My gosh! It’s finally officially summer – but here in San Antonio it feels like our summer months begin in May! Yow-zee — it has been hot (and humid)! But, I’m sure you didn’t com here to see me complain about our weather…
Withour further ado – here are the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during June 2025. (Oh, and there are two Miss Marple movies with Margaret Rutherford that will be playing this month. She’s not your typical Miss Marple…)
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2025
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Sunday – June 1, 2025
10:00 AM The Big Steal (1949)
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
71 mins
11:30 AM Respect the Law (1941)
This short film focuses on how minor lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals. Part of the “Crime Does Not Pay” series.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Moroni Olsen, Richard Lane, Frank Orth
20 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – June 2, 2025
6:30 AM A Shot in the Dark (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
57 mins
7:30 AM Tiger Bay (1959)
A seaman kills his two-timing girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, but is witnessed in the act by a young girl. He kidnaps her for fear she’ll turn him in, but oddly the two strike up a friendship until a detective comes snooping around, using the girl as bait to catch the killer before his ship sails off.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
105 mins
11:30 AM The Decks Ran Red (1958)
Dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford
84 mins
1:00 PM The Ghost Ship (1943)
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett
69 mins
2:15 PM Murder in the Fleet (1935)
Seamen hunt down a deadly saboteur.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick/ Cast: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy
69 mins
3:30 PM The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith. Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr.
60 mins
4:45 PM Mad Holiday (1936)
A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts
71 mins
6:15 PM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins
10:00 PM Man of the West (1958)
A reformed outlaw is among the passengers who are held hostage when a train is robbed by his former colleagues.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
100 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – June 3, 2025
4:00 AM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins
10:15 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist’s sister’s relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
96 mins
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Wednesday – June 4, 2025
1:45 PM Lightning Strikes Twice (1935)
A jewel heist leads to murder.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton
63 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – June 7, 2025
6:30 AM The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)
Reform school girls trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Dir: Bernard Girard. Cast: Susan Oliver, Linda Plowman, Beverly Long
76 mins
10:30 AM Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)
Bulldog Drummond postpones his wedding to track down a band of bank robbers.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner
56 mins
12:00 AM The Undercover Man (1949)
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
85 mins
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Sunday – June 8, 2025
10:00 AM The Undercover Man (1949)
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
85 mins
4:15 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
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Monday – June 9, 2025
6:00 PM Suspicion (1941)
A 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.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins
8:00 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between them …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins
10:00 PM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins
*****Based on the novel by Wilkie Collins****
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Tuesday – June 10, 2025
4:00 AM The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
A master thief escapes from a Canadian prison farm and makes his way to New York.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer
91 mins
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Wednesday – June 11, 2025
12:00 AM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins
1:30 AM Good Time Girl (1948)
A British magistrate tells the story of a wayward girl who joins two GI deserters in a crime spree.
Dir: David Macdonald. Cast: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Diana Dors
91 mins
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Thursday – June 12, 2025
6:30 AM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins
8:00 AM Terror on a Train (1953)
It’s a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
72 mins
9:15 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins
10:45 AM Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
75 mins
12:15 PM The Petrified Forest (1936)
When 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.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
83 mins
1:45 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins
4:00 PM Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
74 mins
5:15 PM High Tide (1947)
A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the circumstances leading up to their predicament.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Cast: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
70 mins
6:30 PM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
83 mins
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Saturday – June 14, 2025
10:25 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins
3:45 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins
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Sunday – June 15, 2025
12:15 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins
10:00 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins
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Monday – June 16, 2025
8:00 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another. Corporate tax lawyer David Burton accepts the case just as torrential rains blanket even the most arid regions of the nation, and is instantly beset with prophetic dreams and apocalyptic …
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins
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Tuesday – June 17, 2025
2:00 AM Twilight of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
Dir: Boris Sagal. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams
104 mins
6:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman. Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins
9:30 AM I Thank a Fool (1962)
A woman once convicted of euthanasia gets a job caring for her prosecutor’s wife.
Dir: Robert Stevens. Cast: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento
100 mins
8:00 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
*****Not a mystery/crime movie. I just love this movie so much, I “have” to post it.*****
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Wednesday – June 18, 2025
4:30 AM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
86 mins
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Friday – June 20, 2025
12:30 AM Super Fly (1972)
Charismatic, big-time Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest drives expensive cars and plans one last big score to escape his life of violence. When corrupt cops working for the Mob learn of his plan, they try to make Priest a partner rather than arrest him…
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr.. Cast: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris
96 mins
2:15 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins
4:15 AM Black Eye (1974)
A private eye stumbles onto a series of murders connected to a movie star’s death.
Dir: Jack Arnold. Cast: Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves
98 mins
9:00 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins
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Saturday – June 21, 2025
2:30 AM Nine Queens (2000)
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (known as the “nine queens”).
Dir: Fabian Bielinsky Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
115 mins
*****In Spanish*****
6:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins
10:25 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
68 mins
6:15 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins
10:00 PM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On 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.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins
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Sunday – June 22, 2025
12:15 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
96 mins
*****In Japanese*****
10:00 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
96 mins
*****In Japanese*****
6:15 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins
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Monday – June 23, 2025
7:30 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins
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Tuesday – June 24, 2025
11:15 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins
12:30 PM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins
4:15 PM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
68 mins
5:30 PM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
67 mins
6:45 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins
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Wednesday – June 25, 2025
9:45 AM Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)
A race car driver tries to solve a series of track-side murders before he’s next.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton
70 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – June 26, 2025
8:00 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One 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.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins
11:30 PM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – June 27, 2025
1:30 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – June 28, 2025
10:10 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
83 mins
1:45 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins
8:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
*****Terrific mystery movie!*****
10:00 PM Chinatown (1974)
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Dir: Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
130 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – June 29, 2025
12:30 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins
*****Barbara Stanwyck really delivers in this mystery movie!*****
10:00 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins
*****Barbara Stanwyck delivers in this mystery movie!*****
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Monday – June 30, 2025
12:30 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins
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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in June, be sure to leave a comment below!
In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the May television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel
And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:
Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.
