I am a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock, so I’m pretty excited about June 2026’s Turner Classic Movies lineup! On Friday, June 19 the Turner Classic Movies channel will start airing six of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies – including one silent movie from 1927 (“The Lodger” aka “The Girl Was Young”). And, even better than those six mysteries, the next day they will air one more Alfred Hitchcock movie. I think that out of all seven of these movies, my favorite is his 1938 “The Lady Vanishes”. Love it! [Also, on Monday, June 22 Alfred Hitchcock’s silent 1927 movie “Downhill” will be playing, but I don’t know for sure if it is a mystery or drama. And, on Friday, June 26 they will air Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1934)]

So, here is the list of mystery and/or crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during June 2026.

PS: Sorry for the lateness on this. It is a combination of two issues – first, the place I normally get these isn’t updating as far into the future as it normally is, which means I in turn cannot update as far out either. Second, I was visiting my daughter. Unfortunately, the first issue is likely to continue to be a problem – I’m considering what exactly I intend to do about this.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2026

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Monday – June 1, 2026

2:45 AM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
67 mins

4:15 AM I Love Trouble (1947)
A private detective is hired by a politician to check on his wife’s background.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter
94 mins

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

Tuesday – June 2, 2026

10:15 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

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

Thursday – June 4, 2026

12:45 AM Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Dir: Hall Bartlett. Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden
81 mins

4:15 AM Skyjacked (1972)
While on route to Los Angeles, a commercial airliner is hijacked to Russia by an unbalanced Vietnam veteran.
Dir: John Guillermin. Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin
100 mins

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

Friday – June 5, 2026

4:15 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

8:00 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
100 mins

10:00 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
*****If you’re only going to watch one mystery/crime movie this month, make it this one!*****

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

Saturday – June 6, 2026

12:00 AM 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

1:30 AM The Long Good Friday (1980)
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Dir: John Mackenzie. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman
114 mins

3:30 AM Mona Lisa (1986)
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King’s Cross days.
Dir: Neil Jordan. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine
104 mins

8:00 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

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

Sunday – June 7, 2026

12:00 AM The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
98 mins

2:00 AM The Doberman Gang (1972)
A clever con artist and an animal trainer team up to teach Doberman Pinschers how to rob banks.
Dir: Byron Chudnow. Cast: Byron Mabe, Hal Reed, Julie Parrish
87 mins

3:45 AM The Daring Dobermans (1973)
Three men track down a pack of Dobermans and along with a young Native American boy, train the dogs to rob the campaign funds of a politician.
Dir: Byron Chudnow. Cast: Charles Robinson, Tim Considine, Joan Caulfield
90 mins

10:00 AM The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
98 mins

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

Monday – June 8, 2026

11:30 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

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

Tuesday – June 9, 2026

2:00 PM Hotel Reserve (1944)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
Dir: Victor Hanbury. Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell
79 mins

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

Wednesday – June 10, 2026

4:00 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

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

Thursday – June 11, 2026

10:30 AM 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

11:45 AM Adventures of Kitty O’Day (1945)
A perky switchboard operator investigates murders that baffle the police.
Dir: William Beaudine. Cast: Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan
63 mins

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

Friday – June 12, 2026

1:45 AM River’s Edge (1986)
An alienated group of teenagers reacts with shocking indifference when confronted with a brutal murder in this gripping 1986 cult classic.
Dir: Tim Hunter. Cast: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye
99 mins

8:00 PM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
103 mins

10:00 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

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

Saturday – June 13, 2026

12:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)
An ambitious carny attempts to scam his way out of a traveling carnival in this brutal noir.
Dir: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
110 mins

2:00 AM The Yakuza (1974)
Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
112 mins

4:00 AM The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Detective Edward Delaney, played by Frank Sinatra, tries to care for his bedridden wife while he tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.
Dir: Brian Hutton. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore
112 mins

6:15 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins
*****More of a comedy, but still a mystery…*****

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Sunday – June 14, 2026

12:00 AM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

4:00 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
113 mins
*****A comedy, not a mystery – What a cast! Jean Harlow is absolutely terrific!*****

6:15 AM 21 Days (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

10:00 AM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

6:00 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

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

Tuesday – June 16, 2026

12:00 AM Niagara (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
92 mins

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

Wednesday – June 17, 2026

5:00 AM Main Street After Dark (1945)
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

9:00 AM Picture Snatcher (1933)
An ex-con brings his crooked ways to a job as a news photographer.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
77 mins

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

Thursday – June 18, 2026

4:30 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window. She calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate. Everyone seems to be skeptical and unsupportive of her…
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

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

Friday – June 19, 2026

6:00 AM The Lodger (1927)
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault
91 mins
*****Note the date – this is a silent mystery movie.*****

7:45 AM Young and Innocent (1937) (aka The Girl Was Young)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder. British film also known by the U.S. title
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
83 mins

9:15 AM 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

11:15 AM 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

1:00 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

5:45 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

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

Saturday – June 20, 2026

5:45 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

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

8:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

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

Sunday – June 21, 2026

12:00 AM The Man I Love (1947)
A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
96 mins

10:00 AM The Man I Love (1947)
A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
96 mins

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

Monday – June 22, 2026

12:00 AM Downhill (1927)
The black sheep of a prosperous family begins his downward spiral when he is expelled from school after shielding a friend from punishment.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel
110 mins
*****I’m not sure if this silent film is a mystery, but it is Alfred Hitchcock…*****

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Tuesday – June 23, 2026

2:15 AM Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
77 mins

3:45 AM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
74 mins

5:00 AM Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers
87 mins

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

Wednesday – June 24, 2026

6:30 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor. Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
91 mins

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

Friday – June 26, 2026

6:45 AM M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
110 mins

8:45 AM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

10:15 AM Mad Love (1935)
A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist’s wrists.
Dir: Karl Freund. Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
67 mins

11:30 AM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
64 mins

12:45 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
100 mins

2:45 PM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins

4:30 PM Three Strangers (1946)
Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
92 mins

6:15 PM The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
After a famous pianist’s murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
88 mins

8:00 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

10:00 PM Raw Deal (1948)
When the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
78 mins

11:30 PM Moonrise (1948)
When a murderer’s son accidentally kills a man, even love can’t stop him from fleeing in fear. But to find his redemption, he must face his guilt.
Dir: Frank Borzage. Cast: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore
90 mins

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

Saturday – June 27, 2026

1:15 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

3:30 AM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

5:30 AM Torture Money (1937)
The police track down a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Edwin Maxwell, George Lynn, Murray Alper
20 mins

3:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

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

Sunday – June 28, 2026

12:00 AM Stolen Face (1952)
A plastic surgeon decides to fix a convict’s badly scarred face–with an operation to make her look like a doppelganger of the woman he loves.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell
72 mins

1:45 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins

3:30 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

10:00 AM Stolen Face (1952)
A plastic surgeon decides to fix a convict’s badly scarred face–with an operation to make her look like a doppelganger of the woman he loves.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell
72 mins

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

Monday – June 29, 2026

5:15 PM 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
110 mins

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

Tuesday – June 30, 2026

6:30 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
96 mins

8:30 AM The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart
87 mins

10:00 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

4:15 PM Cornered (1946)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
102 mins

6:15 PM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
97 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 2026 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.

It seems like it is taking me longer and longer to get these monthly mystery movie schedules together. Sometimes I just get so absorbed in either the movies that I recognize, the actors and actresses, or the directors. I keep a list of the movies that I want to DVR – so I can watch them when I feel the urge.

As I got May 2026’s schedule together, I thought that none of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies were going to be shown on Turner Classic Movies channel. That seemed really unusual. However, I just did a word search and found several of his movies.

Anyway, here are is the list of the mystery and crime movies that I did find that will be showing May 2026. I’m already adding some of them to my YouTube TV queue…

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2026

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Friday – May 1, 2026

4:00 PM 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
110 mins

6:00 PM The Big Heat (1953)
A hard-boiled and incorruptible cop investigates a string of murders and single-handedly exposes an organized crime cartel.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando
90 mins

10:15 PM Spellbound (1945)
A psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, and it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac, who may also be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
118 mins

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

Saturday – May 2, 2026

6:45 AM Miracles for Sale (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
71 mins

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

Sunday – May 3, 2026

10:15 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

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

Tuesday – May 5, 2026

9:15 AM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
60 mins

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

Friday – May 8, 2026

6:15 PM Non-Stop New York (1937)
After witnessing a murder in New York, a British chorus girl flees to London and finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan
71 mins

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

Saturday – May 9, 2026

9:45 PM Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
The rise and fall of one of Sicily’s most notorious bandits of the 1940s is chronicled in a series of flashbacks.
Dir: Francesco Rosi. Cast: Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Pietro Cammarata
124 mins
*****In Italian*****

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

Sunday – May 10, 2026

12:00 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

2:15 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

4:00 AM Dillinger (1945)
The legendary gunman plots a series of daring heists.
Dir: Max Nosseck. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys
70 mins

8:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead
88 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie*****

10:00 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

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

2:15 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. Terrific movie.*****

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

Monday – May 11, 2026

9:45 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

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

Tuesday – May 12, 2026

2:00 AM The Bride Wore Black (1968)
When her husband is shot on their wedding day, a newlywed turned widow seeks out the killers and eliminates them one by one in an act of vengeance.
Dir: François Truffaut/ Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
107 mins
*****In French*****

6:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

7:45 AM Border Incident (1949)
Police try to crack down on the illegal immigration racket.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard da Silva
96 mins

9:30 AM Mystery in Mexico (1948)
An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
66 mins

10:45 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

12:00 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

1:15 PM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins

2:30 PM Second Chance (1953)
A crooked boxer falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
Dir: Rudy Maté. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance
82 mins

4:00 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 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

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

Thursday – May 14, 2026

7:30 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

9:15 AM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

11:00 AM We Who Are About to Die (1936)
A San Quentin inmate’s death row conviction is reversed.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal
82 mins

12:30 PM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

2:15 PM Blanche Fury (1948)
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths his estate to her relatives, but Allan’s illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Dir: Marc Allegret. Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough
94 mins

4:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

6:00 PM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

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

Friday – May 15, 2026

1:45 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
*****Really good mystery movie. I usually don’t look forward to watching movies from the 1970s. This one really surprised me (pleasantly!)

4:00 AM 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
112 mins

7:30 AM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins

2:30 PM Blondie Johnson (1933)
A female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
68 mins

3:45 PM Frisco Jenny (1932)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins

8:00 PM Mirage (1965)
A biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
109 mins

10:00 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

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

Sunday – May 17, 2026

12:30 AM 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

2:30 AM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins

4:30 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

10:15 AM 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

10:30 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. I enjoy this movie every time I see it!*****

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

Monday – May 18, 2026

12:00 PM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins
*****Not a mystery. I think this is the very best “Little Women” movie I have seen.*****

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

Wednesday – May 20, 2026

6:00 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

8:00 AM A Woman’s Secret (1949)
A retired singer takes on a protégé only to be betrayed by her.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
85 mins

9:45 AM Born to Be Bad (1950)
An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins

1:30 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins

3:00 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 – May 22, 2026

11:30 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
****More a comedy than a mystery…*****

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

Wednesday – May 27, 2026

10:00 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

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

Thursday – May 28, 2026

4:00 PM The Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
132 mins
*****Not a mystery. Excellent movie – In case you haven’t seen this classic movie yet, notice there are no male actors in it…*****

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

Friday – May 29, 2026

2:15 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller of an artist who can only find inspiration in murder and of the two women who inspire him, the two women he loves – The Two Mrs. Carrolls. When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between the …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins
*****Yow-zaa! Terrific mystery movie…*****

4:00 AM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins

6:00 AM Jezebel (1938)
Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden’s headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness …
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
104 mins
*****If you haven’t seen this non mystery movie, make sure to DVR it. The entire cast is terrific, as well as William Wyler directing.

7:45 AM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
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

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

Saturday – May 30, 2026

4:15 PM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

6:00 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
100 mins

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

Sunday – May 31, 2026

12:30 AM House of Numbers (1957)
A man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
Dir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone
92 mins

10:00 AM House of Numbers (1957)
A man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
Dir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone
92 mins

3:00 PM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

4:45 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

6:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

8:00 PM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

10:00 PM Play Misty for Me (1971)
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
Dir: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
102 mins
*****I remember seeing (and enjoying!) this movie many years ago, and I plan on seeing it again now that they are showing it on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

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

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2026 on Turner Classic Movies channel

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

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

I know there are a lot of us who pretty much started our Cozy Mystery reading with the Nancy Drew mystery books. Because of this, I want to be sure to highlight that the Turner Classic Movie channel will be showing four of the very best Nancy Drew movies during April 2026. There have been different renditions of shows that have been based on the Nancy Drew novels, but as far as I’m concerned, these four movies come the closest to the novels.

On Wednesday, April 15, all four of the Nancy Drew movies starring Bonita Granville will be playing:

Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Bonita Granville, as far as I’m concerned, is the absolute best-ever Nancy Drew. She is exactly the way I remember Nancy being from all those delightful books I read so many years ago. Also, Frankie Thomas and John Litel are terrific as Nancy’s side-kick sleuth and her very patient father. I have seen these four movies several times before, and I will probably be watching them several times in the future.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2026

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

Thursday – April 2, 2026

6:00 AM Secret Enemies (1942)
The FBI tracks Nazi agents to a luxury hotel.
Dir: Benjamin Stoloff Cast: Faye Emerson, Craig Stevens, John Ridgely
57 mins

7:00 AM Don’t Talk (1942)
This Crime Does Not Pay series short focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Donald Douglas, Gloria Holden, Barry Nelson
22 mins

9:00 AM Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
80 mins

12:30 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

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

Saturday – April 4, 2026

6:30 PM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
78 mins

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

Sunday – April 5, 2026

1:15 AM T-Men (1947)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
92 mins

10:00 AM T-Men (1947)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
92 mins

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

Tuesday – April 7, 2026

2:30 AM Blow-Up (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins

6:15 PM Marlowe (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart. Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor
95 mins

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

Wednesday – April 8, 2026

6:00 AM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
60 mins

7:15 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
76 mins

8:45 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
111 mins

10:45 AM Blonde Ice (1948)
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent
74 mins

12:15 PM Tension (1949)
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

2:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

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
113 mins

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

Thursday – April 9, 2026

7:30 AM Postmark for Danger (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green. Cast: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester
78 mins

10:45 AM Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
The British sleuth comes out of retirement to help catch a band of thieves armed with military weapons.
Dir: Victor Saville. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty
79 mins

12:15 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

1:30 PM Sabotage (1936)
An unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester
76 mins

3:00 PM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siege. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
86 mins

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

6:15 PM Lured (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
102 mins

10:00 PM No Country for Old Men (2007)
A poacher has to elude the Texas Rangers and the mob after stealing drug money.
Dir: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
122 mins

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

Saturday – April 11, 2026

12:45 AM Blood Simple (1984)
An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins

2:45 AM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

4:45 AM 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 McGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

6:00 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
105 mins

8:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

10:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

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

Sunday – April 12, 2026

12:15 AM Bad Blonde (1953)
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater
81 mins

2:00 AM 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

10:00 AM Bad Blonde (1953)
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater
81 mins

11:45 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

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

Monday – April 13, 2026

8:00 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

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

Wednesday – April 15, 2026

8:15 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

9:15 AM Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
The Secret Service investigates a fleet of gambling ships.
Dir: Terry Morse. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Margot Stevenson, Eddie Foy Jr.
57 mins

10:15 AM Murder in the Air (1940)
A secret service agent fights to keep enemy spies away from top secret government plans.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys
55 mins

11:15 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

12:30 PM 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

1:45 PM 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

3:00 PM Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth helps two old ladies deal with the “haunting” of their mansion.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
60 mins

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

Thursday – April 16, 2026

12:00 PM The Double Man (1967)
Russian secret service officials attempt to kidnap a CIA officer and replace him with a double of their own.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill
105 mins

2:00 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

4:00 PM The Scapegoat (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer. Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
92 mins

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

Saturday – April 18, 2026

2:30 PM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

10:15 PM Brief Encounter (1945)
Two married strangers meet in a train station and fall in love.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
86 mins
*****Not a mystery, but it’s a classic British movie.*****

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

Sunday – April 19, 2026

12:00 AM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

10:00 AM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

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

Tuesday – April 21, 2026

4:15 PM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins

9:15 PM Confession (1937)
A glamorous singer commits murder to protect her daughter’s virtue.
Dir: Joe May. Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone
87 mins

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

Wednesday – April 22, 2026

4:30 AM The House on 56th Street (1933)
A woman loses her family after being falsely convicted of a crime.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
68 mins

6:00 AM The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart
87 mins

10:30 AM Borderline (1950)
A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William A. Seiter. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr
88 mins

12:00 PM 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

2:00 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

4:00 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 – April 24, 2026

8:00 PM Boxcar Bertha (1972)
A union leader enlists his girlfriend in a plot to get back at the railroad’s evil management.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus
88 mins

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

Saturday – April 25, 2026

2:15 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irvin Kershner. Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
83 mins

11:30 AM Easy Life (1944)
A high school dropout finds that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
Dir: Walter Hart. Cast: William “Bill” Phillips, William Tannen, James Warren
20 mins

2:00 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
87 mins

3:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croydon
129 mins

8:00 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

10:15 PM Murder, He Says (1945)
A pollster stumbles on a family of small-town killers.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
91 mins

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

Sunday – April 26, 2026

12:00 AM 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
A telephone repairman gets mixed up with illegal gambling.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger
102 mins

2:00 AM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

6:00 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

10:00 AM 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
A telephone repairman gets mixed up with illegal gambling.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger
102 mins

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

Tuesday – April 28, 2026

11:00 AM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
85 mins

12:45 PM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

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

Wednesday – April 29, 2026

12:00 AM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

6:00 AM Stronger Than Desire (1939)
A lawyer’s wife keeps mum as her husband defends an innocent woman for the crime she committed.
Dir: Leslie Fenton. Cast: Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Bowman
78 mins

7:30 AM 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

8:45 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

10:00 AM Confession (1937)
A glamorous singer commits murder to protect her daughter’s virtue.
Dir: Joe May. Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone
87 mins

11:45 AM A Criminal Is Born (1938)
This short film tells the story of how a young man starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Dir: Leslie Fenton. Cast: Dave Durand, Norman Phillips Jr., Dorothy Vaughan
20 mins

12:15 PM Criminal Court (1946)
An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his cabaret singer sweetheart has been arrested for the crime.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth
63 mins

1:30 PM Criminal Lawyer (1951)
An alcoholic lawyer sobers up to defend his friend in a murder case.
Dir: Seymour Friedman. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid
74 mins:

4:30 PM Count the Hours! (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran
76 mins

6:00 PM Trial (1955)
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy
105 mins

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

Thursday – April 30, 2026

3:45 PM The Unfaithful (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
109 mins

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

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2026 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.

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.