Spring is finally here! It looks like the Turner Classic Movies channel will be celebrating it by showing a bunch of “old futuristic science fiction” type of movies. Anyway, that’s certainly their agenda on Tuesday the seventh… On Thursday the second they will be airing all sorts of “You Can’t… ” movies. Friday the tenth appears to be a sort of tribute to radio shows. On Easter Sunday TCM will be celebrating the day by airing biblical movies as well as “Easter Parade”. Tuesday the fourteenth brings us amnesia galore! And, there will be days dedicated to famous dancers: Monday the thirteenth features Gene Kelly while Wednesday the fifteenth will have Fred Astaire putting on this tap shoes. On Wednesday the twenty-ninth, the circus is coming to TCM.<\/p>\n
Here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies that I was able to find which will air during April 2020.<\/p>\n
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\nHIGH AND LOW (1963)<\/strong>
\nKidnappers mistake a chauffeur’s son for the child of a wealthy businessman.
\nDir:\u00a0 Akira Kurosawa Cast:\u00a0 Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa.
\nBW- 144 mins, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nRASHOMON (1950)<\/strong>
\nIn medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Akira Kurosawa Cast:\u00a0 Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura.
\nBW- 89 mins<\/p>\nThursday – April 2, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHRONE OF BLOOD (1957)<\/strong>
\nSpurred by his wife and a witch’s prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.
\nDir:\u00a0 Akira Kurosawa Cast:\u00a0 Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura.
\nBW- 110 mins<\/p>\n
\nYOU CAN’T BUY LUCK (1937)<\/strong>
\nA racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lew Landers Cast:\u00a0 Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth.
\nBW- 60 mins<\/p>\n
\nYOU CAN’T ESCAPE FOREVER (1942)<\/strong>
\nAlthough she’s been demoted to writing the advice column, a newspaper woman still tries to expose a racketeer.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jo Graham Cast:\u00a0 George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart.
\nBW- 78 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nYOU CAN’T BUY EVERYTHING (1934)<\/strong>
\nA scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
\nDir:\u00a0 Charles F. Riesner Cast:\u00a0 May Robson, Jean Parker, Lewis Stone.
\nBW- 82 mins<\/p>\n
\nYOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)<\/strong>
\nA young tough takes the rap for a hardened gangster.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lewis Seiler Cast:\u00a0 Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop.
\nBW- 79 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)<\/strong>
\nGunmen hold a New York subway train and its passengers for ransom.
\nDir:\u00a0 Joseph Sargent Cast:\u00a0 Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam.
\nC- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nKLUTE (1971)<\/strong>
\nA small-town detective searches for a missing man linked to a high-priced prostitute.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alan J. Pakula Cast:\u00a0 Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi.
\nC- 114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nFriday – April 3, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nFINGERS (1978)<\/strong>
\nDir:\u00a0 James Toback Cast:\u00a0 Zack Norman, Frank Pesce, Harvey Keitel.
\nBW- 90 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nREPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER (1975)<\/strong>
\nDir:\u00a0 Milton Katselas Cast:\u00a0 Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Stephen Elliott.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nMAKE YOUR OWN BED (1944)<\/strong>
\nDetectives masquerade as butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
\nDir:\u00a0 Peter Godfrey Cast:\u00a0 Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning.
\nBW- 82 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE MAN WITH A CLOAK (1951)<\/strong>
\nA mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
\nDir:\u00a0 Fletcher Markle Cast:\u00a0 Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern.
\nBW- 81 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – April 4, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
\nDir:\u00a0 Michael Curtiz Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
\nBW- 73 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)<\/strong>
\nA German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
\nDir:\u00a0 William Cameron Menzies Cast:\u00a0 Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
\nBW- 72 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – April 5, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nANOTHER THIN MAN (1939)<\/strong>
\nNot even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
\nDir:\u00a0 W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey.
\nBW- 103 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)<\/strong>
\nA German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
\nDir:\u00a0 William Cameron Menzies Cast:\u00a0 Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
\nBW- 72 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – April 7, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nCRY OF THE CITY (1948)<\/strong>
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Siodmak Cast:\u00a0 Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948)<\/strong>
\nA romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
\nDir:\u00a0 Orson Welles Cast:\u00a0 Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nHE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)<\/strong>
\nAfter killing a cop, a burglar fights to evade the police.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Werker Cast:\u00a0 Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts.
\nBW- 79 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – April 8, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nKEY LARGO (1948)<\/strong>
\nA returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
\nDir:\u00a0 John Huston Cast:\u00a0 Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE NAKED CITY (1948)<\/strong>
\nA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jules Dassin Cast:\u00a0 Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)<\/strong>
\nDesperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Wise Cast:\u00a0 Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nFriday – April 10, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)<\/strong>
\nA radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
\nDir:\u00a0 Harry Beaumont Cast:\u00a0 William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page.
\nBW- 73 mins<\/p>\n
\nONE FATAL HOUR (1936)<\/strong>
\nA radio-station manager tries to keep tabloid journalists from reviving a 20-year-old murder case.
\nBW- 57 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nGENIUS AT WORK (1947)<\/strong>
\nTwo radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
\nDir:\u00a0 Leslie Goodwins Cast:\u00a0 Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
\nBW- 61 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE UNSUSPECTED (1947)<\/strong>
\nThe producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
\nDir:\u00a0 Michael Curtiz Cast:\u00a0 Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter.
\nBW- 103 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – April 11, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nBEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)<\/strong>
\nA novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
\nDir:\u00a0 Fritz Lang Cast:\u00a0 Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSunday – April 12, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nBEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)<\/strong>
\nA novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
\nDir:\u00a0 Fritz Lang Cast:\u00a0 Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nMonday – April 13, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nHIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)<\/strong>
\nA deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
\nDir:\u00a0 John Farrow Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price.
\nBW- 120 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nMACAO (1952)<\/strong>
\nA man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
\nDir:\u00a0 Josef von Sternberg Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix.
\nBW- 81 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – April 14, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nJOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)<\/strong>
\nBefore she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
\nDir:\u00a0 William Keighley Cast:\u00a0 Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
\nBW- 65 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCROSSROADS (1942)<\/strong>
\nA French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jack Conway Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor.
\nBW- 83 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTWO IN THE DARK (1936)<\/strong>
\nA man with amnesia fights to prove himself innocent of murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Ben Stoloff Cast:\u00a0 Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)<\/strong>
\nAn amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Anthony Mann Cast:\u00a0 Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
\nBW- 66 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nHYSTERIA (1965)<\/strong>
\nAn amnesiac stumbles on to a murder plot.
\nDir:\u00a0 Freddie Francis Cast:\u00a0 Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne.
\nBW- 85 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nLAURA (1944)<\/strong>
\nA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – April 16, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE NARROW CORNER (1933)<\/strong>
\nA man on the run for murder tries to escape fate in the Pacific islands.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred E. Green Cast:\u00a0 Douglas Fairbanks, Patricia Ellis, Ralph Bellamy.
\nBW- 69 mins<\/p>\n
\nSHAFT (1971)<\/strong>
\nA slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
\nDir:\u00a0 Gordon Parks Cast:\u00a0 Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi.
\nC- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – April 18, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nMURDER, MY SWEET (1944)<\/strong>
\nDetective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Edward Dmytryk Cast:\u00a0 Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)<\/strong>
\nA one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
\nDir:\u00a0 John Sturges Cast:\u00a0 Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
\nC- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nWITNESS TO MURDER (1954)<\/strong>
\nA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Roy Rowland Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – April 19, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nWITNESS TO MURDER (1954)<\/strong>
\nA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Roy Rowland Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – April 20, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nOUT OF THE PAST (1947)<\/strong>
\nA private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jacques Tourneur Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nLAURA (1944)<\/strong>
\nA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – April 21, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE VANISHING (1988)<\/strong>
\nA young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a
\nrest stop.
\nDir:\u00a0 George Sluizer Cast:\u00a0 Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege.
\nC- 106 mins<\/p>\n
\nTHE LADY VANISHES (1938)<\/strong>
\nA young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC<\/p>\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:\u00a0 Richard Fleischer Cast:\u00a0 Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
\nBW- 72 mins, CC<\/p>\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:\u00a0 George Pollock Cast:\u00a0 Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)<\/strong>
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
\nBW- 101 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:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
\nC- 105 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nJULIE (1956)<\/strong>
\nA stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
\nDir:\u00a0 Andrew L. Stone Cast:\u00a0 Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nWAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)<\/strong>
\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
\nDir:\u00a0 Terence Young Cast:\u00a0 Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
\nC- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – April 23, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE HUMAN FACTOR (1980)<\/strong>
\nA diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer.
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\nFriday – April 24, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nDOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
\nDir:\u00a0 Billy Wilder Cast:\u00a0 Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
\nBW- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – April 25, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)<\/strong>
\nIllicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
\nDir:\u00a0 Tay Garnett Cast:\u00a0 Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
\nBW- 113 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nWICKED WOMAN (1954)<\/strong>
\nA trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
\nDir:\u00a0 Russell Rouse Cast:\u00a0 Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton.
\nBW- 76 mins<\/p>\nSunday – April 26, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nWICKED WOMAN (1954)<\/strong>
\nA trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
\nDir:\u00a0 Russell Rouse Cast:\u00a0 Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton.
\nBW- 76 mins<\/p>\n
\nHOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955)<\/strong>
\nAn Army investigator infiltrates a Tokyo crime syndicate to solve a colleague’s murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Samuel Fuller Cast: \u00a0Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi.
\nC- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nThursday – April 28, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE LATE SHOW (1977)<\/strong>
\nAn aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Benton Cast:\u00a0 Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
\nC- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – April 30, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTHE UNFAITHFUL (1947)<\/strong>
\nWhile her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Vincent Sherman Cast:\u00a0 Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott.
\nBW- 109 mins<\/p>\nFriday – May 1, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nSISTERS (1972)<\/strong>
\nA small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
\nDir:\u00a0 Brian De Palma Cast:\u00a0 Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning.
\nC- 92 mins, CC<\/p>\n