1965, December: Canberra film releases
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1. The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Western
After his brother the sheriff is murdered, Bat Masterson is elected to the job and is determined to find the killer and make Dodge City safe.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Nancy Gates
Votes: 1,069
Starlight – 1 [Ranch night]
2. Noose for a Gunman (1960)
Not Rated | 69 min | Western
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas, Ted de Corsia, Barton MacLane
Votes: 316
Starlight – 1 (2nd to Dodge City) [ranch night]
3. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
TV-14 | 102 min | Drama
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Directors: Norman Jewison, Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
Votes: 18,225 | Gross: $15.26M
Capitol – 1–2 Civic – 8–9
4. The Spy with My Face (1965)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to the Swiss Alps to find a secret nuclear weapon design but T.H.R.U.S.H. agents kidnap Solo and replace him with a look-alike double.
Director: John Newland | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Senta Berger, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 560
Capitol – 1–2 (2nd to Cincinnati Kid) Civic – 8–9 (2nd to Cincinnati Kid)
5. The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Peter Sellers, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss
Votes: 3,848
Capitol – 3 Star – 14
6. The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
A young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly
Votes: 3,751
Civic – 1–2 Capitol – 7–9 Star – 18
7. One Man's Way (1964)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Follows the life of a world-famous minister, lecturer and best-selling author.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine
Votes: 174
Civic – 1–2 (2nd to the Knack)
8. 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: 15,153
Civic – 4–7
9. Mary, Mary (1963)
126 min | Comedy, Romance
Nine months after they split up Bob and Mary meet at his New York apartment to sort out some tax matters. He's getting married to healthy-eating Tiffany as soon as the divorce becomes final... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson, Diane McBain, Hiram Sherman
Votes: 478
Star – 1–2
10. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
After the Civil War, nomadic adventurer Cheyenne Bodie roamed the West looking for fights, bad guys to beat up, and women. His job changed from episode to episode.
Stars: Clint Walker, Clyde Howdy, Chuck Hicks, Lane Chandler
Votes: 2,022
Star – 1–2 [episode "The Iron Trail"] (2nd to Mary Mary)
11. My Son, the Hero (1962)
Not Rated | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Giuliano Gemma, Antonella Lualdi, Serge Nubret
Votes: 460
Star – 3 [ITALIAN]
12. Frontier Uprising (1961)
Approved | 68 min | Western
A trail guide leading a wagon train to the West in the 1840s discovers that the U.S. and Mexico are at war.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Nancy Hadley, Ken Mayer, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 190
Star – 3 (2nd to Sons of Thunder)
13. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,484
Star – 4–8 Civic – 3–4
14. The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Approved | 125 min | Drama
An ostracized Episcopal clergyman leads a busload of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Votes: 13,098 | Gross: $9.43M
Starlight – 2–5
15. The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Documentary
A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man, " "A Night at the Opera, " "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, The Marx Brothers, Jean Harlow
Votes: 448
Starlight – 2–5 (2nd to Night of the Iguana)
16. Wink of an Eye (1958)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Mystery
Mild-mannered chemist Alvin Atterbury chafes under the constant criticism by his boss at a perfume factory. In response to being removed from an important experiment, Atterbury begins ... See full synopsis »
Director: Winston Jones | Stars: Jonathan Kidd, Doris Dowling, Barbara Turner, Irene Seidner
Votes: 25
Capitol – 7–9 (2nd to Knack) Star – 18 (2nd to Knack)
17. Morituri (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard
Votes: 4,488
Star – 8–9 Civic – 14
18. Battle of Blood Island (1960)
TV-PG | 64 min | Drama, War
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
Director: Joel Rapp | Stars: Richard Devon, Ron Gans, Roger Corman
Votes: 292
Star – 8–9 (2nd to Morituri)
19. The Winston Affair (1964)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, War
In WW2, a US lieutenant stationed in India shoots dead a British NCO and admits his crime but his reason for the murder is so bizarre that it puzzles his defense counsel.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard
Votes: 827
Starlight – 7
20. Night Train to Paris (1964)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Former 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Aliza Gur, Dorinda Stevens, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 361
Starlight – 7 (2nd to Man in Middle)
21. The Halliday Brand (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Western
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond
Votes: 516
Starlight – 8 [ranch night]
22. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Approved | 128 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic of Margaret "Molly" Brown, who survived the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen
Votes: 4,254 | Gross: $13.17M
Starlight – 8 (2nd to Halliday Brand) [ranch night]
23. A Very Special Favor (1965)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rich man asks a womanizing playboy to marry his daughter and make a grandson for him.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Walter Slezak
Votes: 572
Capitol – 14 Star – 15–17
24. Wild Seed (1965)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A 17-year-old girl runs away from her East Coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated... See full summary »
Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Michael Parks, Celia Milius, Ross Elliott, Woodrow Chambliss
Votes: 406
Capitol – 14 (2nd to Special Favour) Star – 15–17 (2nd to Special Favour)
25. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Votes: 283,388 | Gross: $25.00M
Capitol – 15–16
26. Three Came to Kill (1960)
Not Rated | 71 min | Crime, Thriller
Three professional killers break into the house of an airport employee to shoot the plane on which an Asian Prime Minister is due to leave America.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, John Lupton, Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas
Votes: 150
Capitol – 15–16 (2nd to Some like it Hot)
27. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn
Votes: 5,658
Civic – 15–16
28. For Love or Money (1963)
Passed | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 563
Starlight – 14
29. The Hanged Man (1964 TV Movie)
Unrated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 129
Starlight – 14 (2nd to Love or Money)
30. The Ride Back (1957)
Not Rated | 79 min | Western
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
Directors: Allen H. Miner, Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan
Votes: 937
Starlight – 15 [ranch night]
31. Trooper Hook (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews
Votes: 999
Starlight – 15 (2nd to Ride Back) [ranch night]
32. 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
Starlight – 16–18
33. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Passed | 122 min | Drama, Western
Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr.
Votes: 19,176 | Gross: $13.33M
Capitol – 17–18
34. The Truth About Spring (1965)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer who's after romance.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hayley Mills, John Mills, James MacArthur, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 720
Civic – 17–18
35. A Dog's Best Friend (1959)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Western
A young orphan rejects his foster parents--instead turning to a German Shepard whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Bill Williams, Marcia Henderson, Roger Mobley, Roy Engel
Votes: 94
Starlight – 16–18 (2nd to Kid Galahad)
36. Help! (1965)
G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Sir Ringo Starr finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult, and his fellow members of The Beatles must try to protect him from it.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 21,109 | Gross: $13.08M
Capitol – 24; 26–30 Civic – 31
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