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Here is next month’s list of mystery (and some personal favorites of mine) movies on Turner Classic Movies for next month, June 2020…

I don’t have a lot to say about next month – there will be plenty of movies, but not really any particularly noteworthy marathons or any other obvious structure to what I personally want to see.

So, I hope you enjoy the June lineup! 

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

Monday – June 1

9:30 AM
A STRANGER IN TOWN (1943)
A Supreme Court justice on vacation takes on crooked small-town politicians.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers.
BW- 67 mins

11:30 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

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

Tuesday – June 2

2:30 AM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C- 114 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – June 3

2:45 AM
MYSTERY HOUSE (1938)
A detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel.
BW- 57 mins

4:00 AM
THE PATIENT IN ROOM 18 (1938)
A hospitalized detective probes the murder of a fellow patient.
Dir: Bobby Connolly Cast: Patric Knowles, Ann Sheridan, Eric Stanley.
BW- 59 mins, CC

5:15 AM
THE GREAT O’MALLEY (1937)
A ruthless cop gets mixed up with a man who’s only turned to crime to help his crippled daughter.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Pat O’Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart.
BW- 71 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 6

7:29 AM
THE FIGHTING GRINGO (1939)
A cowboy tries to clear an innocent Mexican rancher of murder charges.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Lupita Tovar, Lucio Villegas.
BW- 59 mins

11:00 AM
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.
BW- 67 mins, CC

12:15 PM
M (1951)
When the police hunt for a child killer cramps their style, the criminal underworld tries to track him down.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Luther Adler.
BW- 88 mins

2:00 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

11:00 PM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 7

9:00 AM
THE UNDERWORLD STORY (1950)
A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Dir: Cyril Endfield Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm.
BW- 91 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 8

1:15 AM
JUDEX (1963)
Remake of a silent serial, concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger. (In French)
Dir: Georges Franju Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob.
BW- 98 mins

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

Tuesday – June 9

7:00 AM
DESERT PASSAGE (1952)
A cowboy doesn’t realize the man he’s been hired to drive to Mexico is an outlaw.
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed.
BW- 61 mins, CC

9:45 AM
ROUGH RIDERS’ ROUNDUP (1939)
A suspended Texas ranger sets out to catch the outlaws who killed his partner.
Dir: Joe Kane Cast: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton.
BW- 53 mins

11:30 PM
WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith.
BW- 78 mins

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

Friday – June 12

8:45 PM
VICTIM (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price.
BW- 100 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 13

11:00 AM
THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin.
BW- 82 mins, CC

12:30 PM
GUN CRAZY (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger.
BW- 87 mins, CC

2:15 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C- 136 mins, CC

11:15 PM
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
A ruthless contract killer balks when he discovers his next hit is a woman.
Dir: Irving Lerner Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 14

3:00 AM
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (1952)
A Union officer goes undercover to root out Confederate raiders.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian.
C- 93 mins, CC

9:00 AM
MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958)
A ruthless contract killer balks when he discovers his next hit is a woman.
Dir: Irving Lerner Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi.
BW- 80 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 15

9:45 AM

I CONFESS (1953)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.
BW- 95 mins, CC

7:00 PM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (1975)
Dir: Dick Richards Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 16

9:00 PM
THE UNFAITHFUL (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott.
BW- 109 mins

11:00 PM
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino.
BW- 95 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – June 17

11:00 AM
THE HAUNTING (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
BW- 112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – June 18

8:30 PM
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly.
BW- 92 mins

10:15 PM
KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962)
A young businessman and a hitchhiker develop a deadly rivalry during a boating weekend. (In Polish)
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.
BW- 94 mins

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

Friday – June 19

12:00 AM
PALE FLOWER (1964) (In Japanese)
Dir: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki.
BW- 96 mins, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM
SIDE STREET (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig.
BW- 83 mins, CC

8:30 AM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
BW- 84 mins, CC

10:00 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

12:00 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.
BW- 99 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE PITFALL (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt.
BW- 86 mins, CC

3:30 PM
NIAGARA (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.
C- 89 mins, CC

11:00 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.
BW- 93 mins, CC

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

Saturday – June 20

1:00 AM
HARDCORE (1979)
Dir: Paul Schrader Cast: George C Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley.
BW- 108 mins, CC

3:00 AM
THE NEW CENTURIONS (1972)
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: George C Scott, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson.
BW- 103 mins, CC

7:26 AM
THE CASE OF THE BLACK PARROT (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr..
BW- 60 mins, CC

11:00 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 Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
BW- 110 mins, CC

11:15 PM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 21

1:15 AM
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr..
C- 138 mins, CC

9:00 AM
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay.
BW- 98 mins, CC

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

Monday – June 22

8:15 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

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

Tuesday – June 23

2:15 AM
BLOW-UP (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings.
C- 111 mins, CC

5:00 AM
TIGER BAY (1959)
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills.
BW- 107 mins, CC

3:15 PM
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
BW- 115 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery, however, out of all the “Little Women” movies I have seen, I think this one is the best.*****

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

Thursday – June 25

1:00 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.
BW- 86 mins, CC
*****Margaret Rutherford starred in four Miss Marple movies. “Murder Ahoy” is not on this three-feature showing today.*****

2:30 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.
BW- 81 mins, CC

4:15 PM
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.
BW- 91 mins, CC

11:15 PM
PETE KELLY’S BLUES (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – June 26

5:30 AM
STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet.
BW- 64 mins, CC

1:00 PM
SCENT OF MYSTERY (1960)
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Beverly Bentley.
BW- 109 mins, Letterbox Format

3:00 PM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW- 100 mins, CC

5:00 PM
M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke.
BW- 110 mins

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

Saturday – June 27

7:27 AM
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN (1938)
An insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell.
BW- 62 mins, CC

7:00 PM
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964)
A typical day in the life of the Beatles.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison.
BW- 87 mins, CC
*****AND Ringo!*****Not a mystery.*****

11:00 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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

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

Sunday – June 28

9:00 AM
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.
BW- 87 mins, CC

3:00 PM
ADAM’S RIB (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
BW- 101 mins, CC
*****Not a mystery. Tracy and Hepburn at their best AND the wonderful Judy Holliday.*****

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

Monday – June 29

5:00 AM
MAD HOLIDAY (1936)
A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, ZaSu Pitts.
BW- 72 mins

6:15 AM
SINNER TAKE ALL (1936)
Members of a wealthy family are murdered one-by-one.
Dir: Erroll Taggart Cast: Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia.
BW- 74 mins

7:45 AM
THE CASE OF THE BLACK PARROT (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr..
BW- 60 mins, CC

9:00 AM
HOMICIDE (1949)
Killers scare a murder witness into silence.
Dir: Felix Jacoves Cast: Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda.
BW- 77 mins, CC

10:30 AM
BODYGUARD (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed.
BW- 63 mins, CC

11:45 AM
POSTMARK FOR DANGER (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Terry Moore, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester.
BW- 78 mins, Letterbox Format

1:15 PM
MURDER IS MY BEAT (1955)
After a businessman is found dead, two detectives scramble to find the killer.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Paul Langton, Barbara Payton, Robert Shayne.
BW- 77 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM
SOUTH OF SUEZ (1940)
A murder defendant falls for his alleged victim’s daughter.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, George Tobias.
BW- 86 mins, CC

4:15 PM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William McGann Cast: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez.
BW- 57 mins, CC

5:15 PM
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS (1972)
A small-town sheriff attempts to clear a Doberman of murder charges.
Dir: James Goldstone Cast: James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook.
C- 98 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – June 30

5:00 AM
WHISTLING IN DIXIE (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft.
BW- 74 mins, CC

9:00 AM
STORM WARNING (1951)
A model on vacation discovers that her sister’s husband is a murderous Ku Klux Klansman.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day.
BW- 93 mins, CC

1:00 PM
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.
BW- 100 mins, CC

5:00 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW- 106 mins, CC

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

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 February 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 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.)