1966, February: Canberra film releases
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1. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert
Votes: 3,775
Capitol – 3
2. The Hired Gun (1957)
Approved | 63 min | Western
A woman breaks out of jail before hanging and a man is hired to bring her back.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, John Litel
Votes: 382
Capitol - 3 (2nd to Teahouse)
3. Tickle Me (1965)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A singing rodeo rider gets hired at an expensive all-female dude ranch/beauty spa and falls for a pretty fitness trainer who's under constant threat from a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold that's hidden in a ghost town.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney
Votes: 2,027 | Gross: $7.41M
Capitol – 4–7 Civic – 11
4. The Little Ones (1965)
66 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
To boys from London plan to run away to Liverpool and from there to Jamaica.
Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Carl Gonzales, Kim Smith, Dudley Foster, Derek Newark
Capitol - 4–7 (2nd to Tickle Me) Civic – 11 (2nd to Tickle Me)
5. World Without Sun (1964)
93 min | Documentary
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in deep-water seas from within a special designed batiscaff, by the Cousteau family of sea explorers.
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau | Stars: Pierre Bidault, Louis Bidegant, Christian Bonnici, Jacques Bourdes
Votes: 532
Civic – 3
6. Broken Sabre (1965)
89 min | Western
In the 1880s Jason McCord travels across the country trying to prove he's not a coward because his Army career and West point graduate came to an end when he was thrown out of the army after being falsely accused of cowardice.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Wendell Corey, Cesar Romero
Votes: 36
Civic – 3 (2nd to World Without Sun)
7. Red Line 7000 (1965)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Drama, Sport
The story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Caan, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, Charlene Holt
Votes: 1,149
Civic – 4–6 Capitol – 11–13
8. The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Approved | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer
Votes: 2,497 | Gross: $28.41M
Star – 3
9. The Revolt of the Seven (1964)
85 min | Adventure
Milo, tyrant of Sparta, has betrayed the Achea League. The evidence of betrayal is hidden by one of the rebels who is killed before he can reveal the hiding place to his friend Keros.
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Tony Russel, Massimo Serato, Nando Gazzolo, Livio Lorenzon
Votes: 113
Star – 4 [ITALIAN]
10. Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
G | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A veterinarian living in Africa with his daughter take care of a cross-eyed lion, make friends with other animals, and learn about local wildlife.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn, Cheryl Miller
Votes: 735
Star – 4 (2nd to Spartan Gladiators)
11. Do Not Disturb (1965)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
When American couple Janet (Doris Day) and Mike (Rod Taylor) move to England for his business, she soon fears he's having an affair with his attractive secretary and decides to get back at him by pretending she has been unfaithful.
Director: Ralph Levy | Stars: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 1,866 | Gross: $11.50M
Star – 5
12. Thunderball (1965)
PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James 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.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 127,110 | Gross: $63.60M
Starlight – 3–8
13. War Hunt (1962)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Tommy Matsuda
Votes: 1,119
Starlight – 3–8 (2nd to Thunderball) Starlight – 7–8 (2nd to Goldfinger)
14. The Dolls (1965)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 380
Capitol – 8–10 [ITALIAN] Civic – 15–17
15. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Martita Hunt
Votes: 10,231
Civic – 7–8 Capitol – 15 Star – 16–17
16. Tank Commandos (1959)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, War
A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. An Italian boy leads them to a bridge under the surface of the water.
Director: Burt Topper | Stars: Donato Farretta, Robert Barron, Maggie Lawrence, Wally Campo
Votes: 194
Civic – 7–8 (2nd to Bunny Lake) Capitol – 15 (2nd to Bunny Lake)
17. Peyton Place (1957)
Approved | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 6,615 | Gross: $25.60M
Civic – 9–10 Capitol – 16–17 Star – 23–24
18. Goldfinger (1964)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 202,580 | Gross: $51.08M
Starlight – 7–8
19. Nothing But the Best (1964)
99 min | Comedy
A young and ambitious businessman hires an unemployed upper-class man to tutor him in the life skills which he thinks are necessary to succeed. When he succeeds, disaster threatens.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin
Votes: 433
Starlight – 15
20. Calculated Risk (1963)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama
Crooks plan a bank heist by digging through a basement of a neighbouring house.
Director: Norman Harrison | Stars: William Lucas, John Rutland, Dilys Watling, Shay Gorman
Votes: 191
Starlight – 15 (2nd to Nothing but Best)
21. The Last Frontier (1955)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore
Votes: 1,805
Starlight – 16 [ranch night]
22. The Black Dakotas (1954)
Approved | 65 min | Western
During the American Civil War, Confederate spies aim to steal Union gold intended for the peace treaty with the Sioux and thus pit the Indians against the Union Forces.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 293
Starlight – 16 (2nd to Last Frontier) [ranch night]
23. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Approved | 188 min | Drama, History, War
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason
Votes: 10,148 | Gross: $4.75M
Starlight – 17–22
24. Carry on Cleo (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesar.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 5,006
Star – 15
25. Ricochet (1963)
64 min | Crime, Thriller
Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to ... See full summary »
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Maxine Audley, Richard Leech, Alex Scott, Dudley Foster
Votes: 76
Star – 15 (2nd to Carry on Cleo)
26. Daddy-O (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Music, Mystery
A singing truck driver meets a feisty blonde who challenges him to a drag race. When he is offered a new job that also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.
Director: Lou Place | Stars: Dick Contino, Sandra Giles, Bruno VeSota, Gloria Victor
Votes: 1,065
Star – 16–17 (2nd to Bunny Lake)
27. The Sharkfighters (1956)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Drama, War
During World War II, U.S. Navy scientists working in Cuba attempt to find an effective shark repellent to be used by servicemen stranded in shark-infested waters.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Victor Mature, Karen Steele, James Olson, Philip Coolidge
Votes: 304
Canberra Theatre – 16–18
28. Cleopatra (1963)
G | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Votes: 37,407 | Gross: $57.78M
Capitol – 18–24 Civic – 25–28
29. McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, War
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker poses as an Air Force pilot and sinks the Japanese fleet, without McHale.
Director: Edward Montagne | Stars: Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Bob Hastings, Gary Vinson
Votes: 408
Civic – 18–19 Capitol – 26
30. Love & Kisses (1965)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two 18-year-old students elope on the eve of high school graduation and move in with his parents.
Director: Ozzie Nelson | Stars: Ricky Nelson, Jack Kelly, Kristin Harmon, Jerry Van Dyke
Votes: 107
Civic – 18–19 (2nd to McHale's Navy) Capitol – 26 (2nd to McHale's Navy)
31. Circle of Love (1964)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A bed-hopping coterie of soldiers, prostitutes, maids, actors, and aristocrats swap lovers amid the opulence of pre-World War I Europe.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois, Jane Fonda
Votes: 653
Civic – 20–21 [FRENCH] Star – 22 Capitol – 27–28
32. Daddy-O (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Music, Mystery
A singing truck driver meets a feisty blonde who challenges him to a drag race. When he is offered a new job that also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.
Director: Lou Place | Stars: Dick Contino, Sandra Giles, Bruno VeSota, Gloria Victor
Votes: 1,065
Civic – 20–21 (2nd to La ronde) Capitol – 27–28 (2nd to La ronde)
33. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Passed | 122 min | Drama, Western
Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr.
Votes: 19,192 | Gross: $13.33M
Star – 18–19; 21
34. The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962)
91 min | Adventure
D'Artagnan and Porthos, working with Cardinal Richelieu, thwart a plan to overthrow Louis XIII.
Director: Siro Marcellini | Stars: George Nader, Magali Noël, Georges Marchal, Alessandra Panaro
Votes: 96
Capitol – 18 [ITALIAN] Civic – 26
35. Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
During the 1950s, a military panel grills Junior Officer John Paul Steckler to find the whereabouts of a Navy destroyer that he temporarily commanded during WWII and is missing.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shaughnessy
Votes: 872
Star – 18
36. The War Lord (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 11th century Normandy, a Norman duke sends one of his knights to build a defensive fortress in order to guard the borders against Frisian raiders.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans
Votes: 3,684
Civic – 22–24
37. The Phony American (1961)
72 min | Comedy, Drama
Helmut, a war orphan, is charged with theft at the time of the Berlin Airlift and faces a jail sentence of up to six years behind bars. The unfairness raises the anger of numerous people who decide to fight it.
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Christine Kaufmann, Michael Hinz, William Bendix, Ron Randell
Votes: 29
Civic – 22–24 (2nd to War Lord)
38. The Diary of a High School Bride (1959)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
A 17-year-old high-school senior must justify her wedding to a 24-year-old law student to both her parents and her unbalanced ex-boyfriend.
Director: Burt Topper | Stars: Anita Sands, Ron Foster, Chris Robinson, Wendy Wilde
Votes: 167
Star – 22 (2nd to La ronde)
39. Gun Fury (1953)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In Arizona, Frank Slayton's gang robs a stagecoach and kidnaps Ben Warren's fiancée, prompting Warren to pursue Slayton.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes
Votes: 1,804
Starlight – 23 [ranch night]
40. Cripple Creek (1952)
Approved | 78 min | Western
Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: George Montgomery, Karin Booth, Jerome Courtland, William Bishop
Votes: 429
Starlight – 23 [ranch night]
41. The Pink Panther (1963)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther".
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Votes: 56,674 | Gross: $10.88M
Starlight – 24–26
42. Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 1,897
Starlight – 27–28
43. The Canadians (1961)
TV-PG | 85 min | Western
When 6000 Sioux flee to Canada, they are permitted to stay. But a Montana rancher and his cowboys, in search of stolen horses, kill all inhabitants of a Sioux village and claim they only wanted to free a white squaw who had been kidnapped.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Burt Metcalfe
Votes: 297
Starlight – 27–28 (2nd to Fate is Hunter)
44. Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
College students on spring break in Palm Springs pursue romantic entanglements. Jim falls for Bunny, Biff for Amanda. Gayle poses as a student while Eric courts her. Their coach flirts with a motel owner amid her son's antics.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers
Votes: 1,193
Star – 26; 28
45. 4D Man (1959)
TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Horror, Romance
A scientist discovers a formula enabling him to pass through solid surfaces, but he also rapidly ages, which forces him to kill humans in order to reverse the aging process by absorbing his victims' energies.
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | Stars: Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon, Robert Strauss
Votes: 2,163
Star – 26; 28 (2nd to Palm Springs Weekend)
Star – 26 [matinee]
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