The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Oh my gosh, FALL is finally here! I have to keep reminding myself that it’s autumn, since, as I type this, it’s 97* >>> but wait for it, our temperature has one more forecasted degree to go. Yikes!

Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I will be telling you about the Turner Classic Movies (TCM)channel’s mystery and crime movies this month, but that I will not just be watching the mystery movies, but I’ll be DVR-ing my old horror/science-fiction movies to watch during Halloween’s month. That’s right, I am a fan of the old Dracula-type movies… Luckily, TCM has a bunch of old movies starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi… and probably some other actors I have missed. (Neither my daughter nor my son have inherited my penchant for those old scary movies, and my husband doesn’t watch them either, so it’s a solitary enjoyment for me!)

There are several Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies that will be showing this month, and some old crime movies will also be sprinkled in during October 2025. Something that I think will be new for TCM during October is a showing of a bunch of old “Man from U.N.C.L.E. movies from the 1960s. (They star Robert Vaughn and David McCallum.)

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – September 2025

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WEDNESDAY, October 1

6:30d AM Rashomon (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura
88 mins
*****In Japanese*****

8:15 AM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

10:00 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently 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.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, October 2

1:30 AM Torn Curtain (1966)
A U.S. scientist pretends to defect to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
128 mins

1:15 PM Our Mother’s House (1967)
Afraid of being separated, a family of children keep their mother’s death a secret.
Dir: Jack Clayton. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin
105 mins

4:30 PM Over the Edge (1979)
Neglected suburban teens turn to crime as an outlet.
Dir: Jonathan Kaplan. Cast: Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Matt Dillon
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY, October 3

6:15 AM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
60 mins

8:15 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

10:15 AM My Forbidden Past (1951)
A beauty with a skeleton in her closet seeks revenge on the suitor who jilted her.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
81 mins

11:45 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
113 mins
*****Excellent movie*****

1:45 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

3:45 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

10:00 PM Another Man’s Poison (1951)
A mystery writer’s real life turns to intrigue when her criminal husband escapes from prison.
Dir: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams
89 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, October 4

1:45 AM And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
Dir: Robert Fuest. Cast: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, October 5

8:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

10:00 PM Spellbound (1945)
A psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, and it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac, who may also be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
111 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, October 6

3:45 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to Nmkew Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

WEDNESDAY, October 8

2:45 AM Thief (1981)
A safecracker tries to outrun the mob so he can retire.
Dir: Michael Mann. Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson
123 mins

8:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

11:30 PM Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
A defense lawyer takes on a case of a man accused of murdering a bartender who apparently raped his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
160 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, October 9

2:30 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

6:15 AM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
85 mins

7:45 AM A Cry in the Dark (1988)
The true story of a woman put on trial for the murder of her baby who maintains the child was in fact taken by a wild dingo.
Dir: Fred Schepisi. Cast: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves
121 mins

2:15 PM I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
An Irish woman who hates the English turns Nazi spy.
Dir: Frank Launder. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
112 mins

6:15 PM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY, October 10

8:00 AM The Women (1939)
It’s all about men! In the eternal battle between the sexes, one side holds an overwhelming advantage: Armed with razor-sharp wit and wielding gossip as a weapon, victory can only go to The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell enter the skirmish as Mary Haines, Crystal Allen and Sylvia Fowler – whose …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
132 mins
*****Not a mystery – but it’s really a good movie.*****

8:00 PM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
77 mins

11:30 PM The Haunting (1963)
You may not believe in ghosts…but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting. Anthropologist Dr. John Markway, who seeks to disprove the legends; …
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins
*****I’m not too sure this is a mystery, but it sure is Halloween fare!*****

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SATURDAY, October 11

5:00 AM Night Watch (1973)
Ellen Wheeler is an unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window. When she witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window, she calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate. With her neglectful husband skeptical and unsupportive, Ellen turns to …
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

6:45 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
73 mins

6:15 PM Kansas City Confidential (1952)
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster
98 mins

10:15 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist’s sister’s relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
96 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, October 12

12:00 AM New York Confidential (1955)
A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians make multi-million dollar deals and order murders until the vicious pattern finally catches up to them.
Dir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft
87 mins

10:00 AM New York Confidential (1955)
A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians make multi-million dollar deals and order murders until the vicious pattern finally catches up to them.
Dir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft
87 mins

8:00 PM Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
101 mins

10:00 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie
119 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, October 13

6:00 AM To Trap a Spy (1964)
Secret agents try to stop the assassination of an African leader touring the U.S.
Dir: Don Medford. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Luciana Paluzzi
92 mins

7:45 AM The Spy with My Face (1966)
Enemy agents turn one of their own into a dead ringer for Man from U.N.C.L.E. Napoleon Solo.
Dir: John Newland. Cast: Robert Vaughn, Senta Berger, David McCallum
88 mins

9:30 AM One Spy Too Many (1966)
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin try to keep a madman from conquering the world.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Rip Torn
102 mins

11:15 AM One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
An enemy agent appeals to an aging British statesman with promises of a youth potion.
Dir: E. Darrell Hallenbeck. Cast: Robert Vaughn, Norman Felton, Sam Rolfe, Alfred Ryder
60 mins

1:00 PM The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
Secret agents fight to keep a criminal mastermind from altering the course of the Gulf Stream.
Dir: Joseph Sargent Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Maxie Rosenbloom
92 mins

2:45 PM The Karate Killers (1967)
The men from U.N.C.L.E. fight off karate-chopping henchmen to track down a secret formula.
Dir: Barry Shear. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jill Ireland
89 mins

4:30 PM The Helicopter Spies (1968)
Two government agents try to stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
Dir: Boris Sagal. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Julie London
92 mins

6:15 PM How to Steal the World (1968)
Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world.
Dir: Sutton Roley. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Barry Sullivan
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

TUESDAY, October 14

9:15 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

6:00 PM Bullitt (1968)
A 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.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, October 16

8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young 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, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

10:00 PM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
110 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY, October 17

12:00 AM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
126 mins

2:15 AM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
78 mins

7:45 AM The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
A phony medium tries to prove her protege innocent of murder.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly
72 mins

2:00 PM I Confess (1953)
Based 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.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

8:00 PM Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl. Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
110 mins

10:00 PM Black Widow (1954)
The murder of a scheming female writer throws a group of theatrical friends into turmoil.
Dir: Nunnally Johnson. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, October 18

6:15 PM The Last Run (1971)
An aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere
82 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, October 19

12:00 AM Black Tuesday (1954)
Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.
Dir: Hugo Fregonese. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves
80 mins

10:00 AM Black Tuesday (1954)
Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.
Dir: Hugo Fregonese. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves
80 mins

2:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young 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, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury
114 mins

4:00 PM So Long at the Fair (1950)
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
86 mins

8:00 PM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
128 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, October 20

6:15 PM The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY, October 24

8:00 PM Suspicion (1941)
A 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.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY, October 25

2:15 PM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
110 mins

4:15 PM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
116 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY, October 26

12:00 AM Southside 1-1000 (1950)
The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Don DeFore, Andrea King, George Tobias
73 mins

1:45 AM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
****Loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

3:15 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins
****Loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

5:00 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins
****Loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

10:00 AM Southside 1-1000 (1950)
The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Don DeFore, Andrea King, George Tobias
73 mins

11:45 AM The Unfaithful (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
109 mins

1:45 PM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins

3:30 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

5:45 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

10:00 PM Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Young Charlie is a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle Charlie is a serial killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
108 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

MONDAY, October 27

6:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
80 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

TUESDAY, October 28

12:15 PM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist’s investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Dir: Victor Fleming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
113 mins

10:45 PM Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
72 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

WEDNESDAY, October 29

1:45 AM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
63 mins

3:00 AM Three on a Match (1932)
A woman’s childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O’Day
64 mins

4:00 PM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

THURSDAY, October 30

8:00 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY, October 31

2:15 AM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

8:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
134 mins
 
***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in October, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the September television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

Oh my gosh! I keep thinking summer is over, even though our weather is still hot, hotter, hottest! I guess the reason that I think it is Fall is because our neighborhood children have been in school for the last two weeks. That’s right, they started the school year on August 11! (I actually have already put up my autumnal wreath!)

This month, the Turner Classic Movies channel is going to be showing all four of the Agatha Christie Miss Jane Marple movies that Dame Margaret Rutherford starred in: Murder She Said (1961), Murder at the Gallop (1963), Murder Ahoy (1964), and Murder Most Foul (1964). The first three listed will be aired on Monday, September 15 and the 4th will be shown on Sunday, September 21. I must admit that it took some time for me to get used to a lot of the changes these four movies made to Christie’s novels… but I now look forward to watching these movies spin on Miss Marple. (You’ll see what I mean if you watch the movies…) Also, in case you are interested, Tony Randall portrays Christie’s Poirot in The Alphabet Murders (1965) which will air on September 15, after the 3 Miss Marple movies, in which Margaret Rutherford makes a cameo appearance as Miss Marple. I’m looking forward to seeing her in that movie – which I don’t remember ever seeing before.

Here are the mystery and crime movies the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during September 2025:

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – September 2025

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Monday – September 1, 2025

12:00 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A 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.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins
*****Not so much a mystery…..*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 2, 2025

7:45 AM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins

9:15 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
117 mins

2:15 PM Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
99 mins

4:00 PM Midnight Lace (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
108 mins

6:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 3, 2025

3:30 AM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
*****If you haven’t seen this mystery movie yet, make sure you do!*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – September 4, 2025

4:30 PM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

5:15 AM The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – September 5, 2025

8:30 AM Wildcat Bus (1940)
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Dir: Frank Woodruff. Cast: Fay Wray, Charles Lang, Paul Guilfoyle
64 mins

9:45 AM Society Lawyer (1939)
A lawyer plays with fire when he gets mixed up with underworld types.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo
77 mins

12:45 PM Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Dir: Richard L. Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
81 mins

2:15 PM Lady Gangster (1942)
A district attorney tries to reform a gangster’s moll who’s been sent up the river.
Dir: Florian Roberts. Cast: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox
62 mins

3:30 PM This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
A female gangster learns she is losing her vision.
Dir: Felix Feist. Cast: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian
97 mins

5:15 PM Three on a Match (1932)
A woman’s childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O’Day (aka Anne Shirley)
64 mins

6:30 PM Second Chance (1953)
A crooked boxer falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance
82 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 6, 2025

6:00 AM Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971)
A blind man and a reporter investigate a break-in at a center for genetic research.
Dir: Dario Argento. Cast: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
112 mins

10:15 AM The Gay Falcon (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins
66 mins

12:00 AM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
77 mins

1:45 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

3:45 AM Klute (1971)
A 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.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 7, 2025

8:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

10:00 AM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
77 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 8, 2025

8:00 PM The Ladykillers (1955)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker
91 mins

9:45 PM Your Past Is Showing (1958)
Bumbling blackmail subjects join forces to do in their tormentor.
Dir: Mario Zampi. Cast: Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton
92 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 9, 2025

6:00 AM They All Come Out (1939)
The getaway driver for a gang of thieves is captured by the police and sent to a prison, where he contemplates a life of reform.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell
70 mins

7:15 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

8:45 AM The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
66 mins

1:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

9:45 PM Marty (1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
94 mins
*****Not a mystery. Excellent movie.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 10, 2025

2:00 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

8:00 PM The Heiress (1949)
A plain young woman’s wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
115 mins
*****Not a mystery. Super movie!*****

10:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
138 mins
*****Not a mystery. Another really great movie.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – September 11, 2025

11:00 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 13, 2025

10:15 AM A Date with the Falcon (1942)
The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason
63 mins

6:30 PM Roadblock (1951)
An insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels. Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
73 mins

10:15 PM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

12:00 AM Sudden Fear (1952)
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
110 mins

2:15 AM Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Dir: Lewis Allen. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
75 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 14, 2025

10:00 AM Sudden Fear (1952)
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
110 mins

10:00 PM Midnight Lace (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
108 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 15, 2025

6:00 AM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

7:30 AM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins

9:00 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins

10:45 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
92 mins

12:30 PM The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders committed in alphabetical order.
Dir: Frank Tashlin. Cast: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley
90 mins

2:15 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young 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, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she …
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

4:15 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

6:15 PM The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
Dir: Edgar Selwyn. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allen, Lewis Stone
84 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 16, 2025

10:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

2:30 PM Confidential Agent (1945)
A Spanish spy and an American heiress battle fascists in England.
Dir: Herman Shumlin. Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
118 mins

4:30 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 17, 2025

3:15 PM Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
Three amateur detectives try to find a missing magician.
Dir: Eddie Sutherland. Cast: Pat O’Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis
70 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 20, 2025

10:20 AM The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
A society sleuth and a lady reporter try to track down a murderous thug’s lost girlfriend.
Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason
63 mins

12:00 AM The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
After returning from a concentration camp, a woman finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Dir: Wolfgang Staudte. Cast: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
81 mins
*****In German*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 21, 2025

8:00 AM Crime and Punishment, USA (1959)
In an update of the Dostoyevsky classic novel, a murderer believes he can escape the penalties of justice.
Dir: Denis Sanders. Cast: Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes
96 mins

10:00 AM The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
After returning from a concentration camp, a woman finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Dir: Wolfgang Staudte. Cast: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
81 mins
*****In German*****

11:45 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 22, 2025

8:00 PM The Pink Panther (1964)
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the tail of a famous jewel-thief whose eyes are set on stealing the famous “Pink Panther” gem worn by an Indian Princess.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine
113 mins
***More a comedy than a mystery…*****

10:00 PM A Shot in the Dark (1964)
A young chambermaid is accused of committing a series of murders, but Inspector Clouseau is the only one who believes she’s innocent and tries to prove it.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
102 mins
***More a comedy than a mystery…*****

12:00 AM Casino Royale (1967)
In a spoof of the James Bond films, the now aging secret agent is called to save his agency from infiltration with the help of many new agents and the threat of a chorus of suspected villains.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven
131 mins
***Possibly more a comedy than a mystery…*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 23, 2025

8:45 AM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins

10:45 AM Mr. Arkadin (1955)
An 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.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
99 mins

12:45 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 24, 2025

4:00 PM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – September 26, 2025

6:30 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

1:00 PM The Argyle Secrets (1948)
Reporter Harry Mitchell tracks down papers that will show that some leading Americans collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Dir: Cyril Endfield. Cast: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd
63 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 27, 2025

10:25 AM The Falcon’s Brother (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan. Cast: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
63 mins

4:15 PM A Covenant with Death (1967)
A lawyer defends a convicted man who killed his hangman before being cleared of the earlier crime.
Dir: Lamont Johnson. Cast: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado
97 mins

6:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

8:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
105 mins

10:00 PM Our Man in Havana (1960)
A salesman in Cuba takes up spying to support his spendthrift daughter.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara
111 mins

12:00 AM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
86 mins

2:00 AM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

4:00 AM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 28, 2025

10:00 AM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 29, 2025

9:45 PM The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The famous Pink Panther diamond has been stolen from the museum and retired jewel thief Sir Charles Litton is immediately blamed. In danger of being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, Litton reluctantly works with Inspector Jacques Clouseau to find out who the real crook is.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell
113 mins
*****More of a comedy than a mystery.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 30, 2025

6:00 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva
95 mins

7:45 AM A Woman’s Secret (1949)
A retired singer takes on a protégé only to be betrayed by her.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
85 mins

9:15 AM Born to Be Bad (1950)
An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins

11:00 AM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins

4:30 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in September, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the August television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.