The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Unfortunately, Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley isn’t running during August, but I understand he will be back at the channel in September. I always enjoy (and watch!) the movies he presents, and especially like the intros and outros he presents with each of the (noir) mystery movies.

I know I have mentioned (more than several times!) how much I enjoy watching Halloween-type movies during October. Well, for those of you who enjoy those types of movies, TCM will be showing a whole bunch of Vincent Price movies on Wednesday, August 23. I’m going to set up my DVR and save a lot of his movies for October. I’ve seen most of them already, but … can’t wait to watch them again!

Also, those of you who enjoy the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour “road trip” movies, the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing five of them on Thursday, August 17. I don’t know how many of those movies there are, but I know some people really enjoy them… (They are not mysteries.)

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2023

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Tuesday – August 1, 2023

2:45 PM Lured (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
102 mins

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

Wednesday – August 2, 2023

11:30 AM Five Miles to Midnight (1963)
A woman tries to free herself from her husband by helping him fake his own death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young
110 mins

5:45 PM The Trial (1963)
Adaptation of Kafka’s classic novel about a meek bureaucratic clerk who is arrested and put to trial without knowing what crime he’s been accused of.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider
118 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

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

Thursday – August 3, 2023

2:30 AM Winter Kills (1979)
An assassinated president’s brother investigates the unsolved crime.
Dir: William Richert. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
96 mins

4:15 AM Remember My Name (1978)
A young woman released from prison begins stalking a married construction worker.
Dir: Alan Rudolph. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Geraldine Chaplin, Moses Gunn
94 mins

6:00 AM Sol Madrid (1968)
An undercover narcotics agent tries to track a Mafia chief.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas
90 mins

7:45 AM Rage (1966)
Bit by a rabid dog in Mexico, a doctor goes overland with a prostitute to get treated in time.
Dir: Gilberto Gazcón. Cast: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
103 mins

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

Friday – August 4, 2023

2:00 AM Slaughter (1972)
Ex-green beret Jim Brown stars as Slaughter, a man who avenges the gangland murder of his parents by massacring half of Central America.
Dir: Jack Starrett. Cast: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
91 mins

4:00 AM Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
A drug agent hunts down two colleagues taken hostage by a ruthless casino owner.
Dir: Chuck Bail. Cast: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Norman Fell
94 mins

1:15 PM Gallant Sons (1940)
When a man is charged with murder, his son’s schoolboy friends set out to solve the case.
Dir: William Ryan. Cast: Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Gene Reynolds
76 mins

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

Sunday – August 6, 2023

2:15 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

10:45 AM The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
93 mins
*****This isn’t a mystery movie, but I think I recommend it each time TCM shows it.*****

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Monday – August 7, 2023

2:00 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
100 mins

6:00 AM The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
71 mins

7:30 AM 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

4:00 PM Back from Eternity (1956)
When an airliner crashes in the jungle, the repaired plane can only hold five of the survivors.
Dir: John Farrow.r Cast: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger
97 mins

8:00 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

9:45 PM The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
72 mins

11:15 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

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

Tuesday – August 8, 2023

4:30 AM The Secret Fury (1950)
A stranger stops a wedding saying the bride is already married. She denies it, and an investigation then takes place.
Dir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
85 mins

6:00 AM Union Depot (1932)
An out-of-luck con artist discovers a suitcase full of money at a train station.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee
75 mins

7:15 AM Lawyer Man (1933)
Success corrupts a smooth-talking lawyer.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau
72 mins

11:30 AM The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Two reporters interested in different stories write about a murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne
74 mins

12:45 PM Blondie Johnson (1933)
A female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
Dir: Ray Enright.Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
67 mins

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

Wednesday – August 9, 2023

12:00 AM Topper Returns (1941)
A beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
85 mins

9:45 AM My Son Is Guilty (1939)
A cop on the beat in Hell’s Kitchen, tries to keep grown son straight after a two-year prison term. Unfortunately others want him to return to a life of crime.
Dir: Charles Barton. Cast: Bruce Cabot, Jacqueline Wells, Harry Carey
63 mins

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

Thursday – August 10, 2023

6:00 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

8:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

10:00 PM The Killer Is Loose (1956)
A crook tries to avenge his wife’s accidental shooting by a cop.
Dir: Budd Boetticher. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
73 mins

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Friday – August 11,2023

10:15 PM This Gun for Hire (1942)
A hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
80 mins

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

Saturday – August 12, 2023

12:00 AM The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
98 mins

2:00 AM The Glass Key (1942)
A hired gun and his gangster boss fall out over a woman.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd
85 mins

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

Sunday – August 13, 2023

6:00 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

10:45 AM The Young Philadelphians (1959)
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
136 mins

1:15 PM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

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

Monday – August 14, 2023

12:15 AM The Mackintosh Man (1973)
A British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda
98 mins

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

Tuesday – August 15, 2023

11:00 PM Bulldog Drummond (1929)
A British adventurer helps a blonde beauty rescue her uncle from an unscrupulous psychiatrist.
Dir: F. Richard Jones. Cast: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Lilyan Tashman
90 mins

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Wednesday – August 16, 2023

6:00 AM A Covenant with Death (1966)
A lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
Dir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado
97 mins

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Thursday – August 17, 2023

9:45 PM The Ghost Breakers (1940)
A radio broadcaster running from the mob helps an heiress deal with her family’s haunted mansion.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson
82 mins

11:30 PM My Favorite Blonde (1942)
A vaudevillian gets mixed up with a beautiful blonde spy.
Dir: Sidney Lanfield. Cast: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard
78 mins

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

Friday – August 18, 2023

1:00 AM My Favorite Brunette (1947)
A baby photographer mistaken for a private eye ends up being framed for murder.
Dir: Elliott Nugent. Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre
87 mins

9:30 PM True Confession (1937)
A compulsive liar, married to a scrupulously honest lawyer, confesses to a murder she didn’t commit to help further his career.
Dir: Wesley Ruggles. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
75 mins

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Saturday – August 19, 2023

2:45 AM Vigil in the Night (1940)
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister’s careless mistake.
Dir: George Stevens. Cast: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley
96 mins

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Sunday – August 20, 2023

4:00 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
*****A mystery classic..*****

6:00 PM The Violent Men (1955)
The wife of a crooked cattle baron plots his murder.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
95 mins

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Monday – August 21, 2023

1:30 AM 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

3:00 AM The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
Dir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
81 mins

4:30 AM Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
83 mins

12:30 PM It’s a Wonderful World (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
86 mins

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

Tuesday – August 22, 2023

2:00 AM The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
149 mins

4:45 AM Murder Man (1935)
A hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
Dir: Tim Whelan. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
70 mins

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

Wednesday – August 23, 2023

9:45 AM 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

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

Thursday – August 24, 2023

12:30 PM The Unguarded Hour (1936)
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
Dir: Sam Wood. Cast: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone
88 mins

2:00 PM The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
A boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children’s home.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Loretta Young, Aline Macmahon
70 mins

11:30 PM A Night to Remember (1942)
A mystery writer and his wife stumble on a murder in their new apartment.
Dir: Richard Wallace. Cast: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell
91 mins

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Friday – August 25, 2023

1:15 AM Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
74 mins

4:30 AM Taxi! (1932)
A feisty independent cab driver fights off a crooked syndicate.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
70 mins

8:00 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

11:30 AM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

1:15 PM Pay or Die (1960)
A policeman attempts to crack down on organized crime “protection” rackets.
Dir: Richard Wilson. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin
110 mins

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Sunday – August 27, 2023

2:00 AM Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
99 mins

11:30 AM King of the Underworld (1939)
A lady doctor gets mixed up with a criminal gang.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson
69 mins

2:15 PM 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

6:00 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
101 mins

10:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

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

Monday – August 28, 2023

12:00 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

2:00 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
An artist who can only find inspiration in women he loves, makes plans to find a new inspiration elsewhere…
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

10:45 AM It All Came True (1940)
A gangster hides out in a boarding house full of eccentrics.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart
97 mins

12:30 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
93 mins

2:15 PM The Unfaithful (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
109 mins

10:15 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins
***Not a mystery, but if you have space on your DVR, you might want to save this Christmas movie.*****

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Tuesday – August 29, 2023

2:15 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

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

Wednesday – August 30, 2023

10:30 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in August, 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 July 2023 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 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.