Oh my! It’s not October yet, but since September 2024 will have a Friday the 13th in it, there will be several Halloween-ish movies on this particular day. Some of you have been with me for a long enough time to know that I enjoy watching the old, black and white Halloween-type movies during October every year. And I’m not talking about just what the Golden Age of Hollywood thought of as “A” movies — the closer to “B” movies, the better for me! I love the old Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, (ETC!) movies from yester-year. If your taste is anything like mine, then make sure to take a look at what the Turner Classic Movies channel has in store for us on Friday the 13th this year.
As this is a mystery site, I have included mystery and crime movies on this September 2024 list. However, I want to bring attention to a movie I have watched a several times (and plan on watching even more times!) which is not a mystery movie. On Wednesday, September 18 the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing The Enchanted Cottage (1945). It stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, and Herbert Marshall. Ok, I know it’s difficult to see Dorothy McGuire as not absolutely beautiful — even with the very dark, bushy eyebrows and dark, barretted hair. Let’s face it… she’s still a beauty! But I guess she doesn’t look like the other (very glamorous) women in 1945 movies. Either way, I love this non mystery movie – and you might, too! (Watch the movie, then you’ll see why I am talking about her looks…)
***** ***** ***** *****
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2024
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – September 2, 2024
7:30 AM Red Hot Tires (1935)
A race-car driver wrongly convicted of murder escapes prison to prove his innocence.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns
61 mins
11:30 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins
1:15 PM Brute Force (1947)
Tough, disgruntled prisoners plan a daring, possibly bloody escape while on a drain pipe detail.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
98 mins
4:30 PM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
89 mins
6:15 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
92 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – September 4, 2024
9:30 AM After Office Hours (1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
75 mins
2:45 PM The Mayor of Hell (1933)
A racketeer goes straight to run a reform school.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron
80 mins
8:00 PM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
91 mins
9:45 PM Lady Killer (1933)
A criminal on the run becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay
76 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – September 5, 2024
4:15 AM The White Cockatoo (1935)
Crooks and killers try to stop a young woman from proving her claim to an inheritance.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly
73 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – September 6, 2024
3:30 AM The Mighty Quinn (1989)
When police officer Xavier Quinn’s childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him…
Dir: Carl Schenkel. Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers
98 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – September 7, 2024
12:45 PM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster’s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
86 mins
6:00 AM The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
Dir: Richard Wallace. Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak
94 mins
8:16 AM How to Be a Detective (1936)
Robert Benchley attempts to teach the audience what it takes to be a successful detective.
Dir: Felix E. Feist. Cast: Robert Benchley, Dewey Robinson, Arthur Hoyt
8 mins
5:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – September 8, 2024
12:00 AM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins
4:30 AM The Falcon’s Brother (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan. Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
63 mins
10:00 AM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – September 9, 2024
2:00 PM A Woman’s Face (1941)
Plastic surgery gives a scarred female criminal a new outlook on life.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
105 mins
4:00 PM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – September 10, 2024
12:30 AM Confidential Agent (1945)
A Spanish spy and an American heiress battle fascists in England.
Dir: Herman Shumlin. Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
118 mins
7:30 AM Mystery in Mexico (1948)
An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
66 mins
10:00 AM Criminal Court (1946)
An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his cabaret singer sweetheart has been arrested for the crime.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth
63 mins
12:30 PM Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
92 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – September 11, 2024
1:15 AM Impact (1949)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Dir: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
111 mins
7:45 AM Fast Company (1938)
Married book-dealers Joel and Gerda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller .
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd
75 mins
2:15 PM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
85 mins
3:45 PM Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
77 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – September 13, 2024
8:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins
9:15 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – September 14, 2024
8:28 AM Lady Gangster (1942)
A district attorney tries to reform a gangster’s moll who’s been sent up the river.
Dir: Florian Roberts. Cast: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox
62 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – September 15, 2024
12:00 AM A Lady Without Passport (1950)
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
72 mins
10:00 AM A Lady Without Passport (1950)
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
72 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – September 16, 2024
10:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – September 17, 2024
12:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins
2:00 AM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins
6:00 AM The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
80 mins
11:45 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins
1:45 PM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins
8:00 PM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr
95 mins
10:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – September 18, 2024
3:30 AM Sworn Enemy (1936)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Joseph Calleia
73 mins
10:45 AM The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall
91 mins
*****Not a mystery, but I really enjoy this movie every time I watch it.*****
12:30 PM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins
6:00 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins
8:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins
10:00 PM Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
92 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – September 19, 2024
2:00 PM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – September 20, 2024
7:30 AM Murder in the Private Car (1934)
A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
Dir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle
63 mins
9:00 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins
11:00 AM Shanghai Express (1932)
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
80 mins
2:00 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
86 mins
3:30 PM The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
78 mins
5:00 PM Terror on a Train (1953)
It’s a race against the clock to defuse a bomb on board a speeding train filled with high explosives.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham
72 mins
6:30 PM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – September 22, 2024
12:00 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins
6:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
102 mins
8:00 AM Ring of Fire (1961)
A group of delinquents hold a sheriff hostage in the middle of a forest fire.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin
90 mins
10:00 AM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins
8:00 PM The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall
114 mins
10:00 PM The Human Factor (1980)
A diplomat is suspected of being a double agent.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer
115 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – September 24, 2024
2:00 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins
9:30 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins
11:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins
1:00 PM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins
3:45 PM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins
5:45 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – September 25, 2024
12:15 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins
6:00 PM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – September 26, 2024
1:30 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – September 27, 2024
12:30 AM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakul. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins
7:45 AM Sol Madrid (1968)
An undercover narcotics agent tries to track a Mafia chief.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas
90 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – September 28, 2024
6:00 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins
6:15 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – September 29, 2024
12:30 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins
10:00 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins
12:00 PM Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Dir: Richard L. Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
81 mins
5:45 PM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
128 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – October 1, 2024
2:45 AM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins
4:30 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: William Hamilton. Cast: Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan
80 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in September, be sure to leave a comment below!
In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the August television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2024 on Turner Classic Movies channel
And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:
Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.
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