The Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing a few movies during July that are based on mystery authors from yester-year. There will be two S. S. Van Dine movies: The Kennel Murder Case with one of my favorite actors (William Powell) will be shown on Saturday, July 8 and The Casino Murder Case on Saturday, July 1. I’ve seen both of them several times, and will probably “tape” them on my YouTube TV device so that I can watch them again!

Also, if you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies, there will be four of them during July: Dial M for Murder (Sunday, July 16), The Girl Was Young (Tuesday, July 18), I Confess (Tuesday, July 25), and Foreign Correspondent (Saturday, July 2).

Barbara Stanwyck (probably my all-time favorite Golden Age of Hollywood actress (except for Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and a few others!) will be featured in four mystery movies this month on the Turner Classic Movies channel: Jeopardy (Tuesday, July 11), The Mad Miss Manton and Lady of Burlesque (Tuesday, July 18), and the must-see Double Indemnity (Saturday, July 29).

And, since Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley is back, be sure to catch the noir movies he picks to show on Saturdays at midnight and then later on Sunday mornings. I enjoy his intros and outros so much that sometimes I fast-forward through the movies to see his outros and then go back and watch the movies… sort of like when the suspense in a book is so intense that I can’t wait to the end of the book and find myself peeking at the last two chapters before going back to my place in the book.

P.S. I’m a little worried about what the future will hold for the Turner Classic Movies channel. The UK version of the channel is being shut down. The current news reports about TCM look a little bleak… Hopefully Warner is able to continue the channel here.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2023

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

Saturday – July 1, 2023

10:08 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
83 mins
*****Based on S. S. Van Dine’ mystery novels.*****

11:30 AM Soak the Old (1940)
This focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
Dir: Sammy Lee. Cast: John Dilson, Ralph Morgan, Edward Earle
20 mins

12:00 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
126 mins
*****Not a mystery but a very good Fourth of July type of movie.*****

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

Sunday – July 2, 2023

12:00 AM Deep Valley (1947)
A farmer’s daughter helps an escaped convict.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
104 mins

10:00 AM Deep Valley (1947)
A farmer’s daughter helps an escaped convict.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
104 mins

6:00 PM Jezebel (1938)
Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden’s headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness …
Dir: William Wyler.Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
104 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a terrific movie.*****

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

Monday – July 3, 2023

3:00 AM Barrios Altos (1987)
A divorcee investigates her masseuse’s murder.
Dir: Jose Luis Garcia Berlanga Cast: Victoria Abril, Carmen Conesa, Juanjo Puigcorbe
87 mins
*****In Spanish*****

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

Tuesday – July 4, 2023

5:30 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
126 mins
*****Not a mystery but a very good Fourth of July movie.*****

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

Wednesday – July 5, 2023

8:00 AM The Whip Hand (1951)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Dir: William Cameron Menzies. Cast: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
82 mins

1:15 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
73 mins

4:30 PM Big Jim McLain (1952)
A U.S. agent takes on communists in Hawaii.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness
90 mins

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

Thursday – July 6, 2023

4:00 AM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

5:30 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group…
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

6:00 PM An American Dream (1966)
A man suspected of murdering his wife has to elude the police and a gang of hoodlums.
Dir: Robert Gist. Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
107 mins

9:30 PM 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
67 mins

11:00 PM Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Several rich people staying in a mansion with a “cursed” blue room make a bet to stay in the room and not end up dead.
Dir: Kurt Neumann. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas
65 mins

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

Friday – July 7, 2023

1:30 AM The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)
A magician fakes his own death to catch a murderer.
Dir: Phil Rosen. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Don Douglas
63 mins

2:45 AM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

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

Saturday – July 8, 2023

12:00 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

10:08 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
73 mins
*****Based on S. S. Van Dine’ mystery novels.*****

8:00 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
71 mins

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

Sunday – July 9, 2023

12:00 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

10:00 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

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

Monday – July 10, 2023

2:00 AM The Castle of Sand (1974)
Two police detectives set out to solve the murder of an old man who was beaten to death.
Dir: Yoshitaro Nomura. Cast: Tetsuro Tamba, Go Kato, Kensaku Morita
143 mins
*****In Japanese*****

4:30 AM The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
An inspector moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Daniel Gelin, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair
84 mins
*****In French*****

6:00 AM The Man I Love (1947)
A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
96 mins

8:00 PM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
95 mins

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

Tuesday – July 11, 2023

8:15 AM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins

9:30 AM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre DeToth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
73 mins

4:00 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

5:45 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
121 mins

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

Wednesday – July 12, 2023

12:00 AM Bugsy (1991)
New York mobster “Bugsy” Siegel leaves New York City to dip into the glamour of Hollywood, CA and to build up syndicate gambling rackets.
Dir: Barry Levinson. Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel
135 mins

2:30 AM Machine Gun McCain (1970)
A gangster defies the mob by going ahead with a casino job they had called off.
Dir: Giuliano Montaldo. Cast: John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk
116 mins

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

Thursday – July 13

9:30 PM Dead Man’s Eyes (1944)
An artist who is blinded is promised an operation to restore his sight, but the benefactor dies a premature death and the artist becomes a suspect.
Dir: Reginald Leborg. Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly
64 mins

10:45 PM 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

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

Friday – July 14, 2023

2:30 AM Illegal (1955)
A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
88 mins

7:30 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
66 mins

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

Saturday – July 15, 2023

3:45 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

1:45 PM The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
149 mins

6:15 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

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

Sunday – July 16, 2023

12:00 AM Shockproof (1949)
A beautiful ex-con falls for her parole officer while still dating the crook who landed her in prison.
Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey
80 mins

4:00 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

10:00 AM Shockproof (1949)
A beautiful ex-con falls for her parole officer while still dating the crook who landed her in prison.
Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey
80 mins

11:45 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt and that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

4:00 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
105 mins

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

Tuesday – July 18

6:30 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
65 mins

8:00 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
70 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****

9:15 AM 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
102 mins

11:00 AM Lady of Burlesque (1943)
A star dancer and comedian team to investigate murders.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian
91 mins

12:45 PM The Girl Was Young (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
70 mins

2:30 PM Obsession (1949)
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife’s lover in an acid bath.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
96 mins

4:15 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
*****Based on Raymond Chandler’s mystery novels.*****

6:15 PM The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
94 mins

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

Wednesday – July 19, 2023

2:45 AM Mean Streets (1973)
A young hood in New York’s Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
110 mins

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

Thursday – July 20, 2023

8:00 PM The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
The star of a movie is killed and the police try to solve the murder while keeping everyone on the set.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick
60 mins

10:30 PM British Intelligence (1940)
A lady spy uses a British nobleman’s home in her undercover work for the Germans.
Dir: Terry Morse. Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester
62 mins

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

Friday – July 21, 2023

1:00 AM Find the Blackmailer (1943)
A private eye hunts for the talking bird that holds the key to a murder.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart
55 mins

7:15 AM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
83 mins

8:45 AM Night Spot (1938)
An undercover cop tries to catch a gang of jewel thieves at a high-society nightclub.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Parkyakarkus, Allan Lane, Gordon Jones
60 mins

6:30 PM Stage Struck (1948)
The murder of nightclub hostess leads an investigator to seedy nightspots.
Dir: William Nigh. Cast: Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel
71 mins

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

Saturday – July 22, 2023

2:30 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. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

6:30 PM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
73 mins

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

Sunday – July 23, 2023

12:00 AM Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
99 mins
*****Yes, Doris Day was in movies that weren’t musical or comedies!*****

6:00 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins
*****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mystery series.*****

8:00 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
*****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mystery series.*****

10:00 AM Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
99 mins
*****Yes, Doris Day was in movies that weren’t musical or comedies!*****

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

Tuesday – July 25, 2023

6:00 AM The Invisible Menace (1938)
An Army base murder investigation dredges up strange secrets.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven
55 mins

10:45 AM A Covenant with Death (1966)
A lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
Dir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado
97 mins

12:30 PM I Accuse! (1958)
True story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
Dir: Jose Ferrer. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
99 mins

2:15 PM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play by Paul Anthelme, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

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

Wednesday – July 26

6:15 PM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

10:15 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins

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

Thursday – July 27, 2023

2:15 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

10:30 PM Within the Law (1939)
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Dir: Gustav Machaty. Cast: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly
65 mins

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

Friday – July 28, 2023

10:15 PM Mean Streets (1973)
A young hood in New York’s Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
110 mins

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

Saturday – July 29, 2023

2:00 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
101 mins

4:00 PM 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
119 mins

8:00 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
106 mins
*****Terrific movie!*****

10:00 PM Body Heat (1981)
A femme fatale seduces a Florida lawyer and convinces him to kill her husband.
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
113 mins

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

Sunday – July 30, 2023

12:00 AM Desperate (1947)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
Dir: Anthony Mann’ Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
73 mins

10:00 AM Desperate (1947)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
Dir: Anthony Mann’ Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
73 mins

3:45 PM The Night of the Iguana (1964)
An ex-minister works as a tour guide in a Mexican coastal town, falls into some romantic interludes with a group of schoolteachers, and then meets a beautiful artist at a run-down hotel where the proprietress is in love with him.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
125 mins

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

Monday – July 31, 2023

7:45 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
81 mins

9:15 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
86 mins

11:00 AM 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
*****Another terrific movie!*****

6:45 PM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
63 mins

8:00 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
110 mins

10:00 PM Affair in Trinidad (1952)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby
98 mins

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

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 June2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for Juny 2023 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.

It’s been a while since I posted a blog entry about the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel Cozy Mystery movies, but I want to be sure you know about some PREMIERES that will be shown this month. I need to hurry up and tell you about the two new Cozy Mystery movie series (I hope!), because one of them airs tonight!

The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango will be shown tonight for the first time. It stars one of my favorite Hallmark actresses (Lacey Chabert) as a detective who is somehow paired with a dashing dance “star” from Great Britain. This is a movie that I have already set up on my YouTubeTV queue – can’t wait!

Here’s the information the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries website posts:

Friday – June 2, 2023

8:00 PM
The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango ***PREMIERE***
A no-nonsense detective must reluctantly team up with a charismatic British dance star in order to solve a murder. Stars Lacey Chabert, Will Kemp.

Constance Bailey is a no-nonsense detective who prefers to work alone. When a high-profile CEO is murdered on the eve of his company’s corporate event in Malta – a high stakes ballroom competition between senior executives – Detective Bailey is sent undercover as one of the contestants. The only problem? She can’t dance. To convincingly compete, she must team up with charismatic and free-spirited performer Sebastian Moore. But with a killer on the loose and a growing list of suspects, it’s going to take more than a little fancy footwork to solve this case. Starring Lacey Chabert and Will Kemp.

And, in case you miss it tonight, here are some more of the times The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango will be showing:

Friday June 2 9/8c
Sunday June 4 5/4c
Tuesday June 6 9/8c
Sunday June 11 9/8c
Wednesday June 21 7/6c

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
So, I didn’t tell you about the following Cozy Mystery movie (hopefully the beginning of a series!) that already premiered. Here’s the information about The Jane Mysteries: Inheritance Lost. It will be airing again on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel:

Tuesday – June 6, 2023

6:00 PM
The Jane Mysteries: Inheritance Lost
Singer Jane DaSilva inherits the family foundation which finds justice for those who aren’t able to help themselves. Together with Detective John Cameron she brings hope to many hopeless cases. Stars Jodie Sweetin, Stephen Huszar.

Here are the times it will be re-airing during June 2023.

Tuesday June 6 7/6c
Friday June 23 5/4c

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
And, as a fan of Aurora Teagarden, I’m really looking forward to this particular PREMIERE!

Friday – June 9, 2023

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New ***PREMIERE***
Young Aurora Teagarden returns home to Lawrenceton after college to pursue her post-grad degree and finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving her friend Sally’s fiancé. Stars Skyler Samuels, Evan Roderick, Marilu Henner.

Here are the times the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel will be broadcasting Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New

Friday June 9 9/8c
Sunday June 11 7/6c
Tuesday June 13 9/8c
Saturday June 17 9/8c
Thursday June 22 7/6c

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
That wraps it up for this month! Please let me know if there are any more interesting Cozy Mystery movie PREMIERES coming up. I don’t watch anything “live” on TV, so I miss all of the ads about new movies/series – since I fast forward through that pesky sales information.

P.S. The above information about the movies is from the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries website.

I know that June is traditionally thought of as the “wedding month” – however, I think that June 27 should be thought of as the “mystery authors’ day on TV” – at least at the Turner Classic Movies channel. Yow-za! On the 27th of June, Turner Classic Movies will be airing mystery movies based on Erle Stanley Gardner‘s Perry Mason, Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers, Leslie Charteris‘s The Saint, S. S. Van Dine‘s Philo Vance, Dorothy L. Sayers‘s Lord Peter Wimsey, Baynard H. Kendrick‘s Duncan Maclain, Agatha Christie‘s Miss Marple, and Dashiell Hammett‘s the Thin Man! So, be sure to take a look at the line-up… And, if you feel like you’re all mysteried-out after that marathon of mystery movies, try to save some “viewing room” for even more mystery movies on Wednesday, June 28.

Thank you, Turner Classic Movies, for featuring a whole lot of the mystery movies during June 2023!

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2023

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

Thursday – June 1, 2023

10:30 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
96 mins

4:45 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

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

Friday – June 2, 2023

4:30 PM Angel Face (1953)
A beautiful young has family problems.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

6:15 PM 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

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

Saturday – June 3, 2023

1:15 AM 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
105 mins
*****not a myterys, but a very good Rock Hudson/Doris Day (with side-kick Tony Randall) comedy.*****

10:08 AM Calling Philo Vance (1939)
Society sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
62 mins

6:00 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
96 mins

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

Sunday – June 4, 2023

12:00 AM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Police patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm
89 mins

2:00 AM Swing Shift (1984)
After her husband leaves for Pearl Harbor in World War II, a woman takes a job in an aircraft factory.
Dir: Jonathan Demme. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti
100 mins
*****Not a mystery – this is a very good romantic comedy.*****

10:00 AM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Police patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm
89 mins

12:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
103 mins
*****Not a mytery – but a funny Judy Holliday movie.*****

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

Monday – June 5, 2023

12:00 AM 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, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée
86 mins
*****Silent movie*****

10:00 AM Father of the Bride (1950)
Attorney Stanley T. Banks finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay, announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan, while wife Ellie and son Tommy burst with enthusiasm for Kay’s wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a “son” offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who’s all grown up now with a life of her own.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
93 mins
*****This movie is the original “Father of the Bride” — I think it might be interesting to watch this one and then watch the one below which was made 41 years later.***** (Neither one is a mytery movie.)

4:00 PM Father of the Bride (1991)
A father’s mixed feelings about his daughter’s marriage makes the wedding a torturous occasion for him.
Dir: Charles Shyer. Cast: Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Diane Keaton
105 mins

8:00 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart
100 mins

10:00 PM Colorado Territory (1949)
An outlaw just released from prison is sucked back into a life of crime in this remake of High Sierra.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
94 mins

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

Tuesday – June 6, 2023

9:00 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
65 mins

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

Thursday – June 8, 2023

2:00 PM The Young Philadelphians (1959)
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
136 mins

10:30 PM Suddenly, Last Summer (1960)
A psychiatrist is brought into the web of a wealthy Louisiana widow, who wishes him to perform a lobotomy on her niece, whom she says is suffering from madness after the death of her cousin, the widow’s son.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
114 mins

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

Friday – June 9, 2023

4:00 PM Kona Coast (1968)
A Hawaiian boat captain tries to prove a wealthy playboy killed his daughter.
Dir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell
92 mins

5:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins

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

Saturday – June 10, 2023

3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
This movie is about an eight year old psychopath girl. No spoilers here!
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

8:29 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
58 mins

10:08 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
68 mins

1:45 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery…*****

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

Sunday – June 11, 2023

12:30 AM 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
86 mins

10:00 AM 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
86 mins

11:45 AM 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
108 mins

1:45 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
93 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a good “June Bride” type of movie.*****

3:30 PM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

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

Monday – June 12, 2023

2:45 AM The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
A dramatic look at the life of a Japanese businessman.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori
135 mins
*****In Japanese*****

9:00 AM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

10:45 AM The Big Shot (1942)
Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
82 mins

12:15 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
88 mins

8:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
103 mins
*****Not a mytery – but a funny Judy Holliday movie.*****

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

Tuesday – June 13, 2023

6:00 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Quick-witted private investigator Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin”, which is curiously signed the Bishop.
Dir: David Burton. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
88 mins

6:45 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
68 mins

10:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
91 mins

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

Thursday – June 15, 2023

11:00 AM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
116 mins

4:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
*****A somewhat different interpretation of Miss Marple!*****

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

Saturday – June 17, 2023

10:08 AM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
62 mins

4:30 PM Kansas City Confidential (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster
98 mins

10:00 PM Repeat Performance (1947)
On New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Dir: Alfred Werker. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins

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

Sunday – June 18, 2023

12:00 AM 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

10:00 AM 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

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

Monday – June 19, 2023

7:15 AM Millie (1931)
A prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughter’s honor.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames
85 mins

1:45 PM 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

3:30 PM Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
84 mins

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

Tuesday – June 20, 2023

8:30 AM Bullets for O’Hara (1941)
A gangster’s wife helps the FBI nail her husband.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn
50 mins

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

Friday – June 23, 2023

2:00 AM Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
116 mins

9:30 AM The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
96 mins

9:45 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
132 mins

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

Saturday – June 24, 2023

10:08 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

10:00 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

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

Sunday – June 25, 2023

12:15 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

10:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

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

Monday – June 26, 2023

10:00 PM 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
80 mins

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

Tuesday – June 27, 2023

3:30 AM Victim (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
100 mins

7:45 AM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins
*****Based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s mystery.*****

9:15 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy.Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
66 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers mysteries.*****

10:30 AM The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
The Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
Dir: Paul Stein. Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod
70 mins
*****Based on Leslie Charteris’s The Saint mysteries.*****

12:00 PM 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
73 mins
*****Based on S. S. Van Dine’s mystery.*****

1:30 PM Haunted Honeymoon (1940)
British sleuth Sir Peter Wimsey’s wedding celebration is cut short by the discovery of a murdered man in his honeymoon cottage.
Dir: Arthur B. Woods. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
83 mins
*****Based on Dorothy L. Sayers’s mysteries.*****

3:00 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
80 mins
*****Based on Baynard H. Kendrick’s mysteries.*****

4:30 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock.Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins
*****(Loosely) based on Agatha Christie’s mysteries.*****

6:00 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins
*****Based on Dashiell Hammett’s mysteries.*****

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

Wednesday – June 28, 2023

8:30 AM The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
103 mins

12:00 PM Back in Circulation (1937)
A reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay
82 mins

1:30 PM The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
81 mins

3:00 PM 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
83 mins

4:30 PM Shadow on the Wall (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother’s murder.
Dir: Patrick Jackson. Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau
84 mins

6:15 PM The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

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

Thursday – June 29, 2023

6:00 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

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

Friday – June 30, 2023

1:45 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery…*****

3:45 AM Keeper of the Flame (1943)
Top-notch reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
100 mins

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

If you’re really 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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2023 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.

Can it be May already?! I just can’t believe 2023 is going so fast!

The Turner Classic Movies channel is changing things up for us this month – with The Thin Man mystery movies. A lot of us are used to seeing the channel air a slew of The Thin Man movies starting on December 31 and continuing through January 1 of each year. I can’t quite remember if they have done that during other times of the year. However, this year they will be running The Thin Man mystery movies starting on May 10 and continuing on May 11. I have seen these movies several times, and enjoy them a lot… except for the inebreation scenes. For some reason, movies from the 1930s/1940s seem to think those types of scenes are funny. (I find myself fast forwarding through a lot of drunk scenes…)

For those of you who remember reading Nancy Drew mysteries — you’ll be pleased to see that three of the four 1930s Nancy Drew movies with Bonita Granville will be airing during May 2023. I don’t know how many times I have watched these movies!

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2023

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

Monday – May 1, 2023

12:30 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

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

Wednesday – May 3, 2023

2:00 AM Woman of Straw (1964)
A rich old man’s nurse and his nephew plot his murder.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson
120 mins

10:30 AM Assignment To Kill (1968)
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Dir: Sheldon Reynolds. Cast: Patrick O’Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud
102 mins

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

Thursday – May 4, 2023

12:30 AM Evelyn Prentice (1934)
A criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel
80 mins

10:00 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
101 mins

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

Friday – May 5, 2023

10:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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

Saturday – May 6, 2023

8:27 AM Blind Alibi (1938)
A man pretends to be blind to foil blackmailers.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli
62 mins

10:08 AM Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman’s disappearance.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson
60 mins

11:30 AM Hit and Run Driver (1935)
In this short film, a man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then tries to cover up the incident.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Sam Flint, Carl Stockdale, Jonathan Hale
20 mins

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

Sunday – May 7, 2023

12:00 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

10:30 PM The Blue Gardenia (1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
90 mins

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

Wednesday – May 10, 2023

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
80 mins

9:45 PM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
110 mins

11:45 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. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins

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

Thursday – May 11, 2023

1:45 AM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

3:30 AM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins

5:15 AM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins

7:00 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
67 mins

8:15 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
73 mins

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

Friday – May 12, 2023

6:00 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
119 mins

12:00 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

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

Saturday – May 13, 2023

8:29 AM 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
60 mins

10:09 AM Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frank Thomas Jr.
68 mins

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

Sunday – May 14, 2023

12:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

10:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

12:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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

Monday – May 15, 2023

6:15 AM Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
90 mins

8:00 AM Conspirator (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Dir: Victor Saville. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng
87 mins

9:30 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
86 mins

11:00 AM Young Bride (1932)
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Dir: William Seiter. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden, Arline Judge
76 mins

12:30 PM 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
84 mins

2:00 PM Girl Missing (1933)
A new bride disappears from her honeymoon hotel the same night a dead body pops up.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon, Mary Brian
69 mins

4:30 PM 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

6:00 PM Stop Me Before I Kill! (1961)
After surviving an accident, a race car driver begins to suffer violent impulses.
Dir: Val Guest. Cast: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis
93 mins

8:00 PM 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
77 mins

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

Tuesday – May 16, 2023

3:15 AM The Outrage (1964)
A murderer, a sexually assaulted wife and the dead man himself present conflicting versions of a brutal crime.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
97 mins

7:30 AM Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn. Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
56 mins

10:15 AM The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
103 mins

12:00 PM The Sellout (1951)
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Dir: Gerald Mayer. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter
83 mins

1:30 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
103 mins

3:15 PM 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

6:15 PM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
95 mins

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

Wednesday – May 17

4:00 PM 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
110 mins

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

Thursday – May 18, 2023

1:15 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

11:45 AM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
91 mins

1:30 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
90 mins

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

Friday – May 19, 2023

8:15 AM 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
88 mins

4:00 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

5:45 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

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

Saturday – May 20, 2023

2:00 AM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

8:28 AM Women Are Trouble (1936)
A small-town news journalist goes after a big-city job by investigating a vicious protection racket.
Dir: Errol Taggart Cast: Stuart Erwin, Paul Kelly, Florence Rice
60 mins

10:08 AM Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth tries to clear one of her father’s friends of a murder charge.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
68 mins

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

Sunday – May 21, 2023

12:00 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
75 mins

4:00 AM The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle
101 mins

10:00 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
75 mins

1:15 PM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

3:30 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

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

Monday – May 22, 2023

7:45 AM 21 Days Together (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
75 mins

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

Thursday – May 25, 2023

3:30 AM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

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

Friday – May 26, 2023

12:15 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

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

Sunday – May 28, 2023

12:00 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

10:00 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

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

Tuesday – May 30, 2023

6:00 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

8:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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

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

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the April 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2023 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.