You know how you immediately associate a particular actor/actress with a fiction character you’re very familiar with? Well, that is how I feel about Edna May Oliver in Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers (Cozy) mystery series! As far as I’m concerned, Edna May Oliver IS Miss Withers! (The same thing goes for Joan Hickson in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (Cozy) mystery series movies.)

Well, here’s some very good news for all of you Cozy Mystery television-watchers! On Monday, August 18 the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing 3 Hildegarde Withers movies: Penguin Pool Murder (1932), Murder on the Blackboard (1934), and The Plot Thickens (1936). The first two movies star Edna May Oliver and the 3rd one stars ZaSu Pitts. (As much as I enjoy movies with ZaSu Pitts, I just don’t associate her with Miss Withers.) And, on Tuesday, August 19, the Turner Classic Movies channel will continue our viewing enjoyment with Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) starring Edna May Oliver, and Forty Naughty Girls (1938) with ZaSu Pitts.

Be sure to set your recording machines to these fun Cozy Mystery movies!

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2025

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

SATURDAY, August 2

12:30 AM Portrait in Black (1960)
A woman and her lover kill her husband and are targeted by someone who knows of their crime.
Dir: Michael Gordon. Cast: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart
112 mins

2:30 AM Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA’s daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
107

9:45 AM The Spiral Staircase (1975)
Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die – will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?
Dir: Peter Collinson. Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law
86 mins

6:00 PM The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The famous Pink Panther diamond has been stolen from the museum and retired jewel thief Sir Charles Litton is immediately blamed. In danger of being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, Litton reluctantly works with Inspector Jacques Clouseau to find out who the real crook is.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell
113 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

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

SUNDAY, August 3

2:00 PM 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

6:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

10:15 PM How to Steal a Million (1966)
A legendary art collector lends his prized (replica) Cellini Venus to a prestigious Paris museum. Before tests can be done which would prove the Venus is a fake, though, the collector’s daughter enlists the services of a “society burglar” to steal the million dollar statue.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
127 mins
*****More a heist comedy than a crime movie.*****

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

TUESDAY, August 5

11:30 AM The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
103 mins

3:30 PM Mr. Skeffington (1945)
A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
146 mins
*****Not a mystery but it’s a terrific movie with great acting.*****

8:00 PM Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
101 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 7

6:00 AM The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
78 mins

7:30 AM Edge of the City (1957)
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
85 mins

1:30 PM The Sheriff (1971)
A rape case tears apart a small California town as a black sheriff and his white deputy go after an insurance salesman suspected of attacking a black coed.
Dir: David Lowell Rich. Cast: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson
74 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 8

12:15 AM The Incident (1967)
Two rowdy teens board a New York City subway and terrorize the passengers.
Dir: Larry Peerce. Cast: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
107 mins

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

SATURDAY, August 9

2:15 AM They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
A small-town sheriff attempts to clear a Doberman of murder charges.
Dir: James Goldstone. Cast: James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook
97 mins

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

MONDAY, August 11

6:00 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

11:15 AM Smart Blonde (1936)
An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw
59 mins

12:30 PM Fly Away Baby (1937)
Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver
60 mins

1:45 PM The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
Reporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel
61 mins

3:00 PM Blondes at Work (1938)
Even a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy
60 mins

4:15 PM Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy
63 mins

5:30 PM Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
A daring female reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
Dir: William Beaudine. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy
58 mins

6:45 PM Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
After digging up dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy
60 mins

8:00 PM Girl Missing (1933)
A new bride disappears from her honeymoon hotel the same night a dead body pops up.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon, Mary Brian
69 mins

9:15 PM Hi, Nellie! (1934)
A crusading newspaper editor keeps digging into corruption, even when he’s forced to write advice to the lovelorn.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy.Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks
75 mins

10:45 PM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
When broke, a would-be architect is wrongly arrested and convicted for a small-time holdup, he is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, he escapes and builds a successful new life. But his landlady learns the truth and blackmails him into marriage, …
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy/ Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
93 mins

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

TUESDAY, August 12

6:00 AM The Big Boodle (1957)
Tough guy fights Cuban gangsters and counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Wilson. Cast: Rossana Rory, Errol Flynn, Dr. Francisco Canero
84 mins

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

WEDNESDAY, August 13

6:15 PM The Trouble with Harry (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick
99 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 14

11:00 AM Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
75 mins

6:00 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

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, Fay. But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry, about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he …
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

9:45 PM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: André De Toth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
74 mins

11:15 PM Five Steps to Danger (1957)
A man’s car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.
Dir: Henry S. Kesler. Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 15
It looks like this is the Turner Classic Movies channel Christmas in July morning!

2:30 AM Winter Kills (1979)
An assassinated president’s brother investigates the unsolved crime.
Dir: William Richert. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
96 mins

4:15 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) (Christmas)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
85 mins
*****I’m “taping” this to watch in December. It’s supposed to be based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol….*****

6:00 AM Holiday Affair (1949) (Christmas)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

7:45 AM Little Women (1949) (Christmas)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
121 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
*****Take your shower before you watch this movie!*****

10:00 PM 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

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

SATURDAY, August 16

12:00 AM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins

1:30 AM Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with a gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb. Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
95 mins

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

SUNDAY, August 17

12:00 AM Death Wish (1974)
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks.
Dir: Michael Winner. Cast: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia
93 mins

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

MONDAY, August 18

6:00 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
66 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers series.*****

7:15 AM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
71 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers series.*****

8:30 AM The Plot Thickens (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.
69 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers series.*****

9:45 AM We’re Only Human (1935)
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Dir: James Flood. Cast: Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason
69 mins

11:00 AM 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

12:30 PM A Date with the Falcon (1942)
The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason
63 mins

10:00 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

11:45 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

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

TUESDAY, August 19

2:00 AM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
74 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers series.*****

3:15 AM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
63 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers series.*****

4:00 PM The Conspirators (1944)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

10:15 PM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie
95 mins

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

WEDNESDAY, August 20

6:00 AM The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews
78 mins

7:30 AM Lady Killer (1933)
A criminal on the run becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay
76 mins

9:00 AM He Was Her Man (1934)
A safecracker goes straight to get back at some fellow crooks.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory
70 mins

10:15 PM The Mayor of Hell (1933)
A racketeer goes straight to run a reform school.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
80 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 21

2:00 AM ‘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

4:00 PM Psyche 59 (1964)
After being blinded in a mysterious fall, a woman fears her husband is involved with her younger sister.
Dir: Alexander Singer. Cast: Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens, Samantha Eggar
94 mins

6:00 PM The Night Digger (1971)
A drifter with a deadly secret ignites passions in two lonely women.
Dir: Alastair Reid. Cast: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay
98 mins

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

SUNDAY, August 24

6:00 PM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

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

TUESDAY, August 26

8:00 AM A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
A double agent has to take out an enemy spy who’s really himself.
Dir: Jimmy Komisarjevsky. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow
107 mins

11:45 AM The Night of the Generals (1967)
During World War II, a couple of prostitutes doubling as German agents are murdered and a German intelligence officer, assigned to the case, pursues one of his compatriots, a General, whom he suspects is the killer.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
148 mins

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

WEDNESDAY, August 27

12:00 PM A Woman’s Face (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
105 mins

2:00 PM Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
90 mins

4:00 PM 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

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

FRIDAY, August 29

2:00 PM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

10:00 PM 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

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

SATURDAY, August 30

6:00 AM 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

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

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 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

Our daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter came out to visit during June, so I didn’t do a lot of television-watching, other than “Frozen”, “Moana”, etc. But I did manage to set up my recording system to record my favorite mystery/crime movies. I just finished the list of the July mystery/crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during July 2025, and already I’m looking forward to watching (more than!) several of them. So, here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery/crime movies scheduled to air in July 2025.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2025

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

Tuesday – July 1, 2025

10:15 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

12:15 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
113 mins

8:00 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

10:00 PM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
83 mins

11:30 PM The Naked Street (1955)
A racketeer saves his daughter’s no-good husband from the chair but lives to regret it.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft
84 mins

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

Wednesday – July 2, 2025

1:15 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

4:45 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck. Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
81 mins

1:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

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

Thursday – July 3, 2025

2:00 AM Madame X (1937)
When she kills a blackmailer, a woman is defended by the son she abandoned years earlier.
Dir: Sam Wood. Cast: Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William
72 mins

9:00 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

12:30 PM Hot Summer Night (1957)
A hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
Dir: David Friedkin. Cast: Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke
86 mins

2:00 PM Cry of the Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen
80 mins

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

Friday – July 4, 2025

8:00 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
*****Not a mystery, but definitely a good Fourth of July movie. James Cagney isn’t remembered as a dancer – however he was a wonderful dancer!*****

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

Saturday – July 5, 2025

6:00 AM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

8:35 AM Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Dir: Noel Smith. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr.
58 mins

10:05 AM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
62 mins

5:45 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 as he …
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

8:00 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

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

Sunday – July 6, 2025

12:00 AM This Side of the Law (1950)
An unscrupulous lawyer hires a vagrant to impersonate a missing millionaire.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige
74 mins

10:00 AM This Side of the Law (1950)
An unscrupulous lawyer hires a vagrant to impersonate a missing millionaire.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige
74 mins

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

Monday – July 7, 2025

8:30 AM 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

6:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
Cary Grant is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper’s star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife (Rosalind Russell) who can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
92 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.)

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

Tuesday – July 8, 2025

1:30 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

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

Wednesday – July 9, 2025

10:00 AM Crime in the Streets (1956)
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell
91 mins

11:45 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irving Kershner. Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
83 mins

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

Friday – July 11, 2025

12:30 AM Deathtrap (1982)
A formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. He returns to his rich wife with a heart problem…
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

2:45 AM 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
*****I’m usually not interested in movies from the 1970s, however, I think this one is so good that I re-watched it when I showed it to my husband.*****

5:00 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
92 mins
*****I just re-watched the excellent 1945 “And Then there Were None” movie based on the same Agatha Christie mystery novel, and want to see how the movies compare…*****

10:00 PM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
120 mins

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

Saturday – July 12, 2025

10:05 AM Calling Philo Vance (1939)
Society sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
62 mins

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

Sunday – July 13, 2025

12:00 AM The Gangster (1947)
A troubled gangster, who has lost all faith in people, loses his weak grip on life.
Dir: Gordon Wiles. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
84 mins

10:00 AM The Gangster (1947)
A troubled gangster, who has lost all faith in people, loses his weak grip on life.
Dir: Gordon Wiles. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
84 mins

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

Tuesday – July 15, 2025

11:15 AM Fugitives for a Night (1938)
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Frank Albertson, Eleanor Lynn, Allan Lane
63 mins

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

Wednesday – July 16, 2025

2:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and begins an affair with Nick’s wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.
Dir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
123 mins
*****This is a remake of the really good “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1946) – which is being aired on July 1.*****

6:45 AM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****Is it too early to start storing up movies for the Christmas season? If not, make sure to record this one – it’s terrific! (Not a mystery)*****

12:00 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
91 mins

3:45 PM Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she’s sent to prison.
Dir: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
69 mins

5:00 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

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

Thursday – July 17, 2025

9:15 AM Strange Alibi (1941)
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale
63 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

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

Friday – July 18, 2025

3:15 AM From Headquarters (1933)
A police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy’s murder.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
64 mins

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

Saturday – July 19, 2025

10:15 AM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins

6:00 PM 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
102 mins

8:00 PM Killer’s Kiss (1955)
When he rescues a girl from her gangster lover, a prizefighter is marked for death.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
67 mins

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

Sunday – July 20, 2025

12:00 AM 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

10:00 AM 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

12:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
Cary Grant is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper’s star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife (Rosalind Russell) who can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
92 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.)

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

Tuesday – July 22, 2025

8:00 PM Moonstruck (1987)
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance’s brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
102 mins
*****Not a mystery. Delightful comedy.*****

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

Friday – July 25, 2025

6:00 AM Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
A D.A.’s personal life mirrors the love-triangle murder he’s prosecuting.
Dir: James Whale. Cast: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Constance Moore
69 mins

7:15 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley. Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
78 mins

8:45 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

10:30 AM Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
99 mins

12:15 PM The Arnelo Affair (1947)
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
Dir: Arch Oboler. Cast: John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford
86 mins

2:00 PM Bewitched (1945)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Dir: Arch Oboler. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry H. Daniels Jr.
65 mins

3:15 PM The Witness Chair (1936)
A woman lets her lover stand trial for the murder she committed.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr. Cast: Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille
64 mins

4:30 PM Millie (1931)
A prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughter’s honor.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames
85 mins

6:15 PM Mike’s Murder (1984)
A young woman living in Los Angeles tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.
Dir: James Bridges. Cast: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Darrell Larson
109 mins

8:00 PM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

9:30 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury
114 mins

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

Saturday – July 26, 2025

5:00 AM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
83 mins

10:05 AM 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
80 mins

11:35 AM The Perfect Set-Up (1936)
A radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Helene Chadwick, Frank Shannon, William Tannen
21 mins

4:30 PM Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A man shows up at a woman’s villa claiming to be her presumably deceased brother.
Dir: Michael Anderson. Cast: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
87 mins

6:15 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
93 mins

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

Sunday – July 27, 2025

12:15 AM Rififi (1955)
Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
118 mins
*****In English, French, & Italian*****

10:00 AM Rififi (1955)
Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
118 mins
*****In English, French, & Italian*****

4:15 PM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins

6:15 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

8:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

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

Monday – July 28, 2025

2:30 AM The Grim Reaper (1962)
The investigation of the murder of a prostitute in Rome is compiled from various points of view.
Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo De Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora
88 mins
*****In Italian*****

10:00 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

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

Tuesday – July 29, 2025

4:00 AM 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

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

Wednesday – July 30, 2025

4:15 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

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

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 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

My gosh! It’s finally officially summer – but here in San Antonio it feels like our summer months begin in May! Yow-zee — it has been hot (and humid)! But, I’m sure you didn’t com here to see me complain about our weather…

Withour further ado – here are the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during June 2025. (Oh, and there are two Miss Marple movies with Margaret Rutherford that will be playing this month. She’s not your typical Miss Marple…)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2025

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

Sunday – June 1, 2025

10:00 AM The Big Steal (1949)
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
71 mins

11:30 AM Respect the Law (1941)
This short film focuses on how minor lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals. Part of the “Crime Does Not Pay” series.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Moroni Olsen, Richard Lane, Frank Orth
20 mins

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

Monday – June 2, 2025

6:30 AM A Shot in the Dark (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
57 mins

7:30 AM Tiger Bay (1959)
A seaman kills his two-timing girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, but is witnessed in the act by a young girl. He kidnaps her for fear she’ll turn him in, but oddly the two strike up a friendship until a detective comes snooping around, using the girl as bait to catch the killer before his ship sails off.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
105 mins

11:30 AM The Decks Ran Red (1958)
Dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford
84 mins

1:00 PM The Ghost Ship (1943)
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett
69 mins

2:15 PM Murder in the Fleet (1935)
Seamen hunt down a deadly saboteur.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick/ Cast: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy
69 mins

3:30 PM The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith. Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr.
60 mins

4:45 PM Mad Holiday (1936)
A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts
71 mins

6:15 PM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins

10:00 PM Man of the West (1958)
A reformed outlaw is among the passengers who are held hostage when a train is robbed by his former colleagues.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
100 mins

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

Tuesday – June 3, 2025

4:00 AM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins

10:15 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist’s sister’s relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
96 mins

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

Wednesday – June 4, 2025

1:45 PM Lightning Strikes Twice (1935)
A jewel heist leads to murder.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton
63 mins

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

Saturday – June 7, 2025

6:30 AM The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)
Reform school girls trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Dir: Bernard Girard. Cast: Susan Oliver, Linda Plowman, Beverly Long
76 mins

10:30 AM Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)
Bulldog Drummond postpones his wedding to track down a band of bank robbers.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner
56 mins

12:00 AM The Undercover Man (1949)
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
85 mins

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

Sunday – June 8, 2025

10:00 AM The Undercover Man (1949)
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
85 mins

4:15 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

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

Monday – June 9, 2025

6:00 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

8:00 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between them …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

10:00 PM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins
*****Based on the novel by Wilkie Collins****

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

Tuesday – June 10, 2025

4:00 AM The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
A master thief escapes from a Canadian prison farm and makes his way to New York.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer
91 mins

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

Wednesday – June 11, 2025

12:00 AM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins

1:30 AM Good Time Girl (1948)
A British magistrate tells the story of a wayward girl who joins two GI deserters in a crime spree.
Dir: David Macdonald. Cast: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Diana Dors
91 mins

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

Thursday – June 12, 2025

6:30 AM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins

8:00 AM Terror on a Train (1953)
It’s a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
72 mins

9:15 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins

10:45 AM Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
75 mins

12:15 PM The Petrified Forest (1936)
When a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
83 mins

1:45 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins

4:00 PM Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
74 mins

5:15 PM High Tide (1947)
A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the circumstances leading up to their predicament.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Cast: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
70 mins

6:30 PM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
83 mins

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

Saturday – June 14, 2025

10:25 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins

3:45 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins

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

Sunday – June 15, 2025

12:15 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins

10:00 AM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins

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

Monday – June 16, 2025

8:00 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another. Corporate tax lawyer David Burton accepts the case just as torrential rains blanket even the most arid regions of the nation, and is instantly beset with prophetic dreams and apocalyptic …
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

Tuesday – June 17, 2025

2:00 AM Twilight of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
Dir: Boris Sagal. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams
104 mins

6:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman. Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

9:30 AM I Thank a Fool (1962)
A woman once convicted of euthanasia gets a job caring for her prosecutor’s wife.
Dir: Robert Stevens. Cast: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento
100 mins

8:00 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell. Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
*****Not a mystery/crime movie. I just love this movie so much, I “have” to post it.*****

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

Wednesday – June 18, 2025

4:30 AM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
86 mins

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

Friday – June 20, 2025

12:30 AM Super Fly (1972)
Charismatic, big-time Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest drives expensive cars and plans one last big score to escape his life of violence. When corrupt cops working for the Mob learn of his plan, they try to make Priest a partner rather than arrest him…
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr.. Cast: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris
96 mins

2:15 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

4:15 AM Black Eye (1974)
A private eye stumbles onto a series of murders connected to a movie star’s death.
Dir: Jack Arnold. Cast: Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves
98 mins

9:00 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins

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

Saturday – June 21, 2025

2:30 AM Nine Queens (2000)
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (known as the “nine queens”).
Dir: Fabian Bielinsky Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
115 mins
*****In Spanish*****

6:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins

10:25 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
68 mins

6:15 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

10:00 PM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

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

Sunday – June 22, 2025

12:15 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
96 mins
*****In Japanese*****

10:00 AM Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
96 mins
*****In Japanese*****

6:15 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

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

Monday – June 23, 2025

7:30 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

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

Tuesday – June 24, 2025

11:15 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
73 mins

12:30 PM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

4:15 PM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
68 mins

5:30 PM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
67 mins

6:45 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

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

Wednesday – June 25, 2025

9:45 AM Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)
A race car driver tries to solve a series of track-side murders before he’s next.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton
70 mins

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

Thursday – June 26, 2025

8:00 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

11:30 PM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

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

Friday – June 27, 2025

1:30 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

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

Saturday – June 28, 2025

10:10 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
83 mins

1:45 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

8:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
*****Terrific mystery movie!*****

10:00 PM Chinatown (1974)
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Dir: Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
130 mins

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

Sunday – June 29, 2025

12:30 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins
*****Barbara Stanwyck really delivers in this mystery movie!*****

10:00 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
88 mins
*****Barbara Stanwyck delivers in this mystery movie!*****

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

Monday – June 30, 2025

12:30 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in June, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the May television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.