School is back in session – and has been for about two weeks here in San Antonio. I have been trying to remember if school started this early in the year when my “little ones” were attending school. I sort of remember Labor Day as being the last day of summer vacation time, not mid August.
Anyway, here are the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing this month.
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2026
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9:15 AM Exclusive Story (1936)
A newspaper’s attorney tries to get the goods on the numbers racket.
Dir: George Seitz. Cast: Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Joseph Calleia
73 mins
10:30 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
1:00 PM Gangster Story (1959)
An ambitious gangster and his chief rival team for a daring heist.
Dir: Walter Matthau. Cast: Walter Matthau, Bruce McFarlan, Carol Grace
65 mins
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Wednesday – September 2, 2026
8:00 PM Atlantic City (1980)
An aging gangster’s love for a gambling house waitress puts him in the middle of a heist gone bad.
Dir: Louis Malle. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid
104 mins
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Thursday – September 3, 2026
12:00 AM Dead Man Walking (1995)
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim’s families.
Dir: Tim Robbins. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
123 mins
11:15 AM Black Fury (1935)
A coal worker gets mixed up in the mob’s efforts to infiltrate his union.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan
92 mins
2:45 PM Edge of the City (1957)
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden
85 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
9:45 PM The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée, Fay.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins
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Saturday – September 5, 2026
12:15 AM 11 Harrowhouse (1974)
A small-time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first-class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a heist at a major diamond exchange house in London.
Dir: Aram Avakian. Cast: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, James Mason
94 mins
8:00 AM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins
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Sunday – September 6, 2026
12:00 AM The Yellow Canary (1963)
Andy Paxton is an obnoxious pop idol who abuses his staff, including his bodyguard, his manager, and his valet, and is also about to be divorced by his wife. After a night performing at a new engagement, Andy returns home to find his infant son has been kidnapped.
Dir: Buzz Kulik. Cast: Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest
93 mins
7:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
A mother suspects that her seemingly angelic young daughter is a cold-blooded serial killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke
129 mins
10:00 AM The Yellow Canary (1963)
Andy Paxton is an obnoxious pop idol who abuses his staff, including his bodyguard, his manager, and his valet, and is also about to be divorced by his wife. After a night performing at a new engagement, Andy returns home to find his infant son has been kidnapped.
Dir: Buzz Kulik. Cast: Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest
93 mins
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Monday – September 7, 2026
8:00 PM Border Incident (1949)
Police try to crack down on the illegal immigration racket.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva
96 mins
10:00 PM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
93 mins
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Wednesday – September 9, 2026
3:15 PM Fingers at the Window (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer. Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone
80 mins
4:45 PM 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. Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins
6:00 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
8:00 PM Obsession (1949)
A jealous husband plans a devilish revenge against his wife’s lover. British film released in the United States as “The Hidden Room.”
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown
98 mins
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Thursday – September 10, 2026
11:15 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
1:00 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
4:15 PM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
96 mins
6:00 PM The Haunting (1963)
A team of paranormal investigators spend a terrifying night in a haunted New England mansion.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins
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Saturday – September 12, 2026
12:00 PM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins
1:45 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. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins
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Sunday – September 13, 2026
12:00 AM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins
2:00 AM Executive Action (1973)
Wealthy right-wing businessmen plot the assassination of JFK in this fictional thriller based on real events.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer
91 mins
4:00 AM St. Ives (1976)
Raymond St. Ives is a former crime reporter and now struggling novelist who accepts a job as go-between to deliver a blackmail payment.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset
94 mins
10:00 AM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins
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Monday – September 14, 2026
10:00 PM Madame X (1966)
A fallen woman on trial for murder is defended by the son she abandoned years earlier.
Dir: David Lowell Rich. Cast: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban
100 mins
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Tuesday – September 15, 2026
3:45 PM Moonlight Murder (1936)
A murderer strikes an opera company.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Chester Morris, Madge Evans, Leo Carrillo
66 mins
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Wednesday – September 16, 2026
6:45 PM Teenage Doll (1957)
A delinquent girls’ gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang, and apparently to the murder of one of their members.
Dir: Roger Corman. Cast: June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley
71 mins
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Thursday – September 17, 2026
10:00 AM Bodyguard (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Philip Reed
62 mins
11:15 AM Trapped (1949)
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
78 mins
12:45 PM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
59 mins
2:00 PM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
67 mins
3:15 PM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins
4:30 PM The Last Run (1971)
An aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere
82 mins
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Friday – September 18, 2026
3:30 AM Bordertown (2007)
A tenacious American reporter, becomes deeply involved investigating the murders of young women working in the Mexican border town of Juarez.
Dir: Gregory Nava. Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata
112 mins
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Saturday – September 19, 2026
1:45 PM They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)
A casino blackjack dealer plots to hijack and rob an armored car.
Dir: Antonio Isasi Isasmendi. Cast: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb
129 mins
5:45 PM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
An ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
109 mins
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Sunday – September 20, 2026
12:30 AM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
97 mins
2:30 AM 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
4:45 AM 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
10:00 AM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
97 mins
12:00 PM Victim (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
100 mins
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Tuesday – September 22, 2026
11:45 AM Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor’s life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
111 mins
1:45 PM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins
3:30 PM 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. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins
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Thursday – September 24, 2026
2:00 AM 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
4:15 AM Night Must Fall (1964)
A psychopath worms his way into an elderly woman’s household.
Dir: Karel Reisz. Cast: Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne, Susan Hampshire
101 mins
2:00 PM Chandler (1971)
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
Dir: Paul Magwood. Cast: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier
88 mins
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Friday – September 25, 2026
1:00 AM Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife’s admission of unfulfilled longing.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field
159 mins
7:45 AM 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
11:30 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins
1:30 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller of an artist who can only find inspiration in murder and of the two women who inspire him, the two women he loves – The Two Mrs. Carrolls.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins
3:30 PM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
84 mins
5:15 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
114 mins
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Saturday – September 26, 2026
2:00 PM The Last Run (1971)
An aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere
82 mins
3:45 PM The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
94 mins
12:30 AM Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
111 mins
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Sunday – September 27, 2026
10:00 AM Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
111 mins
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Monday – September 28, 2026
2:00 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
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Tuesday – September 29, 2026
4:30 PM The Unholy Three (1925)
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
86 mins
6:15 PM The Unholy Three (1930)
A ventriloquist, a strong man and a midget form a criminal alliance.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent
72 mins
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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in September, 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 August television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 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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