1966, March: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsGlenn FordNancy KwanRod TaylorAn airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.Starlight – 1
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsRobert RyanJohn DehnerTorin ThatcherWhen 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.Starlight – 1 (2nd to Fate Hunter)
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczRouben MamoulianStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonRex HarrisonQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.Civic – 1–3
Star – 4–10 - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsTroy DonahueConnie StevensTy HardinCollege 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.Star – 1
- DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.StarsRobert LansingLee MeriwetherJames CongdonA 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.Star – 1 (2nd to Palm Springs)
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRichard BooneRosemary ForsythIn 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.Capitol – 2–3
Star – 11–12; 14 - DirectorÁkos RáthonyiStarsChristine KaufmannMichael HinzWilliam BendixHelmut, 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.Capitol – 2–3 (2nd to War Lord) [GERMAN]
- DirectorEdward MontagneStarsJoe FlynnTim ConwayBob HastingsThe crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker poses as an Air Force pilot and sinks the Japanese fleet, without McHale.Star – 2–3; 5 [matinee]
- DirectorOzzie NelsonStarsRicky NelsonJack KellyKristin HarmonTwo 18-year-old students elope on the eve of high school graduation and move in with his parents.Star – 2–3 (2nd to McHale's Navy)
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsRandolph ScottAngela LansburyWarner AndersonMarshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.Starlight – 2 [ranch night]
- DirectorLew LandersStarsCornel WildeTeresa WrightAlfonso BedoyaIn the 1840s, most Californians want their state to break away from Mexico and possibly join the USA but Russia, Britain and France aim to grab California for themselves.Starlight – 2 (2nd to Lawless Street) [ranch night]
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsPaul NewmanEdward G. RobinsonElke SommerAs the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.Starlight – 3–5
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsBob HopeDina MerrillTuesday WeldAn executive, unhappy with his daughter's choice for a future husband, accepts a transfer to his firm's Stockholm branch and takes her along, only to discover that Sweden is far more sexually liberal than the United States.Capitol – 4–6
Civic – 11–12 - DirectorJames B. HarrisStarsRichard WidmarkSidney PoitierJames MacArthurAn American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.Civic – 4–5
Capitol – 11–12 - DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsConnie FrancisHarve PresnellPeter NooneYoung heir Danny Churchill tries to help Ginger, an attractive postal worker in rural Nevada, save her father's ranch from closing due to being heavily in debt with some Reno gangster-types for her father's compulsive gambling. With his college friends' help, Danny turns Ginger's father's ranch into a motel for impending divorcees to get out of debt, while Danny courts Ginger, but tries to keep his past reputation a secret when his former girlfriend Tess, a spiteful gold-digger, relentlessly pursues him and his wealth.Capitol – 7–10
Star – 19; 23–24 - DirectorFrank TashlinStarsTony RandallRobert MorleyAnita EkbergHercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.Capitol – 7–10 (2nd to Boys Meet Girls)
Star – 23–24 (2nd to Boys Meet Girls) - DirectorBryan ForbesStarsGeorge SegalTom CourtenayJames FoxFast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.Civic – 6–10
Capitol – 13–17
Star – 18–19; 21–22 - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsRock HudsonBarbara RushJeff MorrowA pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815.Capitol – 5
Civic – 12 - DirectorAndré De TothStarsRandolph ScottJoan LeslieEllen DrewA private deadly feud ensues when ruthless wealthy rancher Will Isham attempts a takeover of small rancher Owen Merritt's land and marries Owen's old flame, Laurie Bidwell.Civic – 5
Capitol – 12 - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsBob HopeAnita EkbergEdie AdamsA returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude - to go find it.Starlight – 6–8
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChris WarfieldJacklyn O'DonnellHarp McGuireBased on a short story by Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), a cop "mistakenly" kills a 14-year-old boy during a robbery. Although acquitted for the shooting, the cop is haunted by his crime.Starlight – 6–8 (2nd to Bwana)
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsDana AndrewsDonna ReedDianne FosterFramed for murder, Jim Guthrie barely escapes lynching by the town mob, becomes a wanted fugitive for three years but returns to find the real killer.Starlight – 9 [ranch night]
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsPaulette GoddardJean-Pierre AumontRichard StapleyThe downward spiral of the quality of films Paulette Goddard appeared in in the 1950's would cause a gravitational blackout to anyone viewing them in a single day, but with some of the all-time great schlock names serving as the producers---Sam Katzman, the Danziger brothers, Albert Zugsmith and---gasp---Sigmund Neufeld--- the results easily met the low expectations. This one is set during the time of the Crimean War and the efforts of the Allies to take the Russian naval base at Sebastopol. Jean Pierre Aumont and Richard Stapley are guardians of a new cannon that can pierce the walls of the Russian fortress, and also rivals for the favors of nurse Karin Booth who, as it turns out, is a Russian spy. Not a spoiler...somebody had to be. The Russians kidnap Stapley (in his pre-Richard Wyler days)to learn from him the secret of the new cannon. Aumont is assigned to rescue him. Oh, okay he says and sets out. On the way he encounters a gypsy family that includes Paulette Goddard as a daughter---beginning to sound like Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich in "Golden Earrings" in a different time and another war--- and Aumont disguises himself as a gypsy and locates Stapley. The success of his task was guaranteed the instance the name of writer Robert E. Kent appeared on the screen about 58 minutes earlier, allowing 10-12 more minutes for Aumont and Stapley to win the war. Miss Goddard had already phoned in her performance and gone home.Starlight – 9 (2nd to 3hrs to Kill) [ranch night]
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.Starlight – 10–15
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.Civic – 13–17
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsRock HudsonPiper LaurieGene EvansBasra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.Star – 12
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsPeter O'TooleJames MasonCurd JürgensAfter being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.Capitol – 18–24
Civic – 25–31 - DirectorGene NelsonStarsElvis PresleyMary Ann MobleyFran JeffriesAmerican singer Johnny Tyronne is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king--and falls in love with that very king's daughter.Civic – 18–21; 26
Capitol – 25–28
Star – 25–26; 28–29 - DirectorRobert YoungsonStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJay JacksonA compilation of primarily Laurel and Hardy shorts - From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others - plus Max Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and "Spec" O'Donnell.Civic – 18–21 (2nd to Harum)
Capitol – 25–28 (2nd to Harum) - DirectorPeter YatesStarsCliff RichardLauri PetersMelvyn HayesFour bus mechanics and a stowaway travel Europe as a hotel, picking up singers. In Athens, the stowaway's mother has them arrested for kidnapping but then accepts her daughter's love for a mechanic and they vacation in Greece.Starlight – 18–19
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsCharlie DrakeAnne HeywoodCecil ParkerA group of Wrens rebel because they have been turned down for service on a warship.Starlight – 18–19 (2nd to Summer Hol)
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsNatalie WoodSteve McQueenEdie AdamsA salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.Starlight – 20–22
- DirectorGerardo de LeonEddie RomeroStarsJohn AgarPancho MagalonaAlicia VergelAn American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Working with the people to build roads, schools, and bridges, they prove that the most important thing an army can have is "good will and integrity."Starlight – 20–22 (2nd to Stranger)
- DirectorGottfried ReinhardtStarsAlec GuinnessMike ConnorsRobert RedfordDuring World War II, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war.Civic – 22–24
Capitol – 29–31 - DirectorMario BavaStarsJohn SaxonLetícia RománValentina CorteseA mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.Civic – 22–24 (2nd to Sit Hope)
Capitol – 29–31 (2nd to Sit Hope)
[ITALIAN // HORROR] - DirectorArthur PennStarsPaul NewmanLita MilanJohn DehnerAfter his employer is murdered by rival cattlemen, a troubled and uneducated young cowboy vows revenge on the murderers.Starlight – 23 [ranch night]
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsLyle BettgerWealthy rancher Reese Kilgore aims to grab silver-rich Indian land by skilfully pitting Indians against settlers but the suspicious territorial governor sends The Lone Ranger to investigate.Starlight – 23 (2nd to Left Handed Gun) [ranch night]
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineLou JacobiWhen a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer.Starlight – 24–29
- DirectorIvan TorsStarsJay NorthMartin MilnerAndy DevineA young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town.Star – 25–26; 28–29 (2nd to Harum Scarum)
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.Star – 30–31
- DirectorScotty WelbourneStarsRoss AllenDottie Lee PhillipsWilliam FullerA skimpy plot---hunting for sunken trasure in the waters of Florida and Haiti--- tied mostly to some underwater scenes shot in the safety of Cypress Gardens, and sold by Warners on a campaign built (no pun intended) on the measurements---42-22-39---of photographer's model Dottie Lee Phillips, who poses under palm trees while Ross Allen and William Fuller are underwater...and on land.Star – 30–31 (2nd to Searchers)
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsFred MacMurrayMargaret HayesRobert VaughnAfter claiming his daughter's childhood-sweetheart killed the marshal, one man finds himself in conflict with his daughter, his fiancée and many of the townsfolk.Starlight – 30 [ranch night]
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsBrett KingBarbara LawrenceJames GriffithThe son of Jesse James joins up with the notorious Dalton gang.Starlight – 30 (2nd to Hanging) [ranch night]