TCM Schedule for Monday July 8, 2024 - The Hays Gaze (90th Anniversary of the Hays Code)

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Daytime features murder mysteries.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
1h 19m | Crime | TV-PG
The British sleuth comes out of retirement to help catch a band of thieves armed with military weapons.
Director: Victor Saville. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty

7:30 AM Murder Most Foul (1964)
1h 30m | Suspense | TV-H
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Director: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell

9:30 AM Blanche Fury (1948)
1h 30m | Crime | TV_PG
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths his estate to her relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Director: Marc Allegret. Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough

11:30 AM So Long at the Fair (1950)
1h 26m | Suspense | TV-PG
A woman searches for her missing brother in Paris despite the fact that nobody believes he exists.
Director: Terence Fisher. Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde

1:00 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
1h 27m | Suspense | TV-G
A man falsely suspected of killing a spy races across Scotland handcuffed to the beautiful blonde who turned him in.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

2:30 PM Sapphire (1959)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
A "light-skinned" black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London's bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Director: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell

4:30 PM Green For Danger (1946)
1h 31m | Suspense | TV-PG
A police inspector investigates an operating room death that may be murder.
Director: Sidney Gilliat. Cast: Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard

6:30 PM Gaslight (1940)
1h 24m | Suspense | TV-PG
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she's going mad.
Director: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell

8:00 PM Scarface (1932)
1h 30m | Crime | TV-PG
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley

9:45 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
1h 44m | Crime | TV-G
Three WWI Army buddies get mixed up with the mob in peacetime.
Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart

11:45 PM The Bachelor Father (1931)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-G
An aging Don Juan decides to get better acquainted with his grown children.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith

1:30 AM Bachelor Mother (1939)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-G
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn

3:00 AM The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
1h 5m | Crime | TV-PG
Film about a circus girl who's manipulated into becoming a governor's lover. When the governor kills the former circus boss, the girl takes the blame and faces the electric chair.
Director: Phil Goldstone. Cast: Cora Sue Collins, Zita Johann

4:15 AM That Certain Woman (1937)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-G
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise