1966, June: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorCharles FrendBruno VailatiStarsLilli PalmerJames MasonGabriele FerzettiAn Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). The Italian sub manages to make it into the neutral port of Tangiers, followed by the British commander.Capitol – 01–02
Civic – 08–09 - DirectorKen AnnakinStarsNigel PatrickMargaret WhitingKatherine WoodvilleScotland Yard Chief Inspector Johnnoe is investigating a string of bank robberies but the robbers are determined to compromise Johnnoe and the investigation.Capitol – 01–02 (2nd to Torpedo Bay)
Civic – 08–09 (2nd to Torpedo Bay) - DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth SchwarzkopfOtto EdelmannSena JurinacAn opera about jealousy and duplicity among the elite classes of the Austro-Hungarian empire.Civic – 01–02
Capitol – 05–09 - DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyMilton BerleEthel MermanA group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.Star – 01–02
- DirectorRobert ParrishJohn SturgesStarsRobert TaylorJulie LondonJohn CassavetesFormer gunslinger Steve Sinclair (Taylor), is now a peaceful rancher, but things go wrong when his wild brother Tony (Cassavetes) arrives with his new gun--and his new fiancée, former saloon girl Joan Blake (London).Starlight – 01 [ranch night]
- DirectorJacques TourneurGeorge WaggnerStarsKeith LarsenBuddy EbsenDon BurnettDigest of 3 "Northwest Passage" (1958) 30-minute episodes: 2 by director George Waggner, and the central episode, 'The Break-Out' (first aired 19 October 1958), by Jacques Tourneur.Starlight – 01 (2nd to Saddle the Wind) [ranch night]
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAlbert FinneySusannah YorkGeorge DevineThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.Starlight – 02–07
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsBrian KeithVera MilesBrandon De WildeA strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.Capitol – 03–04
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsJames CoburnLee J. CobbGila GolanWhen scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.Civic – 03–07
Star – 11; 13–14 - DirectorRoger CormanStarsStewart GrangerRaf ValloneMickey RooneyIn 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of the Nazis.Star – 03–04; 06
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsBob HopeDina MerrillTuesday WeldAn executive, unhappy with his daughter's choice for a future husband, accepts a transfer to his firm's Stockholm branch and takes her along, only to discover that Sweden is far more sexually liberal than the United States.Star – 03–04; 06 (2nd to Secret Invasion)
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsFabianStuart WhitmanCarol LynleyA farm boy and his dog go hunting with his teenage brother (Fabian) and an older friend (Stuart Whitman) in 1912.Civic – 04
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsVan JohnsonPiper LaurieMartha HyerA failed vaudevillean finds a trained dog, who helps him succeed in early talking films.Star – 04
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.Star – 07–09
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartRock HudsonArthur KennedyWhen a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.Starlight – 08 [ranch night]
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsJohn AgarMamie Van DorenRichard BooneA sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.Starlight – 08 (2nd to Bend River) [ranch night]
- DirectorPeter UstinovStarsSophia LorenPaul NewmanDavid NivenL's elegant, elderly lady who recalls her past loves and lusty adventures of her life.Starlight – 09–11
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisSebastian CabotNeil HamiltonA young heiress must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.Capitol – 11
Civic – 17–18 - DirectorGilbert KayStarsRobert HuttonSandra DornePeter IllingWorld War II espionage in Lisbon with Allied safe-crackers cultivating a master spy and his wife so they can steal Japanese codes that are keys to Axis battle plans.Capitol – 11 (2nd to Fam Jewels)
Star – 15–16 (2nd to Pajama Party)
Civic – 17–18 (2nd to Fam Jewels) - DirectorMartin RittStarsRichard BurtonOskar WernerClaire BloomInstead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.Capitol – 11–12; ? 15–16
(Also featurettes including THE JOURNEY (The visit of Pope Paul to the U.S.A.)
Civic – 17–23
Star – 17–18; 20–21 - DirectorDon WeisStarsTommy KirkAnnette FunicelloElsa LanchesterSent to Earth to prepare for an invasion, a Martian scout lands amidst a swim party and tries to convince everyone that he really is who he says.Civic – 11
Star – 15–16
Capitol – 17–18 - DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsRory CalhounLinda DarnellTerry MooreA man becomes a bounty hunter to earn enough to marry the woman he loves, but when he returns to their Kansas town, she has married the sheriff instead which prompts him to scheme revenge by ruining the town's reputation.Civic – 11 (2nd to Pajama Party)
Civic – 17–18 (2nd to Pajama Party) - DirectorClive DonnerStarsPeter SellersPeter O'TooleRomy SchneiderA playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.Civic – 11–16
Capitol – 18–23
Star – 25–30 - DirectorRobert YoungsonStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleCharles ChaplinCharley ChaseAn appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks, and into the 1920s with Max Roach, Snub Pollard, Harry Langdon, Al St. John, Charlie Chase, and the teaming of Laurel and Hardy. Thrillers feature Houdini and serials, with special attention to Pearl White, Ruth Roland, and Monty Banks. The film often lets the silent pictures speak for themselves, running entire one-reelers or significant chunks of an old movie.Star – 11
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsSean ConneryHarry AndrewsIan BannenIn a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.Starlight – 12
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJanette ScottOliver ReedSheila BurrellA man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.Starlight – 12 [HORROR; midnight screening]
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJohn AgarLori NelsonJohn BromfieldMen capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.Starlight – 12 (2nd to Paranoiac) [HORROR; midnight screening]
- 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.Starlight – 15–21
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRock HudsonBarbara HaleAnthony QuinnA cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.Starlight – 15; 22 [ranch night]
- DirectorLee SholemStarsStephen McNallyJulie AdamsHugh MarloweAt Apache River Station, the passengers of a stagecoach, the owners of the station, a sheriff and his prisoner and a few ferry passengers are besieged by a band of renegade Apaches.Starlight – 15; 22 (2nd to Seminole) [ranch night]
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsElvis PresleyMary Ann MobleyFran JeffriesAmerican singer Johnny Tyronne is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king--and falls in love with that very king's daughter.Starlight – 16; 23–25
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsDale RobertsonYvonne De CarloWilliam BendixHothead Pete Stone has been arrested for the murder of George.Star – 17 (Matinee); 18; 20–21 (2nd to Spy Who)
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsLaurence HarveyJean SimmonsHonor BlackmanIn this sequel to Room at the Top (1958), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.Star – 22–23
Civic – 27–30 - DirectorRay PhoenixStarsQuentin ReynoldsJohannes Galilee ShembeA documentary exploring some of the tribes of South Africa, the wildlife, and some of the descendants of the Indian immigrants that settled in the country.Star – 22–23 (2nd to Life at the Top)
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartFabianGlynis JohnsProfessor Leaf, an absent-minded poet, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy who is as colorblind as he's in love with Brigitte Bardot, the French bombshell.Starlight – 26
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsRed ButtonsFabianBarbara EdenIn 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.Starlight – 26 (2nd to Dear Brigitte)
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsShirley JonesStella StevensHonor BlackmanFast climbing Arthur Tate rose to his fame, wealth and respectability quickly from a beginning as a naive constable His rise was also due to 3 women: dressmaker Violet Lawson, Lily, the Baroness von Lukenberg, and movie producer Marigold Marado, His rise was also due to Mrs. Tate, who always seemed to have an extra bit of information which would make her suggest to the people that her son Arthur be provided a position where he could do more good. Perhaps Mrs. Tate had a grander plan for herself.Starlight – 23–25 (2nd to Harum Scarum)
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneRita HayworthClaudia CardinaleWhen circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.Capitol – 25–30
- DirectorPhilip DunneStarsRock HudsonClaudia CardinaleJack WardenA New York psychiatrist is solicited by government agents in connection with a former patient of his who also happens to be a scientist wanted by certain foreign powers.Civic – 25
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsShirley EatonKen ScottMary HronopoulouA British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.Civic – 25 (2nd to Blindfold)
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsRomy SchneiderHorst BuchholzMara LaneA poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.Civic – 26 [German]
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsSandra DeePeter FondaMacdonald CareyA Los Angeles doctor falls for a Mississippi girl working as a nurse's aide in his hospital.Civic – 25
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsGordon ScottRobert BeattyYolande DonlanTarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route, white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief. Captured by the Oparians and nearly sacrificed to their lion god, the party is saved by Tarzan.Star – 25