Unfortunately, Eddie Muller from Noir Alley isn’t presenting his noir movies this month. I’m always disappointed when he takes off a full month from the Turner Classic Movies channel.<\/p>\n
It looks like this month the channel is focusing on one actor each day. This works out great for us when the actor is someone like Joan Crawford – who happened to be in several noir movies. Crawford’s day is Saturday, August 20. For those of you who have favorite actors from years gone by, I have included each day’s actor at the bottom of this blog entry. Your fave may just have a whole day devoted to his\/her movies!<\/p>\n
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8:30 AM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)<\/strong> 11:45 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 AM The Window (1949)<\/strong> 12:45 PM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)<\/strong> 2:30 PM Mara Maru (1952)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)<\/strong> 11:45 PM Down Three Dark Streets (1954)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 AM 5 Steps to Danger (1957)<\/strong> 12:30 PM Journey into Fear (1942) (a spy movie)<\/strong> 2:00 PM The Stranger (1946)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Mr. Arkadin (1955)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Third Man (1949)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Charade (1963)<\/strong> 10:15 PM How to Steal a Million (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:30 AM The Bishop Misbehaves (1933)<\/strong> 9:15 AM Woman Wanted (1935)<\/strong> 6:30 PM Let Us Live (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM The Big Clock (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:15 PM The Outrage (1964)<\/strong> 6:00 PM The Running Man (1963)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:15 AM Night Watch (1973)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:00 AM The Formula (1980)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 PM Keeper of the Flame (1943)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)<\/strong> 1:15 PM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)<\/strong> 10:15 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM He Ran All the Way (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 AM High and Low (1963)<\/strong> 5:30 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)<\/strong> 2:00 AM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)<\/strong> 4:00 AM This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)<\/strong> 3:30 PM Coogan’s Bluff (1968)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:30 PM After Office Hours (1935)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:15 PM The Strip (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 PM The Spiral Staircase (1975)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Bullitt (1968)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:45 AM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:00 AM 21 Days Together (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:30 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:30 PM Suspicion (1941)<\/strong> 5:30 PM North by Northwest (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:00 AM Penthouse (1933)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Thin Man (1934)<\/strong> 10:00 PM After the Thin Man (1936)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:30 AM Make Your Own Bed (1944)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Good Humor Man (1950)<\/strong> *****<\/p>\n Days in August with showcased actor: 1= Elvis Presley, 2= Jean Arthur, 3= Sydney Poitier, 4= Ruth Roman, 5= Orson Wells, 6= Audrey Hepburn, 7= Gene Kelly, 8= Maureen O’Sullivan’ 9= William Holden, 10= Greta Garbo, 11= Laurence Harvey, 12= Jane Powell, 13= Marlon Brando, 14= Elizabeth Taylor, 15= Randolph Scott, 16= Raquel Welch, 17= Spencer Tracy, 18= Shelley Winters, 19= Toshiro Mifune, 20= Joan Crawford, 21= Clint Eastwood, 22= Constance Bennett, 23= Mickey Rooney, 24= Jacqueline Bisset, 25= Gilbert Roland, 26= Vivien Leigh, 27= Marilyn Monroe, 28= Cary Grant, 29= Myrna Loy, 30= Jack Carson, 31= Peter Sellers.<\/p>\n ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in August, 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 July 2022 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nAn undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
\nDir: J. Walter Ruben. Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
\n89 mins<\/p>\n
\nA detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
\nDir: Stephen Roberts. Actors: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
\n80 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 4, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
\nDir: Ted Tetzlaff. Actors: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
\nDir: King Vidor. Actors: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes Mccambridge
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
\nA salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
\nDir: Gordon Douglas. Actors: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
\n98 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
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
\nDir: Felix Feist. Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
\nDir: Arnold Laven. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
\n85 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 5, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA woman who picks up a hitchhiker has a psychiatrist relentlessly following her.
\nDir: Henry S. Kesler. Actors: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nA munitions expert gets mixed up with gunrunners in Turkey.
\nDir: Norman Foster Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nA small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn eager young man is hired by Mr. Arkadin, one of the richest men in Europe, to help him uncover clues about his past because he suffers from a severe condition of amnesia and does not know how he became so wealthy.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Actors: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
\nDir: Carol Reed. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nA romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
\n86 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – August 6, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
\nDir: Terence Young. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
\n108 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
\nDir: Stanley Donen. Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young woman enlists the help of a detective to recover a sculpture that her father, a dealer in phony art, sold to a Paris museum for fear that it will be uncovered as a hoax.
\nDir: Billy Wilder. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
\n127 mins<\/p>\nMonday – August 8, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA church official with a taste for mysteries gets mixed up in the real thing.
\nDir: E. A. Dupont. Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Sullivan, Lucile Watson
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn innocent woman is chased by both gangsters and the police.
\nDir: George B. Seitz. Actors: Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nTwo wrongly convicted men are sentenced to death.
\nDir: John Brahm. Actors: Maureen O’Sullivan,Henry Fonda,Ralph Bellamy
\n68 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 9, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
\nDir: John Farrow. Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan
\n93 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 11, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA murderer, a sexually assaulted wife and the dead man himself present conflicting versions of a brutal crime.
\nDir: Martin Ritt. Actors: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man fakes his death to get back at the insurance company that denied an earlier claim.
\nDir: Carol Reed. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
\n103 mins<\/p>\n
\nA Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
\nDir: John Frankenheimer. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh
\n126 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 12, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA woman sees a murder in a neighbor’s window but her husband and the police don’t believe her.
\nDir: Brian G. Hutton. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
\n105 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 14, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
\nDir: John G. Avildsen. Actors: George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
\n117 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 16, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
\nDir: Herbert Ross. Actors: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
\n120 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – August 17, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nTop-notch reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
\nDir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
\n101 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 18, 2022<\/h3>\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
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
\n109 mins<\/p>\n
\nAfter hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
\nDir: Charles Laughton. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
\n93 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 19, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
\nDir: John Berry. Actors: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
\n77 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – August 20, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nWhen the son of his chauffeur is kidnapped by mistake, a wealthy man faces the dilemma of paying the ransom.
\nDir: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
\n143 mins
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\nA crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
\nDir: Robert Aldrich. Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
\n132 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth
\n113 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 21, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
\n94 mins<\/p>\n
\nFed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
\nDir: Vincent Sherman. Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
\n103 mins<\/p>\n
\nA female gangster learns she is losing her vision.
\nDir: Felix Feist. Actors: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn Arizona deputy sheriff is sent to New York City to extradite an escaped killer he tracked down.
\nDir: Donald Siegel. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
\n94 mins<\/p>\nMonday – August 22, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
\nDir: Robert Z. Leonard. Actors: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
\n75 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 23, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
\nDir: Leslie Kardos. Actors: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
\n85 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – August 24, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA mute nurse cares for an old invalid in a house where a killer lurks.
\nDir: Peter Collinson. Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law
\n86 mins<\/p>\n
\nA detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
\nDir: Peter Yates. Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
\n114 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 25, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
\nDir: George Amy. Actors: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
\n56 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 26, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nAfter accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
\nDir: Basil Dean. Actors: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
\n75 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – August 27, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nRecently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
\nDir: John Huston Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
\n112 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 28, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nA young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
\n136 mins<\/p>\nMonday – August 29, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nThe mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
\nIn New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nMarried sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewartl
\n110 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 30, 2022<\/h3>\n
\nDetectives masquerade as a butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
\n82 mins (Possibly not really a mystery…)<\/p>\n
\nA good-hearted ice cream man’s efforts to help a young woman turn him into a murder suspect.
\nDir: Lloyd Bacon. Actors: Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace
\n79 mins (Possibly not really a mystery…)<\/p>\n