Unfortunately, Eddie Muller\u2019s Noir Alley isn\u2019t running during August, but I understand he will be back at the channel in September. I always enjoy (and watch!) the movies he presents, and especially like the intros and outros he presents with each of the (noir) mystery movies.<\/p>\n
I know I have mentioned (more than several times!) how much I enjoy watching Halloween-type movies during October. Well, for those of you who enjoy those types of movies, TCM will be showing a whole bunch of Vincent Price movies on Wednesday, August 23. I\u2019m going to set up my DVR and save a lot of his movies for October. I\u2019ve seen most of them already, but \u2026 can\u2019t wait to watch them again!<\/p>\n
Also, those of you who enjoy the Bob Hope\/Bing Crosby\/Dorothy Lamour \u201croad trip\u201d movies, the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing five of them on Thursday, August 17. I don\u2019t know how many of those movies there are, but I know some people really enjoy them\u2026 (They are not mysteries.)<\/p>\n
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2:45 PM Lured (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:30 AM Five Miles to Midnight (1963)<\/strong> 5:45 PM The Trial (1963)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Psycho (1960)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:30 AM Winter Kills (1979)<\/strong> 4:15 AM Remember My Name (1978)<\/strong> 6:00 AM Sol Madrid (1968)<\/strong> 7:45 AM Rage (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM Slaughter (1972)<\/strong> 4:00 AM Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)<\/strong> 1:15 PM Gallant Sons (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 AM Mara Maru (1952)<\/strong> 10:45 AM The Catered Affair (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM The Gazebo (1960)<\/strong> 6:00 AM The Woman on the Beach (1947)<\/strong> 7:30 AM Act of Violence (1949)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Back from Eternity (1956)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Berlin Express (1948)<\/strong> 9:45 PM The Set-Up (1949)<\/strong> 11:15 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:30 AM The Secret Fury (1950)<\/strong> 6:00 AM Union Depot (1932)<\/strong> 7:15 AM Lawyer Man (1933)<\/strong> 11:30 AM The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)<\/strong> 12:45 PM Blondie Johnson (1933)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM Topper Returns (1941)<\/strong> 9:45 AM My Son Is Guilty (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 PM Out of the Past (1947)<\/strong> 8:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Killer Is Loose (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:15 PM This Gun for Hire (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM The Blue Dahlia (1946)<\/strong> 2:00 AM The Glass Key (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 AM The Prize (1963)<\/strong> 10:45 AM The Young Philadelphians (1959)<\/strong> 1:15 PM Harper (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:15 AM The Mackintosh Man (1973)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 11:00 PM Bulldog Drummond (1929)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 6:00 AM A Covenant with Death (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:45 PM The Ghost Breakers (1940)<\/strong> 11:30 PM My Favorite Blonde (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:00 AM My Favorite Brunette (1947)<\/strong> 9:30 PM True Confession (1937)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:45 AM Vigil in the Night (1940)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 4:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)<\/strong> 6:00 PM The Violent Men (1955)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:30 AM Night Nurse (1931)<\/strong> 3:00 AM The Man with a Cloak (1951)<\/strong> 4:30 AM Cry Wolf (1947)<\/strong> 12:30 PM It’s a Wonderful World (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM The FBI Story (1959)<\/strong> 4:45 AM Murder Man (1935)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 9:45 AM His Kind of Woman (1951)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:30 PM The Unguarded Hour (1936)<\/strong> 2:00 PM The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)<\/strong> 11:30 PM A Night to Remember (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 1:15 AM Cause for Alarm! (1951)<\/strong> 4:30 AM Taxi! (1932)<\/strong> 8:00 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)<\/strong> 11:30 AM The Split (1968)<\/strong> 1:15 PM Pay or Die (1960)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:00 AM Julie (1956)<\/strong> 11:30 AM King of the Underworld (1939)<\/strong> 2:15 PM Conflict (1945)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Key Largo (1948)<\/strong> 10:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 12:00 AM In a Lonely Place (1950)<\/strong> 2:00 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)<\/strong> 10:45 AM It All Came True (1940)<\/strong> 12:30 PM They Drive by Night (1940)<\/strong> 2:15 PM The Unfaithful (1947)<\/strong> 10:15 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 2:15 AM Woman on the Run (1950)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n 10:30 PM Arabesque (1966)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/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 2023 television mystery movies schedule:<\/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>\nWednesday – August 2, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA woman tries to free herself from her husband by helping him fake his own death.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nAdaptation of Kafka’s classic novel about a meek bureaucratic clerk who is arrested and put to trial without knowing what crime he’s been accused of.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider
\n118 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock.Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
\n109 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 3, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn assassinated president’s brother investigates the unsolved crime.
\nDir: William Richert. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young woman released from prison begins stalking a married construction worker.
\nDir: Alan Rudolph. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Geraldine Chaplin, Moses Gunn
\n94 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn undercover narcotics agent tries to track a Mafia chief.
\nDir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nBit by a rabid dog in Mexico, a doctor goes overland with a prostitute to get treated in time.
\nDir: Gilberto Gazc\u00f3n. Cast: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
\n103 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 4, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nEx-green beret Jim Brown stars as Slaughter, a man who avenges the gangland murder of his parents by massacring half of Central America.
\nDir: Jack Starrett. Cast: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
\nA drug agent hunts down two colleagues taken hostage by a ruthless casino owner.
\nDir: Chuck Bail. Cast: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Norman Fell
\n94 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen a man is charged with murder, his son’s schoolboy friends set out to solve the case.
\nDir: William Ryan. Cast: Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Gene Reynolds
\n76 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 6, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
\nDir: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
\n98 mins<\/p>\n
\nA working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
\nDir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
\n93 mins
\n*****This isn\u2019t a mystery movie, but I think I recommend it each time TCM shows it.*****<\/p>\nMonday – August 7, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
\nDir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
\nDir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
\nDir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen an airliner crashes in the jungle, the repaired plane can only hold five of the survivors.
\nDir: John Farrow.r Cast: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nAllied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
\n86 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn aging boxer defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
\n82 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 8, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA stranger stops a wedding saying the bride is already married. She denies it, and an investigation then takes place.
\nDir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn out-of-luck con artist discovers a suitcase full of money at a train station.
\nDir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee
\n75 mins<\/p>\n
\nSuccess corrupts a smooth-talking lawyer.
\nDir: William Dieterle. Cast: William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nTwo reporters interested in different stories write about a murder.
\nDir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne
\n74 mins<\/p>\n
\nA female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
\nDir: Ray Enright.Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
\n67 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – August 9, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA beautiful ghost enlists a henpecked husband to track down her killer.
\nDir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nA cop on the beat in Hell’s Kitchen, tries to keep grown son straight after a two-year prison term. Unfortunately others want him to return to a life of crime.
\nDir: Charles Barton. Cast: Bruce Cabot, Jacqueline Wells, Harry Carey
\n63 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 10, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nReporters compete to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crook tries to avenge his wife’s accidental shooting by a cop.
\nDir: Budd Boetticher. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
\n73 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 11,2023<\/h3>\n
\nA hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.
\nDir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
\n80 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – August 12, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
\nDir: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
\n98 mins<\/p>\n
\nA hired gun and his gangster boss fall out over a woman.
\nDir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd
\n85 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 13, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
\nDir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
\n136 mins<\/p>\n
\nA young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
\nDir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
\n136 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>\nMonday – August 14, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda
\n98 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 15, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA British adventurer helps a blonde beauty rescue her uncle from an unscrupulous psychiatrist.
\nDir: F. Richard Jones. Cast: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Lilyan Tashman
\n90 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – August 16, 2023<\/h3>\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>\nThursday – August 17, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA radio broadcaster running from the mob helps an heiress deal with her family’s haunted mansion.
\nDir: George Marshall. Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nA vaudevillian gets mixed up with a beautiful blonde spy.
\nDir: Sidney Lanfield. Cast: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard
\n78 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 18, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA baby photographer mistaken for a private eye ends up being framed for murder.
\nDir: Elliott Nugent. Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre
\n87 mins<\/p>\n
\nA compulsive liar, married to a scrupulously honest lawyer, confesses to a murder she didn’t commit to help further his career.
\nDir: Wesley Ruggles. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
\n75 mins<\/p>\nSaturday – August 19, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister’s careless mistake.
\nDir: George Stevens. Cast: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley
\n96 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 20, 2023<\/h3>\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*****A mystery classic..*****<\/p>\n
\nThe wife of a crooked cattle baron plots his murder.
\nDir: Rudolph Mat\u00e9. Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
\n95 mins<\/p>\nMonday – August 21, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
\nDir: Fletcher Markle. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
\nA runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
\n86 mins<\/p>\nTuesday – August 22, 2023<\/h3>\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 hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
\nDir: Tim Whelan. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
\n70 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – August 23, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
\n122 mins<\/p>\nThursday – August 24, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
\nDir: Sam Wood. Cast: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
\nA boxer facing a murder charge finds refuge in a children’s home.
\nDir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Loretta Young, Aline Macmahon
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nA mystery writer and his wife stumble on a murder in their new apartment.
\nDir: Richard Wallace. Cast: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell
\n91 mins<\/p>\nFriday – August 25, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
\nDir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
\n74 mins<\/p>\n
\nA feisty independent cab driver fights off a crooked syndicate.
\nDir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
\n70 mins<\/p>\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 gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
\nDir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nA policeman attempts to crack down on organized crime “protection” rackets.
\nDir: Richard Wilson. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin
\n110 mins<\/p>\nSunday – August 27, 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<\/p>\n
\nA lady doctor gets mixed up with a criminal gang.
\nDir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
\nDir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet
\n86 mins<\/p>\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
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
\n100 mins<\/p>\nMonday – August 28, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nAn aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn artist who can only find inspiration in women he loves, makes plans to find a new inspiration elsewhere\u2026
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA gangster hides out in a boarding house full of eccentrics.
\nDir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nTruck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhile her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
\nDir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
\n109 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
\nDir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
\n112 mins
\n***Not a mystery, but if you have space on your DVR, you might want to save this Christmas movie.*****<\/p>\nTuesday – August 29, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
\nDir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
\n77 mins<\/p>\nWednesday – August 30, 2023<\/h3>\n
\nA university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
\nDir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
\n105 mins<\/p>\n