1965, November: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsCarroll BakerRed ButtonsRaf ValloneA screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of platinum blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (Carroll Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930s.Capitol – 02
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAnthony QuinnJames CoburnDennis PriceIn 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling but their ship is taken over by pirates who become fond of the kids.Capitol – 03–04
Civic – 11 - DirectorMonte HellmanStarsJimmie RodgersJack NicholsonJohn HackettDuring World War II, a three man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.Capitol – 03–04 (2nd to High Wind)
Civic – 11 (2nd to High Wind) - DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.Civic – 02–04
Capitol – 05–11
Star – 12–18 - DirectorRaoul WalshStarsTroy DonahueSuzanne PleshetteDiane McBainWest Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.Star – 02
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAlbert LievenBarbara ShelleyJohn MeillonA young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death?Star – 02 (2nd to Distant Trumpet)
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsCliff RobertsonRed ButtonsIrina DemickAfter the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US Army platoon liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.Star – 03–04
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPat BooneErica RogersDennis PriceWhen an American salesman and his English fiancee visit her eccentric family who live in a remote old mansion in the country, he discovers that someone is trying to kill everyone there to get the family fortune.Star – 03–04 (2nd to Up from the Beach)
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsClifton WebbJane WymanJill St. JohnWhen his oldest daughter decides to stay in South America while on a school tour, her father decides to take the rest of the family there for vacation to find out why.Starlight – 02
- DirectorRichard FleischerElmo WilliamsStarsStephen BoydJuliette GrécoDavid WayneMisadventures of an ambitious unlucky Irishman who goes on a long and arduous trip to Africa along with his wife and bumbling cousin in hopes of starting a trucking business there.Starlight – 02 (2nd to Holiday for Lovers)
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsRobert RyanBurl IvesTina LouiseBlaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.Starlight – 03 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsRichard BasehartPhyllis KirkStephen ElliottDuring the 1950s, a mining engineer is hired by an investor-scientist to prospect for uranium deposits in Utah but their effort is sabotaged by a murderous local mine-owner who wants to jump their claim.Starlight – 03 (2nd to Day of the Outlaw) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorMartin RittStarsRichard BeymerDiane BakerCorinne CalvetAn immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.Starlight – 04
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsMichael CaineNigel GreenGuy DolemanIn London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.Capitol – 12–16
Civic – 19–23 - DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsJean-Paul BelmondoFrançoise DorléacJean ServaisA young man comes to the rescue of his girlfriend abducted by thieves and brought to Rio. An extravagant adventure ensues.Civic – 12–13
Capitol – 19–20
Star – 20–23 - DirectorRichard QuineStarsJack LemmonVirna LisiTerry-ThomasA dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.Civic – 14–18
Capitol – 22–25
Star – 26–30 - DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloMartha HyerA millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.Star – 11
- DirectorJulio CollLuis GarcíaStarsBarry SullivanMartha HyerSherry MorelandA married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.Star – 11
[HORROR] - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsSophia LorenGeorge PeppardTrevor HowardAllied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.Starlight – 11–16
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsGlenn FordElke SommerRita HayworthWhen half-a-million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for themselves.Capitol – 18
Civic – 24–25 - CreatorGene RoddenberryStarsGary LockwoodRobert VaughnDon PennyThe trials of a young U.S. Marine Lieutenant and his comrades at Camp Pendleton.Capitol – 18 (2nd to Money Trap)
Civic – 24–25
[episode: "To Kill a Man] - DirectorUmberto LenziStarsSteve ReevesGeneviève GradAndrea BosicMalasyan pirate Sandokan accidentally learns that Lord Brook plots to obtain the crown of Malasya by kidnapping the legitimate rajah and his daughter and forcing them to abdicate so he gathers his best man and launches a rescue operation.Star – 19
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsIan HendryAlan BadelBarbara FerrisSix impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.Star – 19 (2nd to Sandokan)
[HORROR] - DirectorBoris SagalStarsElvis PresleyShelley FabaresHarold J. StoneA Chicago mobster hires a rock'n'roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Starlight – 18–21
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsKirk MorrisIloosh KhoshabeLiana OrfeiTwo strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.Starlight – 18–21 (2nd to Girl Happy)
- DirectorLeo McCareyDavid W. OrtonStarsWilliam HoldenClifton WebbFrance NuyenDuring the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.Starlight – 22–23
- DirectorVincente MinnelliCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMaurice ChevalierLouis JourdanWeary 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.Capitol – 26–27
- 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.Capitol – 28–30
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPeter SellersTippy WalkerMerrie SpaethA 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.Civic – 26–29
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRobert VaughnLuciana PaluzziPat CrowleyThe pilot for the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," re-edited and released to theaters as a feature.Star – 24–25
- DirectorRobert YoungsonStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJay JacksonA compilation of primarily Laurel and Hardy shorts - From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others - plus Max Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and "Spec" O'Donnell.Star – 24–25 (2nd to Trap a Spy)
- DirectorFrancis D. LyonStarsVictor MatureElaine StewartFaith DomergueAn ex-Confederate officer and his young daughter, traveling West, rescue two women survivors of an Indian attack.Starlight – 24 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJim DavisMerry AndersMark AllenA gambler tries to help track down the men who hanged a rancher when he tried to thwart their cattle rustling operations by selling his ranch.Starlight – 24 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsBing CrosbyFabianTuesday WeldWidower and hamburger restaurateur Harvey Howard decides to go to college at 51 years of age. Resisting the easy path, he insists on not receiving preferential treatment, and lives in a dorm like the other students despite the disapproval of his grown son and daughter. As the years pass, and he gets involved in study sessions, fraternity initiations, and sporting events, he begins falling in love with Professor Gautier, the French teacher, but doesn't consider re-marrying appropriate.Starlight – 25–30
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsAndré GilleMaurice BaquetPascal LamorisseA young boy sneaks onto his grandfather's hot-air balloon and together they travel over France.Starlight – 25–28 (2nd to High Time)
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsGérard PhilipeValerie HobsonJoan GreenwoodA philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.Albert Hall – 23–25 [French/English]
- DirectorCharles R. RondeauStarsBrett HalseyJoyce MeadowsLowell BrownTwo drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.Albert Hall – 23–25
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsRon FosterMerry AndersRichard CraneAn architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.Starlight – 29–30 (2nd to High Time)
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsRita TushinghamRay BrooksMichael CrawfordA young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.Civic – 30
- DirectorDenis SandersStarsDon MurrayDiana HylandWilliam WindomFollows the life of a world-famous minister, lecturer and best-selling author.Civic – 30 (2nd to the Knack)