1965, May: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJames DarrenPamela TiffinDoug McClureCasey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed record. Wealthy playboy Stanford Rogers (Peter Mann) hires Casey to build a car for him to attempt to set a new Land Speed Record. Chuck Manning (Doug McClure), an engineering student Casey met in a drag race, discovers potential flaws in the car's design. After an unsuccessful test run, Rogers abandons the turbine-powered. He decides to turn his attention to race a car in the Tristate Endurance Race. Casey and Chuck buy the wrecked Land Speed car and salvage the Turbine Engine. They fix the Turbine and install it in a car that they enter in the Tristate Endurance Race. Pamela Tiffin plays Eadie, Chuck's sister, who becomes Casey's love interest.Capitol – 01
Civic – 07–08
Star – 11–13 - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsTony CurtisChristine KaufmannLarry StorchCognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.Capitol – 01 (2nd to Lively Set)
Civic – 07–08 (2nd to Lively Set)
Star – 11–13 (2nd to Lively Set) - DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsIngrid BergmanRex HarrisonShirley MacLaineAnthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisanCapitol – 01–04 (plus featurettes)
Civic – 08–11 (plus featurettes)
Star – 14–15; 17–18 (plus featurettes) - DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnWhen Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.Civic – 01
Capitol – 07–08 - DirectorLarry LansburghStarsGeorge FennemanNautical the HorseQueen Elizabeth the Queen MotherA palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.Civic – 01 (2nd to Son of Flubber)
Capitol – 07–08 (2nd to Son of Flubber) - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniAldo GiuffrèStories about three very different women and the men they attract.Civic – 01
Capitol – 08 - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsAnn-MargretAnthony FranciosaCarol LynleyThree American lovelies rooming together in Madrid all manage to get themselves into seemingly-unhappy relationships with fellows.Star – 01; 03
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsBobby VintonPatricia MorrowJackie DeShannonA young girl travels to California with a couple of friends in order to visit her brother. After they arrive it doesn't take long for them to get into the swing of things and also to attract the attention of the local police sergeant.Star – 01; 03 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers)
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsRock HudsonGina LollobrigidaSandra DeeYounger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.Starlight – 01
- DirectorRobert DouglasStarsSheldon AllmanJacques AubuchonWhit BissellThis is not a feature film, but two episodes of the TV series "The Virginan" edited together.Starlight – 01 (2nd to Come September)
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsVan HeflinLauren BacallCornel WildeAn executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives.Starlight – 02–04
- DirectorRoger VadimJean AurelStarsBrigitte BardotJoséphine JamesMireille DarcSophie's boyfriend plans to leave her for another woman. Sophie considers winning him back or eliminating her rival. A doctor interested in Sophie helps her pursue reconciliation to avoid violence.Starlight – 02–04 (2nd to Woman's World) [French]
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsRobert TaylorAva GardnerHoward KeelTwo outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised together as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their territory.Starlight – 05 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsDan DuryeaJeff RichardsKeenan WynnAn innocent squatter in Arizona Territory, Jeff Richards, builds a home in a box canyon, and then has to battle to survive as Dan Duryea and his small army of gunfighters try to evict him.Starlight – 05 (2nd to Ride, Vaquero!) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorDon WeisStarsConnie FrancisJim HuttonSusan OliverAfter being in Hollywood for a month with lots of compliments but no offers, girl-next-door Libby Caruso decides to give up on her singing career and focus on fulfilling her destiny of being a wife, hopefully to a doctor. She believes that to nab a husband she must get a job where many eligible bachelors would notice her, but singing is her only real skill. She lands a Girl Friday job at a brokerage firm and believes that she is destined to marry Paul Davis, who works at the product-development company where her best friend and roommate Jan McNair works. Paul believes that he is God's gift to the world, if only anyone would notice. Jan knows that Libby isn't his type, and he didn't even notice her. Cuz Rickover might be Libby's type, but she didn't notice him. Cuz is a part-timer: part-time supermarket stockman and part-time bass player, among other part-time activities. Ultimately, Paul believes he can help Libby and in turn help himself in developing a product for market that Libby created to make her 9-to-5 life easier. But as he helps her with that and she hopes he'll ask her to marry him, she gets the opportunity to showcase her singing to a wide audience. So as Libby's 9-to-5 life, her pursuit of a husband, the product development, and the singing seem to be moving up and down simultaneously, she must decide where her focus lies. The answers to what she should do with her life might just fall into place with a little push from the people in her life.Starlight – 06–07
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsBuddy EbsenKeir DulleaLois NettletonElderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.Starlight – 06–07 (2nd to Looking for Love)
- 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.Capitol – 05–06
Civic – 12–13 - DirectorJames B. ClarkStarsFrankie AvalonMariette HartleyLloyd BochnerDavid Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack Cuortemayn, reputedly the best guide available, to take them there. Cuortemayn refuses as he doesn't care for the impact the railroad will have on the local inhabitants. While Moore tries to make other arrangements, he meets Ruth Knight who has lived there for many years working with her father in a medical clinic. There will be adventures along the way but when Ruth is captured by slave traders, its up to the others to rescue her.Capitol – 05–06 (2nd to Quick Before It Melts)
Civic – 12–13 (2nd to Quick) - DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJack KellyRay DantonAndrew DugganThree executives of an electronics firm discover a bomb aboard their airliner in this taut crime thriller--and the FBI's investigation puts everyone under a magnifying glass of suspicion.Civic – 04
Capitol – 11 - DirectorByron HaskinStarsGuy MadisonVirginia MayoGeorge RaftAssorted people board a plane with a fire bomb in its luggage hold.Civic – 04 (2nd to FBI Code 98)
Capitol – 11 (2nd to FBI Code 98) - DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor BuonoA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.Civic – 05–06 ["The greatest shock film of all time!] [HORROR]
Capitol – 12–13 - DirectorJohn KruseStarsLee PattersonLana MorrisPeter DyneleyA violent, mentally unbalanced man in a remote farm imagines an accident victim is his long dead mother, and his sister tries to get help for the unconscious woman without her brother's knowledge.Civic – 05–06 (2nd to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane)
Capitol – 12–13 (2nd to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane) - DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsSusan HaywardMichael CraigDiane BakerDying English jet-setter marries her doctor and lives the best year of her life.Star – 04–06
- DirectorStuart BurgeStarsNorman WisdomAlfred MarksAndrew CruickshankDavy Cooper is a law-abiding but down on his luck explosives expert. A chance meeting with a former comrade leads the naive Cooper into a world of crime and ultimately prison. On release though the chance to make amends presents itself.Star – 04–06 (2nd to Stolen Hours)
- DirectorKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard BurtonThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.Star – 07–08; 10–11
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsKirk DouglasEdward G. RobinsonCyd CharisseAfter spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.Starlight – 11
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsEric SykesScilla GabelJohn Le MesurierTraveling salesman Herbert Harris arrives in an isolated Italian village. The local women avidly pursue him, the sole remaining bachelor since most men have moved away for work.Starlight – 11 (2nd to Two Weeks in Another Town)
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsElvis PresleyArthur O'ConnellGlenda FarrellAn Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains to try to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers that he has a look-alike cousin.Starlight – 13–15
- DirectorFrancis D. LyonStarsRory CalhounWilliam BendixRichard JaeckelA boy accompanies three soldiers in their escape from the enemy in Korea.Starlight – 13–15 (2nd to Kissin Cousins)
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLuke HalpinPamela FranklinHelen CherryBoy Sandy and Dolphin Flipper are in the Bahamas where they pester a bunch of outlaws holding an English family captive.***
Capitol – 14–15 - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGregory PeckAnthony QuinnOmar SharifFamous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile, but Spanish cop Vinolas sets a trap for him.Capitol – 16
Civic – 25 (Plus featurettes including "ITALY'S WONDERFUL SARDINIA")
Star – 26–27 - DirectorAlexander SingerStarsLana TurnerCliff RobertsonHugh O'BrianRich playgirl Kit Jordan (nee Katherine Lawson Chandler) is in Acapulco vacationing with her current husband, Pete Jordan, formerly an American beach boy working the Acapulco shores for rich women. Meanwhile, the body of one of Pete's fellow beach boys, Billy Andrews, washes to shore. On his wrist is a bracelet engraved with "Love is thin ice." The police investigate whether it was murder or suicide. Conflict arises when Billy's old girlfriend, Carol, makes a play for Pete, and beach boy Hank tries to score with Kit, and the stability of the marriage is put to the test.Civic – 14–15
- DirectorDenys de La PatellièreStarsHardy KrügerLino VenturaMaurice BiraudDuring World War II, French commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.Civic – 16 [French; German; English]
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGuy WilliamsHeidi BrühlPedro ArmendárizTo marry Princess Jana, Captain Sindbad must battle deadly obstacles and fight El Kerim, the evil ruler who also wants to marry the princess.Starlight – 25
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsTony RusselMassimo SeratoNando GazzoloMilo, 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.Starlight – 25 (2nd to Captain Sinbad) [Italian]
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsJoel McCreaFelicia FarrJeff MorrowEastern lawyer Sam Houston moves to Texas. At the request of President Jackson, he leads the Texan independence movement and wins the decisive battle against the Mexican army to gain Texas independence.Starlight – 26 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsGeorge MontgomeryMarcia HendersonPeter GravesWhen a Wyoming rancher goes to Oregon to buy cattle, his foreman and a gang of town criminals plot together to steal the herd but the rancher's cattle-drive hired hands are old convicts and rustlers themselves.Starlight – 26 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorSteve PrevinStarsVincent WinterSean ScullyPeter WeckSupported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter's voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.Capitol – 25 (plus selected Walt Disney featurettes)
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordRon MoodyCharles 'Bud' TingwellWhen Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.Capitol – 26–27
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJohn AgarAudrey TotterGregory WalcottThree American pilots are shot down behind enemy lines during the Korean war, where they encounter a mysterious Russian nurse. Their life is in her hands.Capitol – 26–27 (2nd to Murder Most Foul)
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsAudie MurphyMichael DanteLinda LawsonA young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.Civic – 26–27
Star – 28 - DirectorGene NelsonStarsGeorge HamiltonSusan OliverRed ButtonsThe story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.Civic – 26–27 (2nd to Apache Rifles)
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsRichard WidmarkSidney PoitierRuss TamblynA vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.Star – 25
Capitol – 28 - DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsEve MeyerChuck HendersonDon DevlinDuring the Korean War, a troupe of traveling USO entertainers find themselves behind enemy lines with a squad of American soldiers. Together they try to find their way back to their own lines while trying to avoid capture, but the North Koreans discover their presence and set out after them.Star – 26–27 (2nd to Behold a Pale Horse)
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsCary GrantLeslie CaronTrevor HowardDuring World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.Civic – 28–29
Star – 29; 31 - DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsAnthony QuinnAlan BatesIrene PapasAn uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.Civic – 30
- DirectorGerard GlaisterStarsMaurice DenhamJohn CarsonMaria CorvinArthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewelry from the stranger's own safe.Star – 28 (2nd to Apache Rifles)
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDanny KayeCara WilliamsMartha HyerAn employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to a well-known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job.Starlight – 27–29
- DirectorErnest MorrisStarsJohn HewerAnton RodgersSusan StephenStarlight – 27–29 (2nd to Man from Diner's Club)