{"id":31903,"date":"2017-01-25T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=31903"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:56:26","slug":"upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television.\u00a0As usual, I\u2019m posting the Turner Classic Movies<\/strong> channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with\u00a0my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at. This month TCM is celebrating with the “31 Days of Oscars” which is the 22nd Oscar month that TCM has done! That’s right – where does the time fly? (Every movie they are showing has won or been nominated for an Academy Award.) (Since there are only 28 days in February, I’ve posted the Academy Award movies through March 3.)<\/p>\n

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February 2017\u00a0Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):<\/h3>\n

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Wednesday – February 1, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:00 AM
\nADAM’S RIB<\/strong> (1949)
\nHusband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
\nDir:\u00a0George Cukor Cast:\u00a0 Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
\nBW-101 mins, CC
\n*****This is a delightful movie that features one of my favorite actresses – Judy Holliday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1:00 PM
\nAFTER THE THIN MAN<\/strong> (1936)
\nMarried sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
\nDir:\u00a0W. S. Van Dyke Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
\nBW-112 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:00 PM
\nAGATHA<\/strong> (1979)
\nA fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie.
\nDir:\u00a0Michael Apted Cast:\u00a0 Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton.
\nC-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nALL ABOUT EVE<\/strong> (1950)
\nAn ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
\nDir:\u00a0Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast:\u00a0 Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders.
\nBW-138 mins, CC
\n*****Not a mystery, but yikes – what a movie!<\/p>\n

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Thursday – February 2, 2017<\/h3>\n

4:30 AM
\nTHE ASPHALT JUNGLE<\/strong>\u00a0(1950)
\nA gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
\nDir:\u00a0John Huston Cast:\u00a0 Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
\nBW-112 mins, CC<\/p>\n

8:30 AM
\nAUNTIE MAME<\/strong> (1958)
\nAn eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
\nDir:\u00a0Morton DaCosta Cast:\u00a0 Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne.
\nC-143 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
\n*****If you want to have a fun time watching a movie, be sure to watch this non-mystery classic…<\/p>\n

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Friday – February 3, 2017<\/h3>\n

11:15 PM
\nBLOW-UP<\/strong> (1966)
\nA photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
\nDir:\u00a0Michelangelo Antonioni Cast:\u00a0 Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings.
\nC-111 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Saturday – February 4, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:15 AM
\nBOOMERANG<\/strong> (1947)
\nA prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
\nDir: Elia Kazan Cast: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb.
\nBW-88 mins, CC<\/p>\n

10:30 PM
\nBULLITT<\/strong> (1968)
\nWhen mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
\nDir:\u00a0Peter Yates Cast:\u00a0 Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
\nC-114 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Monday – February 6, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:30 PM
\nTHE CORSICAN BROTHERS<\/strong>\u00a0(1941)
\nSiamese twins, separated in infancy, join forces to avenge their parents’ murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Gregory Ratoff Cast:\u00a0 Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff.
\nBW-111 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:30 PM
\nCROSSFIRE<\/strong> (1947)
\nA 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>\n

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Tuesday – February 7, 2017<\/h3>\n

4:45 AM
\nDESIGNING WOMAN<\/strong> (1957)
\nA sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
\nDir:\u00a0Vincente Minnelli Cast:\u00a0 Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray.
\nC-118 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
\n*****Not a mystery. I haven’t seen this in years, but I remember really enjoying this movie…<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – February 8, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:00 PM
\nFOREIGN CORRESPONDENT<\/strong> (1940)
\nAn 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>\n

11:00 PM
\nTHE FRENCH CONNECTION<\/strong>\u00a0(1971)
\nTwo New York narcotics cops set out to bust a French drug smuggling ring.
\nDir:\u00a0William Friedkin Cast:\u00a0 Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider.
\nC-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Thursday – February 9, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:15 AM
\n‘G’ MEN<\/strong> (1935)
\nA mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
\nDir: William Keighley Cast: James Cagney , Margaret Lindsay , Ann Dvorak .
\nBW-86 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:45 AM
\nGASLIGHT<\/strong> (1944)
\nA newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
\nDir:\u00a0George Cukor Cast:\u00a0 Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
\nBW-114 mins, CC<\/p>\n

10:45 AM
\nTHE GAZEBO<\/strong>\u00a0(1960)
\nA suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
\nDir:\u00a0George Marshall Cast:\u00a0 Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner.
\nBW-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Sunday\u00a0– February 12, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:30 AM
\nTHE HEIRESS<\/strong>\u00a0(1949)
\nA plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
\nDir:\u00a0William Wyler Cast:\u00a0 Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson.
\nBW-115 mins, CC
\n*****TCM keeps showing this outstanding movie. Not a mystery.<\/p>\n

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Monday- February 13, 2017<\/h3>\n

4:45 AM
\nICE STATION ZEBRA<\/strong> (1968)
\nA 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

2:00 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:\u00a0Norman Jewison Cast:\u00a0 Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
\nC-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

11:30 PM
\nKEY LARGO<\/strong> (1948)
\nA returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
\nDir:\u00a0John Huston Cast:\u00a0 Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall.
\nBW-100 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Tuesday – February 14, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:30 AM
\nKIND LADY<\/strong> (1951)
\nA con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
\nDir:\u00a0John Sturges Cast:\u00a0 Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury.
\nBW-78 mins, CC
\n*****This is a remake of the 1938 movie, “The Young in Heart<\/strong>“*****<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nTHE LADY EVE<\/strong>\u00a0(1941)
\nA 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***** Between the director and the cast, this movie is a terrific (non-mystery) comedy.<\/p>\n

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Thursday – February 16, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:15 PM
\nTHE MALTESE FALCON<\/strong>\u00a0(1941)
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir:\u00a0John Huston Cast:\u00a0 Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
\nBW-100 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nTHE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH<\/strong>\u00a0(1956)
\nInternational spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie.
\nC-120 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Sunday – February 19, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:30 AM
\nNORTH BY NORTHWEST<\/strong> (1959)
\nAn advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
\nC-136 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Monday – February 20, 2017<\/h3>\n

3:00 PM
\nTHE PINK PANTHER<\/strong>\u00a0(1964)
\nIn the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
\nDir:\u00a0Blake Edwards Cast:\u00a0 David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
\nC-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Tuesday – February 21, 2017<\/h3>\n

11:45 PM
\nREAR WINDOW<\/strong> (1954)
\nA photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
\nC-114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – February 22, 2017<\/h3>\n

11:30 AM
\nTHE RISE AND FALL OF LEGS DIAMOND<\/strong>\u00a0(1960)
\nA small-time thief kills his way to the top of the New York rackets.
\nDir:\u00a0Budd Boetticher Cast:\u00a0 Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart.
\nBW-101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Thursday – February 23, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:00 PM
\nTHE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION<\/strong>\u00a0(1976)
\nSherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
\nDir:\u00a0Herbert Ross Cast:\u00a0 Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall.
\nC-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Saturday\u00a0– February 25, 2017<\/h3>\n

3:00 PM
\nSTRANGERS ON A TRAIN<\/strong> (1951)
\nA 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

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Sunday\u00a0– February 26, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:00 PM
\nTHE THIN MAN<\/strong>\u00a0(1934)
\nA husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
\nDir:\u00a0W. S. Van Dyke Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
\nBW-91 mins, CC<\/p>\n

8:45 PM
\nTHE\u00a0THIRD MAN\u00a0<\/strong>(1949)
\nA man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
\nDir:\u00a0Carol Reed Cast:\u00a0 Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles.
\nBW-104 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – March 1, 2017<\/h3>\n

3:30 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, CC
\n*****Really good legal drama.<\/p>\n

5:30 AM
\nTWILIGHT OF HONOR<\/strong> (1963)
\nA struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
\nDir: Boris Sagal Cast: Richard Chamberlain , Joey Heatherton , Nick Adams .
\nBW-104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

9:00 PM
\nVERTIGO<\/strong> (1958)
\nA detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart , Kim Novak , Barbara Bel Geddes.
\nC-128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Thursday – March 2, 2017<\/h3>\n

6:45 AM
\nWAIT UNTIL DARK<\/strong> (1967)
\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
\nDir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Alan Arkin , Richard Crenna .
\nC-108 mins, CC,<\/p>\n

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Friday – March 3, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:15 AM
\nTHE YOUNG IN HEART <\/strong>(1938)
\nA family of con artists saves the life of a wealthy old woman and plots to fleece her.
\nDir: Richard Wallace Cast: Minnie Dupree , Paulette Goddard , Richard Carlson .
\nBW-91 mins, CC
\n*****On Tuesday (February 14, 2017) they showed the remake of this non-mystery movie, Kind Lady<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in January, 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 January\u00a0television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n

Upcoming\u00a0Television Mystery Movies for January 2017<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And of course, here is the page on my site with plenty\u00a0of entries about\u00a0movies and television shows you may enjoy:<\/p>\n

Cozy Mystery List TV and \u00a0Movie Section<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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