1965, April: Canberra film releases
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1. The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Approved | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer
Votes: 2,497 | Gross: $28.41M
Capitol – 01 (plus featurettes) Star – 02–06 (plus featurettes)
2. Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a hypochondriac believes he is dying, he makes plans for his wife--which she discovers and misunderstands.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde
Votes: 7,391 | Gross: $9.13M
Capitol – 02–03 (plus Aussie short doc "From the Tropics to the Snow") Civic – 09–10 (plus Aussie short doc "From the Tropics to the Snow") Star – 17; 19–20
3. Four Days in November (1964)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From more than eight million feet of newsreels, amateur footage, tape-recordings and more, David L. Wolper presents a priceless detailed account of the time and events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Richard Basehart, John Brewer, Raymond Buck, Earle Cabell
Votes: 655
Capitol – 04 (plus featurettes) Civic – 08
4. Follow That Dream (1962)
109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore
Votes: 2,995
"The Great Elvis Presley Show"
Capitol – 05–06
Civic – 13
Star – 14–15
5. Kid Galahad (1962)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Musical, Sport
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman
Votes: 3,111 | Gross: $1.80M
"The Great Elvis Presley Show"
Capitol – 05–06 (2nd to Follow That Dream)
Civic – 13 (2nd to Follow that Dream)
Star – 14–15 (2nd to Follow that Dream)
Star – 17 [Matinee]
6. Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter's fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family's honor.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi, Lando Buzzanca
Votes: 3,866
Civic – 01 [Italian; English dubbed] (plus featurettes)
7. Goldfinger (1964)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 202,581 | Gross: $51.08M
Civic – 02–08 (plus featurettes)
Star – 07–13
Capitol – 09–15
"NOTE: The Capitol booking office will open Today and Tomorrow from I p.m., to enable patrons to obtain reservations for the season of "GOLDFINGER". It will also open daily from Monday to Thursday of next week, from 1 p.m." – 08 Apr 1965
8. The Outrage (1964)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson
Votes: 2,524 | Gross: $3.92M
Star – 01 Capitol – 07–08 Civic – 14–15
9. Ruby Gentry (1952)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully
Votes: 1,765 | Gross: $3.85M
Star – 01 (2nd to Outrage) Capitol – 07–08 (2nd to Outrage) Civic – 14–15 (2nd to Outrage)
10. Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy
A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,504 | Gross: $7.41M
Starlight – 01–03
11. Young Guns of Texas (1962)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
A cowboy and 5 others pursue outlaws to recover stolen Union Army gold, while a revengeful rancher is it out to murder one of the pursuers.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, Jody McCrea, Chill Wills
Votes: 279
Starlight – 01–03 (2nd to Take Her, She's Mine)
12. The Silent Invasion (1962)
70 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Eric Flynn, Petra Davies, Francis De Wolff, Martin Benson
Votes: 57
Star – 07–13 (2nd to Goldfinger)
13. Peyton Place (1957)
Approved | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 6,615 | Gross: $25.60M
Starlight – 06 (with featurettes)
14. Day of the Bad Man (1958)
Not Rated | 81 min | Western
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Robert Middleton
Votes: 532
Starlight – 07 [Ranch Night]
15. The Great Sioux Uprising (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
During the Civil War, Southern agitators and a crooked horse dealer endanger the peace between the Union and the Wyoming Sioux.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Peter Whitney
Votes: 362
Starlight – 07 (2nd to Day of the Badman) [Ranch Night]
16. The King and I (1956)
G | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Votes: 27,918 | Gross: $21.30M
Starlight – 08–11
17. The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)
60 min | Drama
An anthology of mini-features, new productions largely consisting of hasty retreads of successful 20th Century Fox movies.
Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jesse White, Carl Benton Reid, Grandon Rhodes
Votes: 235
"The Empty Room" Starlight – 08–11 (2nd to King and I)
18. Thunder in Carolina (1960)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Professional stock car racer Mitch Cooper wrecks his car and hurts his ankle in a brutal smash-up. Mitch takes time off from racing to teach cocky eager beaver kid Les York how to drive ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Helmick | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Alan Hale Jr., Connie Hines, Race Gentry
Votes: 449
Starlight – 13
19. Sea Devils (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea
Votes: 780
Starlight – 13 (2nd to Thunder in Carolina)
20. The Lawless Breed (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Biography, Western
After being released from prison, former gun-fighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire
Votes: 1,418
Starlight – 14 [Ranch Night]
21. The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
Approved | 84 min | Western
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl Rosalie from her shameful job.
Director: Jack Sher | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Jim Backus
Votes: 955
Starlight – 14 (2nd to Lawless Breed) [Ranch Night]
22. Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Gidget, in Rome for a holiday, misinterprets attention she receives from a famous journalist. Discovering he is "chaperoning" her at Dad's request she resumes interest in her boyfriend. Based upon characters created by Frederick Kohner.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: James Darren, Cindy Carol, Jessie Royce Landis, Cesare Danova
Votes: 784 | Gross: $4.36M
Starlight – 15; 17 (Theatres closed Good Friday.)
23. The 7th Dawn (1964)
Not Rated | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 1,141
Capitol – 17–19 (plus featurettes) Civic – 22–24 (plus featurettes) Star – 24–26
24. The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three American lovelies rooming together in Madrid all manage to get themselves into seemingly-unhappy relationships with fellows.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay
Votes: 774
Civic – 17–18 Capitol – 23–24 Star – 30
25. Surf Party (1964)
Not Rated | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
A 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.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Bobby Vinton, Patricia Morrow, Jackie DeShannon, Ken Miller
Votes: 295
Civic – 17–18 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers) Capitol – 23–24 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers) Star – 30 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers)
26. Taggart (1964)
Approved | 85 min | Western
Kent Taggart's family, with their cattle stampeded, are killed by those who started it. In a fair gunfight, he kills the man's son responsible for it all and when he runs, a warrant is issued and a price put on his head.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cárdenas
Votes: 404
Star – 17; 19–20 (2nd to Send Me No Flowers)
27. Clash of Steel (1962)
79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The adventures of ebullient handsome defender of justice Jean de Pardaillan in the Paris of 1588. The sprightly Gascon knight first saves a beauteous Bohemian girl, Violetta, from abduction... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Gérard Barray, Gianna Maria Canale, Michèle Grellier, Kirk Morris
Votes: 124
Star – 15; 17 (2nd to Gidget Goes to Rome) (Theatres closed Good Friday.) [French]
28. Advance to the Rear (1964)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, War, Western
When A Union Army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory, Southern spies try to figure out what they're doing there.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus
Votes: 910
Starlight – 18; 20
29. Guns of the Black Witch (1961)
81 min | Adventure
In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children ... See full summary »
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Don Megowan, Silvana Pampanini, Emma Danieli, Livio Lorenzon
Votes: 49
Starlight – 18 (2nd to Company of Cowards) [Italian]
30. Maniac (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.
Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse
Votes: 1,550
Starlight – 18 [MIDNIGHT! Two shockers —]
31. The Giant Claw (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill
Votes: 4,419
Starlight – 18 (2nd to Maniac) [MIDNIGHT! Two shockers —]
32. The Pink Panther (1963)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther".
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Votes: 56,674 | Gross: $10.88M
Civic – 19–20 Star – 21–22 Capitol – 28–29
33. Three on a Spree (1961)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Jack Watling, Carole Lesley, John Slater, Colin Gordon
Votes: 75
Civic – 19–20 (2nd to Pink Panther) Star – 21–22 (2nd to Pink Panther) Capitol – 28–29 (2nd to Pink Panther)
34. Alias Jesse James (1959)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Western
Outlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 1,600
Capitol – 17 [Matinee] Capitol – 27 (2nd to Stolen Hours) Civic – 28–29 (2nd to Stolen Hours)
35. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
After inadvertently stopping an Indian attack on his stagecoach while traveling in the American West, an English gentleman finds himself appointed sheriff of a nearby town.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 1,339
Civic – 17 [Matinee]
36. Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards
Votes: 1,323
Starlight – 21 [Ranch Night]
37. The Omaha Trail (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Romance, Western
An oxen wagon train is hired to haul a locomotive to Omaha, but the owner of the wagon train has other plans.
Directors: Edward Buzzell, Edward L. Cahn | Stars: James Craig, Pamela Blake, Dean Jagger, Edward Ellis
Votes: 146
Starlight – 21 (2nd to Many Rivers to Cross) [Ranch Night]
38. Barabbas (1961)
Approved | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado
Votes: 7,029 | Gross: $6.32M
Starlight – 22–24 (plus featurettes)
39. Nothing But the Best (1964)
99 min | Comedy
A 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.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin
Votes: 433
Capitol – 20–22 Civic – 27 Star – 28–29
40. The Double (1963)
55 min | Crime
John Cleeve is suffering from what his doctor calls 'homicidal hallucinations'. He can remember nothing of his past - apart from the obsessive memory that he has killed a business partner.
Director: Lionel Harris | Stars: Jeanette Sterke, Alan MacNaughtan, Robert Brown, Jane Griffiths
Votes: 48
Capitol – 20–22 (2nd to Nothing but the Best) Civic – 27 (2nd to Nothing but the Best) Star – 28–29 (2nd to Nothing but the Best)
41. Brink of Life (1958)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Votes: 3,361
Civic – 21 [Swedish; English subtitles]
42. The Intruder (1962)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama
A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt
Votes: 3,901
Civic – 21 (2nd to So Close to Life)
43. X-15 (1961)
107 min | Drama, History
During the Cold War in the 1960s the U.S.A.F. and NASA tested the experimental rocket-powered aircraft X-15 that set altitude and speed records and reached the edge of outer space.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: David McLean, Charles Bronson, Ralph Taeger, Brad Dexter
Votes: 755
Star – 23 (plus Audie Murphy in Guns for the Rebels [not on IMDb])
44. Stolen Hours (1963)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
Dying English jet-setter marries her doctor and lives the best year of her life.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd
Votes: 423
Capitol – 27 Civic – 28–29
45. A Global Affair (1964)
84 min | Comedy
A bachelor employee at the United Nations building takes care of an abandoned baby.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Bob Hope, Michèle Mercier, Elga Andersen, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 498
Starlight – 27 ["Bob Hope and a bevy of beauties]
46. Marco Polo (1962)
95 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
Directors: Hugo Fregonese, Richard McNamara, Piero Pierotti | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Yôko Tani, Robert Hundar, Camillo Pilotto
Votes: 177
Starlight – 27 (2nd to Global Affair) [Italian]
47. Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Western
During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest
Votes: 3,140 | Gross: $1.45M
Starlight – 28 [Ranch Night]
48. Gypsy Colt (1954)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Family, Western
A beautiful spirited horse is so devoted to his young mistress that he undertakes an incredible 500-mile journey over treacherous terrain to be reunited with her.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee, Larry Keating
Votes: 276
Starlight – 28 (2nd to Escape from Fort Bravo) [Ranch Night]
49. Come September (1961)
Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin
Votes: 4,079 | Gross: $14.17M
Starlight – 29–30
50. The Lively Set (1964)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Casey 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Doug McClure, Joanie Sommers
Votes: 275
Capitol – 30
51. Wild and Wonderful (1964)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
Cognac, 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.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Larry Storch, Pierre Olaf
Votes: 362
Capitol – 30 (2nd to Lively Set)
52. Son of Flubber (1962)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk
Votes: 3,211 | Gross: $22.13M
Civic – 30
53. The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960)
G | 48 min | Family, Documentary
A palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.
Director: Larry Lansburgh | Stars: George Fenneman, Nautical the Horse, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Dorian Williams
Votes: 211
Civic – 30 (2nd to Son of Flubber)
54. The Final Hour (1965)
75 min | Western
This is not a feature film, but two episodes of the TV series "The Virginan" edited together.
Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Sheldon Allman, Jacques Aubuchon, Whit Bissell, Gary Clarke
Starlight – 29–30 (2nd to Come September)
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