Here is the April 2023 Turner Classic Movies channel roster – and there are a few mystery movies that I think you’ll enjoy. I am finding myself re-watching old black and white mystery movies that I have already seen – several times. Do any of you do this? If so, you are not alone!<\/p>\n
On an aside: I love the Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre duo! Turner Classic Movies will be showing three movies this month that have this duo: The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and Three Strangers (1946) on Wednesday the 19th AND The Verdict (1946) on Thursday the 20th.<\/p>\n
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2:00 PM Night Nurse (1931)<\/strong> 3:30 PM Jewel Robbery (1932)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:30 AM Little Caesar (1930)<\/strong> 8:30 AM ‘G’ Men (1935)<\/strong> 10:15 AM Bullets or Ballots (1936)<\/strong> 12:00 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)<\/strong> 2:00 PM High Sierra (1941)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Key Largo (1948)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Public Enemy (1931)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:15 AM One Way Passage (1932)<\/strong> 2:45 AM Two Seconds (1932)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:15 AM The Maltese Falcon (1931)<\/strong> 5:15 PM Smart Blonde (1936)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM From Headquarters (1933)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:15 AM The FBI Story (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:15 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:45 AM They Drive by Night (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Dial M for Murder (1954)<\/strong> 11:00 AM The Bad Seed (1956)<\/strong> 1:30 PM Dead Ringer (1964)<\/strong> 3:30 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 AM The Petrified Forest (1936)<\/strong> 9:30 AM Dark Passage (1947)<\/strong> 1:00 PM Bullitt (1968)<\/strong> 3:30 PM The Yakuza (1974)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 PM Ocean’s Eleven (1960)<\/strong> 10:30 PM The Big Sleep (1946)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:00 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> 3:00 AM I Confess (1953)<\/strong> 10:45 AM Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Stage Fright (1950)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM Harper (1966)<\/strong> 8:00 AM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Three Strangers (1946)<\/strong> 5:45 PM Deception (1946)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 AM The Verdict (1946)<\/strong> 9:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)<\/strong> 1:30 PM 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)<\/strong> 4:30 PM Blackwell’s Island (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:45 AM Night Moves (1975)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 PM The Last Of Sheila (1973)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 AM Klute (1971)<\/strong> 7:15 AM Deathtrap (1982)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:30 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in April, 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 March 2023 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nA nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA jewel thief falls for a tycoon’s wife in Vienna.
\nDir: William Dieterle. Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson
\n70 mins<\/p>\nSunday – April 2, 20230o<\/h3>\n
\nA small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nA mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
\nDir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nA maverick cop gets thrown off the force in disgrace, and goes to the city’s gang lords and offers to join their side, helping them to get around the police. But in fact, he is still a cop, and is working undercover to break apart the gangs.
\nDir: William Keighley. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton Maclane
\n77 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
\nDir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
\n101 mins<\/p>\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. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
\n74 mins<\/p>\nMonday – April 3, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.
\nDir: Tay Garnett. Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline Macmahon
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nIn the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee
\n68 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – April 4, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nDetective Sam Spade investigates the theft of a priceless statue.
\nDir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
\nDir: Frank Mcdonald. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw
\n59 mins<\/p>\nThursday – April 6, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy’s murder.
\nDir: William Dieterle. Cast: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
\n64 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – April 8, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
\n110 mins<\/p>\nMonday – April 10, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
\n149 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – April 11, 2023<\/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. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
\n118 mins<\/p>\nThursday – April 13, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nTruck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
\n93 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – April 15, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
\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. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
\n129 mins<\/p>\n
\nOne of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
\nDir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
\n115 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
\nDir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
\n132 mins<\/p>\n
\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
\nDir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
\n108 mins<\/p>\nSunday – April 16, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nWhen a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster.
\nDir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
\nDir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
\n106 mins<\/p>\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. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nHarry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
\nDir: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
\n112 mins<\/p>\nMonday – April 17, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
\nDir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
\n127 mins<\/p>\n
\nCalled into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
\nDir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
\n114 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – April 18, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nBased on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nA runaway prince in disguise takes up with a taxi driver.
\nDir: David Butler. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood. Now, as Eve plays a game of cat and mouse with …
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
\n113 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – April 19, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
\nDir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
\n121 mins<\/p>\n
\nA meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
\nDir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nThree people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
\nDir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
\nDir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
\n100 mins<\/p>\nThursday – April 20, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
\nDir: Don Siegel. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
\n86 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. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nA reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
\nDir: William McGann. Cast: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
\n71 mins<\/p>\nSunday – April 23, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
\nDir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
\n99 mins<\/p>\nMonday – April 24, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
\nDir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
\n120 mins<\/p>\nFriday – April 28, 2023<\/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. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nSidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
\nDir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
\n115 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – April 29, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA gangster finds the straight life isn’t so simple.
\nDir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
\n85 mins<\/p>\n