Every year at this time I think about how neat it used to be when both of our children were home for the summer months. I was one of those parents who didn’t like it when they went back to school… the house always felt so quiet and lonely. However, every year at this time I also feel happy about (hopefully!) the weather getting a little more bearable down here in San Antonio. Good grief! The summer months down here have been pretty brutal! Hurray for autumn making it’s way to all of us!
Anyway… here are next month’s upcoming TCM (Turner Classic Movies) mystery movies!
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Sunday – September 1
9:00 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
11:00 AM
LIFEBOAT (1944)
Survivors of a torpedoed boat take in a German Naval officer from the sub that sank them.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak.
BW- 97 mins, CC
3:00 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
7:00 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
9:00 PM
A KISS BEFORE DYING (1956)
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith.
C- 95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Thursday – September 5
7:30 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC
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Saturday – September 7
7:30 AM
COME ON DANGER (1942)
When a woman turns outlaw, she’s suspected of murder.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley.
BW- 59 mins
11:00 PM
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 95 mins, CC
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Sunday – September 8
9:00 AM
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 95 mins, CC
7:00 PM
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
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Tuesday – September 10
6:30 AM
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
BW- 81 mins, CC
8:00 AM
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.
BW- 99 mins, CC
9:45 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.
BW- 80 mins, CC
12:45 PM
SIGNPOST TO MURDER (1965)
A convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing.
Dir: George Englund Cast: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare.
BW- 77 mins, CC
5:15 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.
BW- 84 mins, CC
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Wednesday – September 11
5:15 PM
PATHS OF GLORY (1958)
A military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
BW- 88 mins, CC
7:00 PM
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.
BW- 96 mins, CC
10:30 PM
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
A bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
Dir: Charles Laughton Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
BW- 93 mins, CC
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Friday – September 13
12:15 PM
FRISCO JENNY (1933)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy.
BW- 71 mins, CC
3:15 PM
JOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)
Before she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd.
BW- 65 mins, CC
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Saturday – September 14
11:00 PM
NOCTURNE (1946)
A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston.
BW- 87 mins, CC
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Sunday – September 15
9:00 AM
NOCTURNE (1946)
A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston.
BW- 87 mins, CC
3:00 PM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
C- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:15 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.
C- 93 mins, CC
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Monday – September 16
3:15 PM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW- 114 mins, CC,
5:15 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.
BW- 100 mins, CC
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Tuesday – September 17
8:30 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
DEAD RINGER (1964)
A woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford.
BW- 116 mins, CC
11:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Wednesday – September 18
7:00 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C- 115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 AM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Friday – September 20
8:30 AM
THE LIQUIDATOR (1966)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John.
C- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Saturday – September 21
12:45 PM
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW- 90 mins, CC
11:00 PM
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford.
BW- 71 mins, CC
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Sunday – September 12
1:00 AM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam.
BW- 76 mins, CC
2:30 AM
SABOTAGE (1936)
An unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester.
BW- 77 mins, CC
9:00 AM
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford.
BW- 71 mins, CC
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Monday – September 23
5:15 PM
24 HOURS TO KILL (1965)
During a 24-hour layover in Beirut, a greedy airline purser transports a cache of stolen goods.
Dir: Peter Bezencenet Cast: Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Michael Medwin.
C- 92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Tuesday – September 24
7:00 PM
THE ORGANIZATION (1971)
When a group of revolutionaries fighting the drug rackets are framed for murder, detective Virgil Tibbs steps in to clear their names.
Dir: Don Medford Cast: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O’Loughlin.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Wednesday – September 25
12:45 AM
THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS! (1970)
A police detective’s investigation of a prostitute’s murder points to his best friend.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair.
BW- 108 mins, CC
9:30 PM
THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
Detective Phillip Marlowe investigates shady characters involved in a long-lost friend’s murder.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden.
C- 112 mins, CC
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Saturday – September 28
5:00 AM
ZOU ZOU (1934)
A singing star tries to clear a childhood friend of murder charges.
Dir: Marc Allegret Cast: Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey.
BW- 88 mins
7:27 AM
TROUBLE IN SUNDOWN (1939)
A man’s friend searches for the real crooks when he’s accused of robbery and murder.
Dir: David Howard Cast: George O’Brien, Rosalind Keith, Ray Whitley.
BW- 60 mins, CC
4:45 PM
ABSENCE OF MALICE (1981)
An ambitious reporter unwittingly slanders a businessman under federal investigation.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban.
C- 116 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 2019 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2019 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.
(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)
