Great news for those of us who enjoy Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley – he’s back with the noir mysteries he selects for us to watch. I know Turner Classic Movies likes to show Oscar-winning movies during every February, but (to me!) it seems a shame they can’t spare just four hours every week during February for those of us who are totally addicted to these mystery movies – as well as Mr. Muller’s terrific introductions and wrap-ups at the beginning\/end of each film noir he presents. Oh well, at least February is the shortest month of the year…<\/p>\n
Without further ado, here are the mystery movies Turner Classic<\/p>\n
Movies channel will be showing during March 2020:<\/p>\n
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\nTHE THIN MAN (1934)<\/strong>
\nA husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
\nBW- 91 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\n‘G’ MEN (1935)<\/strong>
\nA mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
\nDir: William Keighley Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann
\nDvorak.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\n12 ANGRY MEN (1957)<\/strong>
\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<\/p>\nMonday – March 2nd<\/h3>\n
\nA boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
\nDir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
\nBW- 73 mins, CC
\n*****Wow! It’s Della Street!*****<\/p>\n
\nSTRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)<\/strong>
\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, CC<\/p>\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>\nTuesday – March 3rd<\/h3>\n
\nTHE BEAST OF THE CITY (1932)<\/strong>
\nA police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
\nDir: Charles Brabin Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – March 4th<\/h3>\n
\nSATAN MET A LADY (1936)
\n<\/strong>In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
\nDir: William Dieterle Cast: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDECEPTION (1946)<\/strong>
\nA woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
\nDir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC
\n*****I have seen this movie a few times over the years and can’t quite remember if it truly qualifies as a mystery…*****<\/p>\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 LETTER (1940)<\/strong>
\nA woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
\nDir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
\nBW- 95 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
\nTHE NANNY (1965)
\n<\/strong>A 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>\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<\/p>\nThursday – March 5th<\/h3>\n
\nTHE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)<\/strong>
\nYears after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
\nDir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nOUT OF THE PAST (1947)<\/strong>
\nA private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – March 6th<\/h3>\n
\nNORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)<\/strong>
\nAn advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
\nC- 136 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBORN YESTERDAY (1950)<\/strong>
\nA newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
\nDir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
\nBW- 102 mins, CC
\n*****Not a mystery, but Judy Holliday is at her best!*****<\/p>\nSaturday – March 7th<\/h3>\n
\nFOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)<\/strong>
\nAn American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW- 121 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTEN LITTLE INDIANS (1966)<\/strong>
\nParty guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
\nDir: George Pollock Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian.
\nC- 90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
\n***An adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel.*****<\/p>\n
\nRIDE THE PINK HORSE (1947)<\/strong>
\nA con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
\nDir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde.
\nBW- 101 mins<\/p>\nSunday – March 8th<\/h3>\n
\nMURDER, SHE SAID (1961)<\/strong>
\nWhen nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
\nDir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC
\n*****A rather different type of adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s novel.*****<\/p>\n
\nMURDER MOST FOUL (1964)<\/strong>
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
\nDir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell.
\nBW- 91 mins, CC
\n*****Another rather different type of adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s novel.*****<\/p>\n
\nRIDE THE PINK HORSE (1947)<\/strong>
\nA con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
\nDir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde.
\nBW- 101 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – March 11th<\/h3>\n
\nTHIRTEEN WOMEN (1932)<\/strong>
\nA mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
\nDir: George Archainbaud Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond.
\nC- 60 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – March 13th<\/h3>\n
\nBULLDOG DRUMMOND COMES BACK (1937)<\/strong>
\nAn old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fianc\u00e9e.
\nDir: Louis King Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell.
\nBW- 59 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTRANGE JUSTICE (1932)<\/strong>
\nA crooked banker and his assistant devise a scheme to frame an ex-con for their crime.
\nDir: Victor Schertzinger Cast: Marian Marsh, Reginald Denny, Richard Bennett.
\nBW- 64 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nLARCENY, INC. (1942)<\/strong>
\nAn ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
\nDir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – March 14th<\/h3>\n
\nSECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE (1932)<\/strong>
\nStrange crimes committed by a hypnotized woman are solved by a French detective.
\nDir: Edward Sutherland Cast: Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan.
\nBW- 58 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)<\/strong>
\nTwo Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency.
\nDir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr..
\nC- 138 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nI WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)<\/strong>
\nA celebrity promoter is accused of murdering one of his clients.
\nDir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – March 15th<\/h3>\n
\nI WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)<\/strong>
\nA celebrity promoter is accused of murdering one of his clients.
\nDir: Bruce Humberstone Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – March 20th<\/h3>\n
\nA CRIMINAL IS BORN (1938)<\/strong>
\nThis short film tells the story of how a young man starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
\nDir: Leslie Fenton Cast: Dave Durand, Norman Phillips Jr., Dorothy Vaughan.
\nBW- 20 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1969)<\/strong>
\nA lonely nurse and her gigolo lover murder a string of widows.
\nDir: Leonard Kastle Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony LoBianco, Mary Jane Higby.
\nBW- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSaturday – March 21st<\/h3>\n
\nTORCHY BLANE IN PANAMA (1938)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious newspaper woman traces bank robbers to an ocean liner.
\nDir: William Clemens Cast: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy.
\nBW- 59 mins<\/p>\n
\nBULLITT (1968)<\/strong>
\nWhen mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
\nDir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
\nC- 114 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)<\/strong>
\nA straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
\nC- 105 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nWAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)<\/strong>
\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
\nELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)<\/strong>
\nA businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
\nDir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
\nBW- 92 mins<\/p>\nSunday – March 22nd<\/h3>\n
\nELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)<\/strong>
\nA businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
\nDir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
\nBW- 92 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – March 25th<\/h3>\n
\nJAMAICA INN (1939)<\/strong>
\nA young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE FALLEN SPARROW (1943)<\/strong>
\nNazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
\nDir: Richard Wallace Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak.
\nBW- 94 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – March 26th<\/h3>\n
\nCRIME WAVE (1954)<\/strong>
\nA reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
\nDir: Andre DeToth Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE KILLING (1956)<\/strong>
\nA team of specialists plots a daring racetrack robbery, but they don’t reckon with human frailty.
\nDir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards.
\nBW- 84 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)<\/strong>
\nA gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
\nDir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – March 27th<\/h3>\n
\nTHE THIRTEENTH CHAIR (1937)<\/strong>
\nA phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
\nDir: George B. Seitz Cast: Dame May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone.
\nBW- 67 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)<\/strong>
\nA medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
\nDir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden.
\nBW- 117 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 – March 28th<\/h3>\n
\nAFTER OFFICE HOURS (1935)<\/strong>
\nA society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
\nDir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin.
\nBW- 72 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCRIME WAVE (1954)<\/strong>
\nA reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
\nDir: Andre DeToth Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – March 29th<\/h3>\n
\nBIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL (1935)<\/strong>
\nA portrait painter is reunited with a lost love when her upcoming memoirs threaten his political career.
\nDir: Edward H. Griffith Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Edward Everett Horton.
\nBW- 83 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCRIME WAVE (1954)<\/strong>
\nA reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
\nDir: Andre DeToth Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\n