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The month is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss the upcoming TCM mystery movies for July!

July 2018 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Sunday – July 1, 2018

9:00 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

11:15 PM
SHERLOCK HOLMES (1916)
The legendary sleuth locks wits with Professor Moriarty to save a girl kidnapped by blackmailers.
Dir: Arthur Berthelet Cast: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain.
BW- 117 mins

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Tuesday – July 3, 2018

2:30 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.
BW- 116 mins, CC
*****This isn’t a mystery but I think it’s the best movie rendition of Little Women.*****

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Wednesday – July 4, 2018

1:00 AM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 101 mins, CC
*****You might want to tape this movie to have on hand during December. It’s a terrific non-mystery comedy.*****

7:00 PM
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
Spirited musical biography of the song-and-dance man who kept America humming through two world wars.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston.
BW- 126 mins, CC
*****If you’re in the mood for a terrific Fourth of July movie, then this non-mystery musical is for you!*****

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Thursday – July 5, 2018

9:00 AM
FAST LIFE (1932)
An innocent man stands trial for killing the man who tried to steal his wife.
Dir: Harry Pollard Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel.
BW- 82 mins

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Saturday – July 7, 2018

5:15 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

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Sunday – July 8, 2018

1:00 AM
…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1979)
A crusading attorney is assigned to defend a judge accused of rape.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg.
C- 119 mins, CC

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

Monday – July 9, 2018

1:15 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

9:00 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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Tuesday – July 10, 2018

5:15 AM
THE SECRET PARTNER (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee.
BW- 91 mins, Letterbox Format

7:00 AM
THE GAZEBO (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner.
BW- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:45 AM
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1941)
In this short film, a man commits a murder and is tormented by the victim’s beating heart.
BW- 20 mins

9:15 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.
BW- 103 mins CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM
KILL OR CURE (1962)
A detective bumbles through the investigation of murders at a spa.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price.
BW- 88 mins, Letterbox Format

1:00 PM
KENNER (1969)
A soldier of fortune searches for his partner’s killer in Bombay.
Dir: Steve Sekely Cast: Jim Brown, Madlyn Rhue, Robert Coote.
C- 92 mins, CC

4:30 PM
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

7:00 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

11:30 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

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Wednesday – July 11, 2018

3:15 PM
SUDDENLY (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason.
BW- 77 mins, CC

4:45 PM
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

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Saturday – July 14, 2018

3:15 PM
POINT BLANK (1967)
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty.
Dir: John Boorman Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn.
C- 92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980)
A police detective nearing retirement tries to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore.
C- 112 mins, CC

9:15 PM
RETURN FROM THE ASHES (1965)
A gigolo marries a wealthy widow, seduces her stepdaughter and plots to kill them both.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin.
BW- 108 mins, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM
ROADBLOCK (1951)
An insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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Sunday – July 15, 2018

9:00 AM
ROADBLOCK (1951)
An insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore.
BW- 73 mins, CC

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Monday – July 16, 2018

5:00 AM
GAMBLING LADY (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien.
BW- 66 mins, CC

1:15 PM
NIGHT NURSE (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell.
BW- 72 mins, CC

2:30 PM
EVER IN MY HEART (1933)
During World War I, a woman suspects her husband of being a German spy.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy.
BW- 68 mins, CC

3:45 PM
LADY OF BURLESQUE (1943)
A star dancer and comedian team to investigate murders.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian.
BW- 90 mins, CC

5:30 PM
MAD MISS MANTON, THE (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

9:15 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

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Tuesday – July 17, 2018

11:30 AM
NIGHT WAITRESS (1936)
A girl just out of prison gets mixed up in murder at the restaurant where she works.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Haworth.
BW- 57 mins

12:30 PM
THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods.
BW- 80 mins, CC

5:15 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

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Thursday – July 19, 2018

7:00 PM
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

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Friday – July 20, 2018

10:30 AM
THE BODY SNATCHER (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell.
BW- 78 mins, CC

12:00 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, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM
DOCTOR X (1932)
A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy.
C- 76 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939)
A murderer returns from the grave with a thirst for blood.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane,
Wayne Morris.
BW- 63 mins, CC

4:15 PM
EXPERIMENT ALCATRAZ (1951)
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn Cast: John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter
Kingsford.
BW- 59 mins, CC

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Saturday – July 21, 2018

7:00 AM
FAMOUS MOVIE DOGS (1940)
Well known canine performers of the 1930s, including Asta from the Thin Man series, vie for a part in an upcoming movie in this short film.
Vitaphone Release 9686.
Dir: Del Frazier Cast: Henry East,
C- 10 mins
*****If you’re a dog-lover, this short may be fun – especially Asta!*****

11:00 AM
ARSENE LUPIN (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley.
BW- 84 mins, CC

12:30 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

11:30 PM
DARK PASSAGE (947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 106 mins, CC

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Sunday – July 22, 2018

7:00 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

9:00 AM
DARK PASSAGE (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett.
BW- 106 mins, CC

11:00 AM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW- 118 mins, CC

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Tuesday – July 24, 2018

1:30 AM
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe.
BW- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Thursday – July 26, 2018

5:00 AM
WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford.
BW- 78 mins, CC

6:30 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

7:45 AM
WHISTLING IN BROOKLYN (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers.
BW- 87 mins, CC

11:45 AM
GENIUS AT WORK (1947)
Two radio sleuths tackle a real murder case.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys.
BW- 61 mins

1:00 PM
BEHIND THE HEADLINES (1937)
A radio station’s newsman rushes to the rescue of his peer, who has been kidnapped by bank robbers.
Dir: Richard Rosson Cast: Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Donald Meek.
BW- 58 mins

2:15 PM
HERE COMES CARTER (1936)
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel.
BW- 58 mins

3:30 PM
ONE FATAL HOUR (1936)
A radio-station manager tries to keep tabloid journalists from reviving a 20-year-old murder case.
BW- 57 mins

4:30 PM
ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)
A radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page.
BW- 73 mins

5:45 PM
SUED FOR LIBEL (1940)
When he’s sued for libeling a murder suspect, a hot shot reporter decides to solve the crime himself.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins Cast: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lilian Bond.
BW- 66 mins

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Saturday – July 28, 2018

10:45 AM
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, Fred Kelsey, Charles Horvath.
BW- 11 mins

7:00 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

11:00 PM
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.
BW- 94 mins, CC

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

Sunday – July 29, 2018

9:00 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.
BW- 94 mins, CC

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

Monday – July 30, 2018

30 MONDAY

12:00 PM
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks.
BW- 66 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – July 31, 2018

2:15 AM
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (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

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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in July , 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 June 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 2018 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.)