The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Here are the mystery/crime movies that will be airing on the Turner Classic Movies network during August 2024. If you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, be sure to scan this list of movies to find out when his movies will be shown – there are quite a few this month, particularly on the 24th.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2024

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THURSDAY, August 1

8:00 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

10:00 AM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
91 mins

4:00 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
91 mins

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

FRIDAY, August 2

3:00 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
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11:45 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

5:00 PM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
85 mins

6:30 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 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, Alan Curtis
100 mins

10:00 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
93 mins

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SATURDAY, August 3

12:00 AM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

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SUNDAY, August 4

3:00 PM Torn Curtain (1966)
A U.S. scientist pretends to defect to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
128 mins

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TUESDAY, August 6

4:30 AM The Big Punch (1948)
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
Dir: Sherry Shourds. Cast: Wayne Morris, Lois Maxwell, Gordon MacRae
50 mins

6:00 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

7:30 AM The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins

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WEDNESDAY, August 7

11:30 PM Topkapi (1964)
An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
120 mins

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THURSDAY, August 8

1:45 AM Evil Under the Sun (1982)
A detective trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
Dir: Guy Hamilton. Cast: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
117 mins

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FRIDAY, August 9

6:00 AM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, 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

8:00 PM A Place in the Sun (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress’ heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy.
Dir: George Stevens. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
122 mins

10:15 PM The Heiress (1949)
A plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
115 mins
*****I Love, love, love this non mystery movie!*****

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SATURDAY, August 10

10:00 AM Still of the Night (1982)
After a woman’s married boyfriend is murdered, she gives his watch to his psychiatrist and asks him to return it to the man’s wife. The psychiatrist is fascinated by the beautiful woman, who he has heard all about during his late patient’s therapy sessions. After learning that Brooke’s father died mysteriously…
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy
91 mins

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SUNDAY, August 11

10:00 AM 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

4:00 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

6:00 PM Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
101 mins

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TUESDAY, August 13

6:15 AM Mississippi Mermaid (1970)
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Dir: François Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Nelly Borgeaud
123 mins
*****In French*****

8:30 AM The Burglars (1971)
In Athens, a group of professional burglars plan an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector, but the corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.
Dir: Henri Verneuil. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
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10:30 AM L’aine des Ferchaux (1963)
A French businessman with shady dealings flees to America with his assistant, the latter trying to secretly bilk him out of his money.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michele Mercier
104 mins
*****In French*****

8:00 PM Breathless (1960)
A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Liliane David
90 mins
*****In French & English*****

9:45 PM Pierrot le Fou (1965)
After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he’d loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders
110 mins
*****In French & English*****

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WEDNESDAY, August 14

1:45 AM Borsalino (1970)
During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.
Dir: Jacques Deray. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
125 mins
*****In French & Italian*****

6:00 AM The Naked Street (1955)
A racketeer saves his daughter’s no-good husband from the chair but lives to regret it.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft
84 mins

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THURSDAY, August 15

6:00 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

10:00 AM 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

11:30 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins

1:00 PM Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A small-time crook on the run is reformed by the love of a crippled woman.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington
81 mins

2:30 PM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
68 mins

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FRIDAY, August 16

12:15 AM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Young Charlie is a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle Charlie is a serial killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
108 mins

2:30 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins

4:00 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

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SUNDAY, August 18

7:30 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 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
115 mins
*****This movie is not a mystery. I think it’s the absolute best “Little Women” movie there is…*****

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TUESDAY, August 20

6:00 AM Skyjacked (1972)
While on route to Los Angeles, a commercial airliner is hijacked to Russia by an unbalanced Vietnam veteran.
Dir: John Guillermin. Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin
100 mins

2:00 PM The Tattered Dress (1957)
After top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for Michael Reston who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.
Dir: Jack Arnold. Cast: Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson
93 mins

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WEDNESDAY, August 21

4:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
102 mins

4:00 PM Crisis (1950)
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he’s forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond
95 mins

6:00 PM I Accuse! (1958)
True story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
Dir: José Ferrer. Cast: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
99 mins

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THURSDAY, August 22

12:15 AM The Great Man (1957)
A radio writer preparing a tribute to a recently passed colleague discovers his idol was not such a wonderful man.
Dir: Jose Ferrer. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

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

8:00 PM Another Man’s Poison (1951)
A mystery writer’s real life turns to intrigue when her criminal husband escapes from prison.
Dir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams
89 mins

10:00 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense…
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

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FRIDAY, August 23

12:00 AM 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

2:00 AM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

4:00 AM 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.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

6:00 AM Libel (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie
100 mins

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SATURDAY, August 24

2:30 AM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 mins

6:00 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

8:00 PM To Catch a Thief (1955)
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
106 mins

10:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

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SUNDAY, August 25

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

10:00 PM Murder, He Says (1945)
A pollster stumbles on a family of small-town killers.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
91 mins

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MONDAY, August 26

12:00 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

7:30 AM 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

9:00 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: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

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, Angela Lansbury
110 mins

10:15 PM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins

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THURSDAY, August 29

4:00 AM Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see a man fleeing the scene of a murder, the man asks his former girlfriend for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is someone else.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 mins

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SATURDAY, August 31

4:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, a woman 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

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SUNDAY, September 1, 2024

12:00 AM The Boston Strangler (1968)
The true story of the extensive police manhunt for a serial killer in Boston who had strangled a number of young women in the early 60s.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
116 mins

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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in August, 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 July television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2024 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.