{"id":32268,"date":"2017-03-25T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=32268"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:04:01","slug":"upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 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.<\/p>\n

This April, the biggest TCM mystery news will be a Torchy Blaine marathon on April 21st. If you’re a fan of 1930s reporter Torchy Blaine, be sure to check it out!<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Saturday – April 1, 2017<\/h3>\n

12:45 PM
\nVERTIGO (1958)<\/strong>
\nA detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
\nC-128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – April 2, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM
\nTHE BLUE GARDENIA (1953)<\/strong>
\nA telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
\nDir:\u00a0Fritz Lang Cast:\u00a0 Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern.
\nBW-88 mins, CC<\/p>\n

11:00 AM
\nCALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948)<\/strong>
\nA Chicago reporter re-opens a ten year old murder case.
\nDir:\u00a0Henry Hathaway Cast:\u00a0 James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb.
\nBW-111 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:15 PM
\nSONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
\nDir:\u00a0Edward Buzzell Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn.
\nBW-87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nSHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)<\/strong>
\nA young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey.
\nBW-108 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Wednesday – April 5, 2017<\/h3>\n

2:30 AM
\nJOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)<\/strong>
\nBefore she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
\nDir:\u00a0William Keighley Cast:\u00a0 Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
\nBW-65 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:30 AM
\nDANGEROUS CORNER (1935)<\/strong>
\nFriends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
\nDir:\u00a0Phil Rosen Cast:\u00a0 Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel, Melvyn Douglas.
\nBW-66 mins<\/p>\n

11:00 AM
\nFAST COMPANY (1938)<\/strong>
\nMarried book-dealers Joel and Gerda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
\nDir:\u00a0Edward Buzzell Cast:\u00a0 Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd.
\nBW-75 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Thursday – April 6, 2017<\/h3>\n

3:00 PM
\nAND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945)<\/strong>
\nGuests at a remote island mansion realize a crazed killer is stalking them.
\nDir:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Clair Cast:\u00a0 Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward.
\nBW-97 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Friday – April 7, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nNINE LIVES ARE NOT ENOUGH (1941)<\/strong>
\nA reporter tries to solve a series of boardinghouse murders.
\nDir:\u00a0A. Edward Sutherland Cast:\u00a0 Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason.
\nBW-63 mins<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nLOVE LETTERS (1945)<\/strong>
\nA soldier falls for the woman who may have killed his best friend.
\nDir:\u00a0William Dieterle Cast:\u00a0 Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards.
\nBW-101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – April 8, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nWHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941)<\/strong>
\nA radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
\nDir:\u00a0S. Sylvan Simon Cast:\u00a0 Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford.
\nBW-78 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:45 PM
\nBLACK WIDOW (1954)<\/strong>
\nThe murder of a scheming female writer throws a group of theatrical friends into turmoil.
\nDir:\u00a0Nunnally Johnson Cast:\u00a0 Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney.
\nC-95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – April 9, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:30 AM
\nTHE ZODIAC KILLER (1971)<\/strong>
\nSan Francisco police try to track down a vicious serial killer.
\nDir:\u00a0Tom Hanson Cast:\u00a0 Hal Reed, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch.
\nC-86 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 AM
\nSCARLET STREET (1945)<\/strong>
\nA middle aged wouldbe painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir:\u00a0Fritz Lang Cast:\u00a0 Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea.
\nBW-102 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday – April 11, 2017<\/h3>\n

3:30 AM
\nDEAD OF NIGHT (1945)<\/strong>
\nGuests at a country estate share stories of the supernatural.
\nDir:\u00a0Charles Crichton Cast:\u00a0 Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Hartley Power.
\nBW-103 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nTHE LADY EVE (1941)<\/strong>
\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*****I absolutely love this very funny movie! Not a mystery.*****<\/p>\n

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

Wednesday – April 12, 2017<\/h3>\n

12:45 AM
\nWOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)<\/strong>
\nOpposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter.
\nDir:\u00a0George Stevens Cast:\u00a0 Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
\nBW-114 mins, CC
\n*****Tracy and Hepburn are delightful in this non mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\n

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

Tuesday – April 18, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nM (1931)<\/strong>
\nThe mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
\nDir:\u00a0Fritz Lang Cast:\u00a0 Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke.
\nBW-110 mins<\/p>\n

7:00 AM
\nTHE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)<\/strong>
\nA bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
\nDir:\u00a0Charles Laughton Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
\nBW-93 mins, CC
\n*****TCM has played this movie quite a bit recently, perhaps because it is so good…*****<\/p>\n

12:30 PM
\nGASLIGHT (1944)<\/strong>
\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

2:30 PM
\nWHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)<\/strong>
\nA crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
\nDir:\u00a0Robert Aldrich Cast:\u00a0 Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
\nBW-134 mins, CC
\n*****For those of you watching the FX channel Feud <\/em>miniseries, you’ll be able to see just how wonderful Susan Sarandon’s and Jessica Lange’s portrayals are of these two dynamic actresses!*****<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nSHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)<\/strong>
\nA reporter fakes insanity to crack a murder committed in an asylum.
\nDir:\u00a0Samuel Fuller Cast:\u00a0 Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans.
\nC-101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Wednesday – April 19, 2017<\/h3>\n

6:45 AM
\nTHE <\/strong>MURDER OF DR. HARRIGAN (1936)<\/strong>
\nA doctor investigates the murder of a colleague involved in experimental\u00a0surgery.
\nDir:\u00a0Frank McDonald Cast:\u00a0 Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge.
\nBW-67 mins<\/p>\n

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

Friday – April 21, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:00 AM
\nREAR WINDOW (1954)<\/strong>
\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-112 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:15 AM
\nTHE WINDOW (1949)<\/strong>
\nA boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
\nDir:\u00a0Ted Tetzlaff Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
\nBW-73 mins, CC<\/p>\n

Torchy Blane movies:<\/strong>
\n5:00 AM
\nSMART BLONDE (1936)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
\nDir:\u00a0Frank McDonald Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw.
\nBW-59 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:15 AM
\nFLY AWAY BABY (1937)<\/strong>
\nReporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
\nDir:\u00a0Frank McDonald Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver.
\nBW-60 mins<\/p>\n

7:30 AM
\nTHE ADVENTUROUS BLONDE (1937)<\/strong>
\nReporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
\nDir:\u00a0Frank MacDonald Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel.
\nBW-61 mins<\/p>\n

8:45 AM
\nBLONDES AT WORK (1938)<\/strong>
\nEven a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
\nDir:\u00a0Frank McDonald Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW-64 mins<\/p>\n

10:00 AM
\nTORCHY BLANE IN PANAMA (1938)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious newspaper woman traces bank robbers to an ocean liner.
\nDir:\u00a0William Clemens Cast:\u00a0 Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW-59 mins<\/p>\n

11:15 AM
\nTORCHY GETS HER MAN (1938)<\/strong>
\nFemale reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
\nDir:\u00a0William Beaudine Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW-63 mins<\/p>\n

12:30 PM
\nTORCHY BLANE IN CHINATOWN (1938)<\/strong>
\nA daring lady reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
\nDir:\u00a0William Beaudine Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW-58 mins, CC<\/p>\n

1:30 PM
\nTORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)<\/strong>
\nAfter digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
\nDir:\u00a0Ray McCarey Cast:\u00a0 Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW-60 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Saturday – April 22, 2017<\/h3>\n

4:45 PM
\nFAMILY PLOT (1976)<\/strong>
\nA phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris.
\nC-120 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Sunday – April 23, 2017<\/h3>\n

4:45 PM
\nWITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)<\/strong>
\nA British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0Billy Wilder Cast:\u00a0 Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
\nBW-116 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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

Monday – April 24, 2017<\/h3>\n

8:00 AM
\nTHE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)<\/strong>
\nA corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
\nDir:\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick.
\nC-99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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

Wednesday – April 26, 2017<\/h3>\n

10:15 AM
\nTHE NAKED CITY (1948)<\/strong>
\nA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
\nDir:\u00a0Jules Dassin Cast:\u00a0 Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
\nBW-96 mins, CC<\/p>\n

2:15 PM
\nALL ABOUT EVE (1950)<\/strong>
\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*****I love, love, love this movie! Not a mystery.*****<\/p>\n

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

Thursday – April 27, 2017<\/h3>\n

12:45 AM
\nIN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)<\/strong>
\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

8:30 AM
\nTHE MALTESE FALCON (1931)<\/strong>
\nIn the first screen version of The Maltese Falcon, detective Sam Spade investigates the theft of a priceless statue.
\nDir:\u00a0Roy Del Ruth Cast:\u00a0 Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges.
\nBW-81 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:45 PM
\nTHE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD (1933)<\/strong>
\nFive men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
\nDir:\u00a0J. Walter Ruben Cast:\u00a0 Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise.
\nBW-76 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:15 PM
\nHAT, COAT AND GLOVE (1934)<\/strong>
\nA lawyer gets mixed up in a net of intrigue when he witnesses a suicide.
\nDir:\u00a0Worthington Miner Cast:\u00a0 Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Robbins, John Beal.
\nBW-65 mins, CC
\n***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Friday – April 28, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:15 AM
\nBELLS ARE RINGING (1960)<\/strong>
\nAn answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients’ lives.
\nDir:\u00a0Vincente Minnelli Cast:\u00a0 Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark.
\nC-126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
\n*****You can’t go wrong watching any movie with Judy Holliday<\/a>. Not a mystery.*****<\/p>\n

11:00 PM
\nABOUT MRS. LESLIE (1954)<\/strong>
\nAn aging woman recalls the affair that consumed her life.
\nDir:\u00a0Daniel Mann Cast:\u00a0 Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar.
\nBW-104 mins, CC
\n*****If you are only familiar with Shirley Booth as Hazel from the old TV series, you’ll love seeing what a really great actress she was in this non mystery movie.*****<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****\u00a0***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

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

Upcoming\u00a0Television Mystery Movies for March\u00a02017<\/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

P.S. I just posted the premieres of the April 2017 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel’s Cozy Mystery movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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