It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television. As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at.

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September 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Saturday – September 2, 2017

9:30 AM
THE PHANTOM THIEF (1946)
A reformed thief tries to stop a murderous blackmailer.
Dir:  D. Ross Lederman Cast:  Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane.
BW- 65 mins

12:45 PM
RANCHO NOTORIOUS (1952)
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend’s killer.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer.
C- 89 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 3, 2017

9:00 AM
FRAMED (1947)
A femme fatale lures an unemployed man into helping her with a criminal scheme.
Dir:  Richard Wallace Cast:  Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan.
BW- 82 mins, CC

5:15 PM
ROPE (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
C- 81 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 4, 2017

10:45 AM
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)
Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter.
Dir:  George Stevens Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
BW- 114 mins, CC

*** Not a mystery, however it’s really good! ***

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 5, 2017

10:00 PM
LOVE LETTERS (1945)
A soldier falls for the woman who may have killed his best friend.
Dir:  William Dieterle Cast:  Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards.
BW- 101 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 6, 2017

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.
BW- 71 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – September 8, 2017

6:00 AM
CHINA PASSAGE (1937)
Murder and jewel theft plague a China-bound steamer.
Dir:  Edward Killy Cast:  Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton.
BW- 65 mins, CC

10:00 AM
WE’RE ON THE JURY (1937)
A jury member sets out to prove a murder defendant innocent.
Dir:  Ben Holmes Cast:  Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Philip Huston.
BW- 70 mins

8:30 PM
THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir:  Richard Brooks Cast:  Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
BW- 94 mins, CC

*** Not a mystery. This is a fantastic movie. ***

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 9, 2017

11:00 AM
REAR WINDOW (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
C- 112 mins, CC

7:00 PM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir:  Peter Yates Cast:  Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C- 114 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 10, 2017

5:00 AM
VENGEANCE VALLEY (1951)
An honest rancher tries to block his evil brother’s plots while keeping them from their father.
Dir:  Richard Thorpe Cast:  Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru.
C- 83 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 13, 2017

9:00 AM
UNDER COVER OF NIGHT (1937)
A police detective and his wife try to solve a string of murders.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton.
BW- 71 mins

10:15 AM
FROM HEADQUARTERS (1933)
A police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy’s murder.
Dir:  William Dieterle Cast:  George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette.
BW- 63 mins, CC

1:15 PM
BULLETS OR BALLOTS (1936)
A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
Dir:  William Keighley Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane.
BW- 82 mins, CC

2:45 PM
BORDERLINE (1950)
A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
Dir:  William A. Seiter Cast:  Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr.
BW- 88 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 16, 2017

9:30 AM
TRAPPED BY BOSTON BLACKIE (1948)
When the pearl necklace he’s been hired to guard goes missing, a reformed thief is the prime suspect.
Dir:  Seymour Friedman Cast:  Chester Morris, June Vincent, Richard Lane.
BW- 67 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 17, 2017

9:00 AM
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir:  Nicholas Ray Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
BW- 93 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 19, 2017

10:00 AM
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (1941)
Siamese twins, separated in infancy, join forces to avenge their parents’ murder.
Dir:  Gregory Ratoff Cast:  Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff.
BW- 111 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 20, 2017

5:00 AM
THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir:  Anatole Litvak Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 87 mins, CC

7:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir:  Norman Jewison Cast:  Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 23, 2017

7:30 AM
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter.
BW- 103 mins, CC

9:30 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE’S CHINESE VENTURE (1948)
When he’s spotted leaving a laundry whose proprietor has just been murdered, a reformed thief has to find the real killer.
Dir:  Seymour Friedman Cast:  Chester Morris, Maylia, Richard Lane.
BW- 59 mins

1:00 PM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir:  Seth Holt Cast:  Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 24, 2017

7:00 PM
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948)
A Chicago reporter re-opens a ten year old murder case.
Dir:  Henry Hathaway Cast:  James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb.
BW- 111 mins, CC

9:00 PM
BOOMERANG (1947)
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Dir:  Elia Kazan Cast:  Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb.
BW- 88 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 25, 2017

6:15 AM
MURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
Dir:  Harry Beaumont Cast:  Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle.
BW- 63 mins, CC

7:30 AM
THE TALL TARGET (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir:  Anthony Mann Cast:  Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
BW- 78 mins, CC

3:30 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

5:30 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.
BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 26, 2017

12:15 AM
THE LADYKILLERS (1956)
An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady’s boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
Dir:  Alexander Mackendrick Cast:  Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom.
C- 91 mins, CC

3:45 AM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
Dir:  Blake Edwards Cast:  Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 27, 2017

1:45 PM
STOP, YOU’RE KILLING ME (1952)
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
Dir:  Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson.
BW- 86 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – September 28, 2017

5:00 AM
LADIES OF THE JURY (1932)
A jury hold-out tries to prove the defendant’s innocence.
Dir:  Lowell Sherman Cast:  Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Rosco Ates.
BW- 63 mins

9:15 AM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 PM
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.
BW- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir:  Billy Wilder Cast:  Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
BW- 116 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – September 29, 2017

8:30 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.
BW- 115 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV movies coming up in September, 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 August television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2017

And of course, 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

It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television. As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at.

For all you “Murder, She Wrote” fans – TCM will be showing Angela Lansbury movies all day on Saturday, August 19 – before her Jessica Fletcher days.

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August 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Tuesday – August 1, 2017

8:30 AM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir:  John Huston Cast:  Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW- 112 mins, CC

9:00 PM
NIAGARA (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir:  Henry Hathaway Cast:  Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
C- 89 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 2, 2017

6:15 AM
BULLDOG DRUMMOND ESCAPES (1937)
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he intents to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.
Dir:  James Hogan Cast:  Ray Milland, Sir Guy Standing, Heather Angel.
BW- 67 mins

7:00 PM
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
Dir:  John Farrow Cast:  Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 95 mins, CC

9:00 PM
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C- 105 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 3, 2017

3:00 AM
HOSTILE WITNESS ( 1969)
A lawyer out to avenge his daughter’s death becomes the suspect in a suspect’s murder.
Dir: Ray Milland Cast: Ray Milland , Sylvia Syms , Felix Aylmer .
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 4, 2017

5:00 AM
DEAD END (1937)
A killer returns to his childhood home to plot his escape from the law.
Dir:  William Wyler Cast:  Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 92 mins, CC

6:45 AM
THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir:  Anatole Litvak Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 87 mins, CC

5:30 PM
JOHNNY ANGEL (1946)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso.
BW- 79 mins, CC

7:00 PM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW- 92 mins, CC

9:00 PM
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir:  Edward Dmytryk Cast:  Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
BW- 95 mins, CC

11:00 PM
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.
BW- 93 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 5, 2017

1:00 AM
KEY LARGO (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir:  John Huston Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall.
BW- 100 mins, CC

3:00 AM
BORDERLINE (1950)
A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
Dir:  William A. Seiter Cast:  Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr.
BW- 88 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 6, 2017

6:30 AM
WHEN STRANGERS MARRY (1944)
After a whirlwind romance, a small-town girl suspects she¿s married a murderer.
Dir:  William Castle Cast:  Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum.
BW- 67 mins

8:00 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir:  Edward Dmytryk Cast:  Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW- 86 mins, CC

1:15 PM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
A bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
Dir:  Charles Laughton Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
BW- 93 mins, CC

9:00 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 8, 2017

1:00 AM
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.
BW- 109 mins, CC

9:45 AM
FAST AND FURIOUS (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant.
Dir:  Busby Berkeley Cast:  Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
BW- 73 mins, CC

8:45 PM
THE UNGUARDED HOUR (1936)
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
Dir:  Sam Wood Cast:  Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone.
BW- 87 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 10, 2017

11:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir:  Norman Jewison Cast:  Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 11, 2017

11:30 AM
STAR OF MIDNIGHT (1935)
A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
Dir:  Stephen Roberts Cast:  William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly.
BW- 90 mins, CC

9:00 PM
TOP HAT (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend’s husband.
Dir:  Mark Sandrich Cast:  Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton.
BW- 100 mins, CC
***If you haven’t seen this non-mystery movie >>> be prepared to laugh.***

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 12, 2017

12:45 AM
TIGHT SPOT (1955)
A district attorney tries to get a hardboiled woman to testify against the mob.
Dir:  Phil Karlson Cast:  Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith.
BW- 96 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 13, 2017

9:30 AM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir:  Leigh Jason Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW- 80 mins, CC

11:00 AM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir:  Preston Sturges Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW- 94 mins, CC
***This is another very funny (non-mystery) movie.***

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – August 14, 2017

1:00 PM
AGATHA (1979)
A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie.
Dir:  Michael Apted Cast:  Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton.
C- 98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 PM
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir:  Herbert Ross Cast:  Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall.
C- 113 mins, CC

11:30 PM
BLOW-UP (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir:  Michelangelo Antonioni Cast:  Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings.
C- 111 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 15, 2017

11:00 PM
MYSTERY STREET (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 17, 2017

6:30 AM
TROUBLE FOR TWO (1936)
Before he can marry, a European prince gets mixed up with a suicide club.
Dir:  J. Walter Ruben Cast:  Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan.
BW- 74 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 19, 2017

1:00 PM
KIND LADY (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury.
BW- 78 mins, CC
*** I love this mystery movie! Ethel Barrymore is terrific! ***

9:30 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 20, 2017

1:00 PM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – August 21, 2017

12:30 PM
THE WITNESS CHAIR (1936)
A woman lets her lover stand trial for the murder she committed.
Dir:  George Nicholls Jr. Cast:  Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille.
BW- 64 mins, CC

3:30 PM
EYES IN THE NIGHT (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Dir:  Fred Zinnemann Cast:  Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed.
BW- 80 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 22, 2017

9:15 PM
THE VIOLENT MEN (1955)
The wife of a crooked cattle baron plots his murder.
Dir:  Rudolph Maté Cast:  Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
C- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 24, 2017

11:30 AM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 101 mins, CC
***This isn’t a mystery, but it’s a terrific Christmas movie.***

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 26, 2017

7:45 AM
JIMMY THE GENT (1934)
An unscrupulous detective makes a killing locating missing heirs.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 68 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 30, 2017

5:00 AM
CAIRO (1963)
Master thieves set their sights on King Tut’s jewels in this remake of The Asphalt Jungle.
Dir:  Wolf Rilla Cast:  George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama.
BW- 91 mins, CC

7:00 AM
BLUEBEARD’S TEN HONEYMOONS (1960)
A gold digger persuades her older lover to murder for her.
Dir:  W. Lee Wilder Cast:  George Sanders, Corinne Calvet, Jean Kent.
BW- 91 mins

10:30 AM
THE SAINT STRIKES BACK (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir:  John Farrow Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan.
BW- 64 mins, CC

11:45 AM
THE GAY FALCON (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir:  Irving Reis Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 67 mins, CC

1:00 PM
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir:  Albert Lewin Cast:  George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
BW- 110 mins, CC

3:00 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 121 mins, CC

5:15 PM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
Dir:  Blake Edwards Cast:  Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 31, 2017

1:00 AM
LURED (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir:  Douglas Sirk Cast:  George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW- 103 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – September 1, 2017

2:00 AM
NIGHT WATCH (1973)
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Dir:  Brian G. Hutton Cast:  Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw.
C- 99 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV movies coming up in August, 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 July television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2017

And of course, 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

It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television. As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at.

July will have a fair number of Alfred Hitchcock movies, but separated into enough smaller marathons that singling out a “must-see” day is pretty difficult. Instead, I’d urge you to browse through the schedule to pick out your own favorite movies by the Master of Suspense.

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July 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Saturday – July 1, 2017

9:30 AM
THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (1943)
An ex-thief helps some fellow ex-cons adjust to life as defense workers, only to get involved with a robbery investigation.
Dir:  William Castle Cast:  Chester Morris, Erik Rolf, Jeanne Bates.
BW- 66 mins, CC

5:00 PM
BADLANDS (1973)
A young tough guy and his teen-aged girlfriend take off on a killing spree.
Dir:  Terrence Malick Cast:  Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates.
C- 94 mins, CC

 

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 2, 2017

2:45 AM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir:  Mervyn LeRoy Cast:  Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 5, 2017

11:30 AM
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders.
BW- 100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 6, 2017

4:00 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.
BW- 86 mins

5:45 AM
MURDER! (1930)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Herbert Marshall, Miles Mander, Nora Baring.
BW- 100 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 7, 2017

7:15 AM
TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir:  Anthony Mann Cast:  Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
BW- 66 mins, CC

7:00 PM
NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1932)
A detective sets out to recover a necklace lifted by jewel thieves.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Donald Calthrop.
BW- 64 mins

8:30 PM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
BW- 76 mins, CC

10:00 PM
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
BW- 87 mins, CC

11:45 PM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 8, 2017

1:45 AM
JAMAICA INN (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie.
BW- 100 mins, CC

9:30 AM
ONE MYSTERIOUS NIGHT (1944)
A reformed thief helps the police recover an Egyptian diamond.
Dir:  Oscar Boetticher Jr. Cast:  Chester Morris, Janis Carter, William Wright.
BW- 62 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 9, 2017

9:00 AM
T-MEN (1948)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir:  Anthony Mann Cast:  Dennis O’Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder.
BW- 92 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – July 11, 2017

2:30 AM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 12, 2017

7:00 PM
REBECCA (1940)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders.
BW- 130 mins, CC

9:30 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 121 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 13, 2017

1:30 AM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

3:15 AM
SABOTEUR (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger.
BW- 109 mins, CC

2:45 PM
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks.
BW- 66 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 14, 2017

3:45 PM
KID GLOVE KILLER (1942)
A police scientist investigates the mayor’s murder.
Dir:  Fred Zinnemann Cast:  Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman.
BW- 74 mins, CC

7:00 PM
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey.
BW- 108 mins, CC

11:00 PM
SPELLBOUND (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov.
BW- 111 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 15, 2017

1:15 AM
NOTORIOUS (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
BW- 101 mins, CC

3:15 AM
THE PARADINE CASE (1948)
A married lawyer falls for the woman he’s defending on murder charges.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton.
BW- 114 mins, CC

9:30 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE BOOKED ON SUSPICION (1945)
A reformed thief accidentally sells a phony first edition of Dickens, which triggers a murder.
Dir:  Arthur Dreifuss Cast:  Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane.
BW- 67 mins, CC

2:45 PM
TOPAZ (1969)
A French agent is sent to Cuba to spy for the CIA.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin.
C- 126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – July 18, 2017

1:30 PM
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir:  Albert Lewin Cast:  George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury.
BW- 110 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE DROWNING POOL (1975)
A private eye’s investigation of an anonymous letter leads to murder.
Dir:  Stuart Rosenberg Cast:  Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 19, 2017

7:00 PM
ROPE (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
C- 81 mins, CC

8:30 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC

10:30 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 20, 2017

12:30 AM
I CONFESS (1953)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.
BW- 95 mins, CC

2:30 AM
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C- 105 mins, CC

7:00 PM
REAR WINDOW (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
C- 112 mins, CC,

9:15 PM
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick.
C- 99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie.
C- 120 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 21, 2017

1:30 AM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW- 105 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 22, 2017

9:30 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE’S RENDEZVOUS (1945)
A reformed thief helps the police stop an escaped maniac’s killing spree.
Dir:  Arthur Dreifuss Cast:  Chester Morris, Nina Foch, Steve Cochran.
BW- 64 mins

7:00 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast:  Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders.
BW- 138 mins, CC

11:15 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir:  Robert Aldrich Cast:  Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
BW- 134 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 23, 2017

5:00 AM
ABOVE SUSPICION (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir:  Richard Thorpe Cast:  Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt.
BW- 91 mins, CC

9:00 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.
BW- 83 mins, CC

1:00 PM
THE CAREY TREATMENT (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir:  Blake Edwards Cast:  James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir:  Terence Young Cast:  Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
C- 108 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 26, 2017

7:00 PM
VERTIGO (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
C- 128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:30 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 29, 2017

9:30 AM
A CLOSE CALL FOR BOSTON BLACKIE (1946)
A reformed thief fights to clear himself of murder charges.
Dir:  Lew Landers Cast:  Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane.
BW- 60 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 30, 2017

9:00 AM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW- 92 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 1, 2017

1:30 AM
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993)
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
Dir:  Woody Allen Cast:  Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler.
C- 108 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in July, 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 June television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 2017

And of course, 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