I’m sure most of you have heard the expression “Christmas in July” more than once! Well, this month, I think it might me “Halloween in July” on the Turner Classic Movies channel! (And I love it!!) As some of you who have been with me since 2006 (when I started the Cozy-Mystery.com site) know, I love to watch the old black and white Bela Lugosi, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, etc. movies during October. Lucky for me, October is less than nine months away – since my You Tube television DVR-ing device only store my recorded movies for nine months. This month, I’m not only setting up my recording to include mystery/crime movies, but I’m also including the old super natural Halloween type of movies.
I didn’t include my Halloween-type movies on this list which is devoted to the Turner Classic Movies channel October-must-watch (-again!) movies, but if you’re at all interested, you should check out the schedule for Thursday – July 23, 2026. I don’t exactly know when this fascination with old, black and white Halloween-type movies started (which no one in my family shares with me), but I am guilty of enjoying these movies over and over again!
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2026
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Wednesday – July 1, 2026fg
8:15 PM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
88 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – July 2. 2026
9:45 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – July 3, 2026
8:00 PM Force of Evil (1948)
A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.
Dir: Abraham Polonsky. Cast: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez
79 mins
9:30 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
11:00 PM Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
88 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – July 4, 2026
12:45 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. Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortesa, Lee J. Cobb
94 mins
2:30 AM Against All Odds (1984)
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated.
Dir: Taylor Hackford. Cast: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods
121 mins
4:45 AM Marlowe (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart. Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor
95 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – July 5, 2026
12:00 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger . Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins
10:00 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger . Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – July 8, 2021
12:00 AM 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
*****Director Ida Lupino was a pioneer in Hollywood movies!*****
8:15 AM Sinners’ Holiday (1930)
A jealous young man frames his sister’s boyfriend.
Dir: John G. Adolfi. Cast: Grant Withers, Warren Hymer, Evalyn Knapp
60 mins
3:00 PM Central Park (1932)
Small-town kids out to make it in the big city inadvertently get mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: John G. Adolfi. Cast: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee
58 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – July 9, 2026
6:15 AM 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
7:45 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins
9:30 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
11:00 AM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
63 mins
12:15 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
6:30 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – July 10, 2026
1:30 PM The Wild One (1953)
A vicious biker gang terrorizes a small town while their leader falls for a local girl.
Dir: Laslo Benedek. Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
79 mins
8:00 PM 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
10:00 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – July 11, 2026
12:00 AM Night and the City (1950)
A London hustler has ambitious plans that never work out.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
95 mins
2:00 AM Body Heat (1981)
A femme fatale seduces a Florida lawyer and convinces him to kill her husband.
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
113 mins
4:00 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins
1:30 PM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
16 mins
5:45 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. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins
10:15 PM The Killing (1956)
A career criminal recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – July 12, 2026
12:00 AM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
88 mins
10:00 AM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
88 mins
8:00 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – July 15, 2026
6:15 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
7:45 AM 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
9:30 AM Shadow in the Sky (1952)
A shell-shocked veteran tries to recover his sanity while living with his sister.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Nancy Reagan, James Whitmore
78 mins
11:00 AM Shadow on the Wall (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother’s murder.
Dir: Patrick Jackson; Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau
84 mins
12:30 PM 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 Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins
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Friday – July 17, 2026
8:00 PM 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. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins
10:00 PM 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – July 18, 2026
12:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins
2:00 AM Sea of Love (1989)
A New York police detective falls in love with a suspect in a murder he is investigating.
Dir: Harold Becker. Cast: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman
113 mins
4:00 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. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins
6:00 PM 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – July 19, 2026
12:15 AM 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
10:00 AM 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
6:15 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – July 21, 2026
4:30 PM 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. Cast: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis
77 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – July 23, 2026
12:00 AM A Soldier’s Story (1984)
A black army attorney is sent to an all-black army camp during World War II to investigate the murder of a sergeant and sees first hand the racial strife between the black soldiers and the white officers who run the boot camp.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Howard E Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
101 mins
2:15 PM The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
66 mins
3:30 PM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – July 24, 2026
1:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
73 mins
2:15 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins
12:45 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. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins
3:15 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins
4:30 PM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins
8:00 PM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim
110 mins
10:00 PM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
93 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – July 25, 2026
12:00 AM The Killing (1956)
A career criminal recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender, and a betting teller, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins
3:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
A depression-era drifter ends up at a diner, where he not only gets a job, but also begins an affair with the diner’s owner’s wife. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill the kind owner and share in the insurance money.
Dir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
123 mins
7:45 AM 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
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Sunday – July 26, 2026
12:45 AM They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
95 mins
8:00 AM 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
10:00 AM They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
95 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – July 27, 2026
8:15 AM The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith. Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr.
60 mins
2:30 PM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy. Cast: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
56 mins
3:30 PM Murder on the Waterfront (1943)
Nazis and entertainers are involved in an inventor’s murder.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason. Cast: Warren Douglas, Joan Winfield, John Loder
51 mins
4:30 PM Find the Blackmailer (1943)
A private eye hunts for the talking bird that holds the key to a murder.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart
55 mins
5:30 PM 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
6:45 PM I Was Framed (1942)
A news man’s political investigations land him in prison.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Michael Ames, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey
61 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – July 28, 2026
6:00 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman. Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
123 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – July 29, 2026
3:15 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
5:15 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – July 30, 2026
6:30 AM 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. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
77 mins
10:00 AM 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
12:00 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins
2:00 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
4:00 PM 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
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – July 31, 2026
7:15 AM The Big Shakedown (1934)
A racketeer breaks into black-market medicine.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez
64 mins
10:00 AM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
83 mins
11:30 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
1:00 PM Two Seconds (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee
68 mins
2:15 PM Three on a Match (1932)
A woman’s childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O’Day
64 mins
3:30 PM The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins
5:00 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
6:30 PM The Mouthpiece (1932)
A crusading DA goes into private practice and succumbs to the temptations of corruption.
Dir: James Flood, Elliott Nugent. Cast: Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon
86 mins
8:00 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist’s sister’s relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
96 mins
10:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – August 2, 2926
12:00 AM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
95 mins
1:45 AM 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
3:30 AM 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
***** ***** ***** *****
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 2026 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.
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