Fall is finally here! I have been watching a lot of the true crime channel, as well as my black and white, old-time “Bella Lugosi/Vincent Price Halloween themed” movies on the Turner Classic channel, and I’m ready to get back to just watching crime and mystery movies. (As well as reading Cozy Mysteries!) I was surprised to not find a lot of Christmas movies on this month’s Turner Classic Movies roster, but there were a few thrown in. (I think I saw at least one “Little Women” movie tucked in there, and possibly a “Meet Me in St. Louis”.)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2024

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

Friday – November 1, 2024

1:45 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

Saturday – November 2, 2024

6:00 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

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

Sunday – November 3, 2024

12:30 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

8:30 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

10:00 AM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

12:00 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

4:15 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

6:00 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

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

Monday – November 4, 2024

10:00 AM Hunt the Man Down (1950)
A lawyer uncovers the secrets behind a decade-old murder case.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
68 mins

10:45 PM Gloria (1980)
When a young boy’s family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Dir: John Cassavetes. Cast: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
123 mins

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

Tuesday – November 5, 2024

9:45 AM The Bribe (1949)
A sultry singer tries to tempt a federal agent from the straight-and-narrow.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
98 mins

1:00 PM 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

11:45 PM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins

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

Wednesday – November 6, 2024

8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins
*****This is a “gotta see it” mystery movie.*****

10:00 PM 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

11:45 PM A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
A college student who is more sinister than he appears tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
94 mins

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

Friday – November 8, 2024

1:30 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

3:30 AM 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

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

Saturday – November 9, 2024

1:15 PM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

2:00 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life isn’t so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
85 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

3:30 AM Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson
86 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.*****

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

Sunday – November 10, 2024

12:45 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins
*****In French*****

10:00 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
150 mins
*****In French*****

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

Tuesday – November 12, 2024

12:15 AM The Tong-Man (1919)
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
Dir: William Worthington. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc Robbins
54 mins
*****Silent 1919*****

8:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

10:00 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

11:45 PM Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
85 mins

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

Wednesday – November 13, 2024

1:30 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

10:00 AM 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

8:00 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

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

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

Thursday – November 14, 2024

12:00 AM 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

2:00 AM 23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)
A blind London writer overhears a conversation that reveals a kidnapping plot. Knowing what he heard was true but finding the police don’t believe his story, the man summons the help of his secretary and fiancée to hunt down the kidnappers independently.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
103 mins

4:00 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

4:30 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

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

Friday – November 15, 2024

5:45 AM Crown v. Stevens (1936)
An ex-dancer marries a rich man hoping to pay off a loan shark.
Dir: Michael Powell. Cast: Beatrix Thomson, Patric Knowles, Googie Withers
65 mins

8:45 AM 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

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

Saturday – November 16, 2024

6:00 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

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

Sunday – November 17, 2024

12:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

2:00 AM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
120 mins

10:00 AM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

11:45 AM 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

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

Tuesday – November 19, 2024

7:00 AM Frisco Jenny (1933)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins

8:15 AM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

9:30 AM 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

11:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

1:15 PM The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
A society sleuth enlists a little girl’s help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy
66 mins

2:30 PM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

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

Wednesday – November 20, 2024

6:15 PM Undercover Maisie (1947)
A stranded showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic.
Dir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Mark Daniels
90 mins

8:00 PM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

10:15 PM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
107 mins

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

Thursday – November 21, 2024

12:15 AM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

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*****

4:00 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

8:00 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a really good British movie.*****

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

Friday – November 22, 2024

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

10:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

11:45 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

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

Saturday – November 23, 2024

1:30 AM Phantom Lady (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
87 mins

3:15 AM 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

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

Sunday – November 24, 2024

12:00 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins

8:15 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
88 mins
*****Not a mystery – I saw this movie several years ago and was quite taken by it…*****

10:00 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 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 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

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

Monday – November 25, 2024

8:45 AM The Unholy Wife (1957)
An ambitious beauty marries a vintner, then falls for one of his workers.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon
94 mins

12:00 PM Illegal (1955)
A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
88 mins

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

Tuesday – November 26, 2024

4:15 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins
*****This is a “gotta see it” mystery movie.*****

8:00 PM 5 Steps to Danger (1957)
Hitchhiking on a deserted New Mexico road after his car breaks down, John Emmett gets picked up by Ann Nicholson, who is in a rush to reach Santa Fe, N.M. The distraught Ann is being pursued by psychiatrist Frederick Simmons, who has been treating her in Los Angeles since she had a nervous breakdown but she tells John that …
Dir: Henry S. Kesler. Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins

9:30 PM Joe MacBeth (1955)
The classic Shakespearean tale is set inside a gangster’s story.
Dir: Ken Hughes. Cast: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano
90 mins

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

Wednesday – November 27, 2024

1:00 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

10:00 PM Midnight Lace (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
108 mins

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

Friday – November 29, 2024

12:00 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

2:00 AM 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

4:00 AM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins

3:45 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

6:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins

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

Sunday – December 1, 2024

12:30 AM Naked Alibi (1954)
A chief of police detectives who is fired for brutality tries to get evidence on a man suspected of killing 3 of his officers.
Dir: Jerry Hopper. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
86 mins

2:15 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

4:30 AM Deathtrap (1982)
A formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play, returns to his wife, 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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in November, 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 October television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2024 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 you believe it’s fall? It’s difficult for me to believe it here in San Antonio! Our heat indexes are either over 100* or, if not that high, close to 100*! I invested in a silk “flower” arrangement from Petals, with fall leaves so I could enjoy the fall colors I’ve been missing – since moving down here years ago for my husband’s job. (My mother sent me an arrangement from Petals, and I’ve wanted to order something from that company for years. Now that we’re thinking of down-sizing probably isn’t the best time to have done that!)

Getting back to the purpose of this blog entry. Here are the mystery and crime movies that I was able to find from the Turner Classic Movies channel roster for October 2024. I’m surprised I found this many mystery/crime movies this month, since as the Halloween month, their schedule is full of Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lore, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, etc, type movies. (Love them!)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – October 2024

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

Wednesday – October 2, 2024

1:00 PM The Guilty (1947)
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Cast: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey
71 mins

4:00 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

6:00 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

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

Thursday – October 3, 2024

8:00 PM Sudden Fear (1952)
Wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright, meets Lester Blaine while casting her new play in New York. They meet again on the train ride back, fall in love and marry. Unknown to Myra, Lester has a mistress, Irene Neves, whom he still loves and has married her only for her money.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
110 mins

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

Friday – October 4, 2024

5:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
110 mins

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

Saturday – October 5, 2024

1:45 AM City Hall (1996)
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Dir: Harold Becker. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello
111 mins

8:07 AM The Amazing Mr. Nordill (1947)
This short film focuses on Everett Nordill, a mastermind behind a counterfeiting ring in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Paul Maxey, Leon Ames, John Nesbitt
10 mins

8:26 AM Strange Alibi (1941)
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale
63 mins

6:30 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins

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

Sunday – October 6, 2024

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

10:00 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

3:15 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

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

Thursday – October 10, 2024

3:00 AM The Death Kiss (1933)
A movie actor is killed while filming a scene.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi
71 mins

4:15 AM Scared to Death (1947)
A beautiful murder victim recalls how she met her untimely end.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton
64 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

10:15 PM Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
92 mins

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

Friday – October 11, 2024

2:00 AM The Haunting (1963)
You may not believe in ghosts…but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins

8:00 AM 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

9:30 AM 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

1:45 PM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins

3:15 PM Mr. Ricco (1975)
A defense lawyer faces down racist killers to prove his black client innocent.
Dir: Paul Bogart. Cast: Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Cindy Williams
98 mins

5:00 PM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
81 mins

***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – October 12, 2024

5:00 AM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras. Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
125 mins

6:00 PM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist’s investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Dir: Victor Fleming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
113 mins

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

Sunday – October 13, 2024

12:30 AM The Crooked Way (1949)
A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
90 mins

10:00 AM The Crooked Way (1949)
A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
90 mins

12:00 PM House of Women (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger. Cast: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford
85 mins

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

Monday – October 14, 2024

6:00 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

8:00 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

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

Tuesday – October 15, 2024

12:15 AM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
93 mins

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

Wednesday – October 16, 2024

9:30 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
64 mins

2:00 PM My Forbidden Past (1951)
A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
81 mins

3:30 PM Gambling House (1951)
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix
80 mins

5:00 PM Nocturne (1946)
A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston
87 mins

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

Thursday – October 17, 2024

1:15 AM The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
A phony medium tries to prove her protege innocent of murder.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly
72 mins

6:00 AM Le Samourai (1967)
When a professional hitman is seen by witnesses leaving the scene of a killing, his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon
105 mins
*****In French*****

1:45 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

4:00 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

5:45 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

11:45 PM The Wicker Man (1973)
A righteous police officer investigates the disappearance of a young girl. While searching for the missing girl, he comes into contact with the unusual residents of a secluded Scottish isle.
Dir: Robin Hardy. Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
97 mins

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

Saturday – October 19, 2024

7:00 AM The Law in Her Hands (1936)
A lady lawyer for the mob tries to break free of her criminal connections.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull
58 mins

8:26 AM Law of the Underworld (1938)
A respectable citizen lures two innocents into his secret criminal plots.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Chester Morris, Anne Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli
61 mins

5:15 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
73 mins

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

Sunday – October 20, 2024

12:30 AM Too Late for Tears (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
99 mins

10:00 AM Too Late for Tears (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
99 mins

2:00 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

4:00 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

8:00 PM The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson
114 mins

10:00 PM The Human Factor (1980)
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer
115 mins

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

Monday – October 21, 2024

12:15 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

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

Wednesday – October 23, 2024

10:45 PM The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templer lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale
68 mins

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

Thursday – October 24, 2024

1:30 AM Genius at Work (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys
61 mins
*****Possibly more of a comedy than a mystery.*****

8:00 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
110 mins

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

Saturday – October 26, 2024

8:29 AM Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy takes on the Claw in this crime thriller.
Dir: John Rawlins Cast: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher
60 mins

4:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

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

Sunday – October 27, 2024

2:00 AM 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

4:00 AM Tiger Bay (1959)
A seaman kills his two-timing girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, but is witnessed in the act by a young girl. He kidnaps her for fear she’ll turn him in, but oddly the two strike up a friendship until a detective comes snooping around, using the girl as bait to catch the killer before his ship sails off.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
105 mins

6:00 AM 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

1:45 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: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

4:00 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol syares out her window and witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window. She calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

6:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
A newly wed wife refuses to believe that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt…
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

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

Monday – October 28, 2024

8:00 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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in October, 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 September television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2024 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.

Oh my! It’s not October yet, but since September 2024 will have a Friday the 13th in it, there will be several Halloween-ish movies on this particular day. Some of you have been with me for a long enough time to know that I enjoy watching the old, black and white Halloween-type movies during October every year. And I’m not talking about just what the Golden Age of Hollywood thought of as “A” movies — the closer to “B” movies, the better for me! I love the old Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, (ETC!) movies from yester-year. If your taste is anything like mine, then make sure to take a look at what the Turner Classic Movies channel has in store for us on Friday the 13th this year.

As this is a mystery site, I have included mystery and crime movies on this September 2024 list. However, I want to bring attention to a movie I have watched a several times (and plan on watching even more times!) which is not a mystery movie. On Wednesday, September 18 the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing The Enchanted Cottage (1945). It stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, and Herbert Marshall. Ok, I know it’s difficult to see Dorothy McGuire as not absolutely beautiful — even with the very dark, bushy eyebrows and dark, barretted hair. Let’s face it… she’s still a beauty! But I guess she doesn’t look like the other (very glamorous) women in 1945 movies. Either way, I love this non mystery movie – and you might, too! (Watch the movie, then you’ll see why I am talking about her looks…)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2024

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

Monday – September 2, 2024

7:30 AM Red Hot Tires (1935)
A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns
61 mins

11:30 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

1:15 PM Brute Force (1947)
Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
98 mins

4:30 PM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
89 mins

6:15 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
92 mins

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

Wednesday – September 4, 2024

9:30 AM After Office Hours (1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
75 mins

2:45 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

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
91 mins

9:45 PM 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

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

Thursday – September 5, 2024

4:15 AM The White Cockatoo (1935)
Crooks and killers try to stop a young woman from proving her claim to an inheritance.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly
73 mins

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

Friday – September 6, 2024

3:30 AM The Mighty Quinn (1989)
When police officer Xavier Quinn’s childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him…
Dir: Carl Schenkel. Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers
98 mins

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

Saturday – September 7, 2024

12:45 PM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster’s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
86 mins

6:00 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

8:16 AM How to Be a Detective (1936)
Robert Benchley attempts to teach the audience what it takes to be a successful detective.
Dir: Felix E. Feist. Cast: Robert Benchley, Dewey Robinson, Arthur Hoyt
8 mins

5:45 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 – September 8, 2024

12:00 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

4:30 AM The Falcon’s Brother (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan. Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
63 mins

10:00 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

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

Monday – September 9, 2024

2:00 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

4:00 PM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

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

Tuesday – September 10, 2024

12:30 AM Confidential Agent (1945)
A Spanish spy and an American heiress battle fascists in England.
Dir: Herman Shumlin. Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
118 mins

7:30 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

10:00 AM 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

12:30 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

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

Wednesday – September 11, 2024

1:15 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

7:45 AM Fast Company (1938)
Married book-dealers Joel and Gerda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller .
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd
75 mins

2:15 PM 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

3:45 PM 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

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

Friday – September 13, 2024

8:00 AM 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

9:15 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins

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

Saturday – September 14, 2024

8:28 AM Lady Gangster (1942)
A district attorney tries to reform a gangster’s moll who’s been sent up the river.
Dir: Florian Roberts. Cast: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox
62 mins

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

Sunday – September 15, 2024

12:00 AM A Lady Without Passport (1950)
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
72 mins

10:00 AM A Lady Without Passport (1950)
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
72 mins

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

Monday – September 16, 2024

10:00 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

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

Tuesday – September 17, 2024

12:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

2:00 AM 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

6:00 AM The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
80 mins

11:45 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins

1:45 PM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

8:00 PM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
95 mins

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

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

Wednesday – September 18, 2024

3:30 AM Sworn Enemy (1936)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Joseph Calleia
73 mins

10:45 AM The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
91 mins
*****Not a mystery, but I really enjoy this movie every time I watch it.*****

12:30 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

6:00 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

8:00 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

10:00 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

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

Thursday – September 19, 2024

2:00 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

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

Friday – September 20, 2024

7:30 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

9:00 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

11:00 AM Shanghai Express (1932)
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
80 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
86 mins

3:30 PM 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

5:00 PM Terror on a Train (1953)
It’s a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
72 mins

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

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

Sunday – September 22, 2024

12:00 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins

6:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
102 mins

8:00 AM Ring of Fire (1961)
A group of delinquents hold a sheriff hostage in the middle of a forest fire.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin
90 mins

10:00 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins

8:00 PM The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall
114 mins

10:00 PM The Human Factor (1980)
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer
115 mins

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

Tuesday – September 24, 2024

2:00 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

9:30 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins

11:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins

1:00 PM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

3:45 PM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

5:45 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

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

Wednesday – September 25, 2024

12:15 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

6:00 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

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

Thursday – September 26, 2024

1:30 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

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

Friday – September 27, 2024

12:30 AM 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. Pakul. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

7:45 AM Sol Madrid (1968)
An undercover narcotics agent tries to track a Mafia chief.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas
90 mins

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

Saturday – September 28, 2024

6:00 AM 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

6:15 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

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

Sunday – September 29, 2024

12:30 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins

10:00 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins

12:00 PM Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Dir: Richard L. Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
81 mins

5:45 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

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

Tuesday – October 1, 2024

2:45 AM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

4:30 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: William Hamilton. Cast: Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan
80 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in September, 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 August television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2024 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.

Here are the mystery/crime movies that will be airing on the Turner Classic Movies network during August 2024. If you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, be sure to scan this list of movies to find out when his movies will be shown – there are quite a few this month, particularly on the 24th.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2024

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

THURSDAY, August 1

8:00 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

10:00 AM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
91 mins

4:00 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
91 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 2

3:00 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
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11:45 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

5:00 PM 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

6:30 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

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, Alan Curtis
100 mins

10:00 PM They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
93 mins

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

SATURDAY, August 3

12:00 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

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

SUNDAY, August 4

3:00 PM Torn Curtain (1966)
A U.S. scientist pretends to defect to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
128 mins

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

TUESDAY, August 6

4:30 AM The Big Punch (1948)
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
Dir: Sherry Shourds. Cast: Wayne Morris, Lois Maxwell, Gordon MacRae
50 mins

6:00 AM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
83 mins

7:30 AM The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins

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

WEDNESDAY, August 7

11:30 PM Topkapi (1964)
An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
120 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 8

1:45 AM Evil Under the Sun (1982)
A detective trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
Dir: Guy Hamilton. Cast: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
117 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 9

6:00 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

8:00 PM A Place in the Sun (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress’ heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy.
Dir: George Stevens. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
122 mins

10:15 PM The Heiress (1949)
A plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
115 mins
*****I Love, love, love this non mystery movie!*****

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

SATURDAY, August 10

10:00 AM Still of the Night (1982)
After a woman’s married boyfriend is murdered, she gives his watch to his psychiatrist and asks him to return it to the man’s wife. The psychiatrist is fascinated by the beautiful woman, who he has heard all about during his late patient’s therapy sessions. After learning that Brooke’s father died mysteriously…
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy
91 mins

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

SUNDAY, August 11

10:00 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

4:00 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 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

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

TUESDAY, August 13

6:15 AM Mississippi Mermaid (1970)
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Dir: François Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Nelly Borgeaud
123 mins
*****In French*****

8:30 AM The Burglars (1971)
In Athens, a group of professional burglars plan an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector, but the corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.
Dir: Henri Verneuil. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
*****In French*****

10:30 AM L’aine des Ferchaux (1963)
A French businessman with shady dealings flees to America with his assistant, the latter trying to secretly bilk him out of his money.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michele Mercier
104 mins
*****In French*****

8:00 PM Breathless (1960)
A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Liliane David
90 mins
*****In French & English*****

9:45 PM Pierrot le Fou (1965)
After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he’d loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders
110 mins
*****In French & English*****

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

WEDNESDAY, August 14

1:45 AM Borsalino (1970)
During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.
Dir: Jacques Deray. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
125 mins
*****In French & Italian*****

6:00 AM The Naked Street (1955)
A racketeer saves his daughter’s no-good husband from the chair but lives to regret it.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft
84 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 15

6:00 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

10:00 AM 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

11:30 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins

1:00 PM Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A small-time crook on the run is reformed by the love of a crippled woman.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington
81 mins

2:30 PM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
68 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 16

12:15 AM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Young Charlie is a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle Charlie is a serial killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
108 mins

2:30 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 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

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

SUNDAY, August 18

7:30 AM Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
116 mins

9:30 AM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins
*****This movie is not a mystery. I think it’s the absolute best “Little Women” movie there is…*****

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

TUESDAY, August 20

6:00 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

2:00 PM The Tattered Dress (1957)
After top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for Michael Reston who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.
Dir: Jack Arnold. Cast: Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson
93 mins

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

WEDNESDAY, August 21

4:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
102 mins

4:00 PM Crisis (1950)
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he’s forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond
95 mins

6:00 PM I Accuse! (1958)
True story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
Dir: José Ferrer. Cast: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
99 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 22

12:15 AM The Great Man (1957)
A radio writer preparing a tribute to a recently passed colleague discovers his idol was not such a wonderful man.
Dir: Jose Ferrer. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

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

8:00 PM Another Man’s Poison (1951)
A mystery writer’s real life turns to intrigue when her criminal husband escapes from prison.
Dir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams
89 mins

10:00 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense…
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 23

12:00 AM 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

2:00 AM 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 AM 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.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

6:00 AM Libel (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie
100 mins

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

SATURDAY, August 24

2:30 AM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 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 To Catch a Thief (1955)
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
106 mins

10:00 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, August 25

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

10:00 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

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

MONDAY, August 26

12:00 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

7:30 AM 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

9:00 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: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

11:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
110 mins

10:15 PM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins

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

THURSDAY, August 29

4:00 AM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see a man fleeing the scene of a murder, the man asks his former girlfriend for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is someone else.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 mins

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

SATURDAY, August 31

4:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, a woman 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.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

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

SUNDAY, September 1, 2024

12:00 AM The Boston Strangler (1968)
The true story of the extensive police manhunt for a serial killer in Boston who had strangled a number of young women in the early 60s.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
116 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 2024 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.