{"id":34096,"date":"2017-08-26T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=34096"},"modified":"2017-08-27T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T16:15:37","slug":"upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-television-mystery-movies-for-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies that will be on television.\u00a0As usual, I\u2019m posting the Turner Classic Movies<\/strong> channel mysteries (and some non-mystery movies with\u00a0my favorite actors and actresses) that I think are definitely worth looking at.<\/p>\n

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September 2017\u00a0Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):<\/h3>\n

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Saturday – September 2, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:30 AM
\nTHE PHANTOM THIEF (1946)
\n<\/strong>A reformed thief tries to stop a murderous blackmailer.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0D. Ross Lederman\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane.
\nBW- 65 mins<\/p>\n

12:45 PM
\nRANCHO NOTORIOUS (1952)
\n<\/strong>A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend’s killer.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Fritz Lang\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer.
\nC- 89 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Sunday – September 3, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM
\nFRAMED (1947)
\n<\/strong>A femme fatale lures an unemployed man into helping her with a criminal scheme.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Richard Wallace\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:15 PM
\nROPE (1948)
\n<\/strong>Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
\nC- 81 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Monday – September 4, 2017<\/h3>\n

10:45 AM
\nWOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)
\n<\/strong>Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0George Stevens\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
\nBW- 114 mins, CC<\/p>\n

*** Not a mystery, however it’s really good! ***<\/p>\n

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Tuesday – September 5, 2017<\/h3>\n

10:00 PM
\nLOVE LETTERS (1945)
\n<\/strong>A soldier falls for the woman who may have killed his best friend.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0William Dieterle\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards.
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – September 6, 2017<\/h3>\n

3:45 PM
\nTHE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
\n<\/strong>A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Ida Lupino\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman.
\nBW- 71 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Friday – September 8, 2017<\/h3>\n

6:00 AM
\nCHINA PASSAGE (1937)
\n<\/strong>Murder and jewel theft plague a China-bound steamer.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Edward Killy\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton.
\nBW- 65 mins, CC<\/p>\n

10:00 AM
\nWE’RE ON THE JURY (1937)
\n<\/strong>A jury member sets out to prove a murder defendant innocent.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Ben Holmes\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Philip Huston.
\nBW- 70 mins<\/p>\n

8:30 PM
\nTHE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)
\n<\/strong>A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Richard Brooks\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
\nBW- 94 mins, CC<\/p>\n

*** Not a mystery. This is a fantastic movie. ***<\/p>\n

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Saturday – September 9, 2017<\/h3>\n

11:00 AM
\nREAR WINDOW (1954)
\n<\/strong>A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
\nC- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nBULLITT (1968)
\n<\/strong>When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Peter Yates\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
\nC- 114 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Sunday – September 10, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nVENGEANCE VALLEY (1951)
\n<\/strong>An honest rancher tries to block his evil brother’s plots while keeping them from their father.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Richard Thorpe\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru.
\nC- 83 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – September 13, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM
\nUNDER COVER OF NIGHT (1937)
\n<\/strong>A police detective and his wife try to solve a string of murders.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0George B. Seitz\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton.
\nBW- 71 mins<\/p>\n

10:15 AM
\nFROM HEADQUARTERS (1933)
\n<\/strong>A police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy’s murder.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0William Dieterle\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette.
\nBW- 63 mins, CC<\/p>\n

1:15 PM
\nBULLETS OR BALLOTS (1936)
\n<\/strong>A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0William Keighley\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\n

2:45 PM
\nBORDERLINE (1950)
\n<\/strong>A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0William A. Seiter\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Saturday – September 16, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:30 AM
\nTRAPPED BY BOSTON BLACKIE (1948)
\n<\/strong>When the pearl necklace he’s been hired to guard goes missing, a reformed thief is the prime suspect.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Seymour Friedman\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Chester Morris, June Vincent, Richard Lane.
\nBW- 67 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Sunday – September 17, 2017<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM
\nIN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
\n<\/strong>An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Nicholas Ray\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Tuesday – September 19, 2017<\/h3>\n

10:00 AM
\nTHE CORSICAN BROTHERS (1941)
\n<\/strong>Siamese twins, separated in infancy, join forces to avenge their parents’ murder.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Gregory Ratoff\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff.
\nBW- 111 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – September 20, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nTHE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938)
\n<\/strong>A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Anatole Litvak\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nIN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
\n<\/strong>A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Norman Jewison\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
\nC- 110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Saturday – September 23, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:30 AM
\nTHE UNSUSPECTED (1947)
\n<\/strong>The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Michael Curtiz\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter.
\nBW- 103 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:30 AM
\nBOSTON BLACKIE’S CHINESE VENTURE (1948)
\n<\/strong>When he’s spotted leaving a laundry whose proprietor has just been murdered, a reformed thief has to find the real killer.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Seymour Friedman\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Chester Morris, Maylia, Richard Lane.
\nBW- 59 mins<\/p>\n

1:00 PM
\nTHE\u00a0NANNY (1965)
\n<\/strong>A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Seth Holt\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Sunday – September 24, 2017<\/h3>\n

7:00 PM
\nCALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948)
\n<\/strong>A Chicago reporter re-opens a ten year old murder case.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Henry Hathaway\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb.
\nBW- 111 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 PM
\nBOOMERANG (1947)
\n<\/strong>A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Elia Kazan\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Monday – September 25, 2017<\/h3>\n

6:15 AM
\nMURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR (1934)
\n<\/strong>A speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Harry Beaumont\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle.
\nBW- 63 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:30 AM
\nTHE TALL TARGET (1951)
\n<\/strong>A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Anthony Mann\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
\nBW- 78 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:30 PM
\nSTRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
\n<\/strong>A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:30 PM
\nMURDER SHE SAID (1961)
\n<\/strong>When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0George Pollock\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Tuesday – September 26, 2017<\/h3>\n

12:15 AM
\nTHE LADYKILLERS (1956)
\n<\/strong>An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady’s boardinghouse to plot a major heist.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Alexander Mackendrick\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom.
\nC- 91 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:45 AM
\nA SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
\n<\/strong>Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Blake Edwards\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
\nC- 102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

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Wednesday – September 27, 2017<\/h3>\n

1:45 PM
\nSTOP, YOU’RE KILLING ME (1952)
\n<\/strong>The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Roy Del Ruth\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Thursday – September 28, 2017<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nLADIES OF THE JURY (1932)
\n<\/strong>A jury hold-out tries to prove the defendant’s innocence.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Lowell Sherman\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Rosco Ates.
\nBW- 63 mins<\/p>\n

9:15 AM
\nBEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
\n<\/strong>A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Fritz Lang\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

3:00 PM
\nTWILIGHT OF HONOR (1963)
\n<\/strong>A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Boris Sagal\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams.
\nBW- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nWITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
\n<\/strong>A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Billy Wilder\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
\nBW- 116 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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Friday – September 29, 2017<\/h3>\n

8:30 AM
\nTHE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)
\n<\/strong>Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
\nDir:\u00a0\u00a0Lewis Milestone\u00a0Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\n

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If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV movies coming up in September, be sure\u00a0to leave a comment below!<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re interested in seeing the rest of this month\u2019s television mystery movies, here\u2019s the August television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n

Upcoming\u00a0Television Mystery Movies for August 2017<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And of course, here is the page on my site with plenty\u00a0of entries about\u00a0movies and television shows you may enjoy:<\/p>\n

Cozy Mystery List TV and \u00a0Movie Section<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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