![\"Murder](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51BE2ymI7aL._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"Murder")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nTURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES \u2013 December 2023<\/h4>\n
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Tuesday – January 2, 2024<\/h3>\n
2:45 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Out of the Past (1947)<\/strong> 9:45 PM The Big Steal (1949)<\/strong> 11:15 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 AM Angel Face (1953)<\/strong> 3:15 AM Where Danger Lives (1950)<\/strong> 4:45 AM The Racket (1951)<\/strong> 6:30 AM Crossfire (1947)<\/strong> 8:15 AM Macao (1952)<\/strong> 9:45 AM Second Chance (1953)<\/strong> 11:15 AM The Locket (1946)<\/strong> 1:00 PM Undercurrent (1946)<\/strong> 2:15 PM Suspense (1946)<\/strong> 4:15 PM The Hunted (1948)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Moonstruck (1987)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:30 AM Dark Shadows (1944)<\/strong> 3:30 PM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)<\/strong> 5:00 PM Detour (1945)<\/strong> 12:30 AM Pickup (1951)<\/strong> 2:15 AM This Is Spinal Tap (1984)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Pickup (1951)<\/strong> 3:45 PM The Gazebo (1960)<\/strong> 5:45 PM Deathtrap (1982)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM The Vanishing (1988)<\/strong> 4:00 AM Insomnia (1997)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM Gilda (1946)<\/strong> 2:00 PM The Liquidator (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:15 AM The Saint in New York (1938)<\/strong> 7:45 AM The Saint Strikes Back (1939)<\/strong> 9:00 AM The Saint in London (1939)<\/strong> 10:30 AM The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)<\/strong> 11:45 AM The Saint Takes Over (1940)<\/strong> 1:00 PM The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)<\/strong> 2:15 PM The Saint’s Vacation (1941)<\/strong> 3:30 PM The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Bullitt (1968)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM Eyes in the Night (1942)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Mississippi Burning (1988)<\/strong> 10:15 PM The Boston Strangler (1968)<\/strong> 12:15 AM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)<\/strong> 6:00 AM Dead Ringer (1964)<\/strong> 8:00 AM A Stolen Life (1946)<\/strong> 10:00 AM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:00 AM In the Heat of the Night (1967)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:45 AM The Angry Hills (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM Best in Show (2000)<\/strong> 9:45 PM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:09 AM After Office Hours (1935)<\/strong> 6:00 PM The Late Show (1977)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Stage Fright (1950)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Stage Fright (1950)<\/strong> 12:15 PM Idiot’s Delight (1939)<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:15 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Heiress (1949)<\/strong> 12:30 AM Klute (1971)<\/strong> 1:00 PM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:15 AM My Forbidden Past (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Psycho (1960)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Repeat Performance (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Woman In Hiding (1950)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Woman In Hiding (1950)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Jezebel (1938)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:15 PM The Light Touch (1951)<\/strong> 10:15 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)<\/strong> 2:00 AM Farewell, My Lovely (1975)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:15 AM The Yakuza (1974)<\/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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
\nDir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nA private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
\nDir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nA deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
\n122 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 3, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA woman murders her family for their money.
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
\nA psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
\n84 mins<\/p>\n
\nA tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
\nDir: John Cromwell. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
\nDir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crooked boxer falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
\nDir: Rudy Mat\u00e9. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
\nDir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
\n86 mins<\/p>\n
\nA sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
\nDir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
\n116 mins<\/p>\n![\"Hunted,](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/519kQhS-9DL._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"Hunted,")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nFriday – January 5, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nThe new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owners business and his wife.
\nDir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
\nDir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
\n67 mins<\/p>\n
\nA levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance’s brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
\nDir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
\n102 mins
\n*****Not a mystery, but very good.*****<\/p>\nSaturday – January 6, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA psychiatrist investigates the murder of another psychiatrist.
\nDir: Walter Hart. Cast: William Tannen, Dorothy Adams, Paul Langton
\n21 mins<\/p>\n
\nA wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
\nDir: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nA hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
\n68 mins<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/519rLvOBC9L._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nSunday – January 7, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nAn older man falls for a much younger beauty who is after his money.
\nDir: Hugo Haas. Cast: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
\nA filmmaker documents the history of Spinal Tap, the world’s loudest rock band.
\nDir: Rob Reiner. Cast: Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael Mckean
\n82 mins
\n***Not a mystery. A terrific mockumentary!*****<\/p>\n
\nAn older man falls for a much younger beauty who is after his money.
\nDir: Hugo Haas. Cast: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
\nA suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
\nDir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
\n100 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>\nMonday – January 8, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.
\nDir: George Sluizer. Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege
\n107 mins
\n*****In Dutch*****<\/p>\n
\nA psychological crime thriller which follows a sleep-deprived homicide detective as he investigates the brutal murder of a teenage girl in Northern Norway. A second murder intensifies the pursuit and prompts the policeman to take some of the same risks as the man they are hunting.
\nDir: Erik Skjoldbj\u00b5rg. Cast: Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bj\u00f8rn Floberg
\n99 mins
\n*****In Swedish and Norwegian*****<\/p>\nWednesday – January 10, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
\n110 mins<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51m6gmBiuJL._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nThursday -January 11, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
\nDir: Jack Cardiff. Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
\n104 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 12, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nThe Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
\nDir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan
\n64 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
\nDir: John Paddy Carstairs. Cast: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nReformed jewel thief Simon Templer lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
\nDir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale
\n68 mins<\/p>\n
\nReformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
\nDir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nReformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
\nDir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle
\n66 mins<\/p>\n
\nReformed jewel thief Simon Templer vies with Nazi agents for possession of a mysterious music box.
\nDir: Leslie Fenton. Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae
\n60 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
\nDir: Paul Stein. Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod
\n70 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>\nSaturday – January 13, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nBlind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
\nDir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nFBI agents investigate the murders of civil rights workers in the South.
\nDir: Alan Parker. Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances Mcdormand
\n125 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. Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
\n116 mins<\/p>\n![\"I](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51qTgtyA8YL._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"I")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nSunday – January 14, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nAn ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
\n109 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 twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
\nDir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
\n107 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
\n109 mins<\/p>\nMonday – January 15, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
\nDir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
\n109 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 17, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA World War II correspondent fights to get strategic information out of occupied Greece.
\nDir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Mueller
\n105 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 19, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA “behind the scenes” look into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of dog-shows through the eyes of a group of ruthless dog owners – all hoping to take the “Best in Show” prize.
\nDir: Christopher Guest. Cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard (What a cast!)
\n90 mins
\n*****Not a mystery, but a very funny movie.*****<\/p>\n
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
\n73 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – January 20, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
\nDir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
\nDir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
\n94 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 21, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nWhen witnesses see a man fleeing the scene of a murder he asks his former girlfriend for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen witnesses see a man fleeing the scene of a murderhe asks his former girlfriend for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nA determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
\nDir: Michael Powell Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
\n92 mins
\n*****Not a mystery, though an excellent movie.*****<\/p>\n
\nA plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
\nDir: William Wyler Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
\n115 mins
\n*****Not a mystery, but this is another really good movie.*****<\/p>\n![\"Klute](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51TKegjDBmL._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"Klute")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nTuesday – January 23, 2024<\/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
\nA schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
\nDir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
\n74 mins
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Withers mystery series.*****<\/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. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
\n93 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 24, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
\nDir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
\n81 mins<\/p>\nFriday – January 26, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
\n109 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. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
\n93 mins<\/p>\nSunday – January 28, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nAfter her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.
\nDir: Michael Gordon. Cast: Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nAfter her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.
\nDir: Michael Gordon. Cast: Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nJulie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden’s headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness …
\nDir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
\n104 mins
\n*****Not a mystery. Excellent movie.*****<\/p>\nMonday – January 29, 2024<\/h3>\n
\nAn art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
\nDir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders
\n93 mins<\/p>\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. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
\n111 mins<\/p>\n![\"Cape](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51fDmqNgB6S._SL500_.jpg\" "\\"Cape")
<\/a> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nTuesday – January 30 2024<\/h3>\n
\nA released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
\nDir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
\nLos Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe takes on the job of finding ex-con Moose Malloy’s girlfriend Velma. Once on the case, Marlowe finds himself in one dangerous situation after another as he follows a trail of lies and betrayals.
\nDir: Dick Richards. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
\n97 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – January 31, 2024<\/h3>\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>\n