1965, September: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClark GableRicardo MontalbanJohn HodiakTrapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.Starlight – 01 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsRichard BooneGeorge HamiltonLuana PattenThe trials and tribulations of bitter veteran Captain Maddocks and argumentative rookie Lieutenant McQuade at a cavalry desert outpost.Starlight – 01 (2nd to Across the Wide Missouri) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsJulie AndrewsDick Van DykeDavid TomlinsonIn turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.Capitol – 01–09 (Plus DONALD'S GARDEN — a Walt Disney cartoon.)
Civic – 10–16
"As a result of protracted negotiations with the producer and distributor of the film 'MARY POPPINS', they have now agreed to waive their world wide policy of only one theatre release in any one city, in regard to Canberra. We are most happy to announce now, that 'MARY POPPINS' can be screened at the Civic Theatre for ONE week, immediately following the conclusion fo the Capitol Theatre season on Thursday next, Sept. 9." – 06 Sep 1965 - DirectorWalter GraumanStarsCliff RobertsonGeorge ChakirisMaria PerschyA RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.Civic – 01–02
Star – 03–07 (plus FROM THE TROPICS TO THE SNOW) - DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsEd FuryCristina GaioniMoira OrfeiUrsus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea.Civic – 01–02 (2nd to 633 Squadron)
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsGlenn FordHenry FondaSue Ane LangdonIn Sedona, two aging cowpokes bust broncos, charm local ladies and bet on outcomes at the rodeo.Star – 01–02
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsGeorge MaharisRobert MorseAnjanette ComerA reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.Star – 01–02 (2nd to Rounders)
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsWalter PidgeonGilles PayantÉmile GenestA wealthy sportsman's decision to hire a backwoods orphan to exercise a champion Irish Setter has unexpected consequences.Starlight – 02–04
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsJoseph CottenGeorge SandersDebra PagetIn 1868, American inventor Victor Barbicane develops a powerful military explosive that he also uses as fuel for a moon-bound rocket manned by himself and a motley crew.Starlight – 02–04 (2nd to Big Red)
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsPeter SellersElke SommerGeorge SandersInspector Clouseau falls in love with a murder suspect and tries to clear her name.Civic – 04–08 (with featurettes including THE FINEST FOUR)
Capitol – 11–15 - DirectorNorman TokarStarsBrian KeithTommy KirkKevin CorcoranTravis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.Starlight – 06–07
- DirectorRichard ThorpeFerdinando BaldiStarsVictor MatureOrson WellesLiana OrfeiTartan and Viking forces clash in what is modern-day Russia.Starlight – 06–07 (2nd to Savage Sam)
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsSandra DeeBobby DarinDonald O'ConnorSandra Dee stars as Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, who begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford (Bobby Darin) in That Funny Feeling.Civic – 03–04 (plus featurettes); 06 (matinee)
Capitol – 10–11
Star – 15–16
[Initially mislabeled as 'THIS HAPPY FEELING', a 1958 movie starring John Saxon.] - DirectorRussell RouseStarsShelley WintersRobert TaylorCesar RomeroBiopic of notorious New York City Madam Polly Adler, set during the Roaring Twenties.Civic – 09
Capitol – 16 - DirectorRalph ThomasStarsDirk BogardeGeorge ChakirisSusan StrasbergDuring Cyprus' war of independence against Britain, Juno Kozani (Susan Strasberg), an American archeology student visiting Cyprus, is caught between the two warring sides.Star – 08–09
- DirectorGerard GlaisterStarsBernard LeeAlexander KnoxMoira RedmondA gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.Star – 08–09 (2nd to High Bright Sun)
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLori NelsonA rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.Civic – 07–08 (matinee)
Star – 09 (matinee) - DirectorAlbert ZugsmithStarsDavid JanssenPatti PageWalter WinchellSix American GIs stationed in Italy befriend an orphaned boy, but the soldiers remain unaware that the lad has stowed away with them when they return to the U.S.Civic – 07–08 (2nd to Pardners)
Star – 09 (2nd to Pardners) - DirectorAnthony MannCharles WaltersStarsGlenn FordMaria SchellAnne BaxterThe Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier adventurer, his wife and family and their friends.Starlight – 08 [Ranch Night] (Plus featurette, Walt Disney's WALES).
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneLee MarvinElizabeth AllenIn an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance.Starlight – 09–11
- 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.Civic – 09 (2nd to House is Not a Home)
Capitol – 16 (2nd to House is Not a Home)
[HORROR] - DirectorDorrell McGowanStuart E. McGowanStarsMolly McGowanHelmut SchmidBuddy BaerSet in a traveling circus in modern (1962) Austria, the story centers around Tristie (Molly Mack), a 12-year-old escapee from behind the Iron Curtain, who is hunted by the law, rescued by a giant border dog and "adopted" by an elephant.Starlight – 09–11 (2nd to Donovan's Reef)
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartFabianGlynis JohnsProfessor 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.Star – 10–11; 13–14
Civic – 24–25 - DirectorRobert DouglasStarsLeslie NielsenAliza GurDorinda StevensFormer OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year's Eve by Catherine Carrel who says she is a close friend of Jules Lemoine who served with Holiday during the war. Lemoine urgently requests that Holiday go to Paris on a secret mission. Lemoine visits and wants Alan to deliver a reel of tape which he gives him, and keeps a fake reel himself to deceive enemy agents. Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen. Holiday, poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay, and they take three models along to further the ruse.Star – 10–11; 13–14 (2nd to Dear Brigitte)
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsEdmond O'BrienVera MilesRobert CulpA gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics.Star – 15–16 (2nd to That Funny Feeling)
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsCliff RichardRobert MorleyCarole GrayNicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni.Starlight – 14
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsEfrem Zimbalist Jr.Erin O'BrienShepperd StrudwickA private investigator is hired to find and protect a singer who witnessed the murder of a union official and is being stalked by the killer. What he doesn't know is that he has actually been hired by the killer himself.Starlight – 14 (2nd to Young Ones)
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.Starlight – 16
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsWill Rogers Jr.Maureen O'SullivanRod McKuenTwo westward-bound families join forces to battle gunslingers.Starlight – 15 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsDale RobertsonMara CordayJock MahoneyWhen gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town he manages to turn the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners while the town Marshal is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade.Starlight – 15 [Ranch Night] (2nd to Wild Heritage)
- DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsAlain DelonMylène DemongeotPascale PetitJulien turns up at one of his former girlfriends' wedding; she is marrying an "old man" (32). But the newly wed Agathe does not want to give the hunk up.Starlight – 16 (2nd to Psycho) [billed as 'Women are Weak'] [French]
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKim StanleyRichard AttenboroughMargaret LaceyA medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.Capitol – 20–21 (plus featurettes)
Civic – 26 - DirectorJack CardiffJohn FordStarsRod TaylorJulie ChristieMaggie SmithThe misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century.Capitol – 22–23
Civic – 30 - 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.Capitol – 22–23 (2nd to Young Cassidy)
Civic – 30 (2nd to Young Cassidy) - DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriPeter UstinovMaximilian SchellA conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.Civic – 20–21
Capitol – 24
Star – 24 - DirectorSaul J. TurellStarsCarl KingAgnes AyresTheda BaraThis insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent-movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie "True Heart Susie," starring Lillian Gish, to "Love Me Tonight" (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy) and to Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" (1951), plus many, many more.Civic – 22–23
Capitol – 30
[documentary] - DirectorAndrew MartonStarsDana AndrewsJanette ScottKieron MooreA dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.Civic – 22–23 (2nd to Love Goddesses)
Capitol – 30
[SCI-FI] - DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsJames StewartDoug McClureGlenn CorbettA Virginia farmer who has vowed to remain neutral during the Civil War is spurred into action when his youngest son is taken by Union soldiers.Star – 20–21
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsTony RandallShirley JonesEdward AndrewsFluffy the lion is the main attraction in this comedy. He is the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter (TONY RANDALL), a scientist trying to prove that even a wild animal like a lion can be made into a pet with proper training. Wherever he goes, Potter's ponderous pet incites mayhem among the region's fearful residents. To escape his panicky neighbors, Potter and Fluffy hide out in a hotel, where, the owner's daughter (SHIRLEY JONES) falls for the unlikely duo while everyone else freezes or collapses in a panic. Our heroes find themselves on the run from the law when Fluffy is accused of eating someone. Can Potter stop the police before they shoot an innocent lion?Star – 20–21
- DirectorRobert DayStarsUrsula AndressPeter CushingBernard CribbinsAn Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality.Star – 22–23
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsRuss TamblynKieron MooreJames PhilbrookYoung Johnny is a good man to have around if you're facing the business end of a gun or turning back a swarm of banditos overrunning a ranchers spread.Star – 22–23 (2nd to She)
- DirectorRaoul WalshMario BavaStarsJoan CollinsRichard EganDenis O'DeaTwo decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty (1981), Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the fourth century B.C., as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The King has been trying to stifle and defeat the campaign of hatred fomented against the Jews by his evil minister Haman (Sergio Fantoni). Before the King can pair off with Esther and defeat the villainous Haman, there are several intervening adventures and an additional, attractive woman who competes for attention.Starlight – 20–21
- DirectorJack LeeStarsSuzy ParkerBradford DillmanHarry AndrewsUnbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.Starlight – 20–21 (2nd to Esther and the King)
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsGregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank OvertonAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.Starlight – 30
- 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.Star – 30 [The Great Elvis Presley Show]
- 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.Star – 30 [The Great Elvis Presley Show] (2nd to Fun in Acapulco)