1966, June: Canberra film releases
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1. Torpedo Bay (1963)
99 min | War, Drama
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). The Italian sub manages to make it into the neutral port of Tangiers, followed by the British commander.
Directors: Charles Frend, Bruno Vailati | Stars: Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Gabriele Ferzetti, Alberto Lupo
Votes: 101
Capitol – 01–02 Civic – 08–09
2. Underworld Informers (1963)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Johnnoe is investigating a string of bank robberies but the robbers are determined to compromise Johnnoe and the investigation.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Katherine Woodville, Colin Blakely
Votes: 447
Capitol – 01–02 (2nd to Torpedo Bay) Civic – 08–09 (2nd to Torpedo Bay)
3. Der Rosenkavalier (1961 TV Movie)
192 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An opera about jealousy and duplicity among the elite classes of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Otto Edelmann, Sena Jurinac, Erich Kunz
Votes: 110
Civic – 01–02 Capitol – 05–09
4. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Approved | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 46,161 | Gross: $46.30M
Star – 01–02
5. Saddle the Wind (1958)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Western
Former gunslinger Steve Sinclair (Taylor), is now a peaceful rancher, but things go wrong when his wild brother Tony (Cassavetes) arrives with his new gun--and his new fiancée, former saloon girl Joan Blake (London).
Directors: Robert Parrish, John Sturges | Stars: Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,720
Starlight – 01 [ranch night]
6. Mission of Danger (1960)
80 min | Adventure, Western, War
Digest of 3 "Northwest Passage" (1958) 30-minute episodes: 2 by director George Waggner, and the central episode, 'The Break-Out' (first aired 19 October 1958), by Jacques Tourneur.
Directors: Jacques Tourneur, George Waggner | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Taina Elg
Votes: 142
Starlight – 01 (2nd to Saddle the Wind) [ranch night]
7. Tom Jones (1963)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson
Votes: 14,269 | Gross: $37.60M
Starlight – 02–07
8. Those Calloways (1965)
Approved | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Brennan
Votes: 837
Capitol – 03–04
9. Our Man Flint (1966)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare
Votes: 7,097 | Gross: $16.00M
Civic – 03–07 Star – 11; 13–14
10. The Secret Invasion (1964)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Drama, History
In 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.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes
Votes: 1,317
Star – 03–04; 06
11. I'll Take Sweden (1965)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
An 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.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Bob Hope, Dina Merrill, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon
Votes: 973
Star – 03–04; 06 (2nd to Secret Invasion)
12. Hound-Dog Man (1959)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
A farm boy and his dog go hunting with his teenage brother (Fabian) and an older friend (Stuart Whitman) in 1912.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Fabian, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 157
Civic – 04
13. Kelly and Me (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A failed vaudevillean finds a trained dog, who helps him succeed in early talking films.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Van Johnson, Piper Laurie, Martha Hyer, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 129
Star – 04
14. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,369 | Gross: $13.28M
Star – 07–09
15. Bend of the River (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams
Votes: 9,907
Starlight – 08 [ranch night]
16. Star in the Dust (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
A sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray
Votes: 662
Starlight – 08 (2nd to Bend River) [ranch night]
17. Lady L (1965)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy
L's elegant, elderly lady who recalls her past loves and lusty adventures of her life.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 1,315
Starlight – 09–11
18. The Family Jewels (1965)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy
A young heiress must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Neil Hamilton, Jay Adler
Votes: 2,507
Capitol – 11 Civic – 17–18
19. The Secret Door (1964)
72 min | Thriller, War
World War II espionage in Lisbon with Allied safe-crackers cultivating a master spy and his wife so they can steal Japanese codes that are keys to Axis battle plans.
Director: Gilbert Kay | Stars: Robert Hutton, Sandra Dorne, Peter Illing, Peter Allenby
Capitol – 11 (2nd to Fam Jewels) Star – 15–16 (2nd to Pajama Party) Civic – 17–18 (2nd to Fam Jewels)
20. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 18,827
Capitol – 11–12; ? 15–16
(Also featurettes including THE JOURNEY (The visit of Pope Paul to the U.S.A.)
Civic – 17–23
Star – 17–18; 20–21
21. Pajama Party (1964)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Sent to Earth to prepare for an invasion, a Martian scout lands amidst a swim party and tries to convince everyone that he really is who he says.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Harvey Lembeck
Votes: 1,299
Civic – 11 Star – 15–16 Capitol – 17–18
22. Black Spurs (1965)
Approved | 81 min | Western
A man becomes a bounty hunter to earn enough to marry the woman he loves, but when he returns to their Kansas town, she has married the sheriff instead which prompts him to scheme revenge by ruining the town's reputation.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Terry Moore, Scott Brady
Votes: 466
Civic – 11 (2nd to Pajama Party) Civic – 17–18 (2nd to Pajama Party)
23. What's New Pussycat (1965)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine
Votes: 11,073 | Gross: $18.82M
Civic – 11–16 Capitol – 18–23 Star – 25–30
24. Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Documentary
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, Stan Laurel
Votes: 214
Star – 11
25. The Hill (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, War
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch
Votes: 15,179
Starlight – 12
26. Paranoiac (1963)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham
Votes: 3,295
Starlight – 12 [HORROR; midnight screening]
27. Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Passed | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 7,033
Starlight – 12 (2nd to Paranoiac) [HORROR; midnight screening]
28. The Longest Day (1962)
G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Votes: 59,090 | Gross: $39.10M
Starlight – 15–21
29. Seminole (1953)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Western
A cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson
Votes: 1,300
Starlight – 15; 22 [ranch night]
30. The Stand at Apache River (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Western
At Apache River Station, the passengers of a stagecoach, the owners of the station, a sheriff and his prisoner and a few ferry passengers are besieged by a band of renegade Apaches.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Stephen McNally, Julie Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Jaclynne Greene
Votes: 345
Starlight – 15; 22 (2nd to Seminole) [ranch night]
31. Harum Scarum (1965)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
American singer Johnny Tyronne is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king--and falls in love with that very king's daughter.
Director: Gene Nelson | Stars: Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries, Michael Ansara
Votes: 1,974
Starlight – 16; 23–25
32. Law of the Lawless (1964)
Approved | 87 min | Western
Hothead Pete Stone has been arrested for the murder of George.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 407
Star – 17 (Matinee); 18; 20–21 (2nd to Spy Who)
33. Life at the Top (1965)
117 min | Drama
In this sequel to Room at the Top (1958), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig
Votes: 704
Star – 22–23 Civic – 27–30
34. Naked Africa (1957)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
A documentary exploring some of the tribes of South Africa, the wildlife, and some of the descendants of the Indian immigrants that settled in the country.
Director: Ray Phoenix | Stars: Quentin Reynolds, Johannes Galilee Shembe
Votes: 34
Star – 22–23 (2nd to Life at the Top)
35. Dear Brigitte (1965)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Family
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy who is as colorblind as he's in love with Brigitte Bardot, the French bombshell.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol
Votes: 1,792
Starlight – 26
36. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 1,395
Starlight – 26 (2nd to Dear Brigitte)
37. The Secret of My Success (1965)
Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Horror
Fast climbing Arthur Tate rose to his fame, wealth and respectability quickly from a beginning as a naive constable His rise was also due to 3 women: dressmaker Violet Lawson, Lily, the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Honor Blackman, James Booth
Votes: 312
Starlight – 23–25 (2nd to Harum Scarum)
38. Circus World (1964)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, Western
When circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 2,980
Capitol – 25–30
39. Blindfold (1966)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A New York psychiatrist is solicited by government agents in connection with a former patient of his who also happens to be a scientist wanted by certain foreign powers.
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell
Votes: 1,060
Civic – 25
40. The Naked Brigade (1965)
101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Shirley Eaton, Ken Scott, Mary Hronopoulou, John Holland
Votes: 35
Civic – 25 (2nd to Blindfold)
41. Monpti (1957)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane, Boy Gobert
Votes: 601
Civic – 26 [German]
42. Tammy and the Doctor (1963)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A Los Angeles doctor falls for a Mississippi girl working as a nurse's aide in his hospital.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 794
Civic – 25
43. Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route, white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief. Captured by the Oparians and nearly sacrificed to their lion god, the party is saved by Tarzan.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Betta St. John
Votes: 660 | Gross: $1.99M
Star – 25
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