It’s September already, and what better way for us who love mystery movies, to start the month than with a whole bunch of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies on the first! I can’t wait to (re)watch them!
On Thursday, the third, the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing some movies that showcase medical personnel, which I’m guessing is a tribute to all the wonderful professionals who are helping those in great need today.
Tuesday (September 15) and Thursday (September 17) are terrific days for those of us who enjoy watching the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies. Be sure to check them out, there might be a few you haven’t seen yet.
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – SEPTEMBER 2020
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Tuesday – September 1
5:00 AM
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
BW- 87 mins, CC
6:45 AM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC
8:30 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.
BW- 121 mins, CC
10:45 AM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC
12:45 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC
2:45 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.
C- 105 mins, CC
4:45 PM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW- 105 mins, CC
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Thursday – September 3
5:00 AM
THE WINDOW (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW- 73 mins, CC
7:30 AM
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray.
C- 107 mins, CC
11:15 AM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark.
BW- 107 mins, CC
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Saturday – September 5
11:00 AM
THE PRIZE (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
C- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Sunday – September 6
9:00 AM
NIGHT EDITOR (1946)
A detective hides key evidence in a murder case rather than reveal he was cheating on his wife.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell.
BW- 66 mins, CC
11:00 AM
THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall.
BW- 92 mins, CC
*****This is not a mystery, but if you’re in the mood for a deliciously sweet movie, you may enjoy this. (I did.)*****
3:00 PM
CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)
An aging woman hires a matchmaker to find her independent granddaughter a man.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe (Jeroen Krabbe).
C- 97 mins, CC
*****Here’s another movie that isn’t a mystery, however, if you’re anything like me, you may enjoy good romantic comedies these days.
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Tuesday – September 8
5:00 AM
ARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman.
BW- 68 mins, CC
6:30 AM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW- 112 mins, CC
8:30 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
10:15 AM
RIFIFI (1954)
Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel.
BW- 118 mins, (language: French)
12:30 PM
THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960)
A veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robber.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey.
BW- 114 mins, CC
2:45 PM
OCEAN’S 11 (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
5:00 PM
JACK OF DIAMONDS (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt.
C- 108 mins, CC
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Wednesday – September 9
12:00 PM
CRY TERROR! (1958)
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens.
BW- 96 mins, CC
4:00 PM
DIAL 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King.
BW- 75 mins, CC
5:30 PM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Thursday – September 10
9:00 AM
MYSTERY IN MEXICO (1948)
An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez.
BW- 66 mins
12:00 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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Saturday – September 12
5:15 AM
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life ain’t so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins.
BW- 85 mins, CC
11:00 AM
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.
BW- 108 mins, CC
*****If you haven’t seen this terrific mystery movie, make sure you do!*****
7:00 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW- 97 mins, CC
11:00 PM
DANGER SIGNAL (1945)
A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
BW- 78 mins, CC
2:45 AM
COMA (1978)
A lady doctor investigates a series of strange deaths and disappearing bodies at her hospital.
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley.
C- 113 mins, CC
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Sunday – September 13
9:00 AM
DANGER SIGNAL (1945)
A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
BW- 78 mins, CC
10:30 AM
THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING (1935)
A gangster hides from the law by trading places with a mild-mannered double.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl.
BW- 93 mins, CC
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Monday – September 14
12:30 PM
KIND LADY (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle.
BW- 76 mins, CC
5:30 PM
CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh.
BW- 83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
7:00 PM
SO YOU WANT TO BE A DETECTIVE (1948)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Vitaphone Release 1636A.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Philo McCullough, Clifton Young, Fred Kelsey.
BW- 11 mins
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Tuesday – September 15
6:15 AM
MAN HUNT (1933)
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief’s daughter.
Dir: Irving Cummings Cast: Junior Durkin, Charlotte Henry, Mrs. Wallace Reid.
BW- 64 mins
7:30 AM
NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE (1939)
A famous detective investigates industrial espionage at a plane factory.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull.
BW- 59 mins, CC
*****I found this on Wikipedia: “Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter from Street & Smith’s dime novels and pulp magazines.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the character Nick Carter but I intend to try these movies.*****
8:45 AM
PHANTOM RAIDERS (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to stop enemy agents from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut.
BW- 70 mins
10:00 AM
SKY MURDER (1940)
Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne.
BW- 72 mins, CC
11:15 AM
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.
BW- 90 mins, CC
1:00 PM
MIRACLES FOR SALE (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven.
BW- 71 mins, CC
2:15 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.
BW- 80 mins, CC
3:45 PM
THE HIDDEN EYE (1945)
Blind detective Duncan Maclaine uses his other senses to piece together confusing clues behind a murder.
Dir: Richard Whorf Cast: Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins.
BW- 69 mins, CC
5:00 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC
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Wednesday – September 16
11:00 PM
REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947)
Dir: Alfred Werker Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field.
BW- 93 mins, CC
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Thursday – September 17
6:45 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW- 91 mins, CC
10:15 AM
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim.
BW- 107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
2:30 PM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:15 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
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Saturday – September 19
7:27 AM
GUNS OF HATE (1948)
Two drifters are falsely accused of murder.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin.
BW- 62 mins, CC
9:45 PM
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.
BW- 58 mins
11:00 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.
BW- 110 mins, CC
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Sunday – September 20
9:00 AM
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.
BW- 110 mins, CC
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Monday – September 21
9:15 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW- 113 mins, CC
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Thursday – September 24
10:30 PM
THE HOSPITAL (1971)
A harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman and a serial killer.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Cast: George C Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes.
C- 102 mins, CC
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Saturday – September 26
5:00 AM
LARCENY, INC. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
BW- 95 mins, CC
11:15 PM
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- 90 mins, CC
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Sunday – September 27
9:00 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- 90 mins, CC
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Monday – September 28
5:15 PM
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge.
BW- 90 mins, CC
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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 2020 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2020 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.
(The above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)
When Inspector Morse stopped production, Foyle’s War was to be its ITV short-term replacement. However, since it was such a huge success, more seasons were made. (Lucky for us!)