The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Yow-Zee! Summer is here and it’s hot, hot, hot in San Antonio —> Great time for reading indoors OR for watching a mystery/crime movie on the Turner Classic Movies channel!

There are a whole lot of summer movies being shown during July. If you’re interested in surfing, then this is the month for you! Also, there are quite a few war-time movies being aired this month.

I have listed a few non-mystery movies that I particularly like… Jezebel (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942… a 4th of July movie with James Cagney dancing and singing, not as a gangster!), The Women (1939), and I Know Where I’m Going (1945).

(Since all of these movies are from way back when, some of them may be rather dated.)

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2024

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Monday – July 1, 2024

11:30 AM Jezebel (1938)
Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden’s headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness …
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
104 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie*****

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Tuesday – July 2, 2024

8:00 PM Lifeboat (1944)
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
97 mins

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

Thursday – July 4, 2024

5:30 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
126 mins
*****4th of July movie – not a mystery.*****

11:15 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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

Friday – July 5, 2024

7:45 AM Is My Face Red? (1932)
A gossip columnist witnesses a gangland killing.
Dir: William Seiter. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
70 mins

9:00 AM Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Dir: David Bradley. Cast: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray
65 mins

5:45 PM The Women (1939)
It’s all about men! In the eternal battle between the sexes, one side holds an overwhelming advantage: Armed with razor-sharp wit and wielding gossip as a weapon, victory can only go to The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell enter the skirmish as Mary Haines, Crystal Allen and Sylvia Fowler – whose …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
132 mins
*****Not a mystery. A classic —> You won’t see one man in the cast – unusual for 1939 to not have more men than women in a movie.*****

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Saturday – July 6, 2024

5:00 AM 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
94 mins

10:07 AM The Falcon’s Alibi (1946)
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron’s lost jewels.
Dir: Ray McCarey. Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett
62 mins

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

Sunday – July 7, 2024

12:15 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
67 mins

4:30 AM Blind Alibi (1938)
A man pretends to be blind to foil blackmailers.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli
62 mins

10:00 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
67 mins

1:15 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

3:45 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

6:00 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
*****Wow-Zee! What a mystery movie!*****

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Monday – July 8, 2024

6:00 AM Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
The British sleuth comes out of retirement to help catch a band of thieves armed with military weapons.
Dir: Victor Saville. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty
79 mins

7:30 AM 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
90 mins

9:30 AM Blanche Fury (1948)
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths his estate to her relatives, but Allan’s illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Dir: Marc Allegret. Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough
90 mins

11:30 AM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
86 mins

1:00 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins

2:30 PM Sapphire (1959)
A “light-skinned” black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London’s bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
92 mins
*****Remember, this movie is from 1959*****

4:30 PM Green for Danger (1946)
A police inspector investigates an operating room death that may be murder.
Dir: Sidney Gilliat. Cast: Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard
91 mins

6:30 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
84 mins
*****This is the first version of Gaslight, not the better-known 1944 version.****

8:00 PM Scarface (1932)
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
90 mins
*****Not the better-known 1983 version*****

9:45 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York during Prohibition. Two of the friends become rival liquor sellers, while the third is a prosecutor determined to wipe out illegal liquor businesses.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
104 mins

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Tuesday – July 9, 2024

3:00 AM The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Film about a circus girl who’s manipulated into becoming a governor’s lover. When the governor kills the former circus boss, the girl takes the blame and faces the electric chair.
Dir: Phil Goldstone. Cast: Cora Sue Collins, Zita Johann
65 mins

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Friday – July 12, 2024

5:00 AM 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
58 mins

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Saturday – July 13, 2024

10:08 AM The Falcon’s Adventure (1946)
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
Dir: William Berke. Cast: Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy
61 mins

4:15 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
101 mins

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

Sunday – July 14, 2024

12:00 AM The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar
73 mins

10:00 AM The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar
73 mins

8:00 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

10:00 PM Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak .Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
88 mins

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Monday – July 15, 2024

8:30 AM 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

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Tuesday – July 16, 2024

1:45 PM 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–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. The District Attorney finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, …
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

6:00 PM Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Dir: Leo McCarey. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak
116 mins

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Thursday – July 18, 2024

6:30 PM House of Women (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger. Cast: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford
85 mins

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Saturday – July 20, 2024

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

8:26 AM The Big Shakedown (1934)
A racketeer breaks into black-market medicine.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez
64 mins

9:30 AM Cry Justice (1956)
A man plots revenge on the friend who framed him for his own murder.
Dir: George Sherman. Cast: MacDonald Carey, James Dunn, Dick Haymes
26 mins

10:08 AM Grand Central Murder (1942)
A detective investigates an actress’s murder in a train car.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker
72 mins

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Sunday – July 21, 2024

12:00 AM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

10:00 AM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

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

Tuesday – July 23, 2024

6:00 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
68 mins

6:00 PM The Dark Tower (1943)
A romantic triangle involving a hypnotist and two trapeze artists threatens to destroy a circus.
Dir: John Harlow. Cast: Herbert Lom, Terence Fisher
93 mins

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

Wednesday – July 24, 2024

8:00 PM The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

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

Thursday – July 25, 2024

4:00 PM Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he’s trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
100 mins

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

Saturday – July 27, 2024

3:45 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

10:07 AM Murder on Approval (1956)
A private eye investigates a deadly stamp counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Bernard Knowles. Cast: Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian Worth
70 mins

8:00 PM I Know Where I’m Going (1945)
A determined young Englishwoman sets out to accomplish her goals even at the risk of her heart.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
92 mins
****Not a mystery. I saw this movie for the first time last year and thought it was terrific. Dame Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey are … terrific! (I’ll be watching it again…)*****

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Sunday – July 28, 2024

12:00 AM The Housemaid (1960)
Drama ensues when a married music teacher hires a young maid to take care of the house.
Dir: Kim Ki-young. Cast: Lee Eun-sim, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kim Jin-kyu
110 mins
*****In Korean*****

10:00 AM The Housemaid (1960)
Drama ensues when a married music teacher hires a young maid to take care of the house.
Dir: Kim Ki-young. Cast: Lee Eun-sim, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kim Jin-kyu
110 mins
*****In Korean*****

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Monday – July 29, 2024

2:15 AM The American Friend (1977)
A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer
176 mins
*****In German & English*****

6:00 AM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

8:00 AM Highway 301 (1950)
A brutal bank robber fights internal divisions within his gang.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby Andre
83 mins

11:30 AM The Devil Makes Three (1952)
A soldier returns to Munich after the war and gets mixed up with the black market.
Dir: Andrew Marton. Cast: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober
96 mins

1:15 PM Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town that’s the target of a nuclear bomb test.
Dir: Dick Powell. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
85 mins

8:00 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
72 mins

11:30 PM Midnight Mary (1933)
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Dir: William Wellman. Cast: Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone
71 mins

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

Tuesday – July 30, 2024

1:00 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

10:30 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
90 mins

12:15 PM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
119 mins

2:30 PM 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
99 mins

4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins
*****I wish the Turner Classic Movies channel would stop airing this movie. —> It’s so terrific that I watch it every time it is shown!*****

6:15 PM Crack-Up (1946)
An art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
93 mins

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

Wednesday – July 31, 2024

12:45 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
87 mins
*****In French*****

2:30 PM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

6:15 PM All Night Long (1963)
A jazz band’s leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair
95 mins

8:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
126 mins

12:30 AM Tony Rome (1967)
When a wealthy girl is found unconscious in a seedy Miami motel room, a private investigator is hired by her father to solve the crime.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte
109 mins

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

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 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 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.