I really enjoy watching the old documentary shorts that they used as filler time in theaters years and years ago. James A. Fitzgerald is the presenter on these old documentaries from the 1930s and 1940s. (No, I wasn’t around for these theater gems way back then!) I not only enjoy seeing what the different destinations of the films were like back then, but I also enjoy seeing what the people were wearing back then. Women in dresses – sometimes wearing hats, men in suits and ties… It certainly was a different world! Anyway, on Thursday, April 5 the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing a lot of these documentary shorts featuring Mexico. On Wednesday the 4th they’ll be showing shorts on Cura\u00e7ao, Guatemala, and Havana. There are other documentary shorts sprinkled throughout the month, as well as the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
There are a several mystery movies that will be playing this month, however it seems like there aren’t as many as usual.<\/p>\n
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12:30 AM Johnny Angel (1946)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Johnny Angel (1946)<\/strong> 1:30 PM Laura (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM The Vintage (1957)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:15 AM Al Capone (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:45 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM The Verdict (1982)<\/strong> 6:15 AM Sabotage (1936)<\/strong> 7:45 AM Murder on Diamond Row (1937) (aka The Squeaker)<\/strong> 9:15 AM I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)<\/strong> 11:15 AM Clouds over Europe (1939)<\/strong> 12:45 PM Violence (1947)<\/strong> 3:45 PM The Double Man (1967)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 PM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM No Man of Her Own (1950)<\/strong> 6:00 AM The Catered Affair (1956)<\/strong> 10:00 AM No Man of Her Own (1950)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 PM Fast and Furious (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:15 PM Breathless (1960)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:15 PM Z (1969)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM You Can’t Buy Luck (1937)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM The Third Man (1949)<\/strong> 8:30 AM Code of the Secret Service (1939)<\/strong> 12:00 PM Crossfire (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 AM The Killer Is Loose (1956)<\/strong> 2:15 AM Ransom! (1956)<\/strong> 8:30 AM Night Nurse (1931)<\/strong> 10:00 AM The Killer Is Loose (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:30 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:00 AM They Drive by Night (1940)<\/strong> 9:15 PM A Study in Scarlet (1933)<\/strong> 10:45 PM When Were You Born (1938)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:30 AM Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)<\/strong> 9:30 AM Fingers at the Window (1942)<\/strong> 1:15 PM High Wall (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:30 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)<\/strong> 4:15 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> 9:15 PM The Underworld Story (1950)<\/strong> 11:00 PM Hell Drivers (1957)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:00 AM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)<\/strong> 10:00 AM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)<\/strong> 11:15 AM Keeper of the Flame (1943)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:15 PM Impact (1949)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:30 PM It’s a Wonderful World (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM The Letter (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in May, 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 April 2022 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nA sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
\n79 mins<\/p>\n
\nA sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
\n79 mins<\/p>\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>\nMonday – May 2, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nTwo fugitives hide out in a vineyard.
\nDir: Jeffrey Hayden. Actors: Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr
\n92 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – May 3, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nChicago’s most notorious gangster rules the city ruthlessly.
\nDir: Richard Wilson. Actors: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory
\n105 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – May 4, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nRecently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
\nDir: John Huston. Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
\n112 mins<\/p>\nFriday – May 6, 2022<\/h3>\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>\n
\nAn unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester
\n76 mins<\/p>\n
\nA jewel fence plays both sides of his trade: he turns in the actual thieves that don’t “pay-up”.
\nDir: William K. Howard. Actors: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd
\n77 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen an FBI agent goes undercover in the Communist Party, his wife and friends question his patriotism.
\nDir: Gordon Douglas. Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen enemy agents steal plans for an experimental plane, the test pilot fights to clear his name.
\nDir: Tim Whelan. Actors: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
\nA female reporter goes undercover within a Neo-Nazi group, then loses her memory.
\nDir: Jack Bernhard. Actors: Nancy Coleman, Michael O’Shea, Sheldon Leonard
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nRussian secret service officials attempt to kidnap a CIA officer and replace him with a double of their own.
\nDir: Franklin J. Schaffner. Actors: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill
\n105 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – May 7, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nYears after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
\nDir: Lewis Milestone. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
\n116 mins<\/p>\nSunday – May 8, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAfter a train crash, a poor, unmarried pregnant woman takes the identity of a dead, pregnant passenger. She is welcomed into their rich family.
\nDir: Mitchell Leisen. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
\n98 mins<\/p>\n
\nA working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
\nDir: Richard Brooks. Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
\n93 mins
\n*****Not a mystery, however it’s a very good movie – just in time of the summer wedding months…*****<\/p>\n
\nAfter a train crash, a poor, unmarried pregnant woman takes the identity of a dead, pregnant passenger. She is welcomed into their rich family.
\nDir: Mitchell Leisen. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
\n98 mins<\/p>\n
\nA distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
\n107 mins<\/p>\nMonday – May 9, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nMarried book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant .
\nDir: Busby Berkeley. Actors: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey
\n73 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – May 10, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.
\nDir: Jean-luc Godard. Actors: Jean Seberg, Jean-paul Belmondo, Liliane David
\n90 mins (in French)<\/p>\nWednesday – May 11, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
\nDir: Costa-Gavras. Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
\n125 mins (in French?)<\/p>\nFriday – May 13, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
\nDir: Lew Landers. Actors: Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth
\n61 mins<\/p>\n
\nAfter hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
\nDir: Charles Laughton. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
\n93 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – May 14, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
\nDir: Carol Reed. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nSecret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
\nDir: Noel Smith. Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr.
\n58 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk . Actors: Robert Young,Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
\n85 mins<\/p>\nSunday – May 15, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA crook tries to avenge his wife’s accidental shooting by a cop.
\nDir: Budd Boetticher. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\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
\nA nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crook tries to avenge his wife’s accidental shooting by a cop.
\nDir: Budd Boetticher. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
\n73 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – May 18, 2022<\/h3>\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>\nThursday – May 19, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nTruck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Actors: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nSherlock Holmes is called in to solve the case when secret society members start dropping like flies.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, June Clyde
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn astrologer tries to help the police catch a killer.
\nDir: William McGann. Actors: Margaret Lindsay, Anna May Wong, Lola Lane
\n65 mins<\/p>\nFriday – May 20, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA mentally unstable woman seduces a golfer. Together, they plot a murder scheme to kill the woman’s psychiatrist and the golfer’s rival.
\nDir: Robert Sparr. Actors: Paul Burke, Carol Lynley, Martha Hyer
\n106 mins<\/p>\n
\nA magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
\nDir: Charles Lederer. Actors: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nPsychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
\nDir: Curtis Bernhardt. Actors: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
\n99 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – May 21, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
\nDir: Lloyd Bacon. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nA corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
\nDir: Cyril Endfield. Actors: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm
\n90 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>\nSunday – May 22, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
\nDir: Joseph H. Lewis. Actors: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready
\n65 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
\nDir: Joseph H. Lewis. Actors: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready
\n65 mins<\/p>\n
\nTop-notch reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
\n100 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>\nThursday – May 26, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAfter surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
\nDir: Arthur Lubin. Actors: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
\n111 mins<\/p>\nFriday – May 27, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
\n86 mins<\/p>\nSunday – May 29, 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 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>\nTuesday – May 31, 2022<\/h3>\n
\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
\n97 mins<\/p>\n