I’m so excited that it’s already (almost) 2021! This past year has been a difficult year for all of us. Covid 19 has kept us all from celebrating our different holidays AND also from letting us visit with our extended families. What a colossal drag! Thank goodness for all of the hard-working pharmaceutical research scientists and the many, many essential workers!<\/p>\n
It’s a good thing we have had our Cozy Mysteries to read and our mystery movies to watch!<\/p>\n
Turner Classic Movies will be showing some movies this month that I want to point out. On January 20 (PM) and 21 (AM) the channel will be showing four Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery movies starring Margaret Rutherford. These are very loosely based on Christie’s Miss Marple, as they are comedies. And speaking of comedies, I have listed the Judy Holliday movies as well as those with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Those movies are not mysteries, but they are quite good.<\/p>\n
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\nBorn Yesterday (1950)<\/strong>
\nA newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.<\/p>\n
\n102 mins
\n*****Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\n
\nLover Come Back (1961)<\/strong>
\nAn ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
\nDir: Delbert Mann. Actors: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall.
\n107 mins\u00a0
\n*****Doris Day\/Rock Hudson non-mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\nSaturday – January 2, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Law and the Lab (1956)<\/strong>
\nThis short film focuses on the job of a lab technician and forensic detail.
\nDir: Frances Dinsmoor. 8 mins<\/p>\n
\nBulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)<\/strong>
\nAn old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fianc\u00e9e.
\nDir: Louis King. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, Anthony Quinn.
\n59 mins<\/p>\n
\nVertigo (1958)<\/strong>
\nA detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
\n128 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 3, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)<\/strong>
\nA film noir involving a bachelor and his two sisters.
\nDir: Robert Siodmak. Actors: George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)<\/strong>
\nA film noir\u00a0 involving a bachelor and his two sisters.
\nDir: Robert Siodmak. Actors: George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines
\n80 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 5, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nGilda (1946)<\/strong>
\nA gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir: Charles Vidor. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nIt Should Happen to You (1953)<\/strong>
\nA dizzy model in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford.
\n87 mins
\n*****Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\n
\nThe Maltese Falcon (1941)<\/strong>
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir: John Huston. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet.
\n100 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 6, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nDeath on the Nile (1978)<\/strong>
\nHercule Poirot investigates the murder of an heiress during an Egyptian tour.
\nDir: John Guillermin. Actors: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis.
\n140 mins<\/p>\n
\nEvil Under the Sun (1982)<\/strong>
\nHercule Poirot trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
\nDir: Guy Hamilton. Actors: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith.
\n117 mins<\/p>\nThursday – January 7, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Last of Sheila (1973)<\/strong>
\nA game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
\nDir: Herbert Ross. Actors: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn.
\n119 mins<\/p>\n
\nManhattan Murder Mystery (1993)<\/strong>
\nA middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
\nDir: Woody Allen. Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler.
\n108 mins<\/p>\n
\nDeathtrap (1982)<\/strong>
\nA blocked playwright plots to kill a beginner and steal his script.
\nDir: Sidney Lumet. Actors: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon.
\n116 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 9, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nGames (1967)<\/strong>
\nA mysterious woman inserts herself into a rich young couple’s strange pranks and questionable jokes.
\nDir: Curtis Harrington. Actors: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross.
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nBulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)<\/strong>
\nBulldog Drummond postpones his wedding to track down a band of bank robbers.
\nDir: James P. Hogan. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner.
\n56 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Big Heat (1953)<\/strong>
\nA police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin.
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nMidnight Lace (1960)<\/strong>
\nA young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
\nDir: David Miller. Actors: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, Myrna Loy.
\n108 mins<\/p>\n
\nFamily Plot (1976)<\/strong>
\nA phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black.
\n120 mins<\/p>\n
\nNorth by Northwest (1959)<\/strong>
\nAn advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
\n136 mins<\/p>\n
\nSaboteur (1942)<\/strong>
\nA young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd.
\n109 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 10, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Glass Key (1942)<\/strong>
\nA hired gun and his gangster boss fall out over a woman.
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy.
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Glass Key (1942)<\/strong>
\nA hired gun and his gangster boss fall out over a woman.
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy.
\n85 mins<\/p>\nMonday – January 11, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Liquidator (1966)<\/strong>
\nA killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
\nDir: Jack Cardiff. Actors: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John.
\n104 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 12, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nHis Kind of Woman (1951)<\/strong>
\nA deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
\nDir: John Farrow. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price.
\n120 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 13, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nPicture Mommy Dead (1966)<\/strong>
\nA woman is released from an asylum after the shock suffered during the death of her mother.
\nDir: Bert I. Gordon. Actors: Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nNanny (1965)<\/strong>
\nA disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
\nDir: Seth Holt. Actors: Bette Davis, William Dix, Jill Bennett.
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nCurse of the Cat People (1944)<\/strong>
\nA lonely child creates an imaginary playmate with surprisingly dangerous results.
\nDir: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch. Actors: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Julia Dean.
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Night of the Hunter (1955)<\/strong>
\nA bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
\nDir: Charles Laughton. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
\n93 mins<\/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. Actors: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Nanette Newman.
\n117 mins<\/p>\n
\nBunny Lake Is Missing (1965)<\/strong>
\nA distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier.
\n107 mins<\/p>\n
\nMurder by Death (1976)<\/strong>
\nA criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
\nDir: Robert Moore. Actors: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers.
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nClue (1985)<\/strong>
\nBased on the board game, six strangers go to a mansion where they must solve a mysterious murder.
\nDir: Jonathan Lynn. Actors: Eileen Brennan. Tim Curry. Madeline Kahn.
\n87 mins<\/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. Actors: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian.
\n90 mins<\/p>\nThursday – January 14, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)<\/strong>
\nAn heiress experiences a variety of strange goings on when she goes to collect her inheritance.
\nDir: William Beaudine. Actors: Helen Parris, Dick Purcell, Tim Ryan.
\n61 mins<\/p>\n
\nBefore Midnight (1934)<\/strong>
\nA police inspector investigates the murder of a man who prophesied his own death.
\nDir: Lambert Hillyer. Actors: Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater.
\n62 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Phantom of Crestwood (1933)<\/strong>
\nFive men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
\nDir: J. Walter Ruben. Actors: Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, H.B. Warner.
\n76 mins<\/p>\n
\nMystery House (1938)<\/strong>
\nA detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
\nDir: Noel Smith. Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell, Anne Nagel.
\n57 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 15, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nCharade (1963)<\/strong>
\nA beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
\nDir: Stanley Donen. Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
\n113 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)<\/strong>
\nInternational spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie.
\n120 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 16, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Third Man (1949)<\/strong>
\nA man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
\nDir: Carol Reed. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli.<\/p>\n
\nBulldog Drummond’s Secret Police (1939)<\/strong>
\nBulldog Drummond discovers the house he’s rented for his wedding hides a secret treasure.
\nDir: James P. Hogan. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner.
\n54 mins<\/p>\n
\nRear Window (1954)<\/strong>
\nA photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr.
\n112 mins<\/p>\n
\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: Norman Jewison. Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
\n110 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 17, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nWitness To Murder (1954)<\/strong>
\nA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
\nDir: Roy Rowland. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Falcon’s Brother (1942)<\/strong>
\nA gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
\nDir: Stanley Logan. Actors: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph.
\n63 mins<\/p>\n
\nWitness To Murder (1954)<\/strong>
\nA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
\nDir: Roy Rowland. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nPillow Talk (1959)<\/strong>
\nA man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
\nDir: Michael Gordon. Actors: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall.
\n102 mins
\n*****Doris Day\/Rock Hudson non-mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\n
\nThe Incident (1967)<\/strong>
\nPassengers on a New York subway are held by two criminals.
\nDir: Larry Peerce. Actors: Martin Sheen, Tony Musante
\n107 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 19, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nAdam’s Rib (1949)<\/strong>
\nHusband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
\n101 mins
\n*****Judy Holliday comedy.*****<\/p>\nWednesday – January 20, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)<\/strong>
\nIllicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
\nDir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
\n113 mins<\/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: George Pollock. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Hickson.
\n86 mins<\/p>\n
\nMurder at the Gallop (1963)<\/strong>
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
\nDir: George Pollock. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson.
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nMurder Most Foul (1964)<\/strong>
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
\nDir: George Pollock. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Francesca Annis.
\n91 mins<\/p>\nThursday – January 21, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nMurder Ahoy (1964)<\/strong>
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
\nDir: George Pollock. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson.
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Penguin Pool Murder (1932)<\/strong>
\nA feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
\nDir: George Archainbaud. Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Mae Clarke.
\n65 mins
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegard mystery series.*****<\/p>\n
\nMurder on the Blackboard (1934)<\/strong>
\nA schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
\nDir: George Archainbaud. Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot.
\n71 mins
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegard mystery series.*****<\/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: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty.
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen Were You Born? (1938)<\/strong>
\nAn astrologer tries to help the police catch a killer.
\nDir: William McGann. Actors: Anna May Wong, Margaret Lindsay, Lola Lane.
\n65 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 22, 2021<\/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. Actors: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
\n72 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: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Constance Bennett.
\n103 mins<\/p>\n
\nLady in the Lake (1947)<\/strong>
\nPhilip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
\nDir: Robert Montgomery. Actors: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan.
\n103 mins<\/p>\n
\nHigh Wall (1947)<\/strong>
\nPsychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
\nDir: Curtis Bernhardt. Actors: Robert Taylor, Herbert Marshall, Audrey Totter.
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nTension (1950)<\/strong>
\nA man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
\nDir: John Berry. Actors: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Barry Sullivan.
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Sellout (1951)<\/strong>
\nA small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
\nDir: Gerald Mayer. Actors: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
\n83 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 23, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nStunts (1977)<\/strong>
\nA stuntman investigates his brother’s death on a movie shoot.
\nDir: Mark L. Lester. Actors: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Ray Sharkey.
\n89 mins<\/p>\n
\nOut of the Past (1947)<\/strong>
\nA private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Night of the Hunter (1955)<\/strong>
\nA bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
\nDir: Charles Laughton. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
\n93 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 24, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nBorn to Kill (1947)<\/strong>
\nA murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Actors: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nIt Should Happen to You (1953)<\/strong>
\nA dizzy model in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford.
\n87 mins
\n*****Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\n
\nBorn to Kill (1947)<\/strong>
\nA murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Actors: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nSend Me No Flowers (1964)<\/strong>
\nWhen he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
\nDir: Norman Jewison. Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
\n100 mins
\n*****Doris Day\/Rock Hudson non-mystery comedy.*****<\/p>\nMonday – January 25, 2021<\/h3>\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. Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Right to Live (1935)<\/strong>
\nA crippled war hero’s death turns out to be murder.
\nDir: William Keighley. Actors: George Brent, Colin Clive, Josephine Hutchinson.
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nCriss Cross (1949)<\/strong>
\nA man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
\nDir: Robert Siodmak. Actors: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea.
\n88 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 26, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Crooked Way (1949)<\/strong>
\nA war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
\nDir: Robert Florey. Actors: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew.
\n86 mins<\/p>\n
\nJournal of A Crime (1934)<\/strong>
\nBefore she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
\nDir: William Keighley. Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
\n65 mins<\/p>\n
\nTwo O’Clock Courage (1945)<\/strong>
\nAn amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
\n66 mins<\/p>\n
\nHysteria (1965)<\/strong>
\nAn amnesiac stumbles on to a murder plot.
\nDir: Freddie Francis. Actors: Robert Webber, Anthony Goldoni, Anthony Newlands.
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nSix Bridges to Cross (1955)<\/strong>
\nBased on the real 1950 (+\/-) $2.5 Great Brink’s Robbery in Boston.
\nDir: Joseph Pevney. Actors: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams.
\n96 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 27, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Blue Dahlia (1946)<\/strong>
\nA veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
\nDir: George Marshall. Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix.
\n100 mins<\/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: W.S. Van Dyke II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed.
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nRansom! (1956)<\/strong>
\nA wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
\nDir: Alex Segal. Actors: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen.
\n102 mins<\/p>\n
\nAfter the Thin Man (1936)<\/strong>
\nMarried sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
\nDir: W.S. Van Dyke II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
\n112 mins<\/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. Actors: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nGreen For Danger (1946)<\/strong>
\nA police inspector investigates an operating room death that may be murder.
\nDir: Sidney Gilliat. Actors: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim.
\n92 mins<\/p>\nThursday – January 28, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Woman in Green (1945)<\/strong>
\nSherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
\nDir: Roy William Neill. Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke.
\n67 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)<\/strong>
\nPerry Mason tries to stay on the wagon while investigating the murder of a crooked beauty contest promoter.
\nDir: Archie Mayo. Actors: Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins.
\n\u00a078 mins<\/p>\n
\nBulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)<\/strong>
\nCaptain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he intents to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.
\nDir: James P. Hogan. Actors: Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel.
\n67 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Saint Strikes Back (1939)<\/strong>
\nThe Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
\nDir: John Farrow. Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Barry Fitzgerald.
\n64 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Heiress (1949)<\/strong>
\nA plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
\nDir: William Wyler. Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson.
\n115 mins
\n*****A really good non-mystery movie.*****<\/p>\nFriday – January 29, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Manchurian Candidate (1962)<\/strong>
\nA Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
\nDir: John Frankenheimer. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury.
\n127 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 30, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Caller (1987)<\/strong>
\nA woman in her cabin is joined by a man who says his car broke down.
\nDir: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith.
\n98 mins<\/p>\n
\nA Shot In The Dark (1941)<\/strong>
\nA reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
\nDir: William C. McGann. Actors: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Regis Toomey.
\n57 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 31, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Killers (1964)<\/strong>
\nSurprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
\nDir: Don Siegel. Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes.
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Late Show (1977)<\/strong>
\nAn aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
\nDir: Robert Benton. Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Carey Treatment (1972)<\/strong>
\nA doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
\nDir: Blake Edwards. Actors: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Skye Aubrey.
\n101 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Killers (1964)<\/strong>
\nSurprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
\nDir: Don Siegel. Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes.
\n95 mins<\/p>\n