Oh boy! It’s that Bela Lugosi\/Boris Karloff\/Vincent Price time of year again! You’re probably tired of hearing about my passion for 1930s and 1940s scary movies… which happen to be just down right campy. I don’t seem to get enough of them!<\/p>\n
However, since this is a list of the Turner Classic Movies channel mystery movies, I won’t list them. (I’m keeping my own private list of those campy movies that I have either not seen or can’t remember seeing!)<\/p>\n
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\nThe Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)<\/strong>
\nA crime wave grips the city and all clues seem to lead to the nefarious Dr. Mabuse.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Rudolf Klein-rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oskar Beregi Sr.
\n120 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – October 2, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nHaunted Honeymoon (1940)<\/strong>
\nBritish sleuth Sir Peter Wimsey’s wedding celebration is cut short by the discovery of a murdered man in his honeymoon cottage.
\nDir: Arthur B. Woods. Actors: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)<\/strong>
\nPerry Mason’s honeymoon with Della Street is interrupted by the murder of a scandal-sheet publisher.
\nDir: William Clemens. Actors: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Winifred Shaw
\n63 mins<\/p>\nSunday – October 3, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Glass Wall (1953)<\/strong>
\nWhile trying to stay in the U.S., a World War II refugee gets into trouble and continues to pursue citizenship status.
\nDir: Maxwell Shane. Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Glass Wall (1953)<\/strong>
\nWhile trying to stay in the U.S., a World War II refugee gets into trouble and continues to pursue citizenship status.
\nDir: Maxwell Shane. Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson
\n80 mins<\/p>\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. Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
\n110 mins<\/p>\nMonday – October 4, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Curse of the Cat People (1944)<\/strong>
\nA child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
\nDir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Seventh Victim (1943)<\/strong>
\nA girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
\nDir: Mark Robson Actors: Tom Conway,Jean Brooks,Isabel Jewell
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nCat People (1942)<\/strong>
\nA newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Actors: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
\n71 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – October 5, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nIn a Lonely Place (1950)<\/strong>
\nAn aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
\n91 mins<\/p>\nThursday – October 7, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nNightmare Alley (1947)<\/strong>
\nAn ambitious carnival worker attempts to scam his way out of the carnival in this brutal noir.
\nDir: Edmund Goulding. Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
\n111 mins<\/p>\nFriday – October 8, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Main Attraction (1962)<\/strong>
\nAn unscrupulous drifter causes problems for a small European circus.
\nDir: Daniel Petrie. Actors: Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling
\n90 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – October 9, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Case of the Black Cat (1936)<\/strong>
\nPerry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
\nDir: William Mcgann. Actors: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
\n62 mins<\/p>\n
\nArmored Car Robbery (1950)<\/strong>
\nA police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
\nDir: Richard Fleischer. Actors: Charles Mcgraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
\n67 mins<\/p>\nSunday – October 10, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nBrighton Rock (1947)<\/strong>
\nA small-time hood tries to cover up his murder of a rival.
\nDir: John Boulting. Actors: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nBrighton Rock (1947)<\/strong>
\nA small-time hood tries to cover up his murder of a rival.
\nDir: John Boulting. Actors: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Thin Man (1934)<\/strong>
\nIn New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’sullivan
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Bad Seed (1956)<\/strong>
\nAn eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Actors: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
\n129 mins<\/p>\nMonday – October 11, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)<\/strong>
\nA woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Casino Murder Case (1935)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nBack in Circulation (1937)<\/strong>
\nA reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
\nDir: Ray Enright. Actors: Pat O’brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nShadow on the Wall (1950)<\/strong>
\nA child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother’s murder.
\nDir: Patrick Jackson. Actors: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau
\n84 mins<\/p>\n
\nD.O.A. (1950)<\/strong>
\nThe victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
\nDir: Rudolph Mat\u00e9. Actors: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nStrange Affair (1944)<\/strong>
\nA mystery writer and his wife investigate a murder at a charity benefit.
\nDir: Alfred E. Green. Actors: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
\nArsenic and Old Lace (1944)<\/strong>
\nThe Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
\nDir: Frank Capra. Actors: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
\n118 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – October 12, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nAdam’s Rib (1949)<\/strong>
\nA happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
\n101 mins
\n*****This movie isn’t a mystery, however, it’s a terrific and funny movie.<\/p>\nWednesday – October 13, 2021<\/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. Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nAccidents Will Happen (1938)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
\nDir: William Clemens. Actors: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell
\n59 mins<\/p>\n
\nPitfall (1948)<\/strong>
\nA married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
\nDir: Andre Detoth. Actors: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
\n84 mins<\/p>\n
\nRoadblock (1951)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
\nDir: Harold Daniels. Actors: Charles Mcgraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nStrange Bargain (1949)<\/strong>
\nA young bookkeeper is framed for his boss’s murder.
\nDir: Will Price. Actors: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Henry Morgan
\n68 mins<\/p>\n
\nMystery in Mexico (1948)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Actors: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
\n66 mins<\/p>\n
\nFive Miles to Midnight (1963)<\/strong>
\nA woman tries to free herself from her husband by helping him fake his own death.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak. Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nI Accuse! (1958)<\/strong>
\nTrue story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
\nDir: Jose Ferrer. Actors: Jose Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
\n99 mins<\/p>\nThursday – October 14, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nMystery Street (1950)<\/strong>
\nCriminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
\nDir: John Sturges. Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest ,Bruce Bennett
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nDial 1119 (1950)<\/strong>
\nA killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
\nDir: Gerald Mayer. Actors: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nCast a Dark Shadow (1955)<\/strong>
\nA wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
\nDir: Lewis Gilbert. Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nNight Must Fall (1937)<\/strong>
\nA charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
\nDir: Richard Thorpe. Actors: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty
\n117 mins<\/p>\n
\nM (1931)<\/strong>
\nThe mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
\nObsession (1949)<\/strong>
\nA jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife’s lover in an acid bath.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk. Actors: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
\n96 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, Mark Eden
\n116 mins<\/p>\nFriday – October 15, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nTwelve Crowded Hours (1939)<\/strong>
\nA reporter avenges his editor’s murder by gangsters.
\nDir: Lew Landers. Actors: Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane
\n64 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – October 16, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)<\/strong>
\nPerry Mason tries to find out if a long-lost heiress is the real thing.
\nDir: William Clemens. Actors: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel
\n70 mins<\/p>\nSunday – October 17, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Dark Past (1949)<\/strong>
\nA psychologist tries to analyze the criminal who’s taken him hostage.
\nDir: Rudolph Mat\u00e9. Actors: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Dark Past (1949)<\/strong>
\nA psychologist tries to analyze the criminal who’s taken him hostage.
\nDir: Rudolph Mat\u00e9. Actors: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nCrossing Delancey (1988)<\/strong>
\nRomantic drama about a single New York City woman and her quest to find the right man–but then a matchmaker introduces the upscale intellectual to a pickle salesman.
\nDir: Joan Micklin Silver. Actors: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe
\n97 mins
\n*****Not a mystery. I really enjoy this movie.*****<\/p>\nMonday – October 18, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Heiress (1949)<\/strong>
\nA plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
\nDir: William Wyler. Actors: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
\n115 mins
\n*****This excellent movie is not a mystery.*****<\/p>\nTuesday – October 19, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nOutlaw Blues (1977)<\/strong>
\nSuspected of murdering the country-western star who stole his song, an ex-convict takes it on the lam.
\nDir: Richard Heffron Actors: Peter Fonda, Johnny Crawford, Jeffrey Friedman, Susan Saint James
\n101 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – October 20, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Nanny (1965)<\/strong>
\nA conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
\nDir: Seth Holt. Actors: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
\n93 mins<\/p>\nFriday – October 22, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nTwo Smart People (1946)<\/strong>
\nIn New Orleans, a lady crook tries to steal a con man’s hidden loot.
\nDir: Jules Dassin. Actors: Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhile the City Sleeps (1956)<\/strong>
\nReporters compete to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Bat (1959)<\/strong>
\nA female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
\nDir: Crane Wilbur Actors: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
\n80 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – October 23, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nTorchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde (1937)<\/strong>
\nReporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
\nDir: Frank Macdonald. Actors: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Anne Nagel
\n61 mins<\/p>\nSunday – October 24, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nLa Bestia Debe Morir (1952)<\/strong>
\nA man becomes obsessed with avenging the death of his son.
\nDir: Roman Vinoly Barreto. Actors: Narciso Ibanez Menta, Laura Hidalgo, Guillermo Battaglia
\n(possibly in Spanish – unless dubbed)<\/p>\n
\nFootsteps in the Dark (1941)<\/strong>
\nAn aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
\nDir: Lloyd Bacon Actors: Errol Flynn,Brenda Marshall,Ralph Bellamy
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nLa Bestia Debe Morir (1952)<\/strong>
\nA man becomes obsessed with avenging the death of his son.
\nDir: Roman Vinoly Barreto. Actors: Narciso Ibanez Menta, Laura Hidalgo, Guillermo Battaglia
\n(Possibly in Spanish – unless dubbed)<\/p>\n
\nNorth by Northwest (1959)<\/strong>
\nA suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
\n136 mins<\/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. Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
\n132 mins<\/p>\nMonday – October 25, 2021<\/h3>\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. Actors: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA Date with the Falcon (1941)<\/strong>
\nThe gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds.
\nDir: Irving Reis. Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason
\n63 mins<\/p>\n
\nArsene Lupin (1932)<\/strong>
\nA gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
\nDir: Jack Conway Actors: John Barrymore,Lionel Barrymore,Karen Morley
\n84 mins<\/p>\n
\nArsene Lupin Returns (1938)<\/strong>
\nA reformed jewel thief helps detectives track down a criminal.
\nDir: Geo. Fitzmaurice Actors: Melvyn Douglas,Virginia Bruce,Warren William
\n82 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – October 27, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nThe Thin Man (1934)<\/strong>
\nIn New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’sullivan
\n80 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
\n110 mins<\/p>\nFriday – October 29, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nFlamingo Road (1949)<\/strong>
\nA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
\n94 mins<\/p>\n