I just finished finding all of the upcoming mystery movies on the Turner Classic Channel for June 2014. I found all of these mystery movies in my TCM Now Playing guide. I am posting them in Central time, since that is what I am used to doing.
If any of you know of a good mystery movie that will be airing during June on another channel, please post a comment. We’d all love to know about it. Thank you!
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June 2014 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
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Sunday – June 1, 2014
1:15 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
3:00 PM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain.
C-110 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – June 4, 2014
5:15 AM
THEY MET IN BOMBAY (1941)
Rival jewel thieves on the run find love in the Far East.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre.
BW-92 mins, CC
7:00 AM
FAST AND LOOSE (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane investigate the killing of a noted collector.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen. BW-80 mins
11:00 AM
AUNTIE MAME (1958)
An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton DaCosta Cast: Rosalind Russel, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne.
C-143 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****Not a mystery, but since TCM is playing it again, I will again tell you how good I think this movie is!*****
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Friday – June 6, 2014
4:00 AM
BACKFIRE (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo.
BW-91 mins, CC
5:00 PM
THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954)
Life on the road isn’t what it’s cracked up to be when a honeymooning couple invests in an oversized motor home.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main.
C-96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****OK, I know this is the Cozy Mystery site, and I know I should only be telling you about mystery movies, but I thought I would tell you about this Lucy and Desi movie from the 1950s.*****
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Saturday – June 7, 2014
5:15 AM
TOYS IN THE ATTIC (1963)
Man finds trouble when he brings young bride back to his New Orleans home.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux.
BW-91 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:30 PM
THE MOB (1951)
A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
Dir: Robert Parrish Cast: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley.
BW-86 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – June 8, 2014
6:30 AM
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.
BW-78 mins, CC
9:30 AM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
BW-84 mins, CC
1:00 PM
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)
Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
BW-114 mins, CC
*****Here I go again! I just cannot make this list without telling you about this terrific Tracy/Hepburn comedy.***** (not a mystery)
5:00 PM
NOTORIOUS (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
BW-101 mins, CC
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – June 9, 2014
2:30 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Tuesday – June 10, 2014
7:00 PM
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey.
BW-99 mins, CC
9:00 PM
SCARLET STREET (1945)
A middle aged wouldbe painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea.
BW-102 mins
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Wednesday – June 11, 2014
1:00 AM
THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger.
C-101 mins, CC
*****Good grief! Will I ever stop telling you about movies that aren’t mysteries? This one has a very young “Jessica Fletcher” looking woman in it!***** (not a mystery)
5:00 AM
NIGHT NURSE (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell.
BW-72 mins
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Thursday – June 12, 2014
6:00 AM
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
8:00 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
2:45 PM
BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952)
A widow discovers her handyman is an escaped mental patient.
Dir: Harry Horner Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes.
BW-77 mins, CC
5:45 PM
THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman.
BW-71 mins
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Friday – June 13, 2014
(Yikes! Friday the 13th!)
10:15 AM
THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond.
C-60 mins, CC
11:30 AM
THE HOUR OF 13 (1952)
A gentleman thief in Victorian England tries to reform and do one good deed.
Dir: Harold French Cast: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver.
BW-80 mins
1:00 PM
THE WOMAN ON PIER 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar.
BW-73 mins, CC
2:15 PM
DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Members of an Irish family are being killed off by one of their own who wishes to inherit the family fortune.
Dir: Francis Coppola Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton.
BW-75 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 PM
13 GHOSTS (1960)
A family inherits a house haunted by 13 ghosts and a living killer.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner.
BW-82 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:15 PM
THIRTEEN FRIGHTENED GIRLS (1963)
A diplomat’s daughter gets mixed up in international intrigue and murder.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Murray Hamilton, Kathy Dunn, Lynne Sue Moon.
C-88 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday – June 15, 2014
Happy Father’s Day!
2:45 AM
HIT MAN (1973)
A racketeer tears up L.A.’s underworld searching for his brother’s killer.
Dir: George Armitage Cast: Bernie Casey, Pamela Grier, Lisa Moore.
C-91 mins, Letterbox Format
12:30 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
*****This movie is delightful.***** (not a mystery)
5:00 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
*****Today is the day for delightful movies that will make you smile.***** (not a mystery)
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Monday – June 16, 2014
7:00 PM
BLACKOUT (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies.
BW-88 mins
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Tuesday – June 17, 2014
11:15 PM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1958)
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, Letterbox Format
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Wednesday – June 18, 2014
6:30 PM
SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE: CRY JUSTICE (1956)
A man plots revenge on the friend who framed him for his own murder.
BW-26 mins
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Thursday – June 19, 2014
5:45 AM
THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR (1937)
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Dame May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone.
BW-67 mins
7:00 AM
NIGHT MUST FALL (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty
BW-116 mins, CC
9:00 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-100 mins, CC
1:15 PM
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
Today they are showing all three of the Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies I have talked about on different occasions. Here is the entry I wrote about these movies: Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedy Movies… (not mysteries)
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
9:00 PM
LOVER COME BACK (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964)
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Friday – June 20, 2014
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
6:45 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.
BW-100 mins, CC
8:30 AM
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
10:30 AM
LAURA (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW-88 mins, CC
12:00 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
1:45 PM
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
4:00 PM
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970)
The legendary sleuth becomes involved with a mysterious French woman while investigating the Loch Ness monster.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl.
C-125 mins, Letterbox Format
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Saturday – June 21, 2014
11:15 AM
BITTER CREEK (1954)
A man attempts to find the killer of his brother.
Dir: Thomas Carr Cast: Wild Bill Elliott, Carleton Young, Beverly Garland.
BW-74 mins
12:45 PM
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (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
3:00 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, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM
BLOW-UP (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings.
C-111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday – June 22, 2014
DESIGN FOR SCANDAL (1941)
A reporter is assigned to dig up dirt on a lady judge.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold.
BW-85 mins, CC
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Monday – June 23, 2014
9:45 AM
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
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Tuesday – June 24, 2014
8:45 PM
ANOTHER MAN’S POISON (1951)
A mystery writer’s real life turns to intrigue when her criminal husband escapes from prison.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams.
BW-91 mins
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Wednesday – June 25, 2014
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.
BW-92 mins, CC
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Thursday – June 26, 2014
1:00 AM
STEP BY STEP (1946)
The FBI trails a young couple suspected of stealing government plans.
Dir: Phil Rosen Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore.
BW-61 mins
5:15 AM
M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Grundgens.
BW-111 mins,
7:15 AM
STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet.
BW-64 mins, CC,
8:30 AM
BACKGROUND TO DANGER (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-80 mins, CC
5:30 PM
THE VERDICT (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring.
BW-86 mins, CC
7:00 PM
A FINE PAIR (1969)
A detective gets involved with a beautiful jewel thief.
Dir: Francesco Maselli Cast: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian.
C-115 mins
8:45 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-152 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:30 PM
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
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Friday – June 27, 2014
6:00 PM
HIDDEN VALUES: THE MOVIES OF THE ’50S (2001)
A look at some of the movies that defined the decade and what they said about Americans and American culture.
Cast: Peter Biskind, John Carpenter, Roger Corman.
C-47 mins, Cc
*****I thought this might be interesting.***** (not a mystery)
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Saturday – June 28, 2014
7:00 AM
VICTOR / VICTORIA (1982)
An unemployed female singer poses as a female impersonator and becomes a star.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren.
C-134 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****What a cast!***** (not a mystery)
11:15 AM
THE FORTY-NINERS (1954)
A man poses as a gunman to learn the identity of three killers.
Dir: Thomas Carr Cast: Wild Bill Elliott, Virginia Grey, Henry Morgan.
BW-71 mins
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Sunday – June 29, 2014
1:00 PM
THE THIRD MAN (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles.
BW-104 mins, CC
3:00 PM
IF IT’S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE BELGIUM (1969)
American tourists wreak havoc while traveling through Europe.
Dir: Mel Stuart Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick.
C-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****Not a mystery, but very funny traveling movie.*****
9:00 PM
THE FALLEN IDOL (1948)
A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey.
BW-95 mins, CC,
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Monday – June 30, 2014
8:00 AM
DEADLINE AT DAWN (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams.
BW-83 mins, CC,
9:30 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-80 mins, CC,
9:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****I think this movie has been on TCM every month!****
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(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site.
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TCM will be celebrating both its 20th Anniversary as well as John Wayne during April. If you happen to be a John Wayne fan, you should be excited about the 58 movies TCM will be airing. (I know my younger brother is looking forward to those movies. they will be airing them (mostly?) during April 21 and the 25th, which explains the fact that I don’t have very many mystery movies showing that week.
So, what mystery movies will air on TV during March 2014?