I hope everyone is having a good holiday season! Here’s hoping that 2022 will be better than the last few years… and also, here’s a quick update about next month’s mystery movies airing on Turner Classic Movies.<\/p>\n
Of particular note is a Thin man marathon, an annual TCM tradition, which will span both the last hours of 2021 and the first hours of 2022.<\/p>\n
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1:45 AM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)<\/strong> 3:30 AM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)<\/strong> 5:15 AM Song of the Thin Man (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 AM Repeat Performance (1947)<\/strong> 8:00 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Repeat Performance (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:00 AM Comet over Broadway (1938)<\/strong> 5:30 PM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM Rope (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:15 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)<\/strong> 5:00 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)<\/strong> 8:00 AM Payment Deferred (1932)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:30 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Gilda (1946)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)<\/strong> 2:45 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)<\/strong> 10:30 PM The Boston Strangler (1968)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:30 AM The Onion Field (1979)<\/strong> 4:45 AM 10 Rillington Place (1971)<\/strong> 6:45 AM The Strangler (1964)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Hell Drivers (1957)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:30 AM Melinda (1972)<\/strong> 1:30 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 AM The Mob (1951)<\/strong> 10:00 AM The Mob (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:30 PM North by Northwest (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:45 AM The Man with Two Faces (1934)<\/strong> 9:45 AM The Stranger (1946)<\/strong> 11:30 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)<\/strong> 1:00 PM Suspicion (1941)<\/strong> 2:45 PM Julie (1956)<\/strong> 4:30 PM Gaslight (1940)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Undercurrent (1946)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Over-Exposed (1956)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Over-Exposed (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:15 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Transgression (1931)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:45 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)<\/strong> 9:30 AM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)<\/strong> 1:45 PM Night Watch (1973)<\/strong> 3:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)<\/strong> 10:15 PM A Cry in the Dark (1988)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM The Prize (1963)<\/strong> 3:30 PM Harper (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM A Place in the Sun (1951)<\/strong> 10:15 PM Double Indemnity (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)<\/strong> 2:00 AM I Want to Live! (1958)<\/strong> 4:15 AM The Wrong Man (1956)<\/strong> 6:15 AM Madeleine (1950)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 PM The FBI Story (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Quai des Orf\u00e8vres (1947)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Quai des Orf\u00e8vres (1947)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Verdict (1982)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:00 PM Guilty Hands (1931)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in January, be sure to leave a comment below!<\/p>\n In case you\u2019re interested in seeing the rest of this month\u2019s television mystery movies, here\u2019s the December 2021 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2021 on Turner Classic Movies channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Christmas : Favorite Classic Holiday Movies: Old, Black & White\u2026 and a Few In Color (not mysteries)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nOn a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: Richard Thorpe. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nSociety sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
\nDir: Edward Buzzell. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
\n86 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 2, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nOn New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
\nDir: Alfred Werker. Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\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<\/p>\n
\nOn New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
\nDir: Alfred Werker. Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
\n93 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 4, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA stage star’s rampant ambition leads to murder.
\nDir: Busby Berkeley. Actors: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nA reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
\nDir: George Amy. Actors: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
\n56 mins<\/p>\nThursday – January 6, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nTwo wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
\n80 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 7, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nTwo very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
\nDir: Leonard Kastle. Actors: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lobianco, Mary Jane Higby
\n106 mins<\/p>\n
\nA dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
\nDir: Ida Lupino. Actors: Edmond O’brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nA milquetoast kills for money and finds it a hard habit to break.
\nDir: Lothar Mendes. Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan,
\nDorothy Peterson
\n75 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 8, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
\nDir: John Sturges. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\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>\nSunday – January 9, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA womanizing carnival man becomes a nightclub clairvoyant – using people on his way up.
\nDir: Edmund Goulding. Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
\n111 mins<\/p>\n
\nA womanizing carnival man becomes a nightclub clairvoyant – using people on his way up.
\nDir: Edmund Goulding. Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
\n111 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
\n113 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 12, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nTwo vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
\nDir: Richard Brooks. Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
\n134 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe true story of the extensive police manhunt for a serial killer in Boston who had strangled a number of young women in the early 60s.
\nDir: Richard Fleischer. Actors: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
\n116 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 14, 2021<\/h3>\n
\nWhen his partner is killed by a disturbed ex-con, a policeman struggles to regain his confidence.
\nDir: Harold Becker. Actors: John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales
\n122 mins<\/p>\n
\nA serial killer frames a mentally challenged man.
\nDir: Richard Fleischer. Actors: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt
\n109 mins<\/p>\n
\nCompletely dominated by his neurotic, bed-ridden mother, an overweight lab technician develops a doll fetish and a bad habit of murdering nurses.
\nDir: Burt Topper. Actors: Victor Buono, David Mclean, Diane Sayer
\n89 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ex-con tries to go clean and gets a job working as a truck driver, but then he discovers that his peers in the union are scamming money by creating phantom drivers on the payroll and splitting the extra cash amongst themselves.
\nDir: Cy Endfield. Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
\n108 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 15, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA disc jockey sets out to avenge his girlfriend’s murder.
\nDir: Hugh A. Robertson. Actors: Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta Mcgee
\n109 mins<\/p>\n
\nA straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
\n105 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 16, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
\nDir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
\n87 mins<\/p>\n
\nA police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
\nDir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
\n87 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 18, 2022<\/h3>\n
\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>\nFriday – January 21, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn actor uses his skills to protect his sister from her sinister husband.
\nDir: Archie Mayo. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
\nDir: Joseph Santley. Actors: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
\nDir: Andrew L. Stone. Actors: Doris Day ,Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
\nDir: Thorold Dickinson. Actors: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
\n84 mins<\/p>\n
\nA sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
\nDir: Vincente Minnelli. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
\n116 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 23, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA woman gets a job as a photographer at a nightclub where she specializes in getting candid shots of patrons – with a little extortion on the side.
\nDir: Lewis Seiler. Actors: Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman gets a job as a photographer at a nightclub where she specializes in getting candid shots of patrons – with a little extortion on the side.
\nDir: Lewis Seiler. Actors: Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom
\n80 mins<\/p>\nMonday – January 24, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
\nDir: John Sturges. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen her lover is killed, a straying wife tries to intercept the confession she mailed her husband.
\nDir: Herbert Brenon. Actors: Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Ricardo Cortez
\n70 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – January 25, 2022<\/h3>\n
\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
\n89 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
\nDir: Peter Weir. Actors: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
\n120 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn unhappy housewife thinks she witnessed a murder, but no one believes her – including her husband.
\nDir: Brian G. Hutton. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
\nA game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
\nDir: Herbert Ross. Actors: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
\n120 mins<\/p>\n
\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
\nDir: Terence Young. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
\n108 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe true story of a woman put on trial for the murder of her baby who maintains the child was in fact taken by a wild dingo.
\nDir: Fred Schepis.i Actors: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves
\n121 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 26, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
\nDir: Mark Robson. Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
\n136 mins.<\/p>\n
\nA broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
\nDir: Jack Smight. Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
\n121 mins<\/p>\nThursday – January 27, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn ambitious young man wins an heiress’ heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy.
\nDir: George Stevens. Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
\n122 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
\nDir: Billy Wilder. Actors: Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
\n107 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 28, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
\nDir: Phil Karlson Actors: John Mcintire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nTrue story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Actors: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
\n120 mins<\/p>\n
\nBased on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
\nA beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
\nDir: David Lean. Actors: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
\n115 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 29, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Actors: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
\n149 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 30, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nFlirtatious music hall singer is implicated in a murder.
\nDir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant
\n106 mins<\/p>\n
\nFlirtatious music hall singer is implicated in a murder.
\nDir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Actors: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant
\n106 mins<\/p>\n
\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>\n
\nAn alcoholic lawyer struggles to redeem himself by pursuing a high-stakes malpractice case.
\nDir: Sidney Lumet. Actors: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason
\n122 mins<\/p>\nMonday – January 31, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA district attorney tries to frame an innocent girl for the murder he committed.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans
\n71 mins<\/p>\n