Here’s the upcoming list for TCM’s mysteries for June, plus a few of my own personal favorites! A few highlights of what I haven’t put on but people might still be interested in – June 3rd will have a number of movies highlighting divorce, Father’s Day (June 16) will have a number of movies featuring fathers, and the month overall seems to have a lot of war and cowboy movies.
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – June 1
9:08 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.
BW- 64 mins, CC
11:45 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – June 2
5:30 AM
THE WINDOW (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW- 73 mins, CC
9:00 AM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW- 112 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – June 4
1:15 AM
GILDA (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
BW- 110 mins, CC
6:30 AM
ZOU ZOU (1934)
A singing star tries to clear a childhood friend of murder charges.
Dir: Marc Allegret Cast: Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey.
BW- 88 mins
8:15 AM
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
*****Robert Mitchum is terrific as the creepy preacher…*****
3:00 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.
BW- 109 mins, CC
*****Wilkie Collins is the author of the 1860 mystery novel on which this is based. This novel is on the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list by the Mystery Writers of America.*****
5:00 PM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – June 5
7:00 AM
A WICKED WOMAN (1934)
A woman kills her drunken husband to defend her children.
Dir: Charles Brabin Cast: Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford.
BW- 73 mins, CC
8:15 AM
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
10:00 AM
CONSPIRATOR (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng.
BW- 87 mins, CC
11:30 AM
UNDERCURRENT (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum.
BW- 116 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – June 7
8:00 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
*****I’m not sure if this or the next movie are actually mysteries.*****
10:00 AM
THE LAW AND THE LADY (1951)
A society jewel thief falls for one of her marks.
Dir: Edwin H. Knopf Cast: Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas.
BW- 104 mins, CC
12:00 PM
SATAN MET A LADY (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth.
BW- 74 mins, CC
*****This movie and the next are based on the Maltese Falcon mystery books by Dashiell Hammett.*****
1:30 PM
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.
BW- 100 mins, CC
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Saturday – June 8
9:08 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.
BW- 70 mins, CC
1:00 PM
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C- 105 mins, CC
*****I first saw this movie years ago so I decided not to watch it again. However, I watched it the second time two weeks ago and even though I could remember the plot, I enjoyed it a lot.*****
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Sunday – June 9
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,
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – June 10
5:00 AM
IMPACT (1949)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Dir: Arthur Lubin Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn.
BW- 111 mins, CC
10:45 AM
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948)
A crook on the lam poses as a psychiatrist.
Dir: Steve Sekely Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz.
BW- 82 mins, CC
2:00 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC
3:45 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.
BW- 68 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – June 15
9:08 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.
BW- 67 mins, CC
1:15 PM
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster.
BW- 99 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – June 17
10:45 AM
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 96 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – June 22
9:08 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.
BW- 66 mins, CC
11:15 PM
SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother’s murder.
Dir: Patrick Jackson Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau.
BW- 84 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – June 23
1:00 AM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC
3:15 AM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC
9:00 AM
SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother’s murder.
Dir: Patrick Jackson Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau.
BW- 84 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – June 25
3:30 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.
C- 100 mins, CC
12:00 PM
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
3:30 PM
MYSTERY IN MEXICO (1948)
An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez.
BW- 66 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – June 26
2:15 AM
EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES (1964)
Dir: Peter Tewksbury Cast: Walter Slezak, Bryan Russell, Roger Mobley.
BW- 99 mins, CC
4:00 AM
NEVER A DULL MOMENT (1968)
Dir: Jerry Paris Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine.
BW- 100 mins, CC
7:45 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.
BW- 57 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – June 29
9:07 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.
BW- 63 mins, CC
11:00 PM
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
BW- 82 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – June 30
9:00 AM
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
BW- 82 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
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 June 2019 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2019 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.)
Well, it looks like the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel is switching things up! While I was looking through their schedule to post their mystery movies for May 2019 (which by the way, only goes to Saturday – May 25 because of the website’s unusual practice of not posting a schedule based on entire months) I found that they have decided to run reruns of old mystery TV shows (like Matlock, Monk, Psych, Columbo, Hart to Hart, Perry Mason, & Murder, She Wrote) all day and night during Mondays through Fridays. On Saturday they will be showing some of those old TV reruns but also showing reruns of their Cozy Mystery movies. Their new Cozy Mystery movies will be shown on Sunday nights at 8:00 (central time zone).
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