1966, August: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorGuy GreenStarsSidney PoitierShelley WintersElizabeth HartmanA blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.Capitol – 01–02
Star – 12–13; 15 - DirectorJohn RichStarsTony CurtisJerry LewisDany SavalA friend visits his philandering friend just as that man's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three flight attendants goes awry.Civic – 01
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsDavid JanssenJeanne CrainDina MerrillA famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.Civic – 01 (2nd to Boeing Boeing)
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryClaudine AugerAdolfo CeliJames Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.Star – 01
Civic – 02–04 - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsElvis PresleyArthur O'ConnellAnne HelmA family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.Star – 02–04
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonOver two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.Star – 02–04 (2nd to Follow That Dream)
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor BuonoA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.Starlight – 01–02
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingBruce BennettDespite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.Starlight – 03 [ranch night]
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsSterling HaydenEve MillerBarton MacLaneWith the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.Starlight – 03 (2nd to Last Outpost) [ranch night]
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsBarbara WindsorBernard CribbinsAgent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.Starlight – 04–06
- DirectorNigel PatrickStarsNigel PatrickYvonne MitchellWilliam BendixA small Irish town: atheist writer shot by a man claiming amnesia. Miracle or murder? Local priest discovers it's a plot: revenge killing. Gets to trial too late - the jury have acquitted. JN gloats - to be struck dead in the courtroom.Starlight – 04–06 (2nd to Carry on Spying)
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsGeorge MaharisRichard BasehartAnne FrancisA germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.Capitol – 03–04
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsLola AlbrightScott MarloweJoe De SantisAn older woman seduces an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Disillusionment sets in when the boy discovers that she is a stripper.Capitol – 03–04 (2nd to Satan Bug)
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsLeslie PhillipsJames Robertson JusticeShirley Anne Field"Doctor in Clover", a.k.a. "Carnaby, M.D." is another "Doctor" movie, but this time, Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips) is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of main Administrator Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), who wants his doctors to be one hundred percent focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Dr. Grimsdyke getting Spratt fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron Sweet (Joan Sims), and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.Capitol – 09
Civic – 12–16
Star – 20–23 - DirectorJohn KrishStarsJohn NevillePhilip StoneGabriella LicudiMysterious woman marries government scientist Davidson despite his lack of knowledge about her past. His bosses are suspicious of her unusual traits. After it's clear she does love Davidson, the pair come under attack.Capitol – 09 (2nd to Doctor in Clover) [HORROR]
Civic – 12–16 (2nd to Doctor in Clover)
Star – 20–23 (2nd to Doctor in Clover) - DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsLana TurnerJohn ForsytheRicardo MontalbanWhen her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.Capitol – 10–11
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJoan CrawfordJohn IrelandLeif EricksonTeenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.Capitol – 10–11 (2nd to Madame X) [HORROR]
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsStewart GrangerRaf ValloneMickey RooneyIn 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of the Nazis.Civic – 09–11
Capitol – 16–18 - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsDean MartinGeraldine PageYvette MimieuxJulian Berniers and his bride Lily leave Chicago to visit his two spinster sisters, Carrie and Anna, in New Orleans but Lily's jealousy combined with Carrie's possessiveness of Julian threaten to destroy the whole family.Civic – 09–11 (2nd to Secret Invasion)
Capitol – 16–18 (2nd to Secret Invasion) - DirectorSidney LumetStarsSean ConneryHarry AndrewsIan BannenIn a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.Star – 09–11
- DirectorJohn RichStarsJanet LeighVan JohnsonShelley WintersA struggling author and his wife suddenly become wealthy and move to the suburbs. Divorced neighbor and "companion" aid marital misconstrue which almost culminates in a divorce.Starlight – 09
- DirectorAlan RafkinStarsFrankie AvalonDwayne HickmanDeborah WalleyIn this musical, college classmates Todd Armstrong (Frankie Avalon) and Craig Gamble (Dwayne Hickman) head out on a group ski vacation, and agree that if they're going to get girlfriends, they need to understand how women think.Starlight – 09 (2nd to Wives and Lovers)
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsFred MacMurrayCharlton HestonDonna ReedAfter purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.Starlight – 10 [ranch night]
["Plus 'Rodeo'"; doesn't appear to be on IMDb, or at least it's too vague to search for.] - DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard AttenboroughAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.Starlight – 11–16
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsAnnette FunicelloDwayne HickmanBrian DonlevyFrankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, "stuffs" it with Cassandra, and sends her to distract advertising executive Ricky from Dee Dee.Capitol – 12–13
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsJ. Pat O'MalleyRobert J. WilkeRobert GistMakeshift gang carries off a theft of $2,000,000 and manages to baffle the police for three years.Capitol – 12–13 (2nd to Wild Bikini)
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsHugh O'BrianShirley EatonFabianTen people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?Capitol – 13–15
- DirectorEdouard LogereauStarsHenri GarcinRomain BouteilleA shockumentary about what happens in Paris that even Parisian never see.Capitol – 13–15 (2nd to Ten Little Indians)
- DirectorJames HillStarsPeter SellersRichard AttenboroughBeryl ReidAn incompetent barrister is assigned to defend an accused wife murderer.Star – 12–13; 15 (2nd to Patch of Blue)
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsAudie MurphyKathryn GrantHope EmersonUnion Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a rag tag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.Star – 13 [matinee]
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTerence StampSamantha EggarMona WashbourneA man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.Star – 16–18
- DirectorMorton DaCostaStarsRobert PrestonShirley JonesBuddy HackettTraveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.Starlight – 18–20
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsRosalind RussellHayley MillsBinnie BarnesTwo high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.Capitol – 20
Civic – 30–31 [special school holiday matinee] - DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJames StewartRichard AttenboroughPeter FinchAfter an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors are buoyed with hope by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who plans for them to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.Capitol – 21–22
Star – 24–25
Civic – 29 - DirectorJames HillTom McGowanStarsVirginia McKennaBill TraversGeoffrey KeenThe story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.Civic – 20–25; 29 [special school holiday matinee]
Capitol – 26–31 - DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterKirk DouglasFredric MarchUnited States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.Starlight – 21–23
- DirectorJulio CollLuis GarcíaStarsBarry SullivanMartha HyerSherry MorelandA married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.Starlight – 21–23 (2nd to 7 Days in May) [HORROR]
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsEric MorecambeErnie WiseWilliam FranklynCoffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent Garden, aided by MI5 friend.Capitol – 23–25
Civic – 30–31 - DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesSylvia SymsDick EmeryAn inept gang of bank robbers led by George The Brain is caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen, which George had hidden in a hollow tree during the chase in which they were caught. The only trouble is that the tree was in the middle of a lonely lane when they were imprisoned; now, 15 years later, it's in the backyard of a police station.Capitol – 23–25 (2nd to Intel Men)
Civic – 30–31 (2nd to Intel Men) - DirectorRoy RowlandStarsRay MillandHelena CarterHugh MarloweAfter violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.Starlight – 24; 31 [ranch night]
- DirectorOliver DrakeStarsJohnny CarpenterAdele JergensGlenn LanganWhen two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area. Sam Casey, the mystery-man behind the gangs, kills Parker's father, and this induces his sweetheart, Rita Starr, to side with the law-and-order faction. An attempt by Casey to kill Rita is foiled by Parker, which leads to a widespread gun-battle.Starlight – 24; 31 (2nd to Bugles) [ranch night]
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsElvis PresleyStella StevensJeremy SlateWhen he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.Starlight – 25–27
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsElvis PresleyUrsula AndressElsa CárdenasA yacht owner's spoiled daughter gets Mike fired, but a boy helps him get a job as singer at Acapulco Hilton etc. He upsets the lifeguard by taking his girl and 3 daily work hours. Mike's also seeing a woman bullfighter.Starlight – 25–27 (2nd to Girls x3)
- DirectorJack SmightStarsSandra DeeRobert GouletAndy WilliamsA young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.Starlight – 29–30
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsAnn-MargretAlex CordRed ButtonsOn the stagecoach to Cheyenne, a mixed group of passengers must work together to survive the arduous journey and the Indian attacks.Star – 29
[Billed as "The Greatest Western Classic Of Them All!" which seems like it's advertising the '39 one.] - DirectorSidney SalkowStarsKen ScottMarla LandiTrader FaulknerA woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue.Star – 29 (2nd to Stagecoach)
- DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.Star – 30–31