TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2025

Our daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter came out to visit during June, so I didn’t do a lot of television-watching, other than “Frozen”, “Moana”, etc. But I did manage to set up my recording system to record my favorite mystery/crime movies. I just finished the list of the July mystery/crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during July 2025, and already I’m looking forward to watching (more than!) several of them. So, here are the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery/crime movies scheduled to air in July 2025.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2025

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Tuesday – July 1, 2025

10:15 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

12:15 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
113 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. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

10:00 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. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
83 mins

11:30 PM The Naked Street (1955)
A racketeer saves his daughter’s no-good husband from the chair but lives to regret it.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft
84 mins

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

Wednesday – July 2, 2025

1:15 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

4:45 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck. Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
81 mins

1:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

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Thursday – July 3, 2025

2:00 AM Madame X (1937)
When she kills a blackmailer, a woman is defended by the son she abandoned years earlier.
Dir: Sam Wood. Cast: Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William
72 mins

9:00 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

12:30 PM Hot Summer Night (1957)
A hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
Dir: David Friedkin. Cast: Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke
86 mins

2:00 PM Cry of the Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen
80 mins

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Friday – July 4, 2025

8:00 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
126 mins
*****Not a mystery, but definitely a good Fourth of July movie. James Cagney isn’t remembered as a dancer – however he was a wonderful dancer!*****

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Saturday – July 5, 2025

6:00 AM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

8:35 AM Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Dir: Noel Smith. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr.
58 mins

10:05 AM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
62 mins

5:45 PM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as “Doc” McCoy – a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison–in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he …
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

8:00 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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Sunday – July 6, 2025

12:00 AM This Side of the Law (1950)
An unscrupulous lawyer hires a vagrant to impersonate a missing millionaire.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige
74 mins

10:00 AM This Side of the Law (1950)
An unscrupulous lawyer hires a vagrant to impersonate a missing millionaire.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige
74 mins

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Monday – July 7, 2025

8:30 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

6:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
Cary Grant is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper’s star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife (Rosalind Russell) who can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
92 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.)

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Tuesday – July 8, 2025

1:30 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

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Wednesday – July 9, 2025

10:00 AM Crime in the Streets (1956)
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell
91 mins

11:45 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irving Kershner. Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
83 mins

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Friday – July 11, 2025

12:30 AM Deathtrap (1982)
A formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. He returns to his rich wife with a heart problem…
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

2:45 AM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
*****I’m usually not interested in movies from the 1970s, however, I think this one is so good that I re-watched it when I showed it to my husband.*****

5:00 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
92 mins
*****I just re-watched the excellent 1945 “And Then there Were None” movie based on the same Agatha Christie mystery novel, and want to see how the movies compare…*****

10:00 PM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
120 mins

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Saturday – July 12, 2025

10:05 AM Calling Philo Vance (1939)
Society sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
62 mins

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Sunday – July 13, 2025

12:00 AM The Gangster (1947)
A troubled gangster, who has lost all faith in people, loses his weak grip on life.
Dir: Gordon Wiles. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
84 mins

10:00 AM The Gangster (1947)
A troubled gangster, who has lost all faith in people, loses his weak grip on life.
Dir: Gordon Wiles. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
84 mins

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Tuesday – July 15, 2025

11:15 AM Fugitives for a Night (1938)
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Frank Albertson, Eleanor Lynn, Allan Lane
63 mins

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Wednesday – July 16, 2025

2:30 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
*****This is a remake of the really good “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1946) – which is being aired on July 1.*****

6:45 AM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****Is it too early to start storing up movies for the Christmas season? If not, make sure to record this one – it’s terrific! (Not a mystery)*****

12:00 PM Lady of Burlesque (1943)
A star dancer and comedian team to investigate murders.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian
91 mins

3:45 PM Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she’s sent to prison.
Dir: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
69 mins

5:00 PM 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

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Thursday – July 17, 2025

9:15 AM Strange Alibi (1941)
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale
63 mins

4:00 PM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

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Friday – July 18, 2025

3:15 AM From Headquarters (1933)
A police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy’s murder.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
64 mins

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Saturday – July 19, 2025

10:15 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. Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins

6:00 PM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
102 mins

8:00 PM Killer’s Kiss (1955)
When he rescues a girl from her gangster lover, a prizefighter is marked for death.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
67 mins

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Sunday – July 20, 2025

12:00 AM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

10:00 AM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

12:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
Cary Grant is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper’s star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife (Rosalind Russell) who can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
92 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery.)

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Tuesday – July 22, 2025

8:00 PM Moonstruck (1987)
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance’s brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
102 mins
*****Not a mystery. Delightful comedy.*****

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Friday – July 25, 2025

6:00 AM Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
A D.A.’s personal life mirrors the love-triangle murder he’s prosecuting.
Dir: James Whale. Cast: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Constance Moore
69 mins

7:15 AM 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

8:45 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
92 mins

10:30 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

12:15 PM The Arnelo Affair (1947)
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
Dir: Arch Oboler. Cast: John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford
86 mins

2:00 PM Bewitched (1945)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Dir: Arch Oboler. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry H. Daniels Jr.
65 mins

3:15 PM The Witness Chair (1936)
A woman lets her lover stand trial for the murder she committed.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr. Cast: Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille
64 mins

4:30 PM Millie (1931)
A prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughter’s honor.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames
85 mins

6:15 PM Mike’s Murder (1984)
A young woman living in Los Angeles tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.
Dir: James Bridges. Cast: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Darrell Larson
109 mins

8:00 PM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

9:30 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury
114 mins

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Saturday – July 26, 2025

5:00 AM 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. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
83 mins

10:05 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. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods
80 mins

11:35 AM The Perfect Set-Up (1936)
A radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Helene Chadwick, Frank Shannon, William Tannen
21 mins

4:30 PM Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A man shows up at a woman’s villa claiming to be her presumably deceased brother.
Dir: Michael Anderson. Cast: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
87 mins

6:15 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

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Sunday – July 27, 2025

12:15 AM Rififi (1955)
Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
118 mins
*****In English, French, & Italian*****

10:00 AM Rififi (1955)
Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
118 mins
*****In English, French, & Italian*****

4:15 PM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins

6:15 PM 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

8:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

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

Monday – July 28, 2025

2:30 AM The Grim Reaper (1962)
The investigation of the murder of a prostitute in Rome is compiled from various points of view.
Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo De Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora
88 mins
*****In Italian*****

10:00 PM 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

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Tuesday – July 29, 2025

4:00 AM The Liquidator (1966)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff. Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
104 mins

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Wednesday – July 30, 2025

4:15 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

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If you’re really 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 2025 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.