Yow-Zee! Summer is here and it’s hot, hot, hot in San Antonio —> Great time for reading indoors OR for watching a mystery/crime movie on the Turner Classic Movies channel!

There are a whole lot of summer movies being shown during July. If you’re interested in surfing, then this is the month for you! Also, there are quite a few war-time movies being aired this month.

I have listed a few non-mystery movies that I particularly like… Jezebel (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942… a 4th of July movie with James Cagney dancing and singing, not as a gangster!), The Women (1939), and I Know Where I’m Going (1945).

(Since all of these movies are from way back when, some of them may be rather dated.)

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2024

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Monday – July 1, 2024

11:30 AM Jezebel (1938)
Julie 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 …
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
104 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie*****

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

Tuesday – July 2, 2024

8:00 PM Lifeboat (1944)
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
97 mins

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

Thursday – July 4, 2024

5:30 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
126 mins
*****4th of July movie – not a mystery.*****

11:15 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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

Friday – July 5, 2024

7:45 AM Is My Face Red? (1932)
A gossip columnist witnesses a gangland killing.
Dir: William Seiter. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
70 mins

9:00 AM Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Dir: David Bradley. Cast: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray
65 mins

5:45 PM The Women (1939)
It’s all about men! In the eternal battle between the sexes, one side holds an overwhelming advantage: Armed with razor-sharp wit and wielding gossip as a weapon, victory can only go to The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell enter the skirmish as Mary Haines, Crystal Allen and Sylvia Fowler – whose …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
132 mins
*****Not a mystery. A classic —> You won’t see one man in the cast – unusual for 1939 to not have more men than women in a movie.*****

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

Saturday – July 6, 2024

5:00 AM The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
94 mins

10:07 AM The Falcon’s Alibi (1946)
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron’s lost jewels.
Dir: Ray McCarey. Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett
62 mins

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

Sunday – July 7, 2024

12:15 AM 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

4:30 AM Blind Alibi (1938)
A man pretends to be blind to foil blackmailers.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli
62 mins

10:00 AM 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

1:15 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
132 mins

3:45 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

6:00 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
106 mins
*****Wow-Zee! What a mystery movie!*****

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Monday – July 8, 2024

6:00 AM Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
The British sleuth comes out of retirement to help catch a band of thieves armed with military weapons.
Dir: Victor Saville. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty
79 mins

7:30 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins

9:30 AM Blanche Fury (1948)
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths his estate to her relatives, but Allan’s illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Dir: Marc Allegret. Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough
90 mins

11:30 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

1:00 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins

2:30 PM Sapphire (1959)
A “light-skinned” black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London’s bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
92 mins
*****Remember, this movie is from 1959*****

4:30 PM Green for Danger (1946)
A police inspector investigates an operating room death that may be murder.
Dir: Sidney Gilliat. Cast: Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard
91 mins

6:30 PM 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
*****This is the first version of Gaslight, not the better-known 1944 version.****

8:00 PM Scarface (1932)
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
90 mins
*****Not the better-known 1983 version*****

9:45 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York during Prohibition. Two of the friends become rival liquor sellers, while the third is a prosecutor determined to wipe out illegal liquor businesses.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
104 mins

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

Tuesday – July 9, 2024

3:00 AM The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Film about a circus girl who’s manipulated into becoming a governor’s lover. When the governor kills the former circus boss, the girl takes the blame and faces the electric chair.
Dir: Phil Goldstone. Cast: Cora Sue Collins, Zita Johann
65 mins

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

Friday – July 12, 2024

5:00 AM Behind the Headlines (1937)
A radio station’s newsman rushes to the rescue of his peer, who has been kidnapped by bank robbers.
Dir: Richard Rosson. Cast: Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Donald Meek
58 mins

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

Saturday – July 13, 2024

10:08 AM The Falcon’s Adventure (1946)
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
Dir: William Berke. Cast: Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy
61 mins

4:15 PM 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
101 mins

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

Sunday – July 14, 2024

12:00 AM The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar
73 mins

10:00 AM The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar
73 mins

8:00 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

10:00 PM Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak .Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
88 mins

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

Monday – July 15, 2024

8:30 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
105 mins

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

Tuesday – July 16, 2024

1:45 PM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, a woman witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. The District Attorney finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, …
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

6:00 PM Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Dir: Leo McCarey. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak
116 mins

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

Thursday – July 18, 2024

6:30 PM House of Women (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger. Cast: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford
85 mins

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

Saturday – July 20, 2024

1:45 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

8:26 AM The Big Shakedown (1934)
A racketeer breaks into black-market medicine.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez
64 mins

9:30 AM Cry Justice (1956)
A man plots revenge on the friend who framed him for his own murder.
Dir: George Sherman. Cast: MacDonald Carey, James Dunn, Dick Haymes
26 mins

10:08 AM Grand Central Murder (1942)
A detective investigates an actress’s murder in a train car.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker
72 mins

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

Sunday – July 21, 2024

12:00 AM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

10:00 AM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

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

Tuesday – July 23, 2024

6:00 AM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
68 mins

6:00 PM The Dark Tower (1943)
A romantic triangle involving a hypnotist and two trapeze artists threatens to destroy a circus.
Dir: John Harlow. Cast: Herbert Lom, Terence Fisher
93 mins

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

Wednesday – July 24, 2024

8:00 PM The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

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

Thursday – July 25, 2024

4:00 PM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

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

Saturday – July 27, 2024

3:45 AM 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

10:07 AM Murder on Approval (1956)
A private eye investigates a deadly stamp counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Bernard Knowles. Cast: Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian Worth
70 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. I saw this movie for the first time last year and thought it was terrific. Dame Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey are … terrific! (I’ll be watching it again…)*****

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Sunday – July 28, 2024

12:00 AM The Housemaid (1960)
Drama ensues when a married music teacher hires a young maid to take care of the house.
Dir: Kim Ki-young. Cast: Lee Eun-sim, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kim Jin-kyu
110 mins
*****In Korean*****

10:00 AM The Housemaid (1960)
Drama ensues when a married music teacher hires a young maid to take care of the house.
Dir: Kim Ki-young. Cast: Lee Eun-sim, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kim Jin-kyu
110 mins
*****In Korean*****

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Monday – July 29, 2024

2:15 AM The American Friend (1977)
A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer
176 mins
*****In German & English*****

6:00 AM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

8:00 AM Highway 301 (1950)
A brutal bank robber fights internal divisions within his gang.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby Andre
83 mins

11:30 AM The Devil Makes Three (1952)
A soldier returns to Munich after the war and gets mixed up with the black market.
Dir: Andrew Marton. Cast: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober
96 mins

1:15 PM 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

8:00 PM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
72 mins

11:30 PM Midnight Mary (1933)
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Dir: William Wellman. Cast: Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone
71 mins

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

Tuesday – July 30, 2024

1:00 AM Marked Woman (1937)
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
96 mins

10:30 AM The Underworld Story (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield. Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm
90 mins

12:15 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
119 mins

2:30 PM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins

4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins
*****I wish the Turner Classic Movies channel would stop airing this movie. —> It’s so terrific that I watch it every time it is shown!*****

6:15 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
93 mins

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

Wednesday – July 31, 2024

12:45 PM Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
87 mins
*****In French*****

2:30 PM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

6:15 PM All Night Long (1963)
A jazz band’s leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair
95 mins

8:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
126 mins

12:30 AM Tony Rome (1967)
When a wealthy girl is found unconscious in a seedy Miami motel room, a private investigator is hired by her father to solve the crime.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte
109 mins

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

If you’re really 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 2024 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.

I’m working on this Turner Classic Movies mystery movie list in mid May… That’s right, not yet summer. However, today’s heat index in San Antonio is going to be 102* and the end of the week’s heat index is going to range between 105* and 108*. Great weather to crank up the air conditioner, stay inside, and spend the days either reading Cozy Mysteries or watching mystery movies! So, that’s what I’ll be doing!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2024

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Saturday – June 1, 2024

8:30 AM The Last Ride (1944)
A detective suspects foul play in a series of accidental deaths.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker
57 mins

10:07 AM The Falcon and the Co-eds (1944)
A society sleuth investigates murder at a girls’ school.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday
68 mins

1:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An 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.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

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

Sunday – June 2, 2024

12:00 AM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

6:15 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

8:30 AM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
85 mins

10:00 AM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

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

Tuesday – June 4, 2024

6:15 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

7:45 AM Fast and Loose (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane investigate the killing of a noted collector.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen
80 mins

6:00 PM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

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

Wednesday – June 5, 2024

7:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

8:15 AM 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
110 mins

10:15 AM The Scapegoat (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer. Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
92 mins

12:00 PM Victim (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
100 mins

1:45 PM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

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
120 mins

6:00 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

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

Friday – June 7, 2024

2:15 AM Eye of the Needle (1981)
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Dir: Richard Marquand. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
112 mins

4:15 AM I See A Dark Stranger (1946)
An Irish woman who hates the English turns Nazi spy.
Dir: Frank Launder. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
112 mins

11:45 AM Mr. Arkadin (1955)
An eager young man is hired by Mr. Arkadin, one of the richest men in Europe, to help him uncover clues about his past because he suffers from a severe condition of amnesia and does not know how he became so wealthy.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
99 mins

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

Saturday – June 8, 2024

8:26 AM Alcatraz Island (1937)
A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Mary Maguire
61 mins

10:08 AM The Falcon Out West (1944)
A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas murder.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale
64 mins

3:30 PM Angel Face (1953)
A beautiful woman thinks she has family problems.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

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

Sunday – June 9, 2024

12:15 AM Never Open That Door (1952)
Two separate tales that have in common the door which divides good from evil, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen Cast: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues
85 mins
*****In Spanish*****

2:00 AM If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
The son of a detective makes a discovery which may help solve the case of a serial killer of local children, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen. Cast: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene
73 mins
*****In Spanish*****

10:00 AM Never Open That Door (1952)
Two separate tales that have in common the door which divides good from evil, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen Cast: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues
85 mins
*****In Spanish*****

11:45 AM If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
The son of a detective makes a discovery which may help solve the case of a serial killer of local children, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen. Cast: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene
73 mins
*****In Spanish*****

10:00 PM Alias Nick Beal (1949)
A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and possibly diabolical Nick Beal.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
93 mins

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

Monday – June 10, 2024

6:30 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

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

Tuesday – June 11, 2024

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
87 mins

8:30 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

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

Wednesday – June 12, 2024

9:30 AM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
64 mins

11:00 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor. Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
91 mins

12:45 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After 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.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

4:00 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
112 mins

6:00 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy alcoholic housewife looks out her window and sees a murder taking place. The police nor her husband believe her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

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

Thursday – June 13, 2024

2:30 AM Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
A reformed jewel thief helps detectives track down a criminal.
Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William
82 mins

8:45 AM Death on the Diamond (1934)
A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton
71 mins

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

Saturday – June 15, 2024

8:27 AM Bodyguard (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed
62 mins

10:07 AM The Falcon in Mexico (1944)
A society sleuth travels South of the border to investigate an art dealer’s murder.
Dir: William Berke. Cast: Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha MacVicar
70 mins

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

Sunday – June 16, 2024

12:00 AM 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
111 mins

2:15 AM 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
128 mins

4:30 AM I Confess (1953)
Based 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.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

10:00 AM 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
111 mins

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

Monday – June 17, 2024

4:15 AM Judex (1963)
Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
Dir: Georges Franju. Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
104 mins

9:15 AM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins

8:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A 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.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins

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

Tuesday – June 18, 2024

9:30 AM 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
95 mins

10:00 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
138 mins
*****Not a mystery. Really terrific movie.*****

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

Wednesday – June 19, 2024

12:30 AM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

6:15 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

9:30 AM Born to Be Bad (1950)
An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins

12:45 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins

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

Thursday – June 20, 2024

12:00 AM Super Fly (1972)
A drug dealer tries to outwit a gang of corrupt police.
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr. Cast: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris
96 mins

1:45 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

8:00 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
112 mins

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

Friday – June 21, 2024

10:15 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

6:15 PM The Strangler (1964)
Completely dominated by his neurotic, bed-ridden mother, an overweight lab technician develops a doll fetish and a bad habit of murdering nurses.
Dir: Burt Topper. Cast: Victor Buono, David Mclean, Diane Sayer
89 mins

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

Saturday – June 22, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
A society sleuth tours the movie capital, where he uncovers an actor’s murder.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg
67 mins

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

Sunday – June 23, 2024

12:15 AM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
86 mins

2:00 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
An artist who finds inspiration in murder and the two women he loves.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

4:00 AM Conflict (1945)
A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
86 mins

10:00 AM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
86 mins

11:45 AM 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
78 mins

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

Tuesday – June 25, 2024

7:30 AM Scene of the Crime (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman’s murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven
94 mins

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

Wednesday – June 26, 2024

12:00 AM The Kiss of Death (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
98 mins

4:00 AM The Outfit (1973)
An ex-con takes on the mob to avenge his brother’s death.
Dir: John Flynn. Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Roland Lastarza
102 mins

8:00 AM Three Strangers (1946)
Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
92 mins

1:15 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

6:00 PM M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
99 mins

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

Friday – June 28, 2024

6:30 AM Purple Noon (1961)
This is the French version of “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
Dir: René Clément Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins
*****In French*****

2:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins

4:15 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
86 mins

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

Saturday – June 29, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
A society sleuth enlists a little girl’s help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy
66 mins

4:45 PM 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

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

Sunday – June 30, 2024

12:15 AM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
81 mins

10:00 AM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
81 mins

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

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 2024 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.

Oh, my! It’s already May! I’m getting this Turner Classic Mystery Movies list ready in mid April, and already we’ve had several days in the mid 80s. It’s going to be a hot summer for us down here in San Antonio!

I don’t usually do this, but I’m going to highlight three mystery movies that the Turner Classic channel will be showing during May 2024. Two of them are directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and one by Otto Preminger. Hitchcock’s are the 1940 Rebecca (based on the terrific novel by Daphne du Maurier) and the 1938 The Lady Vanishes (based on Ethel Lina White’s novel The Wheel Spins). I haven’t seen either of them in a few years, so I’m going to be sure to “tape” them this time when they are shown. Rebecca will be playing on Wednesday the 1st and The Lady Vanishes on Wednesday the 22nd. The third movie I want to highlight is the 1944 Laura, directed by Otto Preminger. It will be aired on Wednesday the 1st. I’ll be “taping” this one also since I haven’t seen it in years.

Also, I want to tell you about two Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery movies Turner will be showing: the 1961 Murder She Said and the 1963 Murder at the Gallop. They are “very sixties movies” – don’t expect a quiet time with this Miss Marple! (They’ll be airing on Sunday, May 12.)

Three Falcon movies will be airing this month: The Falcon Takes Over, The Falcon’s Brother, and The Falcon in Danger. George Sanders started the Falcon mystery movies and then his brother (literally!) took over the role of the sleuth. The three movies will be aired on the first three Saturdays of the month.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2024

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

Wednesday – May 1, 2024

8:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

9:45 PM Rebecca (1940)
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by the memory of his first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
115 mins

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

Thursday – May 2, 2024

12:15 AM Marnie (1964)
A woman with a penchant for stealing money from the places she works as a receptionist marries one of her bosses who knows she’s guilty. He then proceeds to try to uncover the mysteries surrounding her past.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
130 mins

2:45 AM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffmyu7an, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

6:30 AM The Angry Hills (1959)
A World War II correspondent fights to get strategic information out of occupied Greece.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Mueller
105 mins

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

Friday – May 3, 2024

10:45 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

12:30 PM The Unholy Three (1930)
A ventriloquist, a strong man and a midget form a criminal alliance.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent
72 mins

8:00 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins

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

Saturday – May 4, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
A society sleuth and a lady reporter try to track down a murderous thug’s lost girlfriend.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason
63 mins

3:45 PM The Liquidator (1966)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff. Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
104 mins

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

Sunday – May 5, 2024

12:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

10:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

10:15 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

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

Tuesday – May 7, 2024

11:30 AM The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
90 mins

4:15 PM Brother Orchid (1940)
After a failed hit, a mob chief recuperates in a monastery.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart
90 mins

8:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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

Saturday – May 11, 2024

10:08 AM The Falcon’s Brother (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan. Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
63 mins

2:45 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

4:30 PM Roadblock (1951)
An insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels. Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
73 mins

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

Sunday – May 12, 2024

12:45 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
59 mins

2:15 AM 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

4:00 AM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins

10:00 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
59 mins

3:45 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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

Monday – May 13, 2024

12:45 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

11:45 PM Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
A Chinese princess gets caught between the ruthless warlord Fu Manchu and a handsome secret agent.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa
70 mins

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

Tuesday – May 14, 2024

1:00 AM Daughter of Shanghai (1938)
A young woman tracks down the smugglers who killed her father.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe
63 mins

6:00 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
101 mins

6:00 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

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

Thursday – May 16, 2024

7:15 AM Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins

10:15 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

12:00 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

2:00 PM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

4:00 PM 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

6:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins

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

Friday – May 17, 2024

11:30 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

2:00 PM The Venetian Affair (1967)
A reporter investigates an American diplomat’s murder in Venice.
Dir: Jerry Thorpe. Cast: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr
92 mins

11:30 PM The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
The fact-based events surrounding the murder of a young woman at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta in 1913. Originally shown as a TV mini-series.
Dir: William Hale. Cast: Richard Jordan, Peter Gallagher, William H. Macy, Jack Lemmon
251 mins

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

Saturday – May 18, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon in Danger (1943)
A society sleuth tracks a lost plane carrying $100,000.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard
73 mins

3:15 PM The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
149 mins

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

Sunday – May 19, 2024

12:00 AM Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Dir: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Misako Watanabe
79 mins
*****In Japanese*****

10:00 AM Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Dir: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Misako Watanabe
79 mins

3:45 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

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

Tuesday – May 21, 2024

1:00 PM Mr. and Mrs. North (1941)
A happily married couple discover a murder victim in their closet.
Dir: Robert B. Sinclair. Cast: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
67 mins

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

Wednesday – May 22, 2024

1:45 PM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

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

Friday – May 31, 2024

3:30 PM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as “Doc” McCoy – a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison–in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali Macgraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

5:45 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

8:00 PM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
74 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in May, 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 April television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2024 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.

Finally, it’s spring! Well, I say that for those of you who live in areas where you can actually enjoy the spring time. As I prepared the Turner Classic Movies channel’s April schedule of mystery and crime movies (in March), we have already had several days in the 80s. I’ve mentioned many times that we experience two seasons down here in San Antonio – humid and hot AND tepid and cool – yet still humid. So, we now see ourselves in the humid/hot/tropical-feeling weather. I sure do miss the four seasons!

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2024

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

Monday – April 1, 2024

11:15 AM The Unholy Three (1925)
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
86 mins

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

Tuesday – April 2, 2024

12:15 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
113 mins
****Not a mystery – but quite a funny classic. Jean Harlow is a treasure to watch!*****

5:30 AM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

10:45 AM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
63 mins

2:30 PM ‘G’ Men (1935)
A mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
85 mins

5:30 PM The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Perry Mason tries to find out if a long-lost heiress is the real thing.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel
70 mins

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

Wednesday – April 3, 2024

10:00 PM The Wild One (1953)
A vicious biker gang terrorizes a small town while their leader falls for a local girl.
Dir: Laslo Benedek. Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
79 mins

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

Thursday – April 4, 2024

4:15 AM The Formula (1980)
A detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
Dir: John G. Avildsen. Cast: George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
117 mins

6:15 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

10:00 AM Two Smart People (1946)
In New Orleans, a lady crook tries to steal a con man’s hidden loot.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan
93 mins

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

Friday – April 5, 2024

6:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 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
106 mins
*****A classic mystery movie!*****

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

Saturday – April 6, 2024

10:08 AM Babbitt (1934)
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd
74 mins

11:30 AM Money to Loan (1939)
This looks at the criminal lengths that loan sharks go to get individuals to pay back their loans.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Lester Dorr, Alan Dinehart, Warren Mccollum
21 mins

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

Sunday – April 7, 2024

12:00 AM Violence (1947)
A female reporter goes undercover within a Neo-Nazi group, then loses her memory.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Nancy Coleman, Michael O’shea, Sheldon Leonard
72 mins

10:00 AM Violence (1947)
A female reporter goes undercover within a Neo-Nazi group, then loses her memory.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Nancy Coleman, Michael O’shea, Sheldon Leonard
72 mins

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

Tuesday – April 9, 2024

8:00 PM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins

10:00 PM 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

11:45 PM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

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

Wednesday – April 10, 2024

1:30 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

3:00 AM The Vanishing (1988)
A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.
Dir: George Sluizer. Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege
107 mins
*****In English, French, & Dutch*****

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

Thursday – April 11, 2024

9:00 AM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
81 mins

10:30 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
80 mins

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

Friday – April 12, 2024

4:45 PM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts.
Dir: René Clément. Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins

8:00 PM Bullets or Ballots (1936)
A 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.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton Maclane
77 mins

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

Sunday – April 14, 2024

12:15 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

7:30 AM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

10:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

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

Monday – April 15, 2024

2:30 AM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

4:30 AM 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

9:45 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins

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

Tuesday – April 16, 2024

9:00 AM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins

Wednesday – April 17, 2024

2:30 AM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

4:30 AM 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
108 mins

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

Thursday – April 18, 2024

3:15 PM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

8:00 PM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

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

Saturday – April 20, 2024

10:08 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

4:30 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

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

Sunday – April 21, 2024

12:00 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
92 mins

6:00 AM Crime and Punishment, U.S.A. (1959)
In an update of the Dostoyevsky classic novel, a murderer believes he can escape the penalties of justice.
Dir: Denis Sanders. Cast: Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes
96 mins

10:00 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
92 mins

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

Monday – April 22, 2024

1:45 PM Ice Station Zebra (1968)
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan
148 mins

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

Tuesday – April 23, 2024

1:45 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

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

Saturday – April 27, 2024

4:15 AM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

11:30 AM The Skull Murder Mystery (1932)
In this short, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion when the skeleton of a man is dug up in an alley. Vitaphone Release 1348-1349.
Dir: Joseph Henabery. Cast: Paul Guilfoyle, Harry Mestayer, Donald Meek
21 mins

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

Sunday – April 28, 2024

5:45 PM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

4:00 AM Hit Man (1973)
A racketeer tears up L.A.’s underworld searching for his brother’s killer.
Dir: George Armitage. Cast: Bernie Casey, Pamela Grier, Lisa Moore
90 mins

8:00 PM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 mins

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

Tuesday – April 30, 2024

1:45 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

3:45 PM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
117 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in April, 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 March television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2024 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.