There’s no doubt that it’s the Halloween month! The Turner Classic Movies channel is pulling out all of the old Halloween-type movies: monsters galore! Also, I thought perhaps William Shakespeare was born in October… TCM is devoting a day to Shakespearean movies. I am limiting this list to just the mystery movies I found on TCM’s roster.<\/p>\n
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\nEVER IN MY HEART (1933)<\/strong>
\nDuring World War I, a woman suspects her husband of being a German spy.
\nDir: Archie Mayo Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy.
\nBW- 68 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nUNION DEPOT (1932)<\/strong>
\nAn out-of-luck con artist discovers a suitcase full of money at a train station.
\nDir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee.
\nBW- 67 mins<\/p>\nFriday – October 4<\/h3>\n
\nTHE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1977)<\/strong>
\nA small Texas town is terrorized by a hooded serial killer.
\nDir: Charles B Pierce Cast: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells.
\nC- 90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSaturday – October 5<\/h3>\n
\nBULLETS FOR O’HARA (1941)<\/strong>
\nA gangster’s wife helps the FBI nail her husband.
\nDir: William K. Howard Cast: Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn.
\nBW- 50 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE PINK PANTHER (1964)<\/strong>
\nIn the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
\nC- 115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nTHE 39 STEPS (1935)<\/strong>
\nA man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nM (1951)<\/strong>
\nWhen the police hunt for a child killer cramps their style, the criminal underworld tries to track him down.
\nDir: Joseph Losey Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Luther Adler.
\nBW- 88 mins<\/p>\n
\nTRAPPED (1949)<\/strong>
\nDir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – October 6<\/h3>\n
\nTRAPPED (1949)<\/strong>
\nDir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – October 7<\/h3>\n
\nTHE VALIANT (1929)<\/strong>
\nA man turns himself in for a murder.
\nDir: William K. Howard Cast: Paul Muni, John Mack Brown, Edith Yorke.
\nBW- 61 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – October 8<\/h3>\n
\nHI, NELLIE! (1934)<\/strong>
\nA crusading newspaper editor keeps digging into corruption, even when he’s forced to write advice to the lovelorn.
\nDir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks.
\nBW- 75 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – October 9<\/h3>\n
\nTHE MIGHTY QUINN (1989)<\/strong>
\nA Caribbean police officer must decide if a childhood friend is a crook or an innocent victim.
\nDir: Carl Schenkel Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers.
\nC- 99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nHOME IN OKLAHOMA (1946)<\/strong>
\nA small-town editor and a big-city reporter investigate a wealthy rancher’s mysterious death.
\nDir: William Witney Cast: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George “Gabby” Hayes.
\nBW- 72 mins<\/p>\nFriday – October 11<\/h3>\n
\nA PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious young man wins an heiress’ heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy.
\nDir: George Stevens Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters.
\nBW- 122 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – October 12<\/h3>\n
\nA SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)<\/strong>
\nInspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
\nC- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nTHE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980)<\/strong>
\nA police detective nearing retirement tries to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore.
\nC- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – October 13<\/h3>\n
\nLAURA (1944)<\/strong>
\nA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
\nDir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – October 14<\/h3>\n
\nYELLOW DUST (1936)<\/strong>
\nAfter he’s accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
\nDir: Wallace Fox Cast: Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olson.
\nBW- 69 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – October 15<\/h3>\n
\nEVELYN PRENTICE (1934)<\/strong>
\nA criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
\nDir: William K. Howard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel.
\nBW- 79 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941)<\/strong>
\nHigh society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
\nDir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC
\n*****The Thin Man movies are based on Dashiell Hammett’s mystery novels.*****<\/p>\n
\nTHE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945)<\/strong>
\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- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – October 16<\/h3>\n
\nSTAR WITNESS (1931)<\/strong>
\nAn old man who witnessed a crime is threatened by gangsters.
\nDir: William A. Wellman Cast: Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell.
\nBW- 68 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDETOUR (1945)<\/strong>
\nA hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake.
\nBW- 68 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE BIG STEAL (1949)<\/strong>
\nSeduction and murder follow the theft of an Army payroll.
\nDir: Don Siegel Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix.
\nBW- 71 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nKID GLOVE KILLER (1942)<\/strong>
\nA police scientist investigates the mayor’s murder.
\nDir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – October 17<\/h3>\n
\nTHE NARROW MARGIN (1952)<\/strong>
\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, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940)<\/strong>
\nA newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
\nDir: Boris Ingster Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet.
\nBW- 64 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)<\/strong>
\nA police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
\nDir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman.
\nBW- 68 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE UNINVITED (1944)<\/strong>
\nA brother and sister buy a house with a ghostly secret.
\nDir: Lewis Allen Cast: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE HAUNTING (1963)<\/strong>
\nA team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
\nDir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSaturday – October 19<\/h3>\n
\nTHE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER (1975)<\/strong>
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell.
\nBW- 116 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942)<\/strong>
\nA hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.
\nDir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar.
\nBW- 81 mins<\/p>\nSunday – October 20<\/h3>\n
\nGAMBIT (1967)<\/strong>
\nA man dreams of the perfect robbery but can’t seem to pull it off.
\nDir: Ronald Neame Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom.
\nC- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nTHIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942)<\/strong>
\nA hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.
\nDir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar.
\nBW- 81 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE NANNY (1965)<\/strong>
\nA disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
\nDir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nMonday – October 21<\/h3>\n
\nA STOLEN LIFE (1946)<\/strong>
\nA twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
\nDir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark.
\nBW- 107 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE STRANGER (1946)<\/strong>
\nA small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
\nDir: Orson Welles Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – October 24<\/h3>\n
\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: Edward Buzzell Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd.
\nBW- 75 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nWHISTLING IN DIXIE (1942)<\/strong>
\nA radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
\nDir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – October 25<\/h3>\n
\nMOUNTAIN JUSTICE (1937)<\/strong>
\nA young lawyer defends a hillbilly girl who killed her father in self defense.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Guy Kibbee.
\nBW- 83 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – October 26<\/h3>\n
\nTHE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (1976)<\/strong>
\nAfter driving his boss to insanity, Inspector Clouseau has to stop him from destroying the world.
\nDir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely.
\nC- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nGASLIGHT (1944)<\/strong>
\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, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)<\/strong>
\nClassic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW- 109 mins, CC
\n*****Based on Wilkie Collins’s novel.*****<\/p>\n
\nTHE HAUNTING (1963)<\/strong>
\nA team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
\nDir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSunday – October 27<\/h3>\n
\nTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)<\/strong>
\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, CC
\n*****Based on Oscar Wilde’s novel.*****<\/p>\n
\nFORCE OF EVIL (1948)<\/strong>
\nA crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.
\nDir: Abraham Polonsky Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor.
\nBW- 79 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nA KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)<\/strong>
\nA college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
\nDir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
\nC- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nCAPE FEAR (1962)<\/strong>
\nAn ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
\nDir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
\nBW- 106 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nWHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)<\/strong>
\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, CC<\/p>\n
\nNIAGARA (1953)<\/strong>
\nHoneymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
\nDir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
\nC- 89 mins, CC<\/p>\nTuesday – October 29<\/h3>\n
\nDOUBLE DEAL (1950)<\/strong>
\nAn oil engineer comes into a fortune when his boss is murdered.
\nDir: Abby Berlin Cast: Marie Windsor, Richard Denning, Taylor Holmes.
\nBW- 65 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nNOCTURNE (1946)<\/strong>
\nA police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCRY WOLF (1947)<\/strong>
\nA woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks.
\nBW- 84 mins, CC,<\/p>\n
\nBORN TO KILL (1947)<\/strong>
\nA murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
\nDir: Robert Wise Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
\nBW- 92 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDEAD RINGER (1964)<\/strong>
\nA woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
\nDir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford.
\nBW- 116 mins, CC
\n*****Not to be confused with Bette Davis in the above “A Stolen Life” with Glenn Ford.*****<\/p>\nWednesday – October 30<\/h3>\n
\nSMART BLONDE (1936)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
\nDir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw.
\nBW- 59 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nNANCY DREW…DETECTIVE (1938)<\/strong>
\nA teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman’s disappearance.
\nDir: William Clemens Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson.
\nBW- 66 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE SAINT IN NEW YORK (1938)<\/strong>
\nThe Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
\nDir: Ben Holmes Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann. BW- 72 mins, CC
\n*****Based on Leslie Charteris’s The Saint Mystery Series.*****<\/p>\n
\nTHE PENGUIN POOL MURDER\u00a0(1932)<\/strong>
\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, CC
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****<\/p>\n
\nMURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935)<\/strong>
\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, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)<\/strong>
\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, CC
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine’s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****<\/p>\n
\nTHE GAY FALCON (1942)<\/strong>
\nA society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
\nDir: Irving Reis Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins.
\nBW- 67 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945)<\/strong>
\nSherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
\nDir: Roy William Neill Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke.
\nBW- 67 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – October 31<\/h3>\n
\nTHE BAT (1959)<\/strong>
\nA female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
\nDir: Crane Wilbur Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nPIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961)<\/strong>
\nA young man investigates his sister’s death in a mysterious castle.
\nDir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele.
\nC- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n