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Unfortunately, Eddie Muller from Noir Alley isn’t presenting his noir movies this month. I’m always disappointed when he takes off a full month from the Turner Classic Movies channel.

It looks like this month the channel is focusing on one actor each day. This works out great for us when the actor is someone like Joan Crawford – who happened to be in several noir movies. Crawford’s day is Saturday, August 20. For those of you who have favorite actors from years gone by, I have included each day’s actor at the bottom of this blog entry. Your fave may just have a whole day devoted to his/her movies!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2022

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Tuesday – August 2, 2022

8:30 AM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
89 mins

11:45 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Actors: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

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Thursday – August 4, 2022

8:00 AM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Actors: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins

12:45 PM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor. Actors: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes Mccambridge
91 mins

2:30 PM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Actors: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

8:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

10:00 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

11:45 PM Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
85 mins

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Friday – August 5, 2022

1:30 AM 5 Steps to Danger (1957)
A woman who picks up a hitchhiker has a psychiatrist relentlessly following her.
Dir: Henry S. Kesler. Actors: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins

12:30 PM Journey into Fear (1942) (a spy movie)
A munitions expert gets mixed up with gunrunners in Turkey.
Dir: Norman Foster Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick
69 mins

2:00 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 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. Actors: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
99 mins

8:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins

10:00 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

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Saturday – August 6, 2022

6:00 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

6:00 PM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

10:15 PM How to Steal a Million (1966)
A young woman enlists the help of a detective to recover a sculpture that her father, a dealer in phony art, sold to a Paris museum for fear that it will be uncovered as a hoax.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
127 mins

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Monday – August 8, 2022

7:30 AM The Bishop Misbehaves (1933)
A church official with a taste for mysteries gets mixed up in the real thing.
Dir: E. A. Dupont. Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Sullivan, Lucile Watson
85 mins

9:15 AM Woman Wanted (1935)
An innocent woman is chased by both gangsters and the police.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Actors: Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone
70 mins

6:30 PM Let Us Live (1939)
Two wrongly convicted men are sentenced to death.
Dir: John Brahm. Actors: Maureen O’Sullivan,Henry Fonda,Ralph Bellamy
68 mins

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Tuesday – August 9, 2022

12:00 AM The Big Clock (1948)
A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
Dir: John Farrow. Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan
93 mins

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Thursday – August 11, 2022

4:15 PM The Outrage (1964)
A murderer, a sexually assaulted wife and the dead man himself present conflicting versions of a brutal crime.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Actors: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
97 mins

6:00 PM The Running Man (1963)
A man fakes his death to get back at the insurance company that denied an earlier claim.
Dir: Carol Reed. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
103 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. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh
126 mins

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Friday – August 12, 2022

4:15 AM Night Watch (1973)
A woman sees a murder in a neighbor’s window but her husband and the police don’t believe her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

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Sunday – August 14, 2022

4:00 AM The Formula (1980)
A detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
Dir: John G. Avildsen. Actors: George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
117 mins

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Tuesday – August 16, 2022

2:00 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Actors: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins

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Wednesday – August 17, 2022

12:00 PM Keeper of the Flame (1943)
Top-notch reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
100 mins

8:00 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

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Thursday – August 18, 2022

8:00 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck. Actors: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
81 mins

1:15 PM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
An ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
109 mins

10:15 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. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

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Friday – August 19, 2022

2:00 AM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry. Actors: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
77 mins

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Saturday – August 20, 2022

1:30 AM High and Low (1963)
When the son of his chauffeur is kidnapped by mistake, a wealthy man faces the dilemma of paying the ransom.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
143 mins
(In Japanese)

5:30 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

8:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth
113 mins

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Sunday – August 21, 2022

12:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

2:00 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. Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

4:00 AM This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
A female gangster learns she is losing her vision.
Dir: Felix Feist. Actors: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian
97 mins

3:30 PM Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
An Arizona deputy sheriff is sent to New York City to extradite an escaped killer he tracked down.
Dir: Donald Siegel. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
94 mins

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Monday – August 22, 2022

4:30 PM After Office Hours (1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Actors: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
75 mins

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Tuesday – August 23, 2022

6:15 PM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Actors: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins

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Wednesday – August 24, 2022

12:00 PM The Spiral Staircase (1975)
A mute nurse cares for an old invalid in a house where a killer lurks.
Dir: Peter Collinson. Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law
86 mins

6:00 PM 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. Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

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Thursday – August 25, 2022

8:45 AM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy. Actors: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
56 mins

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Friday – August 26, 2022

7:00 AM 21 Days Together (1940)
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir: Basil Dean. Actors: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
75 mins

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Saturday – August 27, 2022

7:30 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

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Sunday – August 28, 2022

3:30 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

5:30 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. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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Monday – August 29, 2022

9:00 AM 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. Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
88 mins

8:00 PM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

10:00 PM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewartl
110 mins

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Tuesday – August 30, 2022

9:30 AM Make Your Own Bed (1944)
Detectives masquerade as a butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
82 mins (Possibly not really a mystery…)

10:00 PM The Good Humor Man (1950)
A good-hearted ice cream man’s efforts to help a young woman turn him into a murder suspect.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Actors: Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace
79 mins (Possibly not really a mystery…)

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Days in August with showcased actor: 1= Elvis Presley, 2= Jean Arthur, 3= Sydney Poitier, 4= Ruth Roman, 5= Orson Wells, 6= Audrey Hepburn, 7= Gene Kelly, 8= Maureen O’Sullivan’ 9= William Holden, 10= Greta Garbo, 11= Laurence Harvey, 12= Jane Powell, 13= Marlon Brando, 14= Elizabeth Taylor, 15= Randolph Scott, 16= Raquel Welch, 17= Spencer Tracy, 18= Shelley Winters, 19= Toshiro Mifune, 20= Joan Crawford, 21= Clint Eastwood, 22= Constance Bennett, 23= Mickey Rooney, 24= Jacqueline Bisset, 25= Gilbert Roland, 26= Vivien Leigh, 27= Marilyn Monroe, 28= Cary Grant, 29= Myrna Loy, 30= Jack Carson, 31= Peter Sellers.

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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 2022 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2022 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.