Another month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for August!

August 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Wednesday – August 1, 2018

11:45 PM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC

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

Thursday – August 2, 2018

7:15 AM
EVELYN PRENTICE (1934)
A criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
Dir: William K. Howard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel.
BW- 79 mins, CC

9:00 PM
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
BW- 99 mins, CC

12:45 AM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Friday – August 3, 2018

5:00 AM
THE FIREBIRD (1934)
A young girl’s secret romance is exposed when her lover is murdered.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 74 mins

6:30 AM
RENDEZVOUS (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes.
BW- 94 mins, CC

11:00 AM
THE MURDER MAN (1935)
A hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
Dir: Tim Whelan Cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 69 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE (1933)
A murder brings together a woman and the son she was forced to give up years earlier.
Dir: Charles Brabin Cast: Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes.
BW- 84 mins, CC

7:00 PM
MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM, THE (1933)
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell.
C- 77 mins, CC

8:30 PM
SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM (1933)
Dir: Kurt Neumann Cast: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas.
BW- 65 mins

10:00 PM
DOCTOR X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy.
C- 76 mins, CC

11:30 PM
ABSOLUTE QUIET (1936)
Murder follows when a plane filled with shady characters is forced to land on a tycoon’s ranch.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Raymond
Walburn.
BW- 70 mins

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

Saturday – August 4, 2018

7:00 PM
HANG ‘EM HIGH (1968)
A mysterious drifter survives a lynching then goes back for revenge.
Dir: Ted Post Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley.
C- 115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:15 PM
COOGAN’S BLUFF (1968)
An Arizona sheriff tracks an escaped killer to the wilds of New York City.
Dir: Donald Siegel Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark.
C- 94 mins

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

Monday – August 6, 2018

7:00 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC

4:00 PM
THE SELLOUT (1951)
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
BW- 83 mins, CC

7:00 PM
TENSION (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse.
BW- 91 mins, CC,

9:00 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.
BW- 99 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – August 7, 2018

1:00 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

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

Thursday – August 9, 2018

11:00 AM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
Gunmen hold a New York subway train and its passengers for ransom.
Dir: Joseph Sargent Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam.
C- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – August 10, 2018

12:00 PM
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (1954)
A wrongly convicted man takes a young woman hostage while fighting to clear his name.
Dir: Edwards Sampson Cast: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle.
BW- 74 mins, CC

1:30 PM
CONVICTED (1950)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Sunday – August 12, 2018

3:00 AM
TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY (1957)
A grounded flier gets mixed up with smugglers in Madrid.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala.
BW- 99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

*****Next, TCM will be airing three Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedies, followed by a Doris Day/James Garner comedy, and then on to a mystery with Doris Day.*****

5:00 PM
PILLOW TALK (1959)
A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
LOVER COME BACK (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C- 107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964)
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C- 100 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE THRILL OF IT ALL (1963)
A doctor tries to cope with his wife’s newfound stardom as an advertising pitch woman.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis.
C- 108 mins, CC

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

Monday – August 13, 2018

1:00 AM
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
C- 108 mins, CC

3:00 AM
JULIE (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Thursday – August 16, 2018

10:30 PM
THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE (1933)
A society girl gets mixed up with blackmail and murder after a vicious sexual assault.
Dir: Stephen Roberts Cast: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

Saturday – August 18, 2018

7:00 AM
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
BW- 105 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery, but very funny!*****

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

Monday – August 20, 2018

2:00 AM
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark.
BW- 179 mins, CC

11:00 PM
SCARAMOUCHE (1952)
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend’s murder.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh.
C- 115 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – August 22, 2018

9:00 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

10:30 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

10:30 PM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Thursday – August 23, 2018

2:45 AM
BRAINSTORM (1965)
A young scientist fakes insanity so he can kill the husband of the woman he loves.
Dir: William Conrad Cast: Jeff Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews.
BW- 105 mins, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
FLAXY MARTIN (1949)
Messing with a mobster’s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone.
BW- 86 mins, CC

8:45 PM
BACKFIRE (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo.
BW- 91 mins, CC

10:30 PM
SMART GIRLS DON’T TALK (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton.
BW- 81 mins

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

Friday – August 24, 2018

6:30 AM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW- 118 mins, CC

1:00 PM
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne.
BW- 107 mins, CC

4:45 PM
SCENT OF MYSTERY (1960)
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Beverly Bentley.
BW- 125 mins
*****Wikipedia says: “the first to use the Smell-O-Vision system to release odors at points in the film’s plot. It was the first film in which aromas were integral to the story, providing important details to the audience.” – Sounds pretty 1960-ish!

7:00 PM
M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter Lorre, Theo Lingen, Otto Wernicke.
BW- 110 mins

9:00 PM
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935)
A young student murders for money then tries to escape his guilt and a brilliant detective.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh.
BW- 88 mins, CC

10:45 PM
THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson.
BW- 96 mins, CC,

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

Saturday – August 25, 2018

12:30 AM
THE VERDICT (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Monday – August 27, 2018

11:00 PM
HUSH… HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964)
A wealthy southern spinster fights to keep her family’s secrets hidden.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 133 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – August 28, 2018

2:30 PM
THE UNFAITHFUL, THE (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott.
BW- 109 mins

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

Wednesday – August 29, 2018

12:30 AM
NO ESCAPE (1953)
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.
Dir: Charles Bennett Cast: Lew Ayres, Sonny Tufts, Marjorie Steele.
BW- 76 mins

2:00 AM
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
BW- 81 mins, CC

3:30 AM
THE GOLDEN FLEECING (1940)
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: Leslie Fenton Cast: Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan.
BW- 68 mins, CC

5:00 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.
BW- 106 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW- 114 mins, CC

9:00 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Friday – August 31, 2018

9:45 AM
THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY (1937)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery.
BW- 98 mins, CC

7:00 PM
SUDDEN FEAR (1952)
An ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged woman, then plots with his mistress to murder her.
Dir: David Miller Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame.
BW- 111 mins

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

Saturday – September 1, 2018

1:00 AM
STRAIT-JACKET (1964)
Murder follows an axe murderer home when she’s released from a mental hospital.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson.
BW- 93 mins, CC,

2:45 AM
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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials 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 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2018 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.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

The month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for July!

July 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Sunday – July 1, 2018

9:00 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.
BW- 68 mins, CC

11:15 PM
SHERLOCK HOLMES (1916)
The legendary sleuth locks wits with Professor Moriarty to save a girl kidnapped by blackmailers.
Dir: Arthur Berthelet Cast: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain.
BW- 117 mins

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

Tuesday – July 3, 2018

2:30 AM
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
BW- 116 mins, CC
*****This isn’t a mystery but I think it’s the best movie rendition of Little Women.*****

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

Wednesday – July 4, 2018

1:00 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
*****You might want to tape this movie to have on hand during December. It’s a terrific non-mystery comedy.*****

7:00 PM
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
Spirited musical biography of the song-and-dance man who kept America humming through two world wars.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston.
BW- 126 mins, CC
*****If you’re in the mood for a terrific Fourth of July movie, then this non-mystery musical is for you!*****

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

Thursday – July 5, 2018

9:00 AM
FAST LIFE (1932)
An innocent man stands trial for killing the man who tried to steal his wife.
Dir: Harry Pollard Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel.
BW- 82 mins

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

Saturday – July 7, 2018

5:15 PM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 8, 2018

1:00 AM
…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1979)
A crusading attorney is assigned to defend a judge accused of rape.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg.
C- 119 mins, CC

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

Monday – July 9, 2018

1:15 PM
PATHS OF GLORY (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
BW- 88 mins, CC

9:00 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

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

Tuesday – July 10, 2018

5:15 AM
THE SECRET PARTNER (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee.
BW- 91 mins, Letterbox Format

7:00 AM
THE GAZEBO (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner.
BW- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:45 AM
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1941)
In this short film, a man commits a murder and is tormented by the victim’s beating heart.
BW- 20 mins

9:15 AM
TWENTY PLUS TWO (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill.
BW- 103 mins CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM
KILL OR CURE (1962)
A detective bumbles through the investigation of murders at a spa.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price.
BW- 88 mins, Letterbox Format

1:00 PM
KENNER (1969)
A soldier of fortune searches for his partner’s killer in Bombay.
Dir: Steve Sekely Cast: Jim Brown, Madlyn Rhue, Robert Coote.
C- 92 mins, CC

4:30 PM
THE PRIZE (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
C- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

11:30 PM
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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – July 11, 2018

3:15 PM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC

4:45 PM
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

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

Saturday – July 14, 2018

3:15 PM
POINT BLANK (1967)
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty.
Dir: John Boorman Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn.
C- 92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980)
A police detective nearing retirement tries to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore.
C- 112 mins, CC

9:15 PM
RETURN FROM THE ASHES (1965)
A gigolo marries a wealthy widow, seduces her stepdaughter and plots to kill them both.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin.
BW- 108 mins, Letterbox Format

11:15 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.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 15, 2018

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Monday – July 16, 2018

5:00 AM
GAMBLING LADY (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien.
BW- 66 mins, CC

1:15 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.
BW- 72 mins, CC

2:30 PM
EVER IN MY HEART (1933)
During World War I, a woman suspects her husband of being a German spy.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 68 mins, CC

3:45 PM
LADY OF BURLESQUE (1943)
A star dancer and comedian team to investigate murders.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian.
BW- 90 mins, CC

5:30 PM
MAD MISS MANTON, THE (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

9:15 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – July 17, 2018

11:30 AM
NIGHT WAITRESS (1936)
A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 57 mins

12:30 PM
THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods.
BW- 80 mins, CC

5:15 PM
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Thursday – July 19, 2018

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

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

Friday – July 20, 2018

10:30 AM
THE BODY SNATCHER (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell.
BW- 78 mins, CC

12:00 PM
SIGNPOST TO MURDER (1965)
A convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing.
Dir: George Englund Cast: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare.
BW- 77 mins, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM
DOCTOR X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy.
C- 76 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939)
A murderer returns from the grave with a thirst for blood.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane,
Wayne Morris.
BW- 63 mins, CC

4:15 PM
EXPERIMENT ALCATRAZ (1951)
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter
Kingsford.
BW- 59 mins, CC

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

Saturday – July 21, 2018

7:00 AM
FAMOUS MOVIE DOGS (1940)
Well known canine performers of the 1930s, including Asta from the Thin Man series, vie for a part in an upcoming movie in this short film.
Vitaphone Release 9686.
Dir: Del Frazier Cast: Henry East,
C- 10 mins
*****If you’re a dog-lover, this short may be fun – especially Asta!*****

11:00 AM
ARSENE LUPIN (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley.
BW- 84 mins, CC

12:30 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

11:30 PM
DARK PASSAGE (947)
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.
BW- 106 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 22, 2018

7:00 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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

9:00 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.
BW- 106 mins, CC

11:00 AM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW- 118 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – July 24, 2018

1:30 AM
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe.
BW- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – July 26, 2018

5:00 AM
WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford.
BW- 78 mins, CC

6:30 AM
WHISTLING IN DIXIE (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft.
BW- 74 mins, CC

7:45 AM
WHISTLING IN BROOKLYN (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers.
BW- 87 mins, CC

11:45 AM
GENIUS AT WORK (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
BW- 61 mins

1:00 PM
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.
BW- 58 mins

2:15 PM
HERE COMES CARTER (1936)
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel.
BW- 58 mins

3:30 PM
ONE FATAL HOUR (1936)
A radio-station manager tries to keep tabloid journalists from reviving a 20-year-old murder case.
BW- 57 mins

4:30 PM
ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)
A radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page.
BW- 73 mins

5:45 PM
SUED FOR LIBEL (1940)
When he’s sued for libeling a murder suspect, a hot shot reporter decides to solve the crime himself.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lilian Bond.
BW- 66 mins

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

Saturday – July 28, 2018

10:45 AM
SO YOU WANT TO BE A DETECTIVE (1948)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Vitaphone Release 1636A.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Philo McCullough, Fred Kelsey, Charles Horvath.
BW- 11 mins

7:00 PM
PATHS OF GLORY (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
BW- 88 mins, CC

11:00 PM
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.
BW- 94 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 29, 2018

9:00 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.
BW- 94 mins, CC

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

Monday – July 30, 2018

30 MONDAY

12:00 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

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

Tuesday – July 31, 2018

2:15 AM
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
C- 127 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

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 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 2018 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.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

I have heard from someone at the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel about three (yes 3!!!) NEW Hailey Dean mystery movies that will be airing this month, and I want to hurry and get the word out since one of them is premiering tomorrow night. I am including their Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel re-airing schedules in case you miss them when they first PREMIER on the three consecutive Sunday nights. But, if you want to see them as soon as possible >>> be sure to go set your DVRs up the minute you finish reading this blog entry!

These terrific mystery movies are all based on the Hailey Dean Mystery Series written by Nancy Grace. (I think they are the closest we can get to the old Mystery Woman  movies that also starred Kellie Martin as the sleuth.) For me, it’s always special to see the author, Nancy Grace, in the movies!

Sunday, June 3, 2018 – 8:00 PM Central time zone

Hailey Dean Mysteries: 2+2=Murder *****PREMIER*****
Hailey attends her niece’s school recital only to learn that the beloved music teacher has vanished. Hailey soon discovers several startling secrets amongst the staff, as well as a link between the missing young teacher and the school’s reconstruction funds. Stars Kellie Martin.

Sunday June 3 8:00 PM
Monday June 4 8:00 PM
Saturday June 9 4:00 PM
Sunday June 17 4:00 PM
Saturday June 23 8:00 AM
Friday July 13 8:00 PM

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

Sunday, June 10, 2018 – 8:00 PM Central time zone

Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Marriage Made for Murder *****PREMIER*****
Hailey’s professional code of ethics prevents her from going to the police about a client’s confession, so she must find another way to bring the killer to justice. Stars Kellie Martin, Chad Lowe.

Sunday June 10 8:00 PM
Monday June 11 8:00 PM
Sunday June 17 6:00 PM
Saturday June 23 10:00 AM
Friday July 20 8:00 PM

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

Sunday, June 17, 2018 – 8:00 PM Central time zone

Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Will to Kill *****PREMIER*****
Emotionally ready to confront her fiancé’s 15-year-old murder, Hailey finds herself caught up in the case of a missing college coed. The deeper Hailey digs into the young woman’s disappearance the more she is convinced the two events are related. Stars Kellie Martin, Chad Lowe.

Sunday June 17 8:00 PM
Monday June 18 8:00 PM
Saturday June 23 12:00 PM
Friday July 27 8:00 PM

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

Now go set up your DVRs!