has me laughing every time I see it.*****<\/p>\nFriday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a018, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nGAMBLING LADY (1934)
\n<\/strong>Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
\nDir:\u00a0Archie Mayo Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien.
\nBW-66 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a019, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nTIME AFTER TIME (1979)
\n<\/strong>When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, author H.G. Wells travels to modern-day San Francisco to track him down.
\nDir:\u00a0Nicholas Meyer Cast:\u00a0 Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen.
\nC-112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nFUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966)
\n<\/strong>The British send their top secret agent to help a Soviet intelligence officer defect.
\nDir:\u00a0Guy Hamilton Cast:\u00a0 Michael Caine, Eva Renzi, Paul Hubschmid.
\nC-102 mins<\/p>\n
\nBILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (1967)
\n<\/strong>A retired spy gets mixed up with plans to overthrow Communism using a new supercomputer.
\nDir:\u00a0Ken Russell Cast:\u00a0 Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley.
\nC-108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nMonday\u00a0\u2013 November 21, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nSHIP AHOY (1942)
\n<\/strong>A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines.
\nDir:\u00a0Edward Buzzell Cast:\u00a0 Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr.
\nBW-95 mins, CC<\/p>\nTuesday\u00a0\u2013 November 22, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nGRAND CENTRAL MURDER (1942)
\n<\/strong>A detective investigates an actress’s murder in a train car.
\nDir:\u00a0S. Sylvan Simon Cast:\u00a0 Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker.
\nBW-74 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nKILLER MCCOY (1947)
\n<\/strong>A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Roy Rowland Cast:\u00a0 Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth.
\nBW-104 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDIAL 1119 (1950)
\n<\/strong>A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
\nDir:\u00a0Gerald Mayer Cast:\u00a0 Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King.
\nBW-75 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday\u00a0\u2013 November\u00a027, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nTHE BIG SLEEP (1946)
\n<\/strong>Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
\nDir:\u00a0Howard Hawks Cast:\u00a0 Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
\nBW-114 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday\u00a0\u2013 November 28, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nROUGHSHOD (1949)
\n<\/strong>A rancher tries to save his fellow stagecoach passengers from a murderous enemy.
\nDir:\u00a0Mark Robson Cast:\u00a0 Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr..
\nBW-88 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCHANDLER (1971)
\n<\/strong>A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
\nDir:\u00a0Paul Magwood Cast:\u00a0 Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier.
\nC-86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nCROSSFIRE (1947)
\n<\/strong>A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
\nDir:\u00a0Edward Dmytryk Cast:\u00a0 Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
\nBW-86 mins, CC<\/p>\nTuesday\u00a0\u2013 November 29, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nYOUNG AND INNOCENT (1937)
\n<\/strong>A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont.
\nBW-83 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
\n<\/strong>A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
\nBW-75 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSUSPICION (1941)
\n<\/strong>A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
\nBW-99 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTAGE FRIGHT (1950)
\n<\/strong>An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
\nBW-110 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nI CONFESS (1953)
\n<\/strong>A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.
\nBW-95 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WRONG MAN (1956)
\n<\/strong>A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
\nBW-105 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
\n<\/strong>A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
\nBW-101 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
\n<\/strong>A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
\nC-105 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE BIG CLOCK (1948)
\n<\/strong>A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0John Farrow Cast:\u00a0 Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
\nBW-95 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday\u00a0\u2013 November 30, 2016<\/h3>\n
\nHOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
\n<\/strong>A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
\nDir:\u00a0Don Hartman Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
\nBW-87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nIT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)
\n<\/strong>Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
\nDir:\u00a0Roy Del Ruth Cast:\u00a0 Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles.
\nBW-115 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nA CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)
\n<\/strong>In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
\nDir:\u00a0Edwin L. Marin Cast:\u00a0 Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
\nBW-69 mins, CC,<\/p>\n
\nCHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
\n<\/strong>A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
\nDir:\u00a0Peter Godfrey Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW-101 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
\n<\/strong>Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
\nDir:\u00a0Ernst Lubitsch Cast:\u00a0 Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
\nBW-99 mins, CC<\/p>\n