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!<\/p>\n
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6:00 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)<\/strong> 9:15 AM Side Street (1950)<\/strong> 10:45 AM They Live by Night (1948)<\/strong> 12:30 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM The Strange One (1957)<\/strong> 10:00 AM The Strange One (1957)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM Cat People (1942)<\/strong> 9:45 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Yellow Canary (1943)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Laura (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:30 AM Act of Violence (1949)<\/strong> 12:00 PM Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 PM Gaslight (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:45 AM Ladies of the Jury (1932)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 PM The Petrified Forest (1936)<\/strong> 5:15 PM Absence of Malice (1981)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM High Tide (1947)<\/strong> 10:00 AM High Tide (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:00 AM Boomerang! (1947)<\/strong> 1:45 PM Assignment – Paris (1952)<\/strong> 5:15 PM Journal of a Crime (1934)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:15 PM The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Scarlet Street (1945)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Scarlet Street (1945)<\/strong> 2:00 PM Gilda (1946)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 AM Whistling in Dixie (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM Performance (1970)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)<\/strong> 10:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:30 AM Three Hours to Kill (1954)<\/strong> 7:15 AM Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:45 AM Cause for Alarm! (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM Killer’s Kiss (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM 5 Against the House (1955)<\/strong> 10:00 AM 5 Against the House (1955)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:30 AM The Woman in White (1948)<\/strong> 2:00 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:30 AM Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)<\/strong> 11:00 AM The Tattooed Stranger (1950)<\/strong> 12:15 PM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)<\/strong> 6:15 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:30 AM Dangerous Mission (1954)<\/strong> 10:00 AM River’s End (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:45 AM Eyes Wide Shut (1999)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM Raw Deal (1948)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Raw Deal (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in July, 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 June 2022 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nA young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
\nDir: George Beck. Actors: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
\nRuntime: 81 mins<\/p>\n
\nA New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
\nRuntime: 83 mins<\/p>\n
\nAfter an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
\nRuntime: 95 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\nRuntime: 96 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 3, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
\nDir: Jack Garfein. Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman
\nRuntime: 100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
\nDir: Jack Garfein. Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman
\nRuntime: 100 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – July 5, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Actors: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
\nRuntime: 71 mins<\/p>\n
\nA child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
\nDir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
\nRuntime: 70 mins<\/p>\n
\nA socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
\nDir: Herbert Wilcox. Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
\nRuntime: 84 mins<\/p>\n
\nA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
\nRuntime: 88 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – July 6, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
\nDir: Fred Zinnemann. Actors: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
\nRuntime: 82 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with a gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
\nDir: Jack Webb. Actors: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
\nRuntime: 95 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 7, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nYoung 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.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
\nRuntime: 114 mins<\/p>\nFriday – July 8, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA jury hold-out tries to prove the defendant’s innocence.
\nDir: Lowell Sherman. Actors: Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Rosco Ates
\nRuntime: 63 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 9, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nWhen 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.
\nDir: Archie L. Mayo. Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
\nRuntime: 83 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ambitious reporter unwittingly slanders a businessman under federal investigation.
\nDir: Sydney Pollack. Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
\nRuntime: 116 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 10, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA private detective finds out more than he should about his boss…
\nDir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
\nRuntime: 70 mins<\/p>\n
\nA private detective finds out more than he should about his boss…
\nDir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
\nRuntime: 70 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – July 13, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
\nDir: Elia Kazan. Actors: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
\nRuntime: 88 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn international correspondent digs up evidence of a Communist conspiracy.
\nDir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Dana Andrews, M\u00e4rta Tor\u00e9n, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
\nRuntime: 85 mins<\/p>\n
\nBefore she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
\nDir: William Keighley. Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd
\nRuntime: 65 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 16, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nSherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine.
\nDir: Terence Fisher. Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee
\nRuntime: 84 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 17, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
\nRuntime: 103 mins<\/p>\n
\nA middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
\nRuntime: 103 mins<\/p>\n
\nA gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir: Charles Vidor. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
\nRuntime: 110 mins<\/p>\nMonday – July 18, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
\nDir: S. Sylvan Simon. Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
\nRuntime: 74 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – July 19, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star’s decaying mansion.
\nDir: Donald Cammell. Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
\nRuntime: 106 mins<\/p>\n
\nA police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill
\nRuntime: 95 mins<\/p>\n
\nReporters compete to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
\nRuntime: 99 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – July 20, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAfter escaping a lynch mob, an innocent man returns to find out who framed him for murder.
\nDir: Alfred Werker. Actors: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster
\nRuntime: 77 mins<\/p>\n
\nA novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
\nRuntime: 80 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 21, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
\nDir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
\nRuntime: 74 mins<\/p>\nFriday – July 22, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nWhen he rescues a girl from her gangster lover, a prizefighter is marked for death.
\nDir: Stanley Kubrick. Actors: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
\nRuntime: 67 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 23, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAn aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
\nRuntime: 91 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 24, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nFour college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
\nDir: Phil Karlson. Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
\nRuntime: 84 mins<\/p>\n
\nFour college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
\nDir: Phil Karlson. Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
\nRuntime: 84 mins<\/p>\n
\nHarper, 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.
\nDir: Stuart Rosenberg. Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
\nRuntime: 106 mins<\/p>\nMonday – July 25, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nClassic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
\nRuntime: 109 mins<\/p>\n
\nPerry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
\nDir: William McGann. Actors: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
\nRuntime: 62 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – July 26, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA mentally unstable woman seduces a golfer. Together, they plot a murder scheme to kill the woman’s psychiatrist and the golfer’s rival.
\nDir: Robert Sparr. Actors: Paul Burke, Carol Lynley, Martha Hyer
\nRuntime: 106 mins<\/p>\n
\nDetectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
\nDir: Edward J. Montagne. Actors: John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella
\nRuntime: 64 mins<\/p>\n
\nA newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
\nDir: Boris Ingster. Actors: Peter Lorre, John Mcguire, Margaret Tallichet
\nRuntime: 64 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\nRuntime: 96 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 28, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
\nDir: Louis King Actors: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix
\nRuntime: 75 mins<\/p>\n
\nIn the Canadian wilderness, an accused murderer takes the place of a dead Mountie.
\nDir: Ray Enright. Actors: Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth Earl, George Tobias
\nRuntime: 69 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 30, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA married couple entangled in an intricate web of jealousy and sexual obsession in Stanley Kubrick’s final cinematic offering.
\nDir: Stanley Kubrick Actors: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson
\nRuntime: 159 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 31, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nWhen the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
\nRuntime: 78 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
\nRuntime: 78 mins<\/p>\n