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I’m working on this Turner Classic Movies mystery movie list in mid May… That’s right, not yet summer. However, today’s heat index in San Antonio is going to be 102* and the end of the week’s heat index is going to range between 105* and 108*. Great weather to crank up the air conditioner, stay inside, and spend the days either reading Cozy Mysteries or watching mystery movies! So, that’s what I’ll be doing!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2024

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Saturday – June 1, 2024

8:30 AM The Last Ride (1944)
A detective suspects foul play in a series of accidental deaths.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker
57 mins

10:07 AM The Falcon and the Co-eds (1944)
A society sleuth investigates murder at a girls’ school.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday
68 mins

1:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

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Sunday – June 2, 2024

12:00 AM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

6:15 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

8:30 AM 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
85 mins

10:00 AM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

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Tuesday – June 4, 2024

6:15 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
83 mins

7:45 AM Fast and Loose (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane investigate the killing of a noted collector.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen
80 mins

6:00 PM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

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

Wednesday – June 5, 2024

7:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

8:15 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
110 mins

10:15 AM The Scapegoat (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer. Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
92 mins

12:00 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
100 mins

1:45 PM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

3:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins

6:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

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Friday – June 7, 2024

2:15 AM Eye of the Needle (1981)
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Dir: Richard Marquand. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
112 mins

4:15 AM I See A Dark Stranger (1946)
An Irish woman who hates the English turns Nazi spy.
Dir: Frank Launder. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
112 mins

11:45 AM Mr. Arkadin (1955)
An eager young man is hired by Mr. Arkadin, one of the richest men in Europe, to help him uncover clues about his past because he suffers from a severe condition of amnesia and does not know how he became so wealthy.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
99 mins

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Saturday – June 8, 2024

8:26 AM Alcatraz Island (1937)
A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Mary Maguire
61 mins

10:08 AM The Falcon Out West (1944)
A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas murder.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale
64 mins

3:30 PM Angel Face (1953)
A beautiful woman thinks she has family problems.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

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Sunday – June 9, 2024

12:15 AM Never Open That Door (1952)
Two separate tales that have in common the door which divides good from evil, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen Cast: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues
85 mins
*****In Spanish*****

2:00 AM If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
The son of a detective makes a discovery which may help solve the case of a serial killer of local children, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen. Cast: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene
73 mins
*****In Spanish*****

10:00 AM Never Open That Door (1952)
Two separate tales that have in common the door which divides good from evil, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen Cast: Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues
85 mins
*****In Spanish*****

11:45 AM If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
The son of a detective makes a discovery which may help solve the case of a serial killer of local children, in this film from Argentina.
Dir: Carlos Hugo Christensen. Cast: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene
73 mins
*****In Spanish*****

10:00 PM Alias Nick Beal (1949)
A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and possibly diabolical Nick Beal.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
93 mins

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Monday – June 10, 2024

6:30 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

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Tuesday – June 11, 2024

6:45 AM The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart
87 mins

8:30 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

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Wednesday – June 12, 2024

9:30 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
64 mins

11:00 AM 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
91 mins

12:45 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

4:00 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

6:00 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy alcoholic housewife looks out her window and sees a murder taking place. The police nor her husband believe her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

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Thursday – June 13, 2024

2:30 AM Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
A reformed jewel thief helps detectives track down a criminal.
Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William
82 mins

8:45 AM Death on the Diamond (1934)
A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton
71 mins

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Saturday – June 15, 2024

8:27 AM Bodyguard (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed
62 mins

10:07 AM The Falcon in Mexico (1944)
A society sleuth travels South of the border to investigate an art dealer’s murder.
Dir: William Berke. Cast: Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha MacVicar
70 mins

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Sunday – June 16, 2024

12:00 AM Call Northside 777 (1948)
A Chicago reporter re-opens a ten year old murder case.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
111 mins

2:15 AM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
128 mins

4:30 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

10:00 AM Call Northside 777 (1948)
A Chicago reporter re-opens a ten year old murder case.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
111 mins

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Monday – June 17, 2024

4:15 AM Judex (1963)
Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
Dir: Georges Franju. Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
104 mins

9:15 AM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins

8:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins

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Tuesday – June 18, 2024

9:30 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

10:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
138 mins
*****Not a mystery. Really terrific movie.*****

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Wednesday – June 19, 2024

12:30 AM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

6:15 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

9:30 AM Born to Be Bad (1950)
An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins

12:45 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

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Thursday – June 20, 2024

12:00 AM Super Fly (1972)
A drug dealer tries to outwit a gang of corrupt police.
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr. Cast: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris
96 mins

1:45 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

8:00 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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Friday – June 21, 2024

10:15 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
100 mins

6:15 PM The Strangler (1964)
Completely dominated by his neurotic, bed-ridden mother, an overweight lab technician develops a doll fetish and a bad habit of murdering nurses.
Dir: Burt Topper. Cast: Victor Buono, David Mclean, Diane Sayer
89 mins

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Saturday – June 22, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
A society sleuth tours the movie capital, where he uncovers an actor’s murder.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg
67 mins

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Sunday – June 23, 2024

12:15 AM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
86 mins

2:00 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
An artist who finds inspiration in murder and the two women he loves.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

4:00 AM Conflict (1945)
A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
86 mins

10:00 AM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
86 mins

11:45 AM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
78 mins

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Tuesday – June 25, 2024

7:30 AM Scene of the Crime (1949)
A detective tries to solve a policeman’s murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven
94 mins

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Wednesday – June 26, 2024

12:00 AM The Kiss of Death (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
98 mins

4:00 AM The Outfit (1973)
An ex-con takes on the mob to avenge his brother’s death.
Dir: John Flynn. Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Roland Lastarza
102 mins

8:00 AM Three Strangers (1946)
Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
92 mins

1:15 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

6:00 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
99 mins

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Friday – June 28, 2024

6:30 AM Purple Noon (1961)
This is the French version of “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
Dir: René Clément Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins
*****In French*****

2:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins

4:15 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
86 mins

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Saturday – June 29, 2024

10:07 AM The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
A society sleuth enlists a little girl’s help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy
66 mins

4:45 PM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins

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Sunday – June 30, 2024

12:15 AM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
81 mins

10:00 AM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer’s primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
Dir: Harold F. Kress. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
81 mins

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 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.