I was pretty excited when I started compiling the March 2022 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) mystery movie list. The first two days of the March schedule were exactly what I like to find: lots and lots of mystery movies! I have seen many of them, however if there’s a movie that I particularly enjoy seeing, I occasionally find myself DVR-ing it so that I can watch it again! I’m back to my needlework projects, so I enjoy watching the movies in the background.<\/p>\n
TCM has added a lot of “more modern” (i.e. movies after the mid 1950s) – I am pretty selective about those mystery movies. I much prefer movies that used to be on the three main networks late, late at night – movies from the 1930s and 1940s. Hmmm… I wonder how many of you prefer those old-time movies…<\/p>\n
Anyway, getting back to the purpose of this blog entry – here are the mystery movies you can find on the Turner Classic Movies channel during March 2022:<\/p>\n
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10:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)<\/strong> 4:15 PM The Naked City (1948)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Key Largo (1948)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Laura (1944)<\/strong> 2:00 AM Gaslight (1944)<\/strong> 4:00 AM Suspicion (1941)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:15 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Bullitt (1968)<\/strong> 10:15 PM The French Connection (1971)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:45 AM Raging Bull (1980)<\/strong> 10:15 AM The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Klute (1971)<\/strong> 2:15 PM Topkapi (1964)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:15 AM Rashomon (1950)<\/strong> 12:00 PM Z (1969)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)<\/strong> 4:30 AM Shaft (1971)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:45 AM I Want to Live! (1958)<\/strong> 2:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:15 AM The Life of Emile Zola (1937)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 AM A Letter to Three Wives (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:15 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:30 AM All About Eve (1950)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:45 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in March, 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 February 2022 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\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
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
\nDir: Jules Dassin’ Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nA returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
\nDir: John Huston. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
\n101 mins<\/p>\n
\nPhil Green is a magazine writer who decides to write a series of articles exposing Antisemitism. After failing to achieve an in-depth grasp of the problem, he pretends to be Jewish in order to experience the hostility of bigots first-hand.
\nDir: Elia Kazan. Actors: Gregory Peck, Dorothy Mcguire, John Garfield
\n118 mins<\/p>\nMarch 2, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
\nA newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
\n114 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>\nMarch 3, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
\nDir: Stanley Kramer. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
\n190 mins<\/p>\nMarch 4, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
\nDir: Peter Yates. Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nA tough-talking New York City detective and his partner uncover an international drug smuggling ring.
\nDir: William Friedkin. Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
\n104 mins<\/p>\nMarch 6, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nThe story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion–particularly towards his wife and manager\/brother–which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
\nDir: Martin Scorsese. Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
\n129 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
\nDir: Charles Crichton. Actors: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
\n81 mins<\/p>\nMarch 7, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nRobert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
\nDir: Rouben Mamoulian. Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
\n90 mins
\n*****I’m not sure if this movie qualifies as a mystery…*****<\/p>\nMarch 12, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
\nDir: Alan J. Pakula. Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
\nDir: Jules Dassin. Actors: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
\n120 mins<\/p>\nMarch 13, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nIn the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
\nDir: Arthur Penn. Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
\n111 mins
\n*****More of a crime movies.*****<\/p>\nMarch 17, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nIn medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
\nDir: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura
\n88 mins
\n*****This movie is in Japanese.*****<\/p>\n
\nA political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
\nDir: Costa-Gavras. Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
\n125 mins
\n*****Im not sure if this movie is in English or French… It may even have parts that are in Russian.*****<\/p>\nMarch 19, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nOn one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
\nDir: Sidney Lumet. Actors: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
\n130 mins<\/p>\n
\nA slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
\nDir: Gordon Parks. Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
\n98 mins<\/p>\nMarch 20, 2022<\/h3>\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
\nA woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
\n113 mins<\/p>\nMarch 21, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nThe famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
\nDir: William Dieterle. Actors: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
\n123 mins<\/p>\nMarch 23, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA small-town seductress notifies her three best friends that she has run off with one of their husbands.
\nDir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
\n103 mins
\n*****This movie is a “sort-a” mystery movie. It keeps you guessing ’til the end…*****<\/p>\nMarch 25, 2022<\/h3>\n
\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>\nMarch 27, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nBroadway legend Margo Channing has everything: a successful career, close friends, and a man who loves her. She also has a fan named Eve Harrington, who manages to worm her way into Margo’s life in order to study her like a blueprint.
\nDir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
\n138 mins
\n*****This movie is not a mystery, but if you haven’t seen it… it’s oh-so good.*****<\/p>\nMarch 30, 2022<\/h3>\n
\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
\n119 mins<\/p>\n