I know that June is traditionally thought of as the “wedding month” – however, I think that June 27 should be thought of as the “mystery authors’ day on TV” – at least at the Turner Classic Movies channel. Yow-za! On the 27th of June, Turner Classic Movies will be airing mystery movies based on Erle Stanley Gardner‘s Perry Mason, Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers, Leslie Charteris‘s The Saint, S. S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance, Dorothy L. Sayers‘s Lord Peter Wimsey, Baynard H. Kendrick‘s Duncan Maclain, Agatha Christie‘s Miss Marple, and Dashiell Hammett‘s the Thin Man! So, be sure to take a look at the line-up… And, if you feel like you’re all mysteried-out after that marathon of mystery movies, try to save some “viewing room” for even more mystery movies on Wednesday, June 28.

Thank you, Turner Classic Movies, for featuring a whole lot of the mystery movies during June 2023!

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2023

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

Thursday – June 1, 2023

10:30 AM Marked Woman (1937)
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
96 mins

4:45 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

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

Friday – June 2, 2023

4:30 PM Angel Face (1953)
A beautiful young has family problems.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

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

Saturday – June 3, 2023

1:15 AM 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
105 mins
*****not a myterys, but a very good Rock Hudson/Doris Day (with side-kick Tony Randall) comedy.*****

10:08 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

6:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

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

Sunday – June 4, 2023

12:00 AM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Police patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm
89 mins

2:00 AM Swing Shift (1984)
After her husband leaves for Pearl Harbor in World War II, a woman takes a job in an aircraft factory.
Dir: Jonathan Demme. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti
100 mins
*****Not a mystery – this is a very good romantic comedy.*****

10:00 AM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Police patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm
89 mins

12:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
103 mins
*****Not a mytery – but a funny Judy Holliday movie.*****

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

Monday – June 5, 2023

12:00 AM The Blackbird (1926)
A benevolent bishop helps the needy during the day, but runs a crime syndicate at night.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée
86 mins
*****Silent movie*****

10:00 AM Father of the Bride (1950)
Attorney Stanley T. Banks finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay, announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan, while wife Ellie and son Tommy burst with enthusiasm for Kay’s wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a “son” offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who’s all grown up now with a life of her own.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
93 mins
*****This movie is the original “Father of the Bride” — I think it might be interesting to watch this one and then watch the one below which was made 41 years later.***** (Neither one is a mytery movie.)

4:00 PM Father of the Bride (1991)
A father’s mixed feelings about his daughter’s marriage makes the wedding a torturous occasion for him.
Dir: Charles Shyer. Cast: Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Diane Keaton
105 mins

8:00 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart
100 mins

10:00 PM Colorado Territory (1949)
An outlaw just released from prison is sucked back into a life of crime in this remake of High Sierra.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
94 mins

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

Tuesday – June 6, 2023

9:00 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
65 mins

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

Thursday – June 8, 2023

2:00 PM The Young Philadelphians (1959)
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
136 mins

10:30 PM Suddenly, Last Summer (1960)
A psychiatrist is brought into the web of a wealthy Louisiana widow, who wishes him to perform a lobotomy on her niece, whom she says is suffering from madness after the death of her cousin, the widow’s son.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
114 mins

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

Friday – June 9, 2023

4:00 PM Kona Coast (1968)
A Hawaiian boat captain tries to prove a wealthy playboy killed his daughter.
Dir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell
92 mins

5:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins

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

Saturday – June 10, 2023

3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
This movie is about an eight year old psychopath girl. No spoilers here!
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

8:29 AM The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939)
A reporter poses as a jewel smuggler to unmask a criminal gang.
Dir: Terry Morse. Cast: Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson
58 mins

10:08 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

1:45 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery…*****

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

Sunday – June 11, 2023

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
86 mins

10:00 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
86 mins

11:45 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

1:45 PM The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
93 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a good “June Bride” type of movie.*****

3:30 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

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

Monday – June 12, 2023

2:45 AM The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
A dramatic look at the life of a Japanese businessman.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori
135 mins
*****In Japanese*****

9:00 AM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

10:45 AM The Big Shot (1942)
Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
82 mins

12:15 PM The Racket (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
88 mins

8:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
103 mins
*****Not a mytery – but a funny Judy Holliday movie.*****

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

Tuesday – June 13, 2023

6:00 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Quick-witted private investigator Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin”, which is curiously signed the Bishop.
Dir: David Burton. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
88 mins

6:45 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
68 mins

10:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
91 mins

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

Thursday – June 15, 2023

11:00 AM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
116 mins

4:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
*****A somewhat different interpretation of Miss Marple!*****

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

Saturday – June 17, 2023

10:08 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

4:30 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
98 mins

10:00 PM Repeat Performance (1947)
On New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Dir: Alfred Werker. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins

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

Sunday – June 18, 2023

12:00 AM 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
86 mins

10:00 AM 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
86 mins

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

Monday – June 19, 2023

7:15 AM 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

1:45 PM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva
95 mins

3:30 PM Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins

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

Tuesday – June 20, 2023

8:30 AM Bullets for O’Hara (1941)
A gangster’s wife helps the FBI nail her husband.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn
50 mins

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

Friday – June 23, 2023

2:00 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
116 mins

9:30 AM The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
96 mins

9:45 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

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

Saturday – June 24, 2023

10:08 AM Murder in the Private Car (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
Dir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle
63 mins

10:00 PM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
128 mins

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

Sunday – June 25, 2023

12:15 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

10:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

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

Monday – June 26, 2023

10:00 PM Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
80 mins

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

Tuesday – June 27, 2023

3:30 AM Victim (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
100 mins

7:45 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
*****Based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s mystery.*****

9:15 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy.Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
66 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers mysteries.*****

10:30 AM The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
The Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
Dir: Paul Stein. Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod
70 mins
*****Based on Leslie Charteris’s The Saint mysteries.*****

12:00 PM 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
*****Based on S. S. Van Dine’s mystery.*****

1:30 PM Haunted Honeymoon (1940)
British sleuth Sir Peter Wimsey’s wedding celebration is cut short by the discovery of a murdered man in his honeymoon cottage.
Dir: Arthur B. Woods. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
83 mins
*****Based on Dorothy L. Sayers’s mysteries.*****

3:00 PM Eyes in the Night (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed
80 mins
*****Based on Baynard H. Kendrick’s mysteries.*****

4:30 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock.Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins
*****(Loosely) based on Agatha Christie’s mysteries.*****

6:00 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins
*****Based on Dashiell Hammett’s mysteries.*****

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

Wednesday – June 28, 2023

8:30 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

12:00 PM Back in Circulation (1937)
A reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay
82 mins

1:30 PM The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
81 mins

3:00 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

4:30 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
84 mins

6:15 PM The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

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

Thursday – June 29, 2023

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

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

Friday – June 30, 2023

1:45 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery…*****

3:45 AM Keeper of the Flame (1943)
Top-notch reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
100 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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2023 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.

Can it be May already?! I just can’t believe 2023 is going so fast!

The Turner Classic Movies channel is changing things up for us this month – with The Thin Man mystery movies. A lot of us are used to seeing the channel air a slew of The Thin Man movies starting on December 31 and continuing through January 1 of each year. I can’t quite remember if they have done that during other times of the year. However, this year they will be running The Thin Man mystery movies starting on May 10 and continuing on May 11. I have seen these movies several times, and enjoy them a lot… except for the inebreation scenes. For some reason, movies from the 1930s/1940s seem to think those types of scenes are funny. (I find myself fast forwarding through a lot of drunk scenes…)

For those of you who remember reading Nancy Drew mysteries — you’ll be pleased to see that three of the four 1930s Nancy Drew movies with Bonita Granville will be airing during May 2023. I don’t know how many times I have watched these movies!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2023

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Monday – May 1, 2023

12:30 PM 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
100 mins

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

Wednesday – May 3, 2023

2:00 AM Woman of Straw (1964)
A rich old man’s nurse and his nephew plot his murder.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson
120 mins

10:30 AM Assignment To Kill (1968)
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Dir: Sheldon Reynolds. Cast: Patrick O’Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud
102 mins

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

Thursday – May 4, 2023

12:30 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
80 mins

10:00 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
101 mins

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

Friday – May 5, 2023

10:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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

Saturday – May 6, 2023

8:27 AM Blind Alibi (1938)
A man pretends to be blind to foil blackmailers.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli
62 mins

10:08 AM Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman’s disappearance.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson
60 mins

11:30 AM Hit and Run Driver (1935)
In this short film, a man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then tries to cover up the incident.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Sam Flint, Carl Stockdale, Jonathan Hale
20 mins

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

Sunday – May 7, 2023

12:00 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

10:30 PM The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
90 mins

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

Wednesday – May 10, 2023

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

9:45 PM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
110 mins

11:45 PM Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins

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

Thursday – May 11, 2023

1:45 AM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

3:30 AM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins

5:15 AM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins

7:00 AM Private Detective 62 (1933)
A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he’s investigating.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly
67 mins

8:15 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

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

Friday – May 12, 2023

6:00 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
119 mins

12:00 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

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

Saturday – May 13, 2023

8:29 AM Midnight Alibi (1934)
An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler
60 mins

10:09 AM Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frank Thomas Jr.
68 mins

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

Sunday – May 14, 2023

12:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

10:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

12:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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

Monday – May 15, 2023

6:15 AM Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
90 mins

8:00 AM Conspirator (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Dir: Victor Saville. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng
87 mins

9:30 AM 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

11:00 AM Young Bride (1932)
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Dir: William Seiter. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden, Arline Judge
76 mins

12:30 PM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins

2:00 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

4:30 PM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

6:00 PM Stop Me Before I Kill! (1961)
After surviving an accident, a race car driver begins to suffer violent impulses.
Dir: Val Guest. Cast: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis
93 mins

8:00 PM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
77 mins

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

Tuesday – May 16, 2023

3:15 AM The Outrage (1964)
A murderer, a sexually assaulted wife and the dead man himself present conflicting versions of a brutal crime.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
97 mins

7:30 AM Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn. Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
56 mins

10:15 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

12:00 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
83 mins

1:30 PM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

3:15 PM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins

6:15 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
95 mins

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

Wednesday – May 17

4:00 PM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
110 mins

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

Thursday – May 18, 2023

1:15 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

11:45 AM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
91 mins

1:30 PM Star of Midnight (1935)
A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly
90 mins

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

Friday – May 19, 2023

8:15 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
88 mins

4:00 PM 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
100 mins

5:45 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

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

Saturday – May 20, 2023

2:00 AM 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
95 mins

8:28 AM Women Are Trouble (1936)
A small-town news journalist goes after a big-city job by investigating a vicious protection racket.
Dir: Errol Taggart Cast: Stuart Erwin, Paul Kelly, Florence Rice
60 mins

10:08 AM Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth tries to clear one of her father’s friends of a murder charge.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
68 mins

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

Sunday – May 21, 2023

12:00 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
75 mins

4:00 AM The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle
101 mins

10:00 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
75 mins

1:15 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

3:30 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

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

Monday – May 22, 2023

7:45 AM 21 Days Together (1940)
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir: Basil Dean. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
75 mins

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

Thursday – May 25, 2023

3:30 AM 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

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

Friday – May 26, 2023

12:15 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

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

Sunday – May 28, 2023

12:00 AM The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
Dir: Richard Wallace. Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak
94 mins

10:00 AM The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
Dir: Richard Wallace. Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak
94 mins

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

Tuesday – May 30, 2023

6:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

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

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

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

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the April 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2023 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.