TCM Schedule for Thurs, Nov 13, 2025: Murder Mysteries/Cinema & Sound

DAYTIME (EST)

6:30 AM | Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
A schoolteacher matches wits with the police to solve the murder.
Dir: Edward Killy | Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer

7:45 AM | The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann | Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan

9:00 AM | The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager's mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin | Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook

10:30 AM | Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock | Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian

12:15 PM | The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Only one person can attest that a passenger, who mysteriously vanishes, was ever on the same train.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas

2:00 PM | Murder She Said (1961)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues to a murder
Dir: George Pollock | Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow

3:45 PM | The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross | Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon

6:00 PM | After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart



PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | The Invention of Cinema: Cinema Finds Its Voice (2022)
The story of how sound was paired with images in the early years of cinema, including an in-depth look at the people behind the scenes and the technological innovations that culminated in Warner Brothers' "The Jazz Singer" (1927), the ground-breaking film that changed the industry forever.
Dir: Eric Lange | Cast: Leonard Maltin

9:15 PM | Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

11:15 PM | His Glorious Night (1929)
Complications arise when a princess falls in love with a commoner.
Dir: Lionel Barrymore Cast: John Gilbert, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil

1:15 AM | Blackmail (1929)
A shopkeeper's daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton

2:45 AM | Becoming Hitchcock - The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
A reflection on Alfred Hitchcock's signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark film Blackmail.
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau | Cast: Elvis Mitchell (narrator), Alfred Hitchcock

4:00 AM | Hallelujah (1929)
A black laborer becomes a preacher after accidentally killing a man.
Dir: King Vidor | Cast: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William E. Fountaine