1966, February: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorDaniel MannStarsMarlon BrandoGlenn FordMachiko KyôIn post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.Capitol – 3
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsRory CalhounAnne FrancisVince EdwardsA woman breaks out of jail before her hanging and a man is hired to bring her back.Capitol - 3 (2nd to Teahouse)
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsElvis PresleyJulie AdamsJocelyn LaneA 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.Capitol – 4–7
Civic – 11 - DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsCarl GonzalesKim SmithDudley FosterTo boys from London plan to run away to Liverpool and from there to Jamaica.Capitol - 4–7 (2nd to Tickle Me)
Civic – 11 (2nd to Tickle Me) - DirectorJacques-Yves CousteauStarsPierre BidaultLouis BidegantChristian BonniciFascinating 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.Civic – 3
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsChuck ConnorsKamala DeviWendell CoreyIn 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.Civic – 3 (2nd to World Without Sun)
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CaanLaura DevonGail HireThe 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 Holly, but before she arrives, he dies in a race. Since she doesn't have the money to travel back, she stays. The young and very ambitious talent Ned Arp joins the team, and immediately starts wooing Pat's sister Julie. Third on the team is womanizer Dan McCall, who brings with him his current girlfriend Gabrielle from Paris. So the basic theme of this movie is, "Whom with whom?"Civic – 4–6
Capitol – 11–13 - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsGeorge PeppardAlan LaddRobert CummingsJonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.Star – 3
- 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.Star – 4 [ITALIAN]
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsMarshall ThompsonBetsy DrakeRichard HaydnA veterinarian living in Africa with his daughter take care of a cross-eyed lion, make friends with other animals, and learn about local wildlife.Star – 4 (2nd to Spartan Gladiators)
- DirectorRalph LevyStarsDoris DayRod TaylorHermione BaddeleyWhen 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.Star – 5
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryClaudine AugerAdolfo CeliJames 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.Starlight – 3–8
- DirectorDenis SandersStarsJohn SaxonCharles AidmanSydney PollackDispatched 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.Starlight – 3–8 (2nd to Thunderball)
Starlight – 7–8 (2nd to Goldfinger) - DirectorMauro BologniniLuigi ComenciniDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediVirna LisiElke SommerFour different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film.Capitol – 8–10 [ITALIAN]
Civic – 15–17 - DirectorOtto PremingerStarsKeir DulleaCarol LynleyLaurence OlivierA woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.Civic – 7–8
Capitol – 15
Star – 16–17 - DirectorBurt TopperStarsDonato FarrettaRobert BarronMaggie LawrenceA 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.Civic – 7–8 (2nd to Bunny Lake)
Capitol – 15 (2nd to Bunny Lake) - DirectorMark RobsonStarsLana TurnerLee PhilipsLloyd NolanA peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.Civic – 9–10
Capitol – 16–17
Star – 23–24 - DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsSean ConneryGert FröbeHonor BlackmanWhile investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.Starlight – 7–8
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsAlan BatesDenholm ElliottHarry AndrewsA 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.Starlight – 15
- DirectorNorman HarrisonStarsWilliam LucasJohn RutlandDilys WatlingCrooks plan a bank heist by digging through a basement of a neighbouring house.Starlight – 15 (2nd to Nothing but Best)
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsVictor MatureGuy MadisonRobert PrestonA 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.Starlight – 16 [ranch night]
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsGary MerrillWanda HendrixJohn BromfieldDuring 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.Starlight – 16 (2nd to Last Frontier) [ranch night]
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsSophia LorenStephen BoydAlec GuinnessThe 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.Starlight – 17–22
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsSidney JamesKenneth ConnorTwo 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.Star – 15
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMaxine AudleyRichard LeechAlex ScottSolicitor Alan Phipps plans to blackmail wife Yvonne, frame her lover John Brodie as the blackmailer, and manipulate Yvonne into killing Brodie, seeking revenge on both for their affair.Star – 15 (2nd to Carry on Cleo)