{"id":41418,"date":"2023-05-24T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=41418"},"modified":"2023-05-24T03:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T08:41:33","slug":"upcoming-mysteries-on-turner-classic-movies-for-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-mysteries-on-turner-classic-movies-for-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that June is traditionally thought of as the &#8220;wedding month&#8221; &#8211; however, I think that June 27 should be thought of as the &#8220;mystery authors&#8217; day on TV&#8221; &#8211; at least at the Turner Classic Movies channel. Yow-za! On the 27th of June, Turner Classic Movies will be airing mystery movies based on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Erle-Stanley-Gardner.html\">Erle Stanley Gardner<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Perry Mason<\/em>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Stuart-Palmer.html\">Stuart Palmer<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Hildegarde Withers<\/em>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Leslie-Charteris.html\">Leslie Charteris<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Saint<\/em>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/S.-S.-Van-Dine.html\">S. S. Van Dine<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Philo Vance<\/em>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Dorothy-L.-Sayers.html\">Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Lord Peter Wimsey<\/em>, <strong>Baynard H. Kendrick<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Duncan Maclain<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/Agatha-Christie.html\"><strong>Agatha Christie<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s <em>Miss Marple<\/em>, and <strong>Dashiell Hammett<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>the Thin Man<\/em>! So, be sure to take a look at the line-up&#8230; And, if you feel like you&#8217;re all mysteried-out after that marathon of mystery movies, try to save some &#8220;viewing room&#8221; for even more mystery movies on Wednesday, June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Turner Classic Movies, for featuring a whole lot of the mystery movies during June 2023!<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h4>TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES \u2013 June 2023<\/h4>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday &#8211; June 1, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>10:30 AM Marked Woman (1937)<\/strong><br \/>\nA crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.<br \/>\nDir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane<br \/>\n96 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:45 PM Party Girl (1958)<\/strong><br \/>\nA showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.<br \/>\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb<br \/>\n99 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Friday &#8211; June 2, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>4:30 PM Angel Face (1953)<\/strong><br \/>\nA beautiful young has family problems.<br \/>\nDir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman<br \/>\n91 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)<\/strong><br \/>\nA private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.<br \/>\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas<br \/>\n97 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday &#8211; June 3, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1:15 AM Pillow Talk (1959)<\/strong><br \/>\nA man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.<br \/>\nDir: Michael Gordon. Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall<br \/>\n105 mins<br \/>\n*****not a myterys, but a very good Rock Hudson\/Doris Day (with side-kick Tony Randall) comedy.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:08 AM Calling Philo Vance (1939)<\/strong><br \/>\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.<br \/>\nDir: William Clemens. Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O&#8217;Neill<br \/>\n62 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong><br \/>\nA man&#8217;s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.<br \/>\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker<br \/>\n96 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday &#8211; June 4, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>12:00 AM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nPolice patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.<br \/>\nDir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O&#8217;Brien, Gale Storm<br \/>\n89 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:00 AM Swing Shift (1984)<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter her husband leaves for Pearl Harbor in World War II, a woman takes a job in an aircraft factory.<br \/>\nDir: Jonathan Demme. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti<br \/>\n100 mins <br \/>\n*****Not a mystery &#8211; this is a very good romantic comedy.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 AM Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nPolice patrolmen are stalked by a vengeful mobster escaped from prison.<br \/>\nDir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Mark Stevens, Edmond O&#8217;Brien, Gale Storm<br \/>\n89 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nA newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman&#8217;s girlfriend.<br \/>\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden<br \/>\n103 mins<br \/>\n*****Not a mytery &#8211; but a funny Judy Holliday movie.*****<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Monday &#8211; June 5, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>12:00 AM The Blackbird (1926)<\/strong><br \/>\nA benevolent bishop helps the needy during the day, but runs a crime syndicate at night.<br \/>\nDir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Ren\u00e9e Ador\u00e9e<br \/>\n86 mins <br \/>\n*****Silent movie*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 AM Father of the Bride (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nAttorney Stanley T. Banks finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay, announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan, while wife Ellie and son Tommy burst with enthusiasm for Kay&#8217;s wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a &#8220;son&#8221; offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who&#8217;s all grown up now with a life of her own.<br \/>\nDir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor<br \/>\n93 mins<br \/>\n*****This movie is the original &#8220;Father of the Bride&#8221; &#8212; I think it might be interesting to watch this one and then watch the one below which was made 41 years later.***** (Neither one is a mytery movie.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:00 PM Father of the Bride (1991)<\/strong><br \/>\nA father&#8217;s mixed feelings about his daughter&#8217;s marriage makes the wedding a torturous occasion for him.<br \/>\nDir: Charles Shyer. Cast: Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Diane Keaton<br \/>\n105 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:00 PM High Sierra (1941)<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.<br \/>\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart<br \/>\n100 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 PM Colorado Territory (1949)<\/strong><br \/>\nAn outlaw just released from prison is sucked back into a life of crime in this remake of High Sierra.<br \/>\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone<br \/>\n94 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday &#8211; June 6, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>9:00 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)<\/strong><br \/>\nA daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.<br \/>\nDir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene<br \/>\n65 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday &#8211; June 8, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>2:00 PM The Young Philadelphians (1959)<\/strong><br \/>\nA young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.<br \/>\nDir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith<br \/>\n136 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 PM Suddenly, Last Summer (1960)<\/strong><br \/>\nA psychiatrist is brought into the web of a wealthy Louisiana widow, who wishes him to perform a lobotomy on her niece, whom she says is suffering from madness after the death of her cousin, the widow&#8217;s son.<br \/>\nDir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift<br \/>\n114 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Friday &#8211; June 9, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>4:00 PM Kona Coast (1968)<\/strong><br \/>\nA Hawaiian boat captain tries to prove a wealthy playboy killed his daughter.<br \/>\nDir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell<br \/>\n92 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>5:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)<\/strong><br \/>\nA game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.<br \/>\nDir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon<br \/>\n120 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday &#8211; June 10, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis movie is about an eight year old psychopath girl. No spoilers here!<br \/>\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden<br \/>\n129 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:29 AM The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939)<\/strong><br \/>\nA reporter poses as a jewel smuggler to unmask a criminal gang.<br \/>\nDir: Terry Morse. Cast: Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson<br \/>\n58 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:08 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)<\/strong><br \/>\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious &#8220;dragon pool.&#8221;<br \/>\nDir: H. Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot<br \/>\n68 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:45 PM Adam&#8217;s Rib (1949)<\/strong><br \/>\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.<br \/>\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday<br \/>\n101 mins<br \/>\n*****More a comedy than a mystery&#8230;*****<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday &#8211; June 11, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>12:30 AM The Verdict (1946)<\/strong><br \/>\nA retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.<br \/>\nDir: Don Siegel. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring<br \/>\n86 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 AM The Verdict (1946)<\/strong><br \/>\nA retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.<br \/>\nDir: Don Siegel. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring<br \/>\n86 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:45 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)<\/strong><br \/>\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who&#8217;ve invaded her home.<br \/>\nDir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna<br \/>\n108 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:45 PM The Catered Affair (1956)<\/strong><br \/>\nA working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.<br \/>\nDir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds<br \/>\n93 mins <br \/>\n*****Not a mystery, but a good &#8220;June Bride&#8221; type of movie.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:30 PM The Damned Don&#8217;t Cry (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nFed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.<br \/>\nDir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran<br \/>\n103 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Monday &#8211; June 12, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>2:45 AM The Bad Sleep Well (1960)<\/strong><br \/>\nA dramatic look at the life of a Japanese businessman.<br \/>\nDir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori<br \/>\n135 mins <br \/>\n*****In Japanese*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00 AM Party Girl (1958)<\/strong><br \/>\nA showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.<br \/>\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb<br \/>\n99 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:45 AM The Big Shot (1942)<\/strong><br \/>\nFearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.<br \/>\nDir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis<br \/>\n82 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:15 PM The Racket (1951)<\/strong><br \/>\nA tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.<br \/>\nDir: John Cromwell. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan<br \/>\n88 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:00 PM Born Yesterday (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nA newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman&#8217;s girlfriend.<br \/>\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden<br \/>\n103 mins<br \/>\n*****Not a mytery &#8211; but a funny Judy Holliday movie.*****<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday &#8211; June 13, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>6:00 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)<\/strong><br \/>\nQuick-witted private investigator Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme &#8220;Who Killed Cock Robin&#8221;, which is curiously signed the Bishop. <br \/>\nDir: David Burton. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young<br \/>\n88 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:45 PM The Woman in Green (1945)<\/strong><br \/>\nSherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.<br \/>\nDir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke <br \/>\n68 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.<br \/>\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy<br \/>\n91 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday &#8211; June 15, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11:00 AM The League of Gentlemen (1960)<\/strong><br \/>\nAn ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.<br \/>\nDir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey<br \/>\n116 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.<br \/>\nDir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow<br \/>\n86 mins<br \/>\n*****A somewhat different interpretation of Miss Marple!*****<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday &#8211; June 17, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>10:08 AM The Garden Murder Case (1936)<\/strong><br \/>\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.<br \/>\nDir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume<br \/>\n62 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:30 PM Kansas City Confidential (1952)<\/strong><br \/>\nTo commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues&#8217; identities secret from each other.<br \/>\nDir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster<br \/>\n98 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 PM Repeat Performance (1947)<\/strong><br \/>\nOn New Year&#8217;s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.<br \/>\nDir: Alfred Werker. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field<br \/>\n93 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday &#8211; June 18, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>12:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)<\/strong><br \/>\nMessing with a mobster&#8217;s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.<br \/>\nDir: Richard Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone<br \/>\n86 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)<\/strong><br \/>\nMessing with a mobster&#8217;s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.<br \/>\nDir: Richard Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone<br \/>\n86 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Monday &#8211; June 19, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>7:15 AM Millie (1931)<\/strong><br \/>\nA prostitute turns to murder to protect her teenage daughter&#8217;s honor.<br \/>\nDir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames<br \/>\n85 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:45 PM They Live by Night (1948)<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.<br \/>\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O&#8217;Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva<br \/>\n95 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:30 PM Pitfall (1948)<\/strong><br \/>\nA married insurance man falls for a criminal&#8217;s girlfriend.<br \/>\nDir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt<br \/>\n84 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday &#8211; June 20, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>8:30 AM Bullets for O&#8217;Hara (1941)<\/strong><br \/>\nA gangster&#8217;s wife helps the FBI nail her husband.<br \/>\nDir: William K. Howard. Cast: Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn<br \/>\n50 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Friday &#8211; June 23, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>2:00 AM Undercurrent (1946)<\/strong><br \/>\nA sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.<br \/>\nDir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum<br \/>\n116 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:30 AM The Naked City (1948)<\/strong><br \/>\nA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.<br \/>\nDir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart<br \/>\n96 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:45 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)<\/strong><br \/>\nA crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.<br \/>\nDir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono<br \/>\n132 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday &#8211; June 24, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>10:08 AM Murder in the Private Car (1934)<\/strong><br \/>\nA speeding train becomes the setting for murder.<br \/>\nDir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle<br \/>\n63 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 PM Vertigo (1958)<\/strong><br \/>\nA detective falls for the mysterious woman he&#8217;s been hired to tail.<br \/>\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes<br \/>\n128 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday &#8211; June 25, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>12:15 AM Storm Warning (1951)<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group&#8211;and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. <br \/>\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day<br \/>\n93 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group&#8211;and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. <br \/>\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day<br \/>\n93 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Monday &#8211; June 26, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>10:00 PM Rope (1948)<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.<br \/>\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger<br \/>\n80 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday &#8211; June 27, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>3:30 AM Victim (1961)<\/strong><br \/>\nA closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.<br \/>\nDir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price<br \/>\n100 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:45 AM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)<\/strong><br \/>\nPerry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.<br \/>\nDir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins<br \/>\n74 mins<br \/>\n*****Based on Erle Stanley Gardner&#8217;s mystery.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:15 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)<\/strong><br \/>\nSchoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.<br \/>\nDir: Edward Killy.Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer<br \/>\n66 mins<br \/>\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer&#8217;s Hildegarde Withers mysteries.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 AM The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.<br \/>\nDir: Paul Stein. Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod<br \/>\n70 mins<br \/>\n*****Based on Leslie Charteris&#8217;s The Saint mysteries.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 PM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)<\/strong><br \/>\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.<br \/>\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette<br \/>\n73 mins <br \/>\n*****Based on S. S. Van Dine&#8217;s mystery.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:30 PM Haunted Honeymoon (1940)<\/strong><br \/>\nBritish sleuth Sir Peter Wimsey&#8217;s wedding celebration is cut short by the discovery of a murdered man in his honeymoon cottage.<br \/>\nDir: Arthur B. Woods. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks<br \/>\n83 mins<br \/>\n*****Based on Dorothy L. Sayers&#8217;s mysteries.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 PM Eyes in the Night (1942)<\/strong><br \/>\nBlind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.<br \/>\nDir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed<br \/>\n80 mins <br \/>\n*****Based on Baynard H. Kendrick&#8217;s mysteries.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:30 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)<\/strong><br \/>\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.<br \/>\nDir: George Pollock.Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson<br \/>\n81 mins <br \/>\n*****(Loosely) based on Agatha Christie&#8217;s mysteries.*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:00 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)<\/strong><br \/>\nHigh society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.<br \/>\nDir: Major W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson<br \/>\n97 mins <br \/>\n*****Based on Dashiell Hammett&#8217;s mysteries.*****<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday &#8211; June 28, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>8:30 AM The Unsuspected (1947)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.<br \/>\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter<br \/>\n103 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 PM Back in Circulation (1937)<\/strong><br \/>\nA reporter tries to win her editor&#8217;s heart by solving a murder case.<br \/>\nDir: Ray Enright. Cast: Pat O&#8217;Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay<br \/>\n82 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:30 PM The Man with a Cloak (1951)<\/strong><br \/>\nA mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.<br \/>\nDir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern<br \/>\n81 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 PM D.O.A. (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.<br \/>\nDir: Rudolph Mat\u00e9. Cast: Edmond O&#8217;Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler<br \/>\n83 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:30 PM Shadow on the Wall (1950)<\/strong><br \/>\nA child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother&#8217;s murder.<br \/>\nDir: Patrick Jackson. Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau<br \/>\n84 mins<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:15 PM The Nanny (1965)<\/strong><br \/>\nA conniving nanny of a well-to-do family &#8220;accidentally&#8221; drowns the family&#8217;s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.<br \/>\nDir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett<br \/>\n93 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday &#8211; June 29, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>6:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)<\/strong><br \/>\nA frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.<br \/>\nDir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway<br \/>\n111 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<h3>Friday &#8211; June 30, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1:45 AM Adam&#8217;s Rib (1949)<\/strong><br \/>\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.<br \/>\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday<br \/>\n101 mins<br \/>\n*****More a comedy than a mystery&#8230;*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:45 AM Keeper of the Flame (1943)<\/strong><br \/>\nTop-notch reporter Stephen O&#8217;Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.<br \/>\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf<br \/>\n100 mins<\/p>\n<p>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in June, be sure to leave a comment below!<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re interested in seeing the rest of this month\u2019s television mystery movies, here\u2019s the May 2023 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/upcoming-mysteries-on-turner-classic-movies-for-may-2023\/\">Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2023 on Turner Classic Movies channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/cozy-mystery-tv-and-movies.html\">Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that June is traditionally thought of as the &#8220;wedding month&#8221; &#8211; however, I think that June 27 should be thought of as the &#8220;mystery authors&#8217; day on TV&#8221; &#8211; at least at the Turner Classic Movies channel. 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