The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Along with all of the mystery movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during September 2023, several Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies will be shown on Sunday, September 10. Be sure to check and see if you haven’t seen one or two of them… they’re definitely worth a sit-down-and-watch! [The Wrong Man (1956), The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Wrong Man (1956), I Confess (1953), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1954), & Psycho (1960)]

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – September 2023

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Friday – September 1, 2023

9:00 AM Frisco Jenny (1933)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins

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Saturday – September 2, 2023

8:27 AM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline. Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
63 mins

11:30 AM Torture Money (1937)
The police track down a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Edwin Maxwell, George Lynn
20 mins

2:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

4:00 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins

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Sunday – September 3, 2023

12:00 AM The Secret Fury (1950)
A wedding is stopped by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though she denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated.
Dir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
85 mins

2:00 AM Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
True story of a divorced father in search of his children when his ex-wife enters the witness relocation program.
Dir: James Caan. Cast: James Caan, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Viharo
92 mins

10:00 AM The Secret Fury (1950)
A wedding is stopped by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though she denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated.
Dir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
85 mins

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Tuesday – September 5, 2023

1:15 PM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

4:30 PM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
83 mins

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Wednesday – September 6, 2023

6:00 AM Killer McCoy (1947)
A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth
103 mins

8:00 AM Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Dir: Richard L. Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
81 mins

9:30 AM Smart Money (1931)
A barber’s good luck turns him into a big-time gambling boss.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
90 mins

12:15 PM Shooting Straight (1930)
A gambler accidentally commits murder and hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Richard Dix, Mary Lawlor, James Neill
71 mins

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Friday – September 8, 2023

10:00 AM The Petrified Forest (1936)
When a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
83 mins

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Saturday – September 9, 2023

2:00 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

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Sunday – September 10, 2023

12:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

6:00 AM 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

8:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

10:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

12:00 PM 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

1:45 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
128 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 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 – September 12, 2023

10:00 PM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins

11:30 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

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Wednesday – September 13, 2023

12:45 PM The Secret Fury (1950)
A wedding is stopped by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though she denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated.
Dir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
85 mins

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Thursday – September 14, 2023

5:15 AM Libel (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie
100 mins

11:30 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

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Friday – September 15, 2023

3:15 AM Paris, Texas (1984)
An amnesiac tries to find the family he lost.
Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
145 mins

9:45 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1935)
A jewel heist leads to murder.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton
63 mins

11:00 AM Make Your Own Bed (1944)
Detectives masquerade as a butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
82 mins

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Sunday – September 17, 2023

12:00 AM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
93 mins

4:00 AM The Last Run (1971)
An aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere
82 mins

10:00 AM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
93 mins

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Tuesday – September 19, 2023

12:45 PM Penthouse (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
88 mins

8:00 PM Angel Face (1953)
Yikes! This woman is beautiful but deadly!
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

10:00 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

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Wednesday – September 20, 2023

12:00 AM 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

2:00 AM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
91 mins

6:00 AM I Love You Again (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
99 mins

4:00 PM 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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Thursday – September 21, 2023

8:00 PM The Birds (1963)
An immense flock of birds descends upon a seacoast town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to attack and kill the townsfolk.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
120 mins
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Friday – September 22, 2023

2:45 AM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

6:45 AM According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951)
Gangsters buy the shabby hotel where a retired schoolteacher has lived for 25 years.
Dir: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Spring Byington, Anthony Caruso, Tanis Chandler
60 mins

8:00 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

12:45 PM Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
A lawyer and a widow encounter murder on a train ride.
Dir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak
69 mins

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Saturday – September 23, 2023

12:00 AM Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane
66 mins

2:00 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and begins an affair with Nick’s wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.
Dir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
123 mins

4:15 AM Blood Simple (1984)
An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins

10:00 AM Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane
66 mins

5:45 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke
116 mins

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Monday – September 25, 2023

10:30 AM The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
Turn-of-the-century Irish patriots plan to overthrow the British government.
Dir: John Guillermin. Cast: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole
85 mins

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Wednesday – September 27, 2023

9:00 AM My Forbidden Past (1951)
A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
81 mins

12:30 PM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley. Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
78 mins

2:00 PM Danger Signal (1945)
A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman
78 mins

3:30 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
62 mins

10:00 PM Our Mother’s House (1967)
Afraid of being separated, a family of children keep their mother’s death a secret.
Dir: Jack Clayton. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin
105 mins

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Thursday – September 28, 2023

12:00 AM 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

2:00 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

6:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

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Saturday – September 30, 2023

4:15 PM 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
106 mins

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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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2023 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.