The Cozy Mystery List Blog

The Turner Classic Movies channel will be honoring teachers on the first of September. Who knew there were so many teacher-themed movies. Because they aren’t mystery movies I didn’t include them in the month’s schedule >>> but I thought some of you might want to check them out on their schedule.

There’s another little “who knew?” thing I found that will be on Friday, September 17. There are a whole lot of mystery movies that feature magic or magicians. I’ve never cared for magic, but I sure like mysteries >>> so maybe I should reconsider my I-can-take-it-or-leave-it opinion on magic!

On the official first day of autumn (Wednesday, September 22) the channel will be featuring movies with the word “autumn” in their titles. We moved down here to Texas from the north, and since then, I have looked forward to the fall. I miss the beautiful fall colors! Because of this, I especially enjoy sprinkling the few autumnal items I own around the house – reminding me that even without the beautiful yellow, orange, and red leaves, fall is here! Now Turner Classic Movies is getting in on the “Autumn’s Here” bandwagon. (These movies with the word “autumn” in them are followed by several good-for-Halloween black and white movies.)

Also, good news for those of you who enjoy Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley on the Turner Classic Movies channel… He’s back! There’s always a void when he’s not around…

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – September 2021

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Thursday – September 2, 2021

2:30 AM
Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

6:15 AM
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 Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

7:45 AM
The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins

2:15 PM
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders committed in alphabetical order.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Actors: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley
90 mins

6:00 PM
Sophie’s Place (1969)

8:00 PM
To Catch a Thief (1955)
A retired cat burglar fights to clear himself of a series of Riviera robberies committed in his style.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
103 mins

10:00 PM
The Hot Rock (1972)
Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.
Dir: Peter Yates Actors: Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman
101 mins

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Saturday – September 4, 2020

12:00 AM
Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief teaches the ropes to a novice before retiring.
Dir: Don Taylor Actors: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten
108 mins

10:08 AM
The Falcon’s Adventure (1946)
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
Dir: William Berke Actors: Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy
61 mins

2:15 PM
12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Actors: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

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Sunday – September 5, 2021

12:30 AM
Cloudburst (1952)
A WWII code breaker tracks down his wife’s killers.
Dir: Francis Searle Actors: Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley
83 mins

10:00 AM
Cloudburst (1952)
A WWII code breaker tracks down his wife’s killers.
A WWII code breaker tracks down his wife’s killers.
Dir: Francis Searle Actors: Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley
83 mins

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Thursday – September 9, 2021

8:45 AM
The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Actors: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

10:45 AM
The Last Ride (1944)
A detective suspects foul play in a series of accidental deaths.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Actors: Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker
57 mins

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Friday – September 10, 2021

8:00 PM
The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson Actors: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins

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Saturday – September 11, 2021

6:00 AM
Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Actors: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
102 mins

8:27 AM
Central Park (1932)
Small-town kids out to make it in the big city inadvertently get mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: John G. Adolfi Actors: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee
58 mins

10:08 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 Actors: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins

12:00 PM
The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
96 mins

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Sunday – September 12, 2021

12:00 AM
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster’s girlfriend.
Dir: Richard Quine Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin Mccarthy
83 mins

10:00 AM
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster’s girlfriend.
Dir: Richard Quine Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin Mccarthy
83 mins

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Wednesday – September 15, 2021

8:00 AM
Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo
91 mins

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Thursday – September 16, 2021

12:00 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 Actors: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

12:15 PM
Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

2:15 PM
Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 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 Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

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Friday – September 17, 2021

9:30 AM
Miracles for Sale (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
71 mins

10:45 AM
Fingers at the Window (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Actors: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone
80 mins

12:15 PM
The Phantom of Paris (1931)
A magician is charged with killing his fiancee’s father.
Dir: John S. Robertson Actors: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone
73 mins

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Saturday – September 18, 2021

10:09 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 Actors: Warren William,Margaret Lindsay,Donald Woods
80 mins

2:00 PM
The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson Actors: Paul Newman,Edward G. Robinson,Elke Sommer
136 mins

8:00 PM
Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson Actors: Alain Delon, Van Heflin, Jack Palance
107 mins

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Sunday – September 19, 2021

12:00 AM
Human Desire (1954)
An unhappy wife seduces a veteran into helping her get rid of her husband.
Dir: Fritz Lang Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
90 mins

4:00 AM
The Super Cops (1974)
Two rogue cops enlist a streetwalker to help them stop a deadly drug ring.
Dir: Gordon Parks Actors: Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier
95 mins

8:00 AM
Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Actors: Charles Boyer,Ingrid Bergman,Joseph Cotten
114 mins

10:00 AM
Human Desire (1954)
An unhappy wife seduces a veteran into helping her get rid of her husband.
Dir: Fritz Lang Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
90 mins

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Tuesday – September 21, 2021

11:00 PM
The Hospital (1971)
A harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman and a serial killer.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Actors: George C Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes
103 mins

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Wednesday – September 22, 2021

5:00 AM
A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers (2013)
This is a documentary
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau Actors: James Ellroy, Philip Kerr, Michael Connelly
57 mins

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Thursday – September 23, 2021

6:15 AM
The Hidden Hand (1942)
The body count rises during the competition for a family inheritance.
Dir: Ben Stoloff Actors: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop
66 mins

10:00 AM
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
110 mins

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Saturday – September 25, 2021

2:15 AM
The Stepfather (1987)
A seemingly average man, after murdering his entire family, remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it again.
Dir: Joseph Ruben Actors: Terry O’quinn, Shelley Hack, Gillian Barber
98 mins

8:28 AM
Midnight Alibi (1934)
An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges.
Dir: Alan Crosland Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler
60 mins

10:08 AM
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Perry Mason tries to stay on the wagon while investigating the murder of a crooked beauty contest promoter.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Actors: Warren William,Genevieve Tobin,Patricia Ellis
77 mins oi

10:00 PM
Harriet Craig (1950)
Harriet Craig is one tough woman – something Joan Crawford could portray very, very well.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Actors: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson
94 mins

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Sunday – September 26, 2021

12:00 AM
Hell Bound (1957)
A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. The plan goes awry when the gang leader’s girlfriend falls for an ambulance attendant who is an unsuspecting pawn in the scheme.
Dir: William J. Hole Jr. Actors: John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman
69 mins

6:00 AM
Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor Actors: Marie Dressler,John Barrymore,Wallace Beery
113 mins
*****I have watched this non mystery movie many times and never get tired of the comedic banter. Jean Harlow is phenomenal!*****

10:00 AM
Hell Bound (1957)
A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. The plan goes awry when the gang leader’s girlfriend falls for an ambulance attendant who is an unsuspecting pawn in the scheme.
Dir: William J. Hole Jr. Actors: John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman
69 mins

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Monday – September 27, 2021

12:15 PM
Journal of a Crime (1934)
Before she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Dir: William Keighley Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd
65 mins

4:00 PM
Babbitt (1934)
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Dir: William Keighley Actors: Aline Macmahon, Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd
74 mins

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Thursday – September 30, 2021

1:00 AM
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
A gag-filled comedy which revolves around a film projectionist, unjustly accused of stealing a watch, who dreams of being a great detective.
Dir: Buster Keaton Actors: Buster Keaton,Kathryn Mcguire,Ward Crane
51 mins
*****This is a silent Buster Keaton film.*****

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

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the August 2021 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2021 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.