As it is almost October 2020, I thought I would post the Turner Classic Movies channel’s October mystery movies today. I don’t know if other people have been so struck by this, but it seems to me that TCM is moving toward presenting more “current” movies these days. (when I say “current” I mean movies from the 1960s and 1970s.) I’ve been a fan of the channel for many years, and I don’t remember a time when the Golden Era of Hollywood was not the main focus of the channel’s movies. Hmmm… Have any of you noticed this, too? And if so, what do you think about it?

On another note, since it’s October, Turner Classic Movies is going to be showing a lot of “Halloweeny” type movies. So, if you love the old Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price (etc.) movies, then you’re in for a treat this month! (I’m not going to list them, but be sure to be on the lookout for them – if you enjoy them. I watch the same “Halloweeny” type movies year after year… I never get tired of them!) Also, while I’m not talking about movies that happen to be mysteries – for those of you who enjoy the old Dr. Kildare movies, Turner Classic Movies will be airing five of them on Wednesday the 21st of October.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – OCTOBER 2020

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Thursday – October 1

3:00 PM
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.
BW- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – October 2

10:00 PM
HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958)
A millionaire offers total strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house.
Dir:  William Castle Cast:  Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long.
BW- 75 mins, CC

11:30 PM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – October 3

1:15 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

5:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir:  Norman Jewison Cast:  Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)
A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Sunday – October 4

9:00 AM
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)
A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 5

5:00 PM
LURED (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir:  Douglas Sirk Cast:  George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW- 103 mins

7:00 PM
CASH ON DEMAND (1961)
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal money.
Dir:  Quentin Lawrence Cast:  Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Thursday – October 8

9:00 PM
DETOUR (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir:  Edgar G. Ulmer Cast:  Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake.
BW- 68 mins, CC

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

Friday – October 9

8:45 AM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW- 92 mins, CC

10:30 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.
BW- 106 mins, CC

12:30 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

2:15 PM
RACE STREET (1948)
A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell.
BW- 79 mins, CC

3:45 PM
IMPACT (1949)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Dir:  Arthur Lubin Cast:  Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Saturday – October 10

1:00 AM
WHITE LIGHTNING (1973)
A convicted moonshiner helps police track down the bayou bad guys who killed his brother.
Dir:  Joseph Sargent Cast:  Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Louise Latham.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM
GATOR (1976)
An ex-con joins forces with a federal agent to bring down a vice lord.
Dir:  Burt Reynolds Cast:  Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, Lauren Hutton.
C- 116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
TOP HAT (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend’s husband.
Dir:  Mark Sandrich Cast:  Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton.
BW- 100 mins, CC
*****It’s been a while since I last saw this movie, but I remember it as being very good. Not a mystery.*****

11:30 PM
THE RACKET (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir:  John Cromwell Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan.
BW- 89 mins, CC

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

Sunday – October 11

9:00 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

2:45 PM
THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir:  Richard Brooks Cast:  Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
BW- 94 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery, but it’s really good.*****

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

Tuesday – October 13

8:00 AM
THE SOLITAIRE MAN (1933)
Crooks double cross each other during a tense flight from Paris to London.
Dir:  Jack Conway Cast:  Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 67 mins

9:30 AM
BLIND ADVENTURE (1933)
An American in London stumbles on a criminal ring.
Dir:  Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast:  Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Roland Young.
BW- 63 mins

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

Wednesday – October 14

9:15 AM
THE UNHOLY THREE (1925)
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Dir:  Tod Browning Cast:  Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore.
BW- 86 mins

12:00 PM
THE BLACKBIRD (1926)
A benevolent bishop helps the needy during the day, but runs a crime syndicate at night.
Dir:  Tod Browning Cast:  Lon Chaney, Renée Adorée, Doris Lloyd.
BW- 86 mins

1:30 PM
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- 72 mins, CC

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

Thursday – October 15

12:45 PM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir:  Mervyn LeRoy Cast:  Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THEY WON’T FORGET (1937)
Bigotry flares when a teacher is accused of killing a small-town girl in the South.
Dir:  Mervyn LeRoy Cast:  Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Friday – October 16

7:00 AM
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)
A clumsy young man nurtures a bloodthirsty plant that forces him to kill to feed it.
Dir:  Roger Corman Cast:  Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles.
BW- 72 mins, CC
*****This doesn’t  qualify as a mystery, but if you’ve seen the 1986 version of this movie, you may enjoy seeing this one. Steve Martin’s role is played by Jack Nicholson in this earlier version.*****

5:15 PM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir:  Seth Holt Cast:  Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – October 17

11:00 PM
DESTINATION MURDER (1950)
A woman infiltrates the mob to find her father’s killer.
Dir:  Edward L. Cahn Cast:  Joyce MacKenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Sunday – October 18

9:00 AM
DESTINATION MURDER (1950)
A woman infiltrates the mob to find her father’s killer.
Dir:  Edward L. Cahn Cast:  Joyce MacKenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 19

8:15 AM
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.
BW- 111 mins, CC

12:45 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

3:15 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

7:00 PM
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine.
Dir:  Terence Fisher Cast:  Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee.
C- 87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****Based on Sir Conan Doyle’s novel.*****

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Tuesday – October 20

2:30 PM
IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 86 mins, CC
*****This is a comedy mystery movie, probably more comedy than mystery…*****

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Wednesday – October 21

8:30 PM
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.
BW- 86 mins, CC

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

Thursday – October 22

7:00 PM
THE KILLERS (1964)
Surprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Dir:  Donald Siegel Cast:  Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes.
C- 97 mins, CC

8:45 PM
THE BREAKING POINT (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir:  Michael Curtiz Cast:  John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter.
BW- 97 mins, CC

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

Friday – October 23

6:30 AM
ABSOLUTE QUIET (1936)
Murder follows when a plane filled with shady characters is forced to land on a tycoon’s ranch.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Raymond Walburn.
BW- 70 mins

3:15 PM
ASSIGNMENT TO KILL (1968)
A private eye gets too involved in his investigation of a crooked shipping magnate.
Dir:  Sheldon Reynolds Cast:  Patrick O’Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud.
C- 99 mins, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
THE DROWNING POOL (1975)
A private eye’s investigation of an anonymous letter leads to murder.
Dir:  Stuart Rosenberg Cast:  Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – October 24

11:00 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.
C- 121 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:15 PM
FLESH AND FURY (1952)
Dir:  Joseph Pevney Cast:  Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman.
BW- 83 mins

11:00 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

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

Sunday – October 25

5:15 AM
MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir:  George Archainbaud Cast:  James Gleason, Edna May Oliver, Bruce Cabot.
BW- 72 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Winters mystery book.*****

9:00 AM
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

4:30 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.
BW- 134 mins, CC

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

Monday – October 26

1:00 AM
DIABOLIQUE (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir:  Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast:  Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret.
BW- 117 mins
*****For those of you who speak French or who don’t mind having to read the subtitles…*****

6:45 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.
BW- 98 mins, CC

8:30 AM
THEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947)
A faithless husband is charged with a murder he didn’t commit.
Dir:  Irving Pichel Cast:  Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer.
BW- 90 mins, CC

10:15 AM
WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir:  John Farrow Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains.
BW- 80 mins, CC

12:00 PM
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir:  Charles Lederer Cast:  Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
BW- 81 mins, CC

1:30 PM
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir:  Lloyd Bacon Cast:  Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 96 mins, CC

3:15 PM
KILL OR CURE (1962)
A detective bumbles through the investigation of murders at a spa.
Dir:  George Pollock Cast:  Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price.
BW- 88 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 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.
BW- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (1972)
A police inspector and a doctor investigate the murders of a large fortune’s trustees.
Dir:  Peter Sasdy Cast:  Christopher Lee,
C- 91 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:45 PM
MADHOUSE (1974)
A horror star’s attempted comeback is complicated by a string of murders.
Dir:  James Clark Cast:  Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Natasha Pyne.
C- 91 mins

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

Thursday – October 29

7:30 AM
BEFORE DAWN (1933)
Detectives compete to solve the murders at a mysterious mansion.
Dir:  Irving Pichel Cast:  Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland.
BW- 61 mins, CC

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

Friday – October 30

5:30 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

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

Saturday – October 31

1:45 PM
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

5:00 PM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir:  Mark Robson Cast:  Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

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 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 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.)

It’s September already, and what better way for us who love mystery movies, to start the month than with a whole bunch of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies on the first! I can’t wait to (re)watch them!

On Thursday, the third, the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing some movies that showcase medical personnel, which I’m guessing is a tribute to all the wonderful professionals who are helping those in great need today.

Tuesday (September 15) and Thursday (September 17) are terrific days for those of us who enjoy watching the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies. Be sure to check them out, there might be a few you haven’t seen yet.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – SEPTEMBER 2020

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Tuesday – September 1

5:00 AM
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
BW- 87 mins, CC

6:45 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

8:30 AM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 121 mins, CC

10:45 AM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

12:45 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC

2:45 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

4:45 PM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW- 105 mins, CC

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

Thursday – September 3

5:00 AM
THE WINDOW (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir:  Ted Tetzlaff Cast:  Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW- 73 mins, CC

7:30 AM
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir:  Peter Weir Cast:  Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray.
C- 107 mins, CC

11:15 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

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

Saturday – September 5

11:00 AM
THE PRIZE (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir:  Mark Robson Cast:  Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
C- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – September 6

9:00 AM
NIGHT EDITOR (1946)
A detective hides key evidence in a murder case rather than reveal he was cheating on his wife.
Dir:  Henry Levin Cast:  William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell.
BW- 66 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 92 mins, CC
*****This is not a mystery, but if you’re in the mood for a deliciously sweet movie, you may enjoy this. (I did.)*****

3:00 PM
CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)
An aging woman hires a matchmaker to find her independent granddaughter a man.
Dir:  Joan Micklin Silver Cast:  Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe (Jeroen Krabbe).
C- 97 mins, CC
*****Here’s another movie that isn’t a mystery, however, if you’re anything like me, you may enjoy good romantic comedies these days.

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

Tuesday – September 8

5:00 AM
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir:  Richard Fleischer Cast:  Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman.
BW- 68 mins, CC

6:30 AM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir:  John Huston Cast:  Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW- 112 mins, CC

8:30 AM
HIGH SIERRA (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir:  Raoul Walsh Cast:  Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis.
BW- 100 mins, CC

10:15 AM
RIFIFI (1954)
Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
Dir:  Jules Dassin Cast:  Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel.
BW- 118 mins,  (language: French)

12:30 PM
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

2:45 PM
OCEAN’S 11 (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir:  Lewis Milestone Cast:  Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
C- 127 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
JACK OF DIAMONDS (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir:  Don Taylor Cast:  George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt.
C- 108 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – September 9

12:00 PM
CRY TERROR! (1958)
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
Dir:  Andrew L. Stone Cast:  James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens.
BW- 96 mins, CC

4:00 PM
DIAL 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir:  Gerald Mayer Cast:  Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King.
BW- 75 mins, CC

5:30 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

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

Thursday – September 10

9:00 AM
MYSTERY IN MEXICO (1948)
An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez.
BW- 66 mins

12:00 PM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir:  Robert Wise Cast:  Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW- 92 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 12

5:15 AM
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

11:00 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
*****If you haven’t seen this terrific mystery movie, make sure you do!*****

7:00 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
DANGER SIGNAL (1945)
A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
Dir:  Robert Florey Cast:  Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
BW- 78 mins, CC

2:45 AM
COMA (1978)
A lady doctor investigates a series of strange deaths and disappearing bodies at her hospital.
Dir:  Michael Crichton Cast:  Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley.
C- 113 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 13

9:00 AM
DANGER SIGNAL (1945)
A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
Dir:  Robert Florey Cast:  Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
BW- 78 mins, CC

10:30 AM
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

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

Monday – September 14

12:30 PM
KIND LADY (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle.
BW- 76 mins, CC

5:30 PM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir:  Lewis Gilbert Cast:  Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh.
BW- 83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
SO YOU WANT TO BE A DETECTIVE (1948)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Vitaphone Release 1636A.
Dir:  Richard Bare Cast:  Philo McCullough, Clifton Young, Fred Kelsey.
BW- 11 mins

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

Tuesday – September 15

6:15 AM
MAN HUNT (1933)
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief’s daughter.
Dir:  Irving Cummings Cast:  Junior Durkin, Charlotte Henry, Mrs. Wallace Reid.
BW- 64 mins

7:30 AM
NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE (1939)
A famous detective investigates industrial espionage at a plane factory.
Dir:  Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull.
BW- 59 mins, CC
*****I found this on Wikipedia: “Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter from Street & Smith’s dime novels and pulp magazines.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the character Nick Carter but I intend to try these movies.*****

8:45 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

10:00 AM
SKY MURDER (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder.
Dir:  George B. Seitz Cast:  Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne.
BW- 72 mins, CC

11:15 AM
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

1:00 PM
MIRACLES FOR SALE (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir:  Tod Browning Cast:  Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven.
BW- 71 mins, CC

2:15 PM
EYES IN THE NIGHT (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Dir:  Fred Zinnemann Cast:  Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed.
BW- 80 mins, CC

3:45 PM
THE HIDDEN EYE (1945)
Blind detective Duncan Maclaine uses his other senses to piece together confusing clues behind a murder.
Dir:  Richard Whorf Cast:  Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins.
BW- 69 mins, CC

5:00 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – September 16

11:00 PM
REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947)
Dir:  Alfred Werker Cast:  Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Thursday – September 17

6:45 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir:  Otto Preminger Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC

10:15 AM
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.
BW- 107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 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

5:15 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

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

Saturday – September 19

7:27 AM
GUNS OF HATE (1948)
Two drifters are falsely accused of murder.
Dir:  Lesley Selander Cast:  Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin.
BW- 62 mins, CC

9:45 PM
MIDNIGHT ALIBI (1934)
An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges.
Dir:  Alan Crosland Cast:  Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler.
BW- 58 mins

11:00 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.
BW- 110 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 20

9:00 AM
GILDA (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir:  Charles Vidor Cast:  Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
BW- 110 mins, CC

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

Monday – September 21

9:15 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

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

Thursday – September 24

10:30 PM
THE HOSPITAL (1971)
A harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman and a serial killer.
Dir:  Arthur Hiller Cast:  George C Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes.
C- 102 mins, CC

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

Saturday – September 26

5:00 AM
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

11:15 PM
THEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947)
A faithless husband is charged with a murder he didn’t commit.
Dir:  Irving Pichel Cast:  Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer.
BW- 90 mins, CC

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

Sunday – September 27

9:00 AM
THEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947)
A faithless husband is charged with a murder he didn’t commit.
Dir:  Irving Pichel Cast:  Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer.
BW- 90 mins, CC

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

Monday – September 28

5:15 PM
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.
BW- 90 mins, CC

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

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 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 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.)

I have to say, for anyone who considers Barbara Stanwyck one the best actresses of all time, August is starting out with a big bang! Saturday, August 1, 2020 is an all-day celebration of Barbara Stanwyck movies >>> and I’m all in! I’ve seen most of them several times, but I enjoy them each and every time I watch them. (As if that isn’t enough, Sunday, August 23 will feature movies with Bette Davis in them!)

Unfortunately, August also brings us a month on the Turner Classic Movies channel that we won’t be seeing Eddie Muller or his film noir movies on Noir Alley. I real drag for many of us. 

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – AUGUST 2020

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

Saturday – August 1

5:00 AM
GAMBLING LADY (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir:  Archie Mayo Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien.
BW- 66 mins, CC

10:00 AM
CRIME OF PASSION (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir:  Gerd Oswald Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr.
BW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 AM
THE MOONLIGHTER (1953)
A former jailbird makes good after the wrong man is accused for his crime.
Dir:  Roy Rowland Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond.
BW- 78 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)
A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
Dir:  Peter Godfrey Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith.
BW- 99 mins, CC

9:00 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

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

Sunday – August 2

1:15 AM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir:  Leigh Jason Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW- 80 mins, CC

9:00 AM
A FINE PAIR (1969)
A detective gets involved with a beautiful jewel thief.
Dir:  Francesco Maselli Cast:  Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian.
C- 89 mins, CC

4:15 PM
ICE STATION ZEBRA (1968)
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Dir:  John Sturges Cast:  Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan.
C- 149 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
PILLOW TALK (1959)
A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir:  Michael Gordon Cast:  Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****This is not a mystery movie, but it is a terrific Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy.*****

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

Monday – August 3

2:45 AM
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW (1971)
A young man’s first sexual explorations are threatened by a string of murders.
Dir:  Roger Vadim Cast:  Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas.
C- 91 mins, CC

5:00 AM
RENEGADE RANGER (1938)
A Texas Ranger discovers the man he’s chasing for murder is a woman.
Dir:  David Howard Cast:  George O’Brien, Rita Hayworth, Tim Holt.
BW- 59 mins, CC

11:30 AM
THE HAPPY THIEVES (1962)
A worldly art thief gets mixed up with murder.
Dir:  George Marshall Cast:  Rex Harrison, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Wiseman.
C- 89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – August 7

12:00 PM
MARY BURNS, FUGITIVE (1935)
Dir:  William K. Howard Cast:  Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter.
BW- 84 mins

1:30 PM
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937)
When he’s framed for murder, an escaped convict returns to crime to protect his wife and child.
Dir:  Fritz Lang Cast:  Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane.
BW- 85 mins, CC

3:15 PM
DEAD END (1937)
A killer returns to his childhood home to plot his escape from the law.
Dir:  William Wyler Cast:  Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 92 mins, CC

10:15 PM
SABOTAGE (1936)
An unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester.
BW- 77 mins, CC

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

Saturday – August 8

11:45 AM
MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947)
A man woos and murders rich widows to support his invalid wife.
Dir:  Charles Chaplin Cast:  Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan.
BW- 124 mins, CC

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

Sunday – August 9

7:00 PM
FOUL PLAY (1978)
An innocent woman stumbles onto a plot to murder the pope.
Dir:  Colin Higgins Cast:  Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith.
C- 116 mins, CC

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

Monday – August 10

1:00 AM
$ (DOLLARS) (1971)
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob a high-tech security bank.
Dir:  Richard Brooks Cast:  Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert FrObe.
C- 121 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – August 11

8:00 AM
JOHNNY COOL (1963)
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Dir:  William Asher Cast:  Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson.
BW- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 PM
OCEAN’S 11 (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir:  Lewis Milestone Cast:  Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
C- 127 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – August 12

10:00 PM
MADAME X (1966)
A fallen woman on trial for murder is defended by the son she abandoned years earlier.
Dir:  David Lowell Rich Cast:  Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban.
C- 100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 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

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

Thursday – August 13

3:30 PM
BULLDOG DRUMMOND COMES BACK (1937)  
An old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fiancée.
Dir:  Louis King Cast:  John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell.
BW- 59 mins, CC

9:00 PM
DINNER AT EIGHT (1933)
 A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir:  George Cukor Cast:  Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery.
BW- 111 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery – but very funny.*****

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

Friday – August 14

12:30 AM
ARSENE LUPIN (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir:  Jack Conway Cast:  John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley.
BW- 84 mins, CC

3:15 PM
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

7:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir:  Norman Jewison Cast:  Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – August 15

6:15 AM
ESCAPE IN THE FOG (1945)
A nurse recovering from a breakdown keeps dreaming about murder.
Dir:  Oscar Boetticher Jr. Cast:  Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright.
BW- 63 mins, CC

9:15 PM
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)
A young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
Dir:  Joseph H. Lewis Cast:  Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready.
BW- 65 mins, CC

10:30 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.
BW- 88 mins, CC

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

Sunday – August 16

2:00 AM
I LOVE A MYSTERY (1945)
A detective tries to protect a man who has predicted his murder will take place in three days.
Dir:  Henry Levin Cast:  Jim Bannon, Nina Foch, George Macready.
BW- 69 mins, CC

2:45 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

7:00 PM
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955)
A retired cat burglar fights to clear himself of a series of Riviera robberies committed in his style.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis.
C- 106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
CHARADE (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir:  Stanley Donen Cast:  Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – August 17

3:00 AM
ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Dir:  Leo McCarey Cast:  Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak.
BW- 115 mins, CC

5:00 AM
JAMAICA INN (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
Dir:  Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie.
BW- 99 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THIS LAND IS MINE (1943)
A soft-spoken school teacher tries to prove he’s not a Nazi collaborator.
Dir:  Jean Renoir Cast:  Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Thursday – August 20

6:30 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.
BW- 73 mins, CC

11:00 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

1:00 PM
ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir:  W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey.
BW- 103 mins, CC

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

Sunday – August 23

5:00 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.
BW- 97 mins, CC

12:45 PM
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

11:30 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.
BW- 134 mins, CC

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

Monday – August 24

3:45 AM
SATAN MET A LADY (1936)      
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Dir:  William Dieterle Cast:  Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth.
BW- 74 mins, CC

8:30 AM
JOHNNY ANGEL (1946)    
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso.
BW- 79 mins, CC

10:00 AM
RACE STREET (1948)       
A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Dir:  Edwin L. Marin Cast:  George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell.
BW- 79 mins, CC

1:30 PM
RED LIGHT (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir:  Roy Del Ruth Cast:  George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 83 mins, CC

7:00 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

10:45 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – August 25

12:00 AM
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)    
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir:  Edward Dmytryk Cast:  Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – August 26

8:00 AM
21 DAYS (1940)        
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir:  Basil Dean Cast:  Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier.
BW- 75 mins, CC

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

Friday – August 28

7:00 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.
BW- 112 mins, CC

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

Saturday – August 29

7:00 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

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

Sunday – August 30

7:00 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.
BW- 111 mins, CC

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

Monday – August 31

7:05 AM
SCORPIO (1973)      
A CIA hit man is stalked by a former partner when the agency turns on him.
Dir:  Michael Winner Cast:  Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Frederick Jaeger.
C- 114 mins, CC

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

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 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 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.)

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.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – JULY 2020

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

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.*****

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

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.)