It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television. As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at.
July will have a fair number of Alfred Hitchcock movies, but separated into enough smaller marathons that singling out a “must-see” day is pretty difficult. Instead, I’d urge you to browse through the schedule to pick out your own favorite movies by the Master of Suspense.
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July 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
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Saturday – July 1, 2017
9:30 AM
THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (1943)
An ex-thief helps some fellow ex-cons adjust to life as defense workers, only to get involved with a robbery investigation.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Chester Morris, Erik Rolf, Jeanne Bates.
BW- 66 mins, CC
5:00 PM
BADLANDS (1973)
A young tough guy and his teen-aged girlfriend take off on a killing spree.
Dir: Terrence Malick Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates.
C- 94 mins, CC
Sunday – July 2, 2017
2:45 AM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC
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Wednesday – July 5, 2017
11:30 AM
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders.
BW- 100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 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
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Thursday – July 6, 2017
4:00 AM
BLACKMAIL (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton.
BW- 86 mins
5:45 AM
MURDER! (1930)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Herbert Marshall, Miles Mander, Nora Baring.
BW- 100 mins, CC
Friday – July 7, 2017
7:15 AM
TWO O’CLOCK COURAGE (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
BW- 66 mins, CC
7:00 PM
NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1932)
A detective sets out to recover a necklace lifted by jewel thieves.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Donald Calthrop.
BW- 64 mins
8:30 PM
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
10:00 PM
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
BW- 87 mins, CC
11:45 PM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC
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Saturday – July 8, 2017
1:45 AM
JAMAICA INN (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie.
BW- 100 mins, CC
9:30 AM
ONE MYSTERIOUS NIGHT (1944)
A reformed thief helps the police recover an Egyptian diamond.
Dir: Oscar Boetticher Jr. Cast: Chester Morris, Janis Carter, William Wright.
BW- 62 mins, CC
Sunday – July 9, 2017
9:00 AM
T-MEN (1948)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder.
BW- 92 mins, CC
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Tuesday – July 11, 2017
2:30 AM
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
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Wednesday – July 12, 2017
7:00 PM
REBECCA (1940)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders.
BW- 130 mins, CC
9:30 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.
BW- 121 mins, CC
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Thursday – July 13, 2017
1:30 AM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC
3:15 AM
SABOTEUR (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger.
BW- 109 mins, CC
2:45 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
Friday – July 14, 2017
3:45 PM
KID GLOVE KILLER (1942)
A police scientist investigates the mayor’s murder.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman.
BW- 74 mins, CC
7:00 PM
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey.
BW- 108 mins, CC
11:00 PM
SPELLBOUND (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov.
BW- 111 mins, CC
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Saturday – July 15, 2017
1:15 AM
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.
BW- 101 mins, CC
3:15 AM
THE PARADINE CASE (1948)
A married lawyer falls for the woman he’s defending on murder charges.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton.
BW- 114 mins, CC
9:30 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE BOOKED ON SUSPICION (1945)
A reformed thief accidentally sells a phony first edition of Dickens, which triggers a murder.
Dir: Arthur Dreifuss Cast: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane.
BW- 67 mins, CC
2:45 PM
TOPAZ (1969)
A French agent is sent to Cuba to spy for the CIA.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin.
C- 126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Tuesday – July 18, 2017
1:30 PM
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.
BW- 110 mins, CC
7:00 PM
THE DROWNING POOL (1975)
A private eye’s investigation of an anonymous letter leads to murder.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa.
C- 108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Wednesday – July 19, 2017
7:00 PM
ROPE (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
C- 81 mins, CC
8:30 PM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW- 110 mins, CC
10:30 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.
BW- 101 mins, CC
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Thursday – July 20, 2017
12:30 AM
I CONFESS (1953)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.
BW- 95 mins, CC
2:30 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.
C- 105 mins, CC
7:00 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.
C- 112 mins, CC,
9:15 PM
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick.
C- 99 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:15 PM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie.
C- 120 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Friday – July 21, 2017
1:30 AM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW- 105 mins, CC
Saturday – July 22, 2017
9:30 AM
BOSTON BLACKIE’S RENDEZVOUS (1945)
A reformed thief helps the police stop an escaped maniac’s killing spree.
Dir: Arthur Dreifuss Cast: Chester Morris, Nina Foch, Steve Cochran.
BW- 64 mins
7:00 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.
BW- 138 mins, CC
11:15 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.
BW- 134 mins, CC
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Sunday – July 23, 2017
5:00 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.
BW- 91 mins, CC
9:00 AM
DEADLINE AT DAWN (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams.
BW- 83 mins, CC
1:00 PM
THE CAREY TREATMENT (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
C- 108 mins, CC
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Wednesday – July 26, 2017
7:00 PM
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.
C- 128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:30 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
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Saturday – July 29, 2017
9:30 AM
A CLOSE CALL FOR BOSTON BLACKIE (1946)
A reformed thief fights to clear himself of murder charges.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane.
BW- 60 mins, CC
Sunday – July 30, 2017
9:00 AM
BORN TO KILL (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
BW- 92 mins, CC
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Tuesday – August 1, 2017
1:30 AM
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993)
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
Dir: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler.
C- 108 mins, CC
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If you’re particularly 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 2017
And of course, here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:
Here is the list of new release for June 26 to July 2!
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