If you love (or if someone you know loves) horses, then the Turner Classic Movies channel is where you/he/she need/s to be on Thursday July 2!  They will be showing several “horse movies” then. The next Thursday (the ninth) nine of The Falcon mystery movies will be airing back-to-back. The original Falcon was Gay Lawrence – who was played by George Sanders in several of these movies. The nine movies TCM is airing on July 9 feature Tom Lawrence, (Gay’s brother – who is played by Tom Conway – who incidentally was George Sanders brother.

The Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing a whole lot of mystery movies featuring reporters trying to uncover the culprits of several crimes.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – JULY 2020

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Wednesday – July 1

11:45 AM
LIBEL (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir:  Anthony Asquith Cast:  Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Thursday – July 2

8:45 AM
THE ALPHABET MURDERS (1965)
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders committed in alphabetical order.
Dir:  Frank Tashlin Cast:  Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley.
BW- 90 mins, CC

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

Saturday – July 4

11:45 PM
THE SIGN OF THE RAM (1948)
An invalid matriarch manipulates her entire family.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter.
BW- 84 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 5

5:00 AM
LET FREEDOM RING (1939)
A crusader returns to his Western hometown to root out corruption.
Dir:  Jack Conway Cast:  Nelson Eddy, Virginia Bruce, Victor McLaglen.
BW- 87 mins, CC

7:00 AM
THE SCARLET COAT (1955)
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 AM
THE SIGN OF THE RAM (1948)
An invalid matriarch manipulates her entire family.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter.
BW- 84 mins, CC

5:00 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

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

Monday – July 6

5:00 AM
THE ADVENTURES OF JANE ARDEN (1939)
A reporter poses as a jewel smuggler to unmask a criminal gang.
Dir:  Terry Morse Cast:  Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson.
BW- 58 mins, CC

6:45 AM
BORN FOR TROUBLE (1942)
Two reporters take on a murder ring at the state pen.
Dir:  B. Reeves Eason Cast:  Van Johnson, Faye Emerson, George Meeker.
BW- 59 mins, CC

8:00 AM
JAILBREAK (1936)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Dir:  Nick Grinde Cast:  Barton MacLane, June Travis, Craig Reynolds.
BW- 60 mins

9:15 AM
ESPIONAGE (1937)
Rival reporters fight off spies while vying to interview a munitions tycoon.
Dir:  Kurt Neumann Cast:  Edmund Lowe, Madge Evans, Paul Lukas.
BW- 67 mins

10:30 AM
BANNERLINE (1951)
An idealistic small-town reporter tries to fight corruption.
Dir:  Don Weis Cast:  Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore.
BW- 87 mins

12:00 PM
I WAS FRAMED (1942)
A news man’s political investigations land him in prison.
Dir:  D. Ross Lederman Cast:  Michael Ames, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey.
BW- 61 mins

1:15 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.
BW- 92 mins, CC

3:00 PM
BLACKWELL’S ISLAND (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Dir:  William McGann Cast:  John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell.
BW- 71 mins, CC

4:15 PM
TWELVE CROWDED HOURS (1939)
A reporter avenges his editor’s murder by gangsters.
Dir:  Lew Landers Cast:  Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane.
BW- 65 mins, CC

5:30 PM
HOT SUMMER NIGHT (1957)
A hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
Dir:  David Friedkin Cast:  Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke.
BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – July 7

3:00 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.
BW- 78 mins, CC

3:15 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 114 mins, CC

8:45 PM
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
A petty thief accidentally steals a communist spy’s purse.
Dir:  Samuel Fuller Cast:  Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter.
BW- 80 mins, CC

10:15 PM
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955)
An Army investigator infiltrates a Tokyo crime syndicate to solve a colleague’s murder.
Dir:  Samuel Fuller Cast:  Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi.
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – July 8

12:15 AM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir:  Samuel Fuller Cast:  Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

7:15 AM
THE BAT (1959)
A female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
Dir:  Crane Wilbur Cast:  Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon.
BW- 80 mins, CC

8:45 AM
THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS (1969)
A traveling show’s star gets involved in a small-town murder case.
Dir:  Peter Tewksbury Cast:  Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe.
C- 99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – July 9

6:30 AM
THE FALCON STRIKES BACK (1943)
A society sleuth is framed for murder by criminals running a war-bond racket.
Dir:  Edward Dmytryk Cast:  Tom Conway, Harriet Hilliard, Jane Randolph.
BW- 66 mins, CC

7:45 AM
THE FALCON IN DANGER (1943)
A society sleuth tracks a lost plane carrying $100,000.
Dir:  William Clemens Cast:  Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard.
BW- 70 mins, CC

9:00 AM
THE FALCON AND THE CO-EDS (1944)
A society sleuth investigates murder at a girls’ school.
Dir:  William Clemens Cast:  Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday.
BW- 68 mins, CC

10:30 AM
THE FALCON OUT WEST (1944)
A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas murder.
Dir:  William Clemens Cast:  Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale.
BW- 64 mins, CC

12:00 PM
THE FALCON IN MEXICO (1944)
A society sleuth travels South of the border to investigate an art dealer’s murder.
Dir:  William Berke Cast:  Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha MacVicar.
BW- 70 mins, CC

1:30 PM
THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD (1944)
A society sleuth tours the movie capital, where he uncovers an actor’s murder.
Dir:  Gordon Douglas Cast:  Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg.
BW- 67 mins, CC

3:00 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.
BW- 66 mins, CC

4:30 PM
THE FALCON’S ALIBI (1946)
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron’s lost jewels.
Dir:  Ray McCarey Cast:  Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett.
BW- 63 mins, CC

5:45 PM
THE FALCON’S ADVENTURE (1946)
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
Dir:  William Berke Cast:  Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy.
BW- 62 mins, CC

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

Friday – July 10

7:00 PM
THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING (1935)
A gangster hides from the law by trading places with a mild-mannered double.
Dir:  John Ford Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Saturday – July 11

11:00 PM
BODYGUARD (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir:  Richard O. Fleischer Cast:  Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed.
BW- 63 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 12

9:00 AM
BODYGUARD (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir:  Richard O. Fleischer Cast:  Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed.
BW- 63 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – July 14

9:15 AM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

10:45 AM
PETE KELLY’S BLUES (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir:  Jack Webb Cast:  Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:15 PM
POINT BLANK (1967)
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty.
Dir:  John Boorman Cast:  Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn.
C- 92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – July 16

2:30 PM
STAR OF MIDNIGHT (1935)
A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
Dir:  Stephen Roberts Cast:  William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly.
BW- 90 mins, CC

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

Friday – July 17

7:15 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.
BW- 73 mins

11:00 AM
GIDEON OF SCOTLAND YARD (1959)
A Scotland Yard inspector struggles to get through a typical day on the job.
Dir:  John Ford Cast:  Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Cyril Cusack.
C- 91 mins, CC

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

Saturday – July 18

7:26 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.
BW- 58 mins

1:00 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

3:00 PM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 19

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – July 21

12:30 AM
THE BOSTON STRANGLER (1968)
Federal and local law officers try to catch a deadly serial killer.
Dir:  Richard Fleischer Cast:  Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy.
C- 116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM
THE LAST RIDE (1944)
A detective suspects foul play in a series of accidental deaths.
Dir:  D. Ross Lederman Cast:  Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker.
BW- 57 mins

7:15 AM
CONSPIRACY (1930)
A brother and sister take on the drug ring that caused their father’s death.
Dir:  Christy Cabanne Cast:  Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Hugh Trevor.
BW- 69 mins

8:30 AM
GRAND JURY (1936)
A small town man mounts a civic crusade to bring a local gang of racketeers to justice.
Dir:  Albert S. Rogell Cast:  Fred Stone, Louise Latimer, Owen Davis Jr..
BW- 61 mins

9:45 AM
EMERGENCY CALL (1933)
A promising surgeon discovers his hospital is run by gangsters.
Dir:  Edward Cahn Cast:  Bill Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan.
BW- 61 mins

11:00 AM
MISSING WITNESSES (1937)
Government investigators take on a powerful protection racket.
Dir:  William Clemens Cast:  John Litel, Dick Purcell, Jean Dale.
BW- 61 mins

12:15 PM
SMASHING THE RACKETS (1938)
Pushed into a do-nothing job, an FBI man finds his own way of going after the mob.
Dir:  Lew Landers Cast:  Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson.
BW- 69 mins, CC

1:30 PM
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..
BW- 57 mins

2:30 PM
TRAPPED (1949)
Dir:  Richard Fleischer Cast:  Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt.
BW- 80 mins, CC

4:00 PM
SPECIAL AGENT (1935)
A government agent poses as a newspaperman to get the goods on a mobster.
Dir:  William Keighley Cast:  Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez.
BW- 76 mins, CC

5:30 PM
EXCLUSIVE STORY (1936)
A newspaper’s attorney tries to get the goods on the numbers racket.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Stuart Erwin.
BW- 74 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – July 22

3:45 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

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

Friday – July 24

5:00 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.
BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – July 25

11:30 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.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 26

9:00 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.
BW- 97 mins, CC

1:00 PM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir:  Frank Capra Cast:  Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW- 118 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – July 28

5:00 AM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

11:15 AM
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.
BW- 87 mins, CC
*****This movie is not a mystery. It has been ranked as one of the best British films ever made.*****

7:00 PM
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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

9:00 PM
DEAD RECKONING (1947)
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
Dir:  John Cromwell Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – July 29

12:45 AM
THE RACKET (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir:  John Cromwell Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan.
BW- 89 mins, CC

2:30 AM
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir:  Lewis Milestone Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
BW- 115 mins, CC

10:15 AM
FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet.
Dir:  Fred McLeod Wilcox Cast:  Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen.
C- 98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****This is not a mystery movie, however, sometimes it’s fun to watch a science fiction movie from the 1950s…*****

7:00 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

11:30 PM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir:  Preston Sturges Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW- 94 mins, CC
*****This is another non mystery movie. However, if you haven’t seen this comedy, you really should try it.*****

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Thursday – July 30

1:15 AM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir:  Frank Capra Cast:  Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW- 118 mins, CC

6:00 AM
PHANTOM RAIDERS (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to stop enemy agents from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut.
BW- 70 mins

9:00 AM
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks.
BW- 66 mins, CC

6:30 PM
THE SHIP THAT DIED (1938)
This short film looks at the mystery of the Mary Celeste, a ship that was discovered abandoned for no discernible reason.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Leonard Penn, Rhea Mitchell, Charles Sullivan.
BW- 10 mins, CC

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

Friday – July 31

9:15 PM
SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (1960)
A 19th-century lawyer tries to clear a black man of rape and murder charges.
Dir:  John Ford Cast:  Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke.
C- 111 mins, CC

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

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

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the June 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 2020 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.

(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Here is next month’s list of mystery (and some personal favorites of mine) movies on Turner Classic Movies for next month, June 2020…

I don’t have a lot to say about next month – there will be plenty of movies, but not really any particularly noteworthy marathons or any other obvious structure to what I personally want to see.

So, I hope you enjoy the June lineup! 

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Monday – June 1

9:30 AM
A STRANGER IN TOWN (1943)
A Supreme Court justice on vacation takes on crooked small-town politicians.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers.
BW- 67 mins

11:30 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – June 2

2:30 AM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C- 114 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – June 3

2:45 AM
MYSTERY HOUSE (1938)
A detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel.
BW- 57 mins

4:00 AM
THE PATIENT IN ROOM 18 (1938)
A hospitalized detective probes the murder of a fellow patient.
Dir: Bobby Connolly Cast: Patric Knowles, Ann Sheridan, Eric Stanley.
BW- 59 mins, CC

5:15 AM
THE GREAT O’MALLEY (1937)
A ruthless cop gets mixed up with a man who’s only turned to crime to help his crippled daughter.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Pat O’Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 6

7:29 AM
THE FIGHTING GRINGO (1939)
A cowboy tries to clear an innocent Mexican rancher of murder charges.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Lupita Tovar, Lucio Villegas.
BW- 59 mins

11:00 AM
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.
BW- 67 mins, CC

12:15 PM
M (1951)
When the police hunt for a child killer cramps their style, the criminal underworld tries to track him down.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Luther Adler.
BW- 88 mins

2:00 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 7

9:00 AM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 8

1:15 AM
JUDEX (1963)
Remake of a silent serial, concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger. (In French)
Dir: Georges Franju Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob.
BW- 98 mins

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

Tuesday – June 9

7:00 AM
DESERT PASSAGE (1952)
A cowboy doesn’t realize the man he’s been hired to drive to Mexico is an outlaw.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed.
BW- 61 mins, CC

9:45 AM
ROUGH RIDERS’ ROUNDUP (1939)
A suspended Texas ranger sets out to catch the outlaws who killed his partner.
Dir: Joe Kane Cast: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton.
BW- 53 mins

11:30 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.
BW- 78 mins

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

Friday – June 12

8:45 PM
VICTIM (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 13

11:00 AM
THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin.
BW- 82 mins, CC

12:30 PM
GUN CRAZY (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger.
BW- 87 mins, CC

2:15 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

11:15 PM
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
A ruthless contract killer balks when he discovers his next hit is a woman.
Dir: Irving Lerner Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 14

3:00 AM
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (1952)
A Union officer goes undercover to root out Confederate raiders.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian.
C- 93 mins, CC

9:00 AM
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
A ruthless contract killer balks when he discovers his next hit is a woman.
Dir: Irving Lerner Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 15

9:45 AM

I CONFESS (1953)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.
BW- 95 mins, CC

7:00 PM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (1975)
Dir: Dick Richards Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 16

9:00 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.
BW- 109 mins

11:00 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – June 17

11:00 AM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – June 18

8:30 PM
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
BW- 92 mins

10:15 PM
KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962)
A young businessman and a hitchhiker develop a deadly rivalry during a boating weekend. (In Polish)
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.
BW- 94 mins

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

Friday – June 19

12:00 AM
PALE FLOWER (1964) (In Japanese)
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki.
BW- 96 mins, Letterbox Format

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

8:30 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.
BW- 84 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC

12:00 PM
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster.
BW- 99 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE PITFALL (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt.
BW- 86 mins, CC

3:30 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.
C- 89 mins, CC

11:00 PM
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 20

1:00 AM
HARDCORE (1979)
Dir: Paul Schrader Cast: George C Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley.
BW- 108 mins, CC

3:00 AM
THE NEW CENTURIONS (1972)
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: George C Scott, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson.
BW- 103 mins, CC

7:26 AM
THE CASE OF THE BLACK PARROT (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr..
BW- 60 mins, CC

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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

11:15 PM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 21

1:15 AM
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr..
C- 138 mins, CC

9:00 AM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 22

8:15 AM
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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 23

2:15 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.
C- 111 mins, CC

5:00 AM
TIGER BAY (1959)
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills.
BW- 107 mins, CC

3:15 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.
BW- 115 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery, however, out of all the “Little Women” movies I have seen, I think this one is the best.*****

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

Thursday – June 25

1:00 PM
MURDER, SHE SAID (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow.
BW- 86 mins, CC
*****Margaret Rutherford starred in four Miss Marple movies. “Murder Ahoy” is not on this three-feature showing today.*****

2:30 PM
MURDER AT THE GALLOP (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson.
BW- 81 mins, CC

4:15 PM
MURDER MOST FOUL (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell.
BW- 91 mins, CC

11:15 PM
PETE KELLY’S BLUES (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – June 26

5:30 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.
BW- 64 mins, CC

1:00 PM
SCENT OF MYSTERY (1960)
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Beverly Bentley.
BW- 109 mins, Letterbox Format

3:00 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

5:00 PM
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.
BW- 110 mins

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

Saturday – June 27

7:27 AM
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN (1938)
An insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell.
BW- 62 mins, CC

7:00 PM
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964)
A typical day in the life of the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison.
BW- 87 mins, CC
*****AND Ringo!*****Not a mystery.*****

11:00 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 28

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

3:00 PM
ADAM’S RIB (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
BW- 101 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery. Tracy and Hepburn at their best AND the wonderful Judy Holliday.*****

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

Monday – June 29

5:00 AM
MAD HOLIDAY (1936)
A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, ZaSu Pitts.
BW- 72 mins

6:15 AM
SINNER TAKE ALL (1936)
Members of a wealthy family are murdered one-by-one.
Dir: Erroll Taggart Cast: Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia.
BW- 74 mins

7:45 AM
THE CASE OF THE BLACK PARROT (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr..
BW- 60 mins, CC

9:00 AM
HOMICIDE (1949)
Killers scare a murder witness into silence.
Dir: Felix Jacoves Cast: Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda.
BW- 77 mins, CC

10:30 AM
BODYGUARD (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed.
BW- 63 mins, CC

11:45 AM
POSTMARK FOR DANGER (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Terry Moore, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester.
BW- 78 mins, Letterbox Format

1:15 PM
MURDER IS MY BEAT (1955)
After a businessman is found dead, two detectives scramble to find the killer.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Paul Langton, Barbara Payton, Robert Shayne.
BW- 77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM
SOUTH OF SUEZ (1940)
A murder defendant falls for his alleged victim’s daughter.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, George Tobias.
BW- 86 mins, CC

4:15 PM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez.
BW- 57 mins, CC

5:15 PM
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.
C- 98 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 30

5:00 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.
BW- 74 mins, CC

9:00 AM
STORM WARNING (1951)
A model on vacation discovers that her sister’s husband is a murderous Ku Klux Klansman.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day.
BW- 93 mins, CC

1:00 PM
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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

5:00 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW- 106 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2020 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.

(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying their time at home as much as they can, considering the circumstances… I also hope that this will help give people something to look forward to in May!

May will be Edward G. Robinson month. He definitely had some classic mystery and mystery-ish movies, so there should be plenty to look forward to there!

Here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies that I was able to find which will air during May 2020.

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

Saturday – May 2

1:15 AM
MANIAC (1963)
A beautiful woman seduces a drifter so he can help free her murderous husband from an insane asylum.
Dir: Michael Carreras
BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM
STOP ME BEFORE I KILL (1961)
After surviving an accident, a race car driver begins to suffer violent impulses.
Dir: Val Guest Cast: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis.
BW- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:28 AM
YOU CAN’T BUY LUCK (1937)
A racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 60 mins, CC

11:00 PM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 3

5:00 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.
BW- 112 mins, CC

9:00 AM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW- 97 mins, CC

8:30 PM
THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (1933)
Dir: Phil Goldstone Cast: Cora Sue Collins, Zita Johann, Alan Dinehart.
BW- 65 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – May 6

12:15 PM
FAST AND FURIOUS (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
BW- 73 mins, CC

8:00 PM
PICCADILLY (1929)
In this silent film, the dancers at a London nightclub get wrapped up in jealousy and murder.
Dir: E. A. Dupont Cast: Charles Laughton,
BW- 109 mins

10:00 PM
DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1937)
A young woman tracks down the smugglers who killed her father.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe.
BW- 62 mins

11:30 PM
PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN (1940)
Asian sleuth Mr. Wong fights to keep a killer from winning control of a rich oil deposit.
Dir: Phil Rosen Cast: Keye Luke, Grant Withers, Lotus Long.
BW- 62 mins

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

Thursday – May 7

1:00 AM
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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

6:45 AM
THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960)
A veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robber.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey.
BW- 114 mins, CC

8:45 AM
THE SECRET PARTNER (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee.
BW- 91 mins, CC

10:30 AM
VICTIM (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price.
BW- 100 mins, CC

2:15 PM
WOMAN OF STRAW (1964)
A rich old man’s nurse and his nephew plot his murder.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson.
C- 117 mins, CC

11:30 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 8

1:30 AM
BULLETS OR BALLOTS (1936)
A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane.
BW- 82 mins, CC

4:30 AM
TWO SECONDS (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 67 mins, CC

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

Saturday – May 9

11:00 AM
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.
BW- 105 mins, CC

11:00 PM
MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 10

9:00 AM
MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – May 12

8:00 AM
UNDERCURRENT (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum.
BW- 116 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – May 13

7:00 PM
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta.
BW- 81 mins, CC

8:30 PM
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955)
An Army investigator infiltrates a Tokyo crime syndicate to solve a colleague’s murder.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi.
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – May 14

7:15 AM
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne.
BW- 107 mins, CC

3:15 PM
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939)
A murderer returns from the grave with a thirst for blood.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris.
BW- 62 mins, CC

8:45 PM
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life ain’t so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 85 mins, CC

10:30 PM
LARCENY, INC. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 15

12:15 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

5:00 AM
HOTEL RESERVE (1946)
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.
BW- 79 mins, CC

4:30 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

7:00 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.
BW- 102 mins, CC

9:00 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW- 106 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE NIGHT HOLDS TERROR (1955)
Escaped convicts take over a suburban home.
Dir: Andrew Stone Cast: Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards.
BW- 86 mins, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – May 16

1:15 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 17

9:00 AM
THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta.
BW- 81 mins, CC

11:00 AM
THE NAKED CITY (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
BW- 96 mins, CC

5:15 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.
C- 89 mins, CC

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

Monday – May 18

6:15 AM
DOCTOR X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy.
C- 76 mins, CC

7:45 AM
THE MURDER OF DR. HARRIGAN (1936)
A doctor investigates the murder of a colleague involved in experimental surgery.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge.
BW- 67 mins

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

Tuesday – May 19

8:15 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.
BW- 134 mins, CC

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

Thursday – May 21

3:00 PM
NIGHT MUST FALL (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty.
BW- 116 mins, CC

5:00 PM
LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan.
BW- 103 mins, CC

10:30 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 22

12:30 AM
THE STRANGER (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles.
BW- 95 mins, CC

4:15 AM
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.
BW- 88 mins, CC

6:00 AM
BLACKMAIL (1939)
A man in prison on false charges escapes to save his family from a blackmailer.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Saturday – May 23

11:00 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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Sunday – May 24

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – May 26

9:00 AM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

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

Thursday – May 28

10:30 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

9:00 PM
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey.
BW- 99 mins, CC

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

Friday – May 29

9:45 AM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark.
BW- 107 mins, CC

7:00 PM
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
A petty thief accidentally steals a communist spy’s purse.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter.
BW- 80 mins, CC

10:30 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.
C- 89 mins, CC

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

Saturday – May 30

12:30 AM
DARK SHADOWS (1944)
This short film focuses on a psychiatrist investigating the murder of another psychiatrist.
Dir: Walter Hart Cast: Dorothy Adams, John Vosper, Paul Langton.
BW- 22 mins

7:28 AM
GENIUS AT WORK (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
BW- 61 mins

11:15 PM
A KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – May 31

9:00 AM
A KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM
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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2020 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.

(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

Spring is finally here! It looks like the Turner Classic Movies channel will be celebrating it by showing a bunch of “old futuristic science fiction” type of movies. Anyway, that’s certainly their agenda on Tuesday the seventh… On Thursday the second they will be airing all sorts of “You Can’t… ” movies. Friday the tenth appears to be a sort of tribute to radio shows. On Easter Sunday TCM will be celebrating the day by airing biblical movies as well as “Easter Parade”. Tuesday the fourteenth brings us amnesia galore! And, there will be days dedicated to famous dancers: Monday the thirteenth features Gene Kelly while Wednesday the fifteenth will have Fred Astaire putting on this tap shoes. On Wednesday the twenty-ninth, the circus is coming to TCM.

Here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies that I was able to find which will air during April 2020.

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

Wednesday – April 1, 2020

4:30 PM
HIGH AND LOW (1963)
Kidnappers mistake a chauffeur’s son for the child of a wealthy businessman.
Dir:  Akira Kurosawa Cast:  Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa.
BW- 144 mins, Letterbox Format

10:45 PM
RASHOMON (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir:  Akira Kurosawa Cast:  Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura.
BW- 89 mins

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

Thursday – April 2, 2020

2:30 AM
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957)
Spurred by his wife and a witch’s prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.
Dir:  Akira Kurosawa Cast:  Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura.
BW- 110 mins

9:15 AM
YOU CAN’T BUY LUCK (1937)
A racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
Dir:  Lew Landers Cast:  Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 60 mins

10:30 AM
YOU CAN’T ESCAPE FOREVER (1942)
Although she’s been demoted to writing the advice column, a newspaper woman still tries to expose a racketeer.
Dir:  Jo Graham Cast:  George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 78 mins, CC

12:00 PM
YOU CAN’T BUY EVERYTHING (1934)
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Dir:  Charles F. Riesner Cast:  May Robson, Jean Parker, Lewis Stone.
BW- 82 mins

1:30 PM
YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)
A young tough takes the rap for a hardened gangster.
Dir:  Lewis Seiler Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop.
BW- 79 mins, CC

9:00 PM
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
Gunmen hold a New York subway train and its passengers for ransom.
Dir:  Joseph Sargent Cast:  Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam.
C- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
KLUTE (1971)
A small-town detective searches for a missing man linked to a high-priced prostitute.
Dir:  Alan J. Pakula Cast:  Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi.
C- 114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – April 3, 2020

1:15 AM
FINGERS (1978)
Dir:  James Toback Cast:  Zack Norman, Frank Pesce, Harvey Keitel.
BW- 90 mins, CC

3:00 AM
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER (1975)
Dir:  Milton Katselas Cast:  Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Stephen Elliott.
BW- 112 mins, CC

1:15 PM
MAKE YOUR OWN BED (1944)
Detectives masquerade as butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning.
BW- 82 mins

5:30 PM
THE MAN WITH A CLOAK (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir:  Fletcher Markle Cast:  Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 4, 2020

11:00 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.
BW- 73 mins, CC

11:00 PM
ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)
A German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
Dir:  William Cameron Menzies Cast:  Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
BW- 72 mins, CC

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

Sunday – April 5, 2020

7:00 AM
ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey.
BW- 103 mins, CC

9:00 AM
ADDRESS UNKNOWN (1944)
A German-born art dealer finds himself falling for Nazi propaganda.
Dir:  William Cameron Menzies Cast:  Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck.
BW- 72 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 7, 2020

7:00 PM
CRY OF THE CITY (1948)
Dir:  Robert Siodmak Cast:  Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark.
BW- 95 mins, CC

9:00 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

10:45 PM
HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)
After killing a cop, a burglar fights to evade the police.
Dir:  Alfred Werker Cast:  Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts.
BW- 79 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – April 8, 2020

12:15 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

4:00 AM
THE NAKED CITY (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir:  Jules Dassin Cast:  Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
BW- 96 mins, CC

9:00 PM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – April 10, 2020

6:30 AM
ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)
A radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
Dir:  Harry Beaumont Cast:  William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page.
BW- 73 mins

12:30 PM
ONE FATAL HOUR (1936)
A radio-station manager tries to keep tabloid journalists from reviving a 20-year-old murder case.
BW- 57 mins, CC

3:00 PM
GENIUS AT WORK (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir:  Leslie Goodwins Cast:  Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
BW- 61 mins

4:15 PM
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.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 11, 2020

11:00 PM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – April 12, 2020

9:00 AM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – April 13, 2020

7:00 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.
BW- 120 mins, CC

9:15 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.
BW- 81 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 14, 2020

10:15 AM
JOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)
Before she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Dir:  William Keighley Cast:  Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
BW- 65 mins, CC

1:00 PM
CROSSROADS (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir:  Jack Conway Cast:  William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor.
BW- 83 mins, CC

2:30 PM
TWO IN THE DARK (1936)
A man with amnesia fights to prove himself innocent of murder.
Dir:  Ben Stoloff Cast:  Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford.
BW- 74 mins, CC

4:00 PM
TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir:  Anthony Mann Cast:  Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
BW- 66 mins, CC

5:15 PM
HYSTERIA (1965)
An amnesiac stumbles on to a murder plot.
Dir:  Freddie Francis Cast:  Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne.
BW- 85 mins, CC

10:45 PM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW- 88 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 16, 2020

7:00 AM
THE NARROW CORNER (1933)
A man on the run for murder tries to escape fate in the Pacific islands.
Dir:  Alfred E. Green Cast:  Douglas Fairbanks, Patricia Ellis, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 69 mins

7:00 PM
SHAFT (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir:  Gordon Parks Cast:  Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi.
C- 100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 18, 2020

1:15 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.
BW- 95 mins, CC

3:00 PM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 PM
WITNESS TO MURDER (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
Dir:  Roy Rowland Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Sunday – April 19, 2020

9:00 AM
WITNESS TO MURDER (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
Dir:  Roy Rowland Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
BW- 82 mins, CC

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

Monday – April 20, 2020

9:30 AM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC

11:15 AM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW- 88 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 21, 2020

5:00 AM
THE VANISHING (1988)
A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a
rest stop.
Dir:  George Sluizer Cast:  Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege.
C- 106 mins

7:00 AM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

8:45 AM
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir:  Richard Fleischer Cast:  Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
BW- 72 mins, CC

10:00 AM
MURDER, SHE SAID (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir:  George Pollock Cast:  Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow.
BW- 86 mins, CC

11:30 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC

1:15 PM
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C- 105 mins, CC

3:15 PM
JULIE (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Dir:  Andrew L. Stone Cast:  Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan.
BW- 97 mins, CC

5:00 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.
C- 108 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 23, 2020

8:00 AM
THE HUMAN FACTOR (1980)
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer.
BW- 115 mins, CC

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

Friday – April 24, 2020

7:00 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.
BW- 108 mins, CC

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

Saturday – April 25, 2020

2:45 PM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir:  Tay Garnett Cast:  Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC

11:15 PM
WICKED WOMAN (1954)
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Dir:  Russell Rouse Cast:  Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton.
BW- 76 mins

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

Sunday – April 26, 2020

9:00 AM
WICKED WOMAN (1954)
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Dir:  Russell Rouse Cast:  Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton.
BW- 76 mins

9:00 PM
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955)
An Army investigator infiltrates a Tokyo crime syndicate to solve a colleague’s murder.
Dir:  Samuel Fuller Cast:  Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi.
C- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – April 28, 2020

1:30 AM
THE LATE SHOW (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir:  Robert Benton Cast:  Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
C- 93 mins, CC

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

Thursday – April 30, 2020

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 109 mins

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

Friday – May 1, 2020

3:30 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.
C- 92 mins, CC

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in February, 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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2020 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.

(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)