Along with all of the mystery movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during September 2023, several Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies will be shown on Sunday, September 10. Be sure to check and see if you haven’t seen one or two of them… they’re definitely worth a sit-down-and-watch! [The Wrong Man (1956), The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Wrong Man (1956), I Confess (1953), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1954), & Psycho (1960)]<\/p>\n
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9:00 AM Frisco Jenny (1933)
\nA district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
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8:27 AM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
\nA schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
\nDir: Edward Cline. Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
\n63 mins<\/p>\n
11:30 AM Torture Money (1937)
\nThe police track down a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
\nDir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Edwin Maxwell, George Lynn
\n20 mins<\/p>\n
2:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
\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<\/p>\n
4:00 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
\nA dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
\nDir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
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12:00 AM The Secret Fury (1950)
\nA wedding is stopped by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though she denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated.
\nDir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
2:00 AM Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
\nTrue story of a divorced father in search of his children when his ex-wife enters the witness relocation program.
\nDir: James Caan. Cast: James Caan, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Viharo
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
10:00 AM The Secret Fury (1950)
\nA wedding is stopped by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though she denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated.
\nDir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
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1:15 PM The Big House (1930)
\nAn attempted prison break leads to a riot.
\nDir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
4:30 PM The Secret Six (1931)
\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
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6:00 AM Killer McCoy (1947)
\nA lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
\nDir: Roy Rowland. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth
\n103 mins<\/p>\n
8:00 AM Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948)
\nA society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
\nDir: Richard L. Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
9:30 AM Smart Money (1931)
\nA barber’s good luck turns him into a big-time gambling boss.
\nDir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
12:15 PM Shooting Straight (1930)
\nA gambler accidentally commits murder and hides under the guise of a clergyman.
\nDir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Richard Dix, Mary Lawlor, James Neill
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
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10:00 AM The Petrified Forest (1936)
\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. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
\n83 mins<\/p>\n
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2:00 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)
\nA deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
\n122 mins<\/p>\n
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12:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
\nBased on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
6:00 AM The 39 Steps (1935)
\nRichard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
\n87 mins<\/p>\n
8:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
\nMiss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
10:00 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
\nBased on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
12:00 PM I Confess (1953)
\nBased on a 1902 play, 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>\n
1:45 PM Vertigo (1958)
\nA detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
\n128 mins<\/p>\n
4:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
\nA photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
\n112 mins<\/p>\n
6:00 PM Psycho (1960)
\nA woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock.
\nCast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
\n109 mins<\/p>\n
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10:00 PM Act of Violence (1949)
\nAn embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
\nDir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
11:30 PM Point Blank (1967)
\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
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12:45 PM The Secret Fury (1950)
\nA wedding is stopped by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though she denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated.
\nDir: Mel Ferrer. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
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5:15 AM Libel (1959)
\nA former POW is accused of being an impostor.
\nDir: Anthony Asquith Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
11:30 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
\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>\n
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3:15 AM Paris, Texas (1984)
\nAn amnesiac tries to find the family he lost.
\nDir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
\n145 mins<\/p>\n
9:45 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1935)
\nA jewel heist leads to murder.
\nDir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton
\n63 mins<\/p>\n
11:00 AM Make Your Own Bed (1944)
\nDetectives masquerade as a butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
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12:00 AM Out of the Fog (1941)
\nA racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
4:00 AM The Last Run (1971)
\nAn aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
\nDir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
10:00 AM Out of the Fog (1941)
\nA racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
\n93 mins<\/p>\n
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12:45 PM Penthouse (1933)
\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. Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
\n88 mins<\/p>\n
8:00 PM Angel Face (1953)
\nYikes! This woman is beautiful but deadly!
\nDir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
\n91 mins<\/p>\n
10:00 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
\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>\n
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12:00 AM Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
\nA businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man’s wife.
\nDir: Louis Malle. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
\n87 mins<\/p>\n
2:00 AM In a Lonely Place (1950)
\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
6:00 AM I Love You Again (1940)
\nA solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
4:00 PM Mr. Arkadin (1955)
\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. Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
\n99 mins.<\/p>\n
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8:00 PM The Birds (1963)
\nAn immense flock of birds descends upon a seacoast town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to attack and kill the townsfolk.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
\n120 mins
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2:45 AM Bullitt (1968)
\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. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
6:45 AM According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951)
\nGangsters buy the shabby hotel where a retired schoolteacher has lived for 25 years.
\nDir: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Spring Byington, Anthony Caruso, Tanis Chandler
\n60 mins<\/p>\n
8:00 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
\nA detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
\nDir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
\n80 mins<\/p>\n
12:45 PM Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
\nA lawyer and a widow encounter murder on a train ride.
\nDir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
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12:00 AM Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
\nAn amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane
\n66 mins<\/p>\n
2:00 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
\nFrank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and begins an affair with Nick’s wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.
\nDir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
\n123 mins<\/p>\n
4:15 AM Blood Simple (1984)
\nAn owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
\nDir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
10:00 AM Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
\nAn amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane
\n66 mins<\/p>\n
5:45 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
\nA medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
\nDir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke
\n116 mins<\/p>\n
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10:30 AM The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
\nTurn-of-the-century Irish patriots plan to overthrow the British government.
\nDir: John Guillermin. Cast: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
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9:00 AM My Forbidden Past (1951)
\nA beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
\nDir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
\n81 mins<\/p>\n
12:30 PM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
\nA woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
\nDir: Joseph Santley. Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
2:00 PM Danger Signal (1945)
\nA man suspected of murder charms a secretary into helping him.
\nDir: Robert Florey. Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman
\n78 mins<\/p>\n
3:30 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
\nPerry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
\nDir: William McGann. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
\n62 mins<\/p>\n
10:00 PM Our Mother’s House (1967)
\nAfraid of being separated, a family of children keep their mother’s death a secret.
\nDir: Jack Clayton. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
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12:00 AM Victim (1961)
\nA closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
\nDir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
2:00 AM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
\nA wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
\nDir: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
6:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
\nSidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
\nDir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
\n115 mins<\/p>\n
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4:15 PM Dark Passage (1947)
\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
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If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in September, 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 August 2023 television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n