1965, April: Canberra film releases
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- 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.Capitol – 01 (plus featurettes)
Star – 02–06 (plus featurettes) - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony RandallWhen a hypochondriac believes he is dying, he makes plans for his wife--which she discovers and misunderstands.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 - DirectorMel StuartStarsRichard BasehartJohn BrewerRaymond BuckFrom 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.Capitol – 04 (plus featurettes)
Civic – 08 - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsElvis PresleyArthur O'ConnellAnne HelmA 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."The Great Elvis Presley Show"
Capitol – 05–06
Civic – 13
Star – 14–15 - DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsElvis PresleyGig YoungLola AlbrightAfter 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."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] - DirectorPietro GermiStarsSaro UrzìStefania SandrelliAldo PuglisiA 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.Civic – 01 [Italian; English dubbed] (plus featurettes)
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsSean ConneryGert FröbeHonor BlackmanWhile investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.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 - DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanLaurence HarveyClaire BloomTravelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.Star – 01
Capitol – 07–08
Civic – 14–15 - DirectorKing VidorStarsJennifer JonesCharlton HestonKarl MaldenA sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.Star – 01 (2nd to Outrage)
Capitol – 07–08 (2nd to Outrage)
Civic – 14–15 (2nd to Outrage) - DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartSandra DeeAudrey MeadowsA father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal.Starlight – 01–03
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsJames MitchumAlana LaddJody McCreaA 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.Starlight – 01–03 (2nd to Take Her, She's Mine)
- DirectorMax VarnelStarsEric FlynnPetra DaviesFrancis De WolffDuring 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 brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed.Star – 07–13 (2nd to Goldfinger)
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsLana TurnerLee PhilipsLloyd NolanA peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.Starlight – 06 (with featurettes)
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsFred MacMurrayJoan WeldonJohn EricsonJudge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.Starlight – 07 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJeff ChandlerFaith DomergueLyle BettgerDuring the Civil War, Southern agitators and a crooked horse dealer endanger the peace between the Union and the Wyoming Sioux.Starlight – 07 (2nd to Day of the Badman) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorWalter LangStarsYul BrynnerDeborah KerrRita MorenoA widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.Starlight – 08–11
- StarsJoseph CottenJesse WhiteCarl Benton ReidAn anthology of mini-features, new productions largely consisting of hasty retreads of successful 20th Century Fox movies."The Empty Room"
Starlight – 08–11 (2nd to King and I) - DirectorPaul HelmickStarsRory CalhounAlan Hale Jr.Connie HinesProfessional 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 well on the track. Mitch also takes a fancy to York's lovely, no-nonsense wife Rene. This leads to York ditching Mitch as his manager so he can race for some evil jerk millionaire who only cares about winning.Starlight – 13
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsYvonne De CarloRock HudsonMaxwell ReedGilliat,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.Starlight – 13 (2nd to Thunder in Carolina)
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsRock HudsonJulie AdamsMary CastleAfter being released from prison, former gun-fighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.Starlight – 14 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorJack SherStarsAudie MurphyJoanne DruGilbert RolandIn 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.Starlight – 14 (2nd to Lawless Breed) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames DarrenCindy CarolJessie Royce LandisGidget, 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.Starlight – 15; 17 (Theatres closed Good Friday.)
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsWilliam HoldenSusannah YorkCapucinePolitical and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.Capitol – 17–19 (plus featurettes)
Civic – 22–24 (plus featurettes)
Star – 24–26 - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsAnn-MargretAnthony FranciosaCarol LynleyThree American lovelies rooming together in Madrid all manage to get themselves into seemingly-unhappy relationships with fellows.Civic – 17–18
Capitol – 23–24
Star – 30 - 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.Civic – 17–18 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers)
Capitol – 23–24 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers)
Star – 30 (2nd to Pleasure Seekers) - DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsTony YoungDan DuryeaDick ForanKent 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.Star – 17; 19–20 (2nd to Send Me No Flowers)
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsGérard BarrayGianna Maria CanaleMichèle GrellierThe 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 but the young lady goes on being threatened by the henchmen of the evil Duke of Guise, for she is no gypsy at all but a young noblewoman, Isabelle d'Entraigues, heiress to the throne of France. What de Guise plans is to marry her, despite his relationship with princess Fausta, and become King himself. He has "Violetta" kidnapped again, successfully this time. Pardaillan swings into action, determined not to let faithless de Guise achieve his aims...Star – 15; 17 (2nd to Gidget Goes to Rome) (Theatres closed Good Friday.) [French]
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsGlenn FordStella StevensMelvyn DouglasWhen 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.Starlight – 18; 20
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsDon MegowanSilvana PampaniniEmma DanieliIn 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 alike, Two brothers, who were wild kids, escaped because they were absent to play away from their parents; on their return home, they saw the end of the carnage, and vowed revenge. As adults, they made their name feared by the Maracaïbo Spanish colonists. Yet, jealousy made them fall apart of each other, and eventually one brother died - so the other would survive and be happy with the woman they loved.Starlight – 18 (2nd to Company of Cowards) [Italian]
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsKerwin MathewsNadia GrayDonald HoustonAn 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.Starlight – 18 [MIDNIGHT! Two shockers —]
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsJeff MorrowMara CordayMorris AnkrumGlobal 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.Starlight – 18 (2nd to Maniac) [MIDNIGHT! Two shockers —]
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsDavid NivenPeter SellersRobert WagnerThe 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".Civic – 19–20
Star – 21–22
Capitol – 28–29 - DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsJack WatlingCarole LesleyJohn SlaterA 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!Civic – 19–20 (2nd to Pink Panther)
Star – 21–22 (2nd to Pink Panther)
Capitol – 28–29 (2nd to Pink Panther) - DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBob HopeRhonda FlemingWendell CoreyOutlaw 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.Capitol – 17 [Matinee]
Capitol – 27 (2nd to Stolen Hours)
Civic – 28–29 (2nd to Stolen Hours) - DirectorRaoul WalshStarsKenneth MoreJayne MansfieldHenry HullAfter 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.Civic – 17 [Matinee]
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsRobert TaylorEleanor ParkerVictor McLaglenRobert 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.Starlight – 21 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorEdward BuzzellEdward L. CahnStarsJames CraigPamela BlakeDean JaggerAn oxen wagon train is hired to haul a locomotive to Omaha, but the owner of the wagon train has other plans.Starlight – 21 (2nd to Many Rivers to Cross) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsAnthony QuinnSilvana ManganoArthur KennedyGovernor 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.Starlight – 22–24 (plus featurettes)
- 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.Capitol – 20–22
Civic – 27
Star – 28–29 - DirectorLionel HarrisStarsJeanette SterkeAlan MacNaughtanRobert BrownJohn 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.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) - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsEva DahlbeckIngrid ThulinBibi AnderssonThree 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.Civic – 21 [Swedish; English subtitles]
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsWilliam ShatnerFrank MaxwellBeverly LunsfordA 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.Civic – 21 (2nd to So Close to Life)
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsDavid McLeanCharles BronsonRalph TaegerDuring 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.Star – 23 (plus Audie Murphy in Guns for the Rebels [not on IMDb])
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsSusan HaywardMichael CraigDiane BakerDying English jet-setter marries her doctor and lives the best year of her life.Capitol – 27
Civic – 28–29 - DirectorJack ArnoldStarsBob HopeMichèle MercierElga AndersenA bachelor employee at the United Nations building takes care of an abandoned baby.Starlight – 27 ["Bob Hope and a bevy of beauties]
- DirectorHugo FregoneseRichard McNamaraPiero PierottiStarsRory CalhounYôko TaniRobert HundarItalian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.Starlight – 27 (2nd to Global Affair) [Italian]
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsWilliam HoldenEleanor ParkerJohn ForsytheDuring 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.Starlight – 28 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsDonna CorcoranWard BondFrances DeeA 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.Starlight – 28 (2nd to Escape from Fort Bravo) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsRock HudsonGina LollobrigidaSandra DeeYounger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.Starlight – 29–30
- 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 – 30
- 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 – 30 (2nd to Lively Set)
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnWhen Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.Civic – 30
- 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 – 30 (2nd to Son of Flubber)
- DirectorRobert DouglasStarsSheldon AllmanJacques AubuchonWhit BissellThis is not a feature film, but two episodes of the TV series "The Virginan" edited together.Starlight – 29–30 (2nd to Come September)