The Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing a few movies during July that are based on mystery authors from yester-year. There will be two S. S. Van Dine movies: The Kennel Murder Case with one of my favorite actors (William Powell) will be shown on Saturday, July 8 and The Casino Murder Case on Saturday, July 1. I’ve seen both of them several times, and will probably “tape” them on my YouTube TV device so that I can watch them again!<\/p>\n
Also, if you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies, there will be four of them during July: Dial M for Murder (Sunday, July 16), The Girl Was Young (Tuesday, July 18), I Confess (Tuesday, July 25), and Foreign Correspondent (Saturday, July 2).<\/p>\n
Barbara Stanwyck (probably my all-time favorite Golden Age of Hollywood actress (except for Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and a few others!) will be featured in four mystery movies this month on the Turner Classic Movies channel: Jeopardy (Tuesday, July 11), The Mad Miss Manton and Lady of Burlesque (Tuesday, July 18), and the must-see Double Indemnity (Saturday, July 29).<\/p>\n
And, since Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley is back, be sure to catch the noir movies he picks to show on Saturdays at midnight and then later on Sunday mornings. I enjoy his intros and outros so much that sometimes I fast-forward through the movies to see his outros and then go back and watch the movies… sort of like when the suspense in a book is so intense that I can’t wait to the end of the book and find myself peeking at the last two chapters before going back to my place in the book.<\/p>\n
P.S. I’m a little worried about what the future will hold for the Turner Classic Movies channel. The UK version of the channel is being shut down. The current news reports about TCM look a little bleak… Hopefully Warner is able to continue the channel here.<\/p>\n
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10:08 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)<\/strong> 11:30 AM Soak the Old (1940)<\/strong> 12:00 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Deep Valley (1947)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Deep Valley (1947)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Jezebel (1938)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:00 AM Barrios Altos (1987)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 5:30 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 AM The Whip Hand (1951)<\/strong> 1:15 PM The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)<\/strong> 4:30 PM Big Jim McLain (1952)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:00 AM Intruder in the Dust (1949)<\/strong> 5:30 AM Storm Warning (1951)<\/strong> 6:00 PM An American Dream (1966)<\/strong> 9:30 PM Absolute Quiet (1936)<\/strong> 11:00 PM Secret of the Blue Room (1933)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 AM The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)<\/strong> 2:45 AM The Night of the Hunter (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)<\/strong> 10:08 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)<\/strong> 8:00 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Impact (1949)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Impact (1949)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM The Castle of Sand (1974)<\/strong> 4:30 AM The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)<\/strong> 6:00 AM The Man I Love (1947)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:15 AM Jeopardy (1953)<\/strong> 9:30 AM Crime Wave (1954)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Point Blank (1967)<\/strong> 5:45 PM Harper (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Bugsy (1991)<\/strong> 2:30 AM Machine Gun McCain (1970)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:30 PM Dead Man’s Eyes (1944)<\/strong> 10:45 PM Murder in the Private Car (1934)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:30 AM Illegal (1955)<\/strong> 7:30 AM The Leopard Man (1943)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 3:45 AM Shaft (1971)<\/strong> 1:45 PM The FBI Story (1959)<\/strong> 6:15 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Shockproof (1949)<\/strong> 4:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Shockproof (1949)<\/strong> 11:45 AM Gaslight (1944)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:30 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)<\/strong> 8:00 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)<\/strong> 9:15 AM Lured (1947)<\/strong> 11:00 AM Lady of Burlesque (1943)<\/strong> 12:45 PM The Girl Was Young (1937)<\/strong> 2:30 PM Obsession (1949)<\/strong> 4:15 PM The Big Sleep (1946)<\/strong> 6:15 PM The Late Show (1977)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:45 AM Mean Streets (1973)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 8:00 PM The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)<\/strong> 10:30 PM British Intelligence (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:00 AM Find the Blackmailer (1943)<\/strong> 7:15 AM The Secret Six (1931)<\/strong> 8:45 AM Night Spot (1938)<\/strong> 6:30 PM Stage Struck (1948)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:30 AM Klute<\/strong> (1971) 6:30 PM Crime Wave (1954)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Julie (1956)<\/strong> 6:00 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)<\/strong> 8:00 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Julie (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 AM The Invisible Menace (1938)<\/strong> 10:45 AM A Covenant with Death (1966)<\/strong> 12:30 PM I Accuse! (1958)<\/strong> 2:15 PM I Confess (1953)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:15 PM Fury (1936)<\/strong> 10:15 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)<\/strong> 10:30 PM Within the Law (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:15 PM Mean Streets (1973)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 PM Key Largo (1948)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Foreign Correspondent (1940)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Body Heat (1981)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Desperate (1947)<\/strong> 10:00 AM Desperate (1947)<\/strong> 3:45 PM The Night of the Iguana (1964)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 7:45 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)<\/strong> 9:15 AM Hot Summer Night (1957)<\/strong> 11:00 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)<\/strong> 6:45 PM Heat Lightning (1934)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Gilda (1946)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Affair in Trinidad (1952)<\/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 June2023 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
\nDir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
\n83 mins
\n*****Based on S. S. Van Dine’ mystery novels.*****<\/p>\n
\nThis focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
\nDir: Sammy Lee. Cast: John Dilson, Ralph Morgan, Edward Earle
\n20 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
\n126 mins
\n*****Not a mystery but a very good Fourth of July type of movie.*****<\/p>\nSunday – July 2, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA farmer’s daughter helps an escaped convict.
\nDir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
\n104 mins<\/p>\n
\nA farmer’s daughter helps an escaped convict.
\nDir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
\n104 mins<\/p>\n
\nJulie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden’s headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness …
\nDir: William Wyler.Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
\n104 mins
\n*****Not a mystery, but a terrific movie.*****<\/p>\nMonday – July 3, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA divorcee investigates her masseuse’s murder.
\nDir: Jose Luis Garcia Berlanga Cast: Victoria Abril, Carmen Conesa, Juanjo Puigcorbe
\n87 mins
\n*****In Spanish*****<\/p>\nTuesday – July 4, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nThe life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
\n126 mins
\n*****Not a mystery but a very good Fourth of July movie.*****<\/p>\nWednesday – July 5, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
\nDir: William Cameron Menzies. Cast: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nCommunists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
\nDir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nA U.S. agent takes on communists in Hawaii.
\nDir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness
\n90 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 6, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nOnly a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
\nDir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
\n89 mins<\/p>\n
\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…
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man suspected of murdering his wife has to elude the police and a gang of hoodlums.
\nDir: Robert Gist. Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
\n107 mins<\/p>\n
\nMurder follows when a plane filled with shady characters is forced to land on a tycoon’s ranch.
\nDir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Raymond Walburn
\n67 mins<\/p>\n
\nSeveral rich people staying in a mansion with a “cursed” blue room make a bet to stay in the room and not end up dead.
\nDir: Kurt Neumann. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas
\n65 mins<\/p>\nFriday – July 7, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA magician fakes his own death to catch a murderer.
\nDir: Phil Rosen. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Don Douglas
\n63 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. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
\n93 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 8, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nThree amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
\nDir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
\n130 mins<\/p>\n
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
\n73 mins
\n*****Based on S. S. Van Dine’ mystery novels.*****<\/p>\n
\nA dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
\nDir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
\n71 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 9, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAfter surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
\nDir: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
\n111 mins<\/p>\n
\nAfter surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
\nDir: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
\n111 mins<\/p>\nMonday – July 10, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nTwo police detectives set out to solve the murder of an old man who was beaten to death.
\nDir: Yoshitaro Nomura. Cast: Tetsuro Tamba, Go Kato, Kensaku Morita
\n143 mins
\n*****In Japanese*****<\/p>\n
\nAn inspector moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Daniel Gelin, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair
\n84 mins
\n*****In French*****<\/p>\n
\nA night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nDesperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
\n95 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – July 11, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
\nDir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nA reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
\nDir: Andre DeToth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nA professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
\nDir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nA broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
\nDir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
\n121 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – July 12, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nNew York mobster “Bugsy” Siegel leaves New York City to dip into the glamour of Hollywood, CA and to build up syndicate gambling rackets.
\nDir: Barry Levinson. Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel
\n135 mins<\/p>\n
\nA gangster defies the mob by going ahead with a casino job they had called off.
\nDir: Giuliano Montaldo. Cast: John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk
\n116 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 13<\/h3>\n
\nAn artist who is blinded is promised an operation to restore his sight, but the benefactor dies a premature death and the artist becomes a suspect.
\nDir: Reginald Leborg. Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly
\n64 mins<\/p>\n
\nA speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
\nDir: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle
\n63 mins<\/p>\nFriday – July 14, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
\nDir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
\n66 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 15, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
\nDir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
\n98 mins<\/p>\n
\nA dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
\n149 mins<\/p>\n
\nA romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
\n86 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 16, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA beautiful ex-con falls for her parole officer while still dating the crook who landed her in prison.
\nDir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
\nDir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
\n106 mins<\/p>\n
\nA beautiful ex-con falls for her parole officer while still dating the crook who landed her in prison.
\nDir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey
\n80 mins<\/p>\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 and that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…
\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nA straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
\n105 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – July 18<\/h3>\n
\nA daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
\n65 mins<\/p>\n
\nA feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
\nDir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
\n70 mins
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****<\/p>\n
\nA woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
\nDir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
\n102 mins<\/p>\n
\nA star dancer and comedian team to investigate murders.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nA jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife’s lover in an acid bath.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nCalled into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
\nDir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
\n114 mins
\n*****Based on Raymond Chandler’s mystery novels.*****<\/p>\n
\nAn aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
\nDir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
\n94 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – July 19, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA young hood in New York’s Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
\nDir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
\n110 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 20, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nThe star of a movie is killed and the police try to solve the murder while keeping everyone on the set.
\nDir: Robert Florey. Cast: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick
\n60 mins<\/p>\n
\nA lady spy uses a British nobleman’s home in her undercover work for the Germans.
\nDir: Terry Morse. Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester
\n62 mins<\/p>\nFriday – July 21, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA private eye hunts for the talking bird that holds the key to a murder.
\nDir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart
\n55 mins<\/p>\n
\nA secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
\nDir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn undercover cop tries to catch a gang of jewel thieves at a high-society nightclub.
\nDir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Parkyakarkus, Allan Lane, Gordon Jones
\n60 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe murder of nightclub hostess leads an investigator to seedy nightspots.
\nDir: William Nigh. Cast: Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel
\n71 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 22, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
\nDir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nA reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
\nDir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
\n73 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 23, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
\nDir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
\n99 mins
\n*****Yes, Doris Day was in movies that weren’t musical or comedies!*****<\/p>\n
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
\nDir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
\n90 mins
\n*****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mystery series.*****<\/p>\n
\nElderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
\nDir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
\n93 mins
\n*****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mystery series.*****<\/p>\n
\nA stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
\nDir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
\n99 mins
\n*****Yes, Doris Day was in movies that weren’t musical or comedies!*****<\/p>\nTuesday – July 25, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn Army base murder investigation dredges up strange secrets.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven
\n55 mins<\/p>\n
\nA lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
\nDir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nTrue story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
\nDir: Jose Ferrer. Cast: Jose Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nBased on a 1902 play by Paul Anthelme, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
\n95 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – July 26<\/h3>\n
\nAn innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
\nDir: Fritz Lang Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
\n94 mins<\/p>\n
\nA black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
\nDir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
\n109 mins<\/p>\nThursday – July 27, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
\nDir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
\nDir: Gustav Machaty. Cast: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly
\n65 mins<\/p>\nFriday – July 28, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA young hood in New York’s Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
\nDir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
\n110 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – July 29, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
\n101 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
\n119 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
\nDir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
\n106 mins
\n*****Terrific movie!*****<\/p>\n
\nA femme fatale seduces a Florida lawyer and convinces him to kill her husband.
\nDir: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
\n113 mins<\/p>\nSunday – July 30, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
\nDir: Anthony Mann’ Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he’s accused of robbery.
\nDir: Anthony Mann’ Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
\n73 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ex-minister works as a tour guide in a Mexican coastal town, falls into some romantic interludes with a group of schoolteachers, and then meets a beautiful artist at a run-down hotel where the proprietress is in love with him.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
\n125 mins<\/p>\nMonday – July 31, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
\nDir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nA hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
\nDir: David Friedkin. Cast: Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke
\n86 mins<\/p>\n
\nA frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
\nDir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
\n111 mins
\n*****Another terrific movie!*****<\/p>\n
\nA lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
\nDir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
\n63 mins<\/p>\n
\nA gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nA nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
\nDir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby
\n98 mins<\/p>\n