Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for July 2022

It’s finally summer – and I’m ready to spend the entire season inside, enjoying the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies. I don’t know how many 100* days we’ve had so far this year already. It’s the perfect time of year weather-wise to watch one movie after the next! Yow, is it ever hot and muggy!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2022

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Friday – July 1, 2021

6:00 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
Runtime: 81 mins

9:15 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. Actors: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
Runtime: 83 mins

10:45 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. Actors: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
Runtime: 95 mins

12:30 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
Runtime: 96 mins

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Sunday – July 3, 2022

12:00 AM The Strange One (1957)
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
Dir: Jack Garfein. Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman
Runtime: 100 mins

10:00 AM The Strange One (1957)
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
Dir: Jack Garfein. Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman
Runtime: 100 mins

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Tuesday – July 5, 2022

8:30 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Actors: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 71 mins

9:45 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. Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 70 mins

4:00 PM Yellow Canary (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
Runtime: 84 mins

10:00 PM Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Runtime: 88 mins

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Wednesday – July 6, 2022

10:30 AM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Actors: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Runtime: 82 mins

12:00 PM Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with a gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb. Actors: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
Runtime: 95 mins

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Thursday – July 7, 2022

2:15 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 sees a dimming of the Gaslight.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins

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Friday – July 8, 2022

12:45 AM Ladies of the Jury (1932)
A jury hold-out tries to prove the defendant’s innocence.
Dir: Lowell Sherman. Actors: Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Rosco Ates
Runtime: 63 mins

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Saturday – July 9, 2022

12:00 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
Runtime: 83 mins

5:15 PM Absence of Malice (1981)
An ambitious reporter unwittingly slanders a businessman under federal investigation.
Dir: Sydney Pollack. Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Runtime: 116 mins

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Sunday – July 10, 2022

12:00 AM High Tide (1947)
A private detective finds out more than he should about his boss…
Dir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
Runtime: 70 mins

10:00 AM High Tide (1947)
A private detective finds out more than he should about his boss…
Dir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
Runtime: 70 mins

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Wednesday – July 13, 2022

1:00 AM Boomerang! (1947)
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Dir: Elia Kazan. Actors: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 88 mins

1:45 PM Assignment – Paris (1952)
An international correspondent digs up evidence of a Communist conspiracy.
Dir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
Runtime: 85 mins

5:15 PM Journal of a Crime (1934)
Before she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd
Runtime: 65 mins

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Saturday – July 16, 2022

3:15 PM The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee
Runtime: 84 mins

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Sunday – July 17, 2022

12:15 AM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 103 mins

10:00 AM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 103 mins

2:00 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Runtime: 110 mins

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Monday – July 18, 2022

8:00 AM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
Runtime: 74 mins

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Tuesday – July 19, 2022

2:00 AM Performance (1970)
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star’s decaying mansion.
Dir: Donald Cammell. Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Runtime: 106 mins

8:00 PM Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill
Runtime: 95 mins

10:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Runtime: 99 mins

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Wednesday – July 20, 2022

3:30 AM Three Hours to Kill (1954)
After escaping a lynch mob, an innocent man returns to find out who framed him for murder.
Dir: Alfred Werker. Actors: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster
Runtime: 77 mins

7:15 AM Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Runtime: 80 mins

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Thursday – July 21, 2022

4:45 AM Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
Runtime: 74 mins

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Friday – July 22, 2022

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. Actors: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
Runtime: 67 mins

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Saturday – July 23, 2022

2:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 91 mins

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Sunday – July 24, 2022

12:15 AM 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
Runtime: 84 mins

10:00 AM 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
Runtime: 84 mins

10:00 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
Runtime: 106 mins

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Monday – July 25, 2022

9:30 AM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 109 mins

2:00 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann. Actors: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
Runtime: 62 mins

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Tuesday – July 26, 2022

7:30 AM Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
A mentally unstable woman seduces a golfer. Together, they plot a murder scheme to kill the woman’s psychiatrist and the golfer’s rival.
Dir: Robert Sparr. Actors: Paul Burke, Carol Lynley, Martha Hyer
Runtime: 106 mins

11:00 AM The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Dir: Edward J. Montagne. Actors: John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella
Runtime: 64 mins

12:15 PM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Actors: Peter Lorre, John Mcguire, Margaret Tallichet
Runtime: 64 mins

6:15 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
Runtime: 96 mins

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Thursday – July 28, 2022

8:30 AM Dangerous Mission (1954)
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King Actors: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix
Runtime: 75 mins

10:00 AM River’s End (1940)
In the Canadian wilderness, an accused murderer takes the place of a dead Mountie.
Dir: Ray Enright. Actors: Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth Earl, George Tobias
Runtime: 69 mins

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Saturday – July 30, 2022

1:45 AM Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
A married couple entangled in an intricate web of jealousy and sexual obsession in Stanley Kubrick’s final cinematic offering.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Actors: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson
Runtime: 159 mins

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Sunday – July 31, 2022

12:15 AM Raw Deal (1948)
When the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
Runtime: 78 mins

10:00 AM Raw Deal (1948)
When the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
Runtime: 78 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 2022 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 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.