It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television. As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at.
There are three things worth mentioning here – two marathons and a movie that’s worth mentioning. First, there will be a Father’s Day marathon on Father’s Day, Sunday the 18th. Second will be an Aubrey Hepburn mystery marathon on Monday the 19th. Finally, I’m recommending This is Spinal Tap, which will be airing on Wednesday the 21st – it isn’t a mystery, but it is a very funny movie for anyone who is a fan of classic rock. I know that may not include everyone here, so I though it bore mentioning.
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June 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
Thursday – June 1, 2017
5:00 AM
SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE (1932)
Strange crimes committed by a hypnotized woman are solved by a French detective.
Dir: Edward Sutherland Cast: Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan.
BW- 58 mins
11:00 AM
TROUBLE FOR TWO (1936)
Before he can marry, a European prince gets mixed up with a suicide club.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan.
BW- 74 mins, CC
10:15 PM
THE WOMEN (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell.
BW- 133 mins, CC
Friday – June 2, 2017
2:30 PM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
BW- 76 mins, CC
4:00 PM
THE KING’S THIEF (1955)
A highwayman uncovers a plot to assassinate King Charles II.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven.
C- 79 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 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.
BW- 78 mins, CC
9:00 PM
POLLYANNA (1960)
An orphan’s relentless optimism changes lives in a sleepy small town.
Dir: David Swift Cast: Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan.
C- 134 mins, CC
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Saturday – June 3, 2017
9:30 AM
CONFESSIONS OF BOSTON BLACKIE (1941)
A reformed thief cracks a ring of art thieves to clear himself of murder charges.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Chester Morris, Harriet Hilliard, Richard Lane.
BW- 65 mins, CC
Sunday – June 4, 2017
9:00 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
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Tuesday – June 6, 2017
5:30 PM
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1934)
A young orphan goes to stay with elderly relatives in the country.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr. Cast: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O. P. Heggie.
BW- 78 mins, CC
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Wednesday – June 7, 2017
1:15 AM
DETOUR (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake.
BW- 68 mins, CC
10:45 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
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Thursday – June 8, 2017
3:45 PM
THE SMILING GHOST (1941)
A newswoman investigates a haunted house.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith.
BW- 71 mins, CC
5:00 PM
THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 109 mins, CC
Friday – June 9, 2017
12:00 AM
ROPE (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
C- 81 mins, CC
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
2:00 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
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Saturday – June 10, 2017
9:30 AM
ALIAS BOSTON BLACKIE (1942)
A reformed thief tracks down an escaped convict so he can prove the man is innocent.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane.
BW- 67 mins, CC
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Sunday – June 11, 2017
9:00 AM
PHANTOM LADY (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis.
BW- 87 mins, CC
Monday – June 12, 2017
5:00 AM
Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin.
C- 127 mins
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Wednesday – June 14, 2017
1:00 AM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
BW- 116 mins, CC
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Thursday – June 15, 2017
6:30 AM
PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62 (1933)
A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he’s investigating.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly.
BW- 66 mins
9:30 AM
BRITISH AGENT (1934)
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan.
BW- 81 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
Friday – June 16, 2017
1:15 AM
NOWHERE TO GO (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee.
BW- 87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:00 AM
LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD (1938)
A respectable citizen lures two innocents into his secret criminal plots.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Chester Morris, Anne Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli.
BW- 61 mins
4:30 PM
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE (1947)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli.
BW- 68 mins, CC
5:45 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
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Saturday – June 17, 2017
9:30 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE GOES HOLLYWOOD (1942)
When he’s framed for robbery, a reformed thief takes off to find the real culprit.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Chester Morris, William Wright, Constance Worth.
BW- 68 mins, CC
1:30 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 BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW- 114 mins, CC
9:15 PM
MARLOWE (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor.
C- 96 mins, CC
11:00 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
Sunday – June 18, 2017
9:00 AM
HE RAN ALL THE WAY (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford.
BW- 78 mins
4:45 PM
LIFE WITH FATHER (1947)
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor.
C- 118 mins, CC
7:00 PM
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)
A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW- 93 mins, CC
9:00 PM
FATHER’S LITTLE DIVIDEND (1951)
In this sequel to Father of the Bride, a doting father faces a series of comic trials when his daughter has her first child.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW- 81 mins, CC
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Monday – June 19, 2017
7:00 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
10:30 AM
SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS (1943)
A small-town girl changes her identity to make it in New York, leaving her boyfriend a suspect in her “disappearance.”
Dir: Wesley Ruggles Cast: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan.
BW- 94 mins, CC
12:15 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
7:00 PM
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)
A woman steals a statue from a museum to help conceal her father’s art forgeries.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach.
C- 123 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:15 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
11:15 PM
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1952)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW- 81 mins, CC
Tuesday – June 20, 2017
12:45 AM
THE SECRET PEOPLE (1952)
A refugee gets mixed up in a plot to assassinate the dictator who killed her father.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson Cast: Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Charles Goldner.
BW- 95 mins, CC
2:45 AM
GASLIGHT (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell.
BW- 84 mins, CC
7:00 AM
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
10:45 AM
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C- 105 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
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Wednesday – June 21, 2017
9:00 PM
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)
A filmmaker documents the history of Spinal Tap, the world’s loudest rock band.
Dir: Rob Reiner Cast: Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean.
C- 83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Friday – June 23, 2017
12:00 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
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Saturday – June 24, 2017
9:30 AM
AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH BOSTON BLACKIE (1943)
A reformed thief gets himself arrested fetching some jewels for a friend.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Ann Savage.
BW- 65 mins
7:00 PM
REAR WINDOW (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
C- 112 mins, CC
9:15 PM
THE WINDOW (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW- 73 mins, CC
10:45 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
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Sunday – June 25, 2017
12:30 AM
THE SKULL MURDER MYSTERY (1932)
In this short, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion when the skeleton of a man is dug up in an alley. Vitaphone Release 1348-1349.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Joanna Roos, Richard Wang, Maurice Cass.
BW- 21 mins
9:00 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.
BW- 99 mins, CC
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Tuesday – June 27, 2017
8:45 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.
BW- 80 mins, CC
10:15 AM
NIGHT WAITRESS (1936)
A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 57 mins
11:30 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
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Thursday – June 29, 2017
5:45 PM
THE WITNESS CHAIR (1936)
A woman lets her lover stand trial for the murder she committed.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr. Cast: Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille.
BW- 64 mins
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If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in June, be sure to leave a comment below!
In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the May television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2017
And of course, here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:
