For those of you who grew up reading the Nancy Drew mystery books, there’s good news for you this month! On Monday, June 27 the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing all four of the Nancy Drew mystery movies that star Bonita Granville. I have seen them all a couple of times but I still plan on watching all four of them again. I think they have the same feeling/spirit as the books. Bonita Granville IS Nancy Drew!
Also, as much as I love Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason – there is another actor who was cast as Perry several times. This month, there are three Perry Mason movies that star Warren William as Perry. I really like Warren William but let’s face it, Raymond Burr IS Perry! William puts quite a different spin on Perry… (All three movies will be shown on Saturday mornings — the 11th, 18th, and 25th.)
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2022
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Wednesday – June 1, 2022
6:30 AM Between Two Worlds (1944)
Passengers on a luxury liner realize they are en route to the afterlife.
Dir: Edward A. Blatt. Actors: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
112 mins
*****This isn’t a mystery movie, however, I remember watching it years ago and thinking it was good. I’m looking forward to re-watching it to see if I remember correctly….*****
8:30 AM 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
10:30 AM Star of Midnight (1935)
A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Actors: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly
90 mins
12:15 PM 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
1:45 PM 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
3:15 PM Trouble for Two (1936)
Before he can marry, a European prince gets mixed up with a suicide club.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan
75 mins
4:45 PM Fast Company (1938)
Married book-dealers Joel and Gerda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller .
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd
75 mins
6:15 PM It’s a Wonderful World (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
86 mins
*****I’m not sure if this is a mystery or a comedy, or both!***** — probably just a comedy…
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Saturday – June 4, 2022
8:00 PM Stage Fright (1950)
A struggling actress helps her friend prove he didn’t commit murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
110 mins
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Sunday – June 5, 2022
12:00 AM 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. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins
10:00 AM 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. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins
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Monday – June 6, 2022
5:00 PM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
72 mins
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Tuesday – June 7, 2022
10:30 AM 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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Wednesday – June 8, 2022
2:00 AM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins
11:30 AM You Can’t Buy Luck (1937)
A racehorse owner tries to buy victory by performing good deeds, but gets mixed up in murder instead.
Dir: Lew Landers. Actors: Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Haworth
61 mins
8:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins
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Thursday – June 9, 2022
4:45 AM 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. Actors: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins
7:45 AM Night Spot (1938)
An undercover cop tries to catch a gang of jewel thieves at a high-society nightclub.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Actors: Harry Park, Allan Lane, Gordon Jones
60 mins
10:30 AM Stage Struck (1948)
The murder of a nightclub hostess leads an investigator to seedy nightspots.
Dir: William Nigh. Actors: Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel
71 mins
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Saturday – June 11, 2022
2:45 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
190 mins
10:08 AM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Actors: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins
2:15 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. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins
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Sunday – June 12, 2022
12:00 AM The Guilty (1947)
Two men who share an apartment date two sisters (twins) but unfortunately, one of the sisters is murdered.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Wally Cassell
70 mins
10:00 AM The Guilty (1947)
Two men who share an apartment date two sisters (twins) but unfortunately, one of the sisters is murdered.
Dir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Wally Cassell
70 mins
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Monday – June 13, 2022
9:45 PM What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971)
After their sons are convicted of murder, two women relocate to Hollywood to start a talent school.
Dir: Curtis Harrington. Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver
101 mins
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Wednesday – June 15, 2022
12:00 AM 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: William Wyler. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
127 mins
9:45 AM Criminal Lawyer (1937)
A wily defense attorney changes his tune when he’s named district attorney.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Actors: Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame, Erik Rhodes
72 mins
4:15 PM Super-Sleuth (1937)
A movie detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Dir: Ben Stoloff. Actors: Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli
70 mins
5:30 PM China Passage (1937)
Murder and jewel theft plague a China-bound steamer.
Dir: Edward Killy Actors: Constance Worth,Vinton Haworth,Leslie Fenton
65 mins
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Saturday – June 18, 2022
10:09 AM The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
80 mins
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Sunday – June 19, 2022
12:00 AM Thieves’ Highway (1949)
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Actors: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortesa, Lee J. Cobb
94 mins
10:00 AM Thieves’ Highway (1949)
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Actors: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortesa, Lee J. Cobb
94 mins
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Monday – June 20, 2022
3:15 PM 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. Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
83 mins
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Wednesday – June 22, 2022
1:00 PM Is My Face Red? (1932)
A gossip columnist witnesses a gangland killing.
Dir: William Seiter. Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
70 mins
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Thursday – June 23, 2022
12:15 AM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Actors: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins
6:45 AM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy woman sees a murder out her window but nobody believes her – including the police.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins
8:45 AM Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
Dir: Louis Malle. Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
87 mins
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10:30 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. Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins
12:30 PM Conflict (1945)
A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
86 mins
2:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
111 mins
4:00 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
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Friday – June 24, 2022
6:00 AM Unashamed (1932)
A society girl’s brother goes on trial for killing her lover.
Dir: Harry Beaumont. Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone
76 mins
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Saturday – June 25, 2022
10:10 AM The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Perry Mason tries to stay on the wagon while investigating the murder of a crooked beauty contest promoter.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Actors: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis
77 mins
2:30 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Actors: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins
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Sunday – June 26, 2022
12:00 AM 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
7:45 AM I Want to Live! (1958)
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Dir: Robert Wise Actors: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
120 mins
10:00 AM 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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Monday – June 27, 2022
6:00 AM Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman’s disappearance.
Dir: William Clemens. Actors: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson
60 mins
7:15 AM Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Dir: William Clemens. Actors: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frank Thomas Jr.
68 mins
8:30 AM Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth tries to clear one of her father’s friends of a murder charge.
Dir: William Clemens. Actors: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
68 mins
9:45 AM Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth helps two old ladies deal with the “haunting” of their mansion.
Dir: William Clemens, Actors: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
60 mins
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Tuesday – June 28, 2022
3:15 PM Special Agent (1935)
A government agent poses as a newspaperman to get the goods on a mobster.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
78 mins
4:45 PM Bullets or Ballots (1936)
A maverick cop gets thrown off the force in disgrace, and goes to the city’s gang lords and offers to join their side, helping them to get around the police. But in fact, he is still a cop, and is working undercover to break apart the gangs.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton Maclane
77 mins
6:15 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
92 mins
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Wednesday – June 29, 2022
8:00 PM Murder by Death (1976)
A criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Dir: Robert Moore. Actors: Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
94 mins
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Thursday – June 30, 2022
6:00 AM Desperate (1947)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
73 mins
12:45 PM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Ddonnell, James Craig
83 mins
2:15 PM The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou
78 mins
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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in June, 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 May 2022 television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 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.
Time is zipping along so fast for me these days that I find it hard to believe that it is already time for my next post in my series highlighting the 