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<\/a>Tuesday – September 1<\/h3>\n5:00 AM 6:45 AM 8:30 AM 10:45 AM 12:45 PM 2:45 PM 4:45 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 7:30 AM 11:15 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:00 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:00 AM 11:00 AM 3:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 6:30 AM 8:30 AM 10:15 AM 12:30 PM 2:45 PM 5:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:30 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:00 AM 12:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:15 AM 11:00 AM 7:00 PM BW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\n 11:00 PM 2:45 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:00 AM 10:30 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 PM 5:30 PM 7:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:15 AM 7:30 AM 8:45 AM 10:00 AM 11:15 AM 1:00 PM 2:15 PM 3:45 PM 5:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:45 AM 10:15 AM 2:30 PM 5:15 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:27 AM 9:45 PM 11:00 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:00 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:15 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:30 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:00 AM 11:15 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:00 AM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:15 PM ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in September, be sure to 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 2020 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nTHE 39 STEPS (1935)
\n<\/strong>A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE LADY VANISHES (1938)
\n<\/strong>A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nFOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
\n<\/strong>An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW- 121 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSUSPICION (1941)
\n<\/strong>A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTAGE FRIGHT (1950)
\n<\/strong>An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
\nBW- 110 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
\n<\/strong>A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
\nC- 105 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WRONG MAN (1956)
\n<\/strong>A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
\nBW- 105 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – September 3<\/h3>\n
\nTHE WINDOW (1949)
\n<\/strong>A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
\nDir:\u00a0 Ted Tetzlaff Cast:\u00a0 Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
\nBW- 73 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nPICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
\n<\/strong>When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
\nDir:\u00a0 Peter Weir Cast:\u00a0 Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray.
\nC- 107 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nA STOLEN LIFE (1946)
\n<\/strong>A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as wife of the man they both love.
\nDir:\u00a0 Curtis Bernhardt Cast:\u00a0 Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark.
\nBW- 107 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 5<\/h3>\n
\nTHE PRIZE (1963)
\n<\/strong>An American Nobel Prize-winner mixes it up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
\nDir:\u00a0 Mark Robson Cast:\u00a0 Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer.
\nC- 135 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nSunday – September 6<\/h3>\n
\nNIGHT EDITOR (1946)
\n<\/strong>A detective hides key evidence in a murder case rather than reveal he was cheating on his wife.
\nDir:\u00a0 Henry Levin Cast:\u00a0 William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell.
\nBW- 66 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (1945)
\n<\/strong>A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love.
\nDir:\u00a0 John Cromwell Cast:\u00a0 Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW- 92 mins, CC
\n*****This is not a mystery, but if you’re in the mood for a deliciously sweet movie, you may enjoy this. (I did.)*****<\/p>\n
\nCROSSING DELANCEY (1988)
\n<\/strong>An aging woman hires a matchmaker to find her independent granddaughter a man.
\nDir:\u00a0 Joan Micklin Silver Cast:\u00a0 Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe (Jeroen Krabbe).
\nC- 97 mins, CC
\n*****Here’s another movie that isn’t a mystery, however, if you’re anything like me, you may enjoy good romantic comedies these days.<\/p>\nTuesday – September 8<\/h3>\n
\nARMORED CAR ROBBERY (1950)
\n<\/strong>A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
\nDir:\u00a0 Richard Fleischer Cast:\u00a0 Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman.
\nBW- 68 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
\n<\/strong>A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
\nDir:\u00a0 John Huston Cast:\u00a0 Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nHIGH SIERRA (1941)
\n<\/strong>An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
\nDir:\u00a0 Raoul Walsh Cast:\u00a0 Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nRIFIFI (1954)
\n<\/strong>Four friends plot an intricate jewelry heist, planning for everything except human frailty.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jules Dassin Cast:\u00a0 Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel.
\nBW- 118 mins,\u00a0 (language: French)<\/p>\n
\nTHE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960)
\n<\/strong>A veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robber.
\nDir:\u00a0 Basil Dearden Cast:\u00a0 Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey.
\nBW- 114 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nOCEAN’S 11 (1960)
\n<\/strong>A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lewis Milestone Cast:\u00a0 Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
\nC- 127 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nJACK OF DIAMONDS (1967)
\n<\/strong>A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
\nDir:\u00a0 Don Taylor Cast:\u00a0 George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Lafor\u00eat.
\nC- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – September 9<\/h3>\n
\nCRY TERROR! (1958)
\n<\/strong>A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
\nDir:\u00a0 Andrew L. Stone Cast:\u00a0 James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDIAL 1119 (1950)
\n<\/strong>A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
\nDir:\u00a0 Gerald Mayer Cast:\u00a0 Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King.
\nBW- 75 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
\n<\/strong>A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
\nDir:\u00a0 Fritz Lang Cast:\u00a0 Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\nThursday – September 10<\/h3>\n
\nMYSTERY IN MEXICO (1948)
\n<\/strong>An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Wise Cast:\u00a0 William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez.
\nBW- 66 mins<\/p>\n
\nBORN TO KILL (1947)
\n<\/strong>A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Wise Cast:\u00a0 Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
\nBW- 92 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 12<\/h3>\n
\nA SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (1938)
\n<\/strong>A gangster finds the straight life ain’t so simple.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lloyd Bacon Cast:\u00a0 Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins.
\nBW- 85 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nDOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
\n<\/strong>An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
\nDir:\u00a0 Billy Wilder Cast:\u00a0 Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
\nBW- 108 mins, CC
\n*****If you haven’t seen this terrific mystery movie, make sure you do!*****<\/p>\n
\nOUT OF THE PAST (1947)
\n<\/strong>A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jacques Tourneur Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.<\/p>\n
\nDANGER SIGNAL (1945)
\n<\/strong>A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Florey Cast:\u00a0 Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
\nBW- 78 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCOMA (1978)
\n<\/strong>A lady doctor investigates a series of strange deaths and disappearing bodies at her hospital.
\nDir:\u00a0 Michael Crichton Cast:\u00a0 Genevi\u00e8ve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley.
\nC- 113 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – September 13<\/h3>\n
\nDANGER SIGNAL (1945)
\n<\/strong>A man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
\nDir:\u00a0 Robert Florey Cast:\u00a0 Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman.
\nBW- 78 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING (1935)
\n<\/strong>A gangster hides from the law by trading places with a mild-mannered double.
\nDir:\u00a0 John Ford Cast:\u00a0 Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – September 14<\/h3>\n
\nKIND LADY (1935)
\n<\/strong>A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
\nDir:\u00a0 George B. Seitz Cast:\u00a0 Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle.
\nBW- 76 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nCAST A DARK SHADOW (1955)
\n<\/strong>A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lewis Gilbert Cast:\u00a0 Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh.
\nBW- 83 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nSO YOU WANT TO BE A DETECTIVE (1948)
\n<\/strong>In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Vitaphone Release 1636A.
\nDir:\u00a0 Richard Bare Cast:\u00a0 Philo McCullough, Clifton Young, Fred Kelsey.
\nBW- 11 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – September 15<\/h3>\n
\nMAN HUNT (1933)
\n<\/strong>A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief’s daughter.
\nDir:\u00a0 Irving Cummings Cast: \u00a0Junior Durkin, Charlotte Henry, Mrs. Wallace Reid.
\nBW- 64 mins<\/p>\n
\nNICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE (1939)
\n<\/strong>A famous detective investigates industrial espionage at a plane factory.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jacques Tourneur Cast:\u00a0 Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull.
\nBW- 59 mins, CC
\n*****I found this on Wikipedia: “Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter from Street & Smith’s dime novels and pulp magazines.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the character Nick Carter but I intend to try these movies.*****<\/p>\n
\nPHANTOM RAIDERS (1940)
\n<\/strong>Detective Nick Carter tries to stop enemy agents from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
\nDir:\u00a0 Jacques Tourneur Cast:\u00a0 Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut.
\nBW- 70 mins<\/p>\n
\nSKY MURDER (1940)
\n<\/strong>Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 George B. Seitz Cast:\u00a0 Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne.
\nBW- 72 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTAR OF MIDNIGHT (1935)
\n<\/strong>A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
\nDir:\u00a0 Stephen Roberts Cast:\u00a0 William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly.
\nBW- 90 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nMIRACLES FOR SALE (1939)
\n<\/strong>A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
\nDir:\u00a0 Tod Browning Cast:\u00a0 Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven.
\nBW- 71 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nEYES IN THE NIGHT (1942)
\n<\/strong>Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
\nDir:\u00a0 Fred Zinnemann Cast:\u00a0 Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHE HIDDEN EYE (1945)
\n<\/strong>Blind detective Duncan Maclaine uses his other senses to piece together confusing clues behind a murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Richard Whorf Cast:\u00a0 Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins.
\nBW- 69 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nSTAGE FRIGHT (1950)
\n<\/strong>An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Cast:\u00a0 Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
\nBW- 110 mins, CC<\/p>\nWednesday – September 16<\/h3>\n
\nREPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947)
\n<\/strong>Dir:\u00a0 Alfred Werker Cast:\u00a0 Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – September 17<\/h3>\n
\nANGEL FACE (1953)
\n<\/strong>An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
\nBW- 91 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nBUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965)
\n<\/strong>A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim.
\nBW- 107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
\n<\/strong>A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
\nBW- 161 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n
\nLAURA (1944)
\n<\/strong>A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
\nDir:\u00a0 Otto Preminger Cast:\u00a0 Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 19<\/h3>\n
\nGUNS OF HATE (1948)
\n<\/strong>Two drifters are falsely accused of murder.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lesley Selander Cast:\u00a0 Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin.
\nBW- 62 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nMIDNIGHT ALIBI (1934)
\n<\/strong>An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges.
\nDir:\u00a0 Alan Crosland Cast:\u00a0 Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler.
\nBW- 58 mins<\/p>\n
\nGILDA (1946)
\n<\/strong>A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir:\u00a0 Charles Vidor Cast:\u00a0 Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
\nBW- 110 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – September 20<\/h3>\n
\nGILDA (1946)
\n<\/strong>A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir:\u00a0 Charles Vidor Cast:\u00a0 Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
\nBW- 110 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – September 21<\/h3>\n
\nTHE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)<\/strong>
\nIllicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
\nDir:\u00a0 Tay Garnett Cast:\u00a0 Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
\nBW- 113 mins, CC<\/p>\nThursday – September 24<\/h3>\n
\nTHE HOSPITAL (1971)<\/strong>
\nA harried hospital administrator copes with rising costs, a seductive young woman and a serial killer.
\nDir:\u00a0 Arthur Hiller Cast:\u00a0 George C Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes.
\nC- 102 mins, CC<\/p>\nSaturday – September 26<\/h3>\n
\nLARCENY, INC. (1942)<\/strong>
\nAn ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
\nDir:\u00a0 Lloyd Bacon Cast:\u00a0 Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\n
\nTHEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947)<\/strong>
\nA faithless husband is charged with a murder he didn’t commit.
\nDir:\u00a0 Irving Pichel Cast:\u00a0 Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer.
\nBW- 90 mins, CC<\/p>\nSunday – September 27<\/h3>\n
\nTHEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947)<\/strong>
\nA faithless husband is charged with a murder he didn’t commit.
\nDir:\u00a0 Irving Pichel Cast:\u00a0 Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer.
\nBW- 90 mins, CC<\/p>\nMonday – September 28<\/h3>\n
\nLIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)<\/strong>
\nAn actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
\nDir:\u00a0 King Vidor Cast:\u00a0 Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge.
\nBW- 90 mins, CC<\/p>\n