1965, July: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaWalter MatthauFritz WeaverA technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?Capitol – 01
- DirectorSven MethlingStarsPaul HagenLouis Miehe-RenardEbbe LangbergAs part of the U.N. patrol in Gaza, A group of Danish soldiers run into a series of misadventures.Capitol – 01 (2nd to Fail Safe)
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloLuciana PaluzziLocal beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.Capitol – 02–03 (plus "sexploitation" movie Naked in the Deep)
- DirectorJohn RichStarsMichael CallanDean JonesTelly SavalasSequel to the 1962 film 'The Interns', this medical melodrama details the work of interns, nurses and doctors at a major American hospital.Capitol – 04–06
Civi – 07–08
Star – 14–15 - DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsRobert HuttonMary CastleMichael O'ConnellA married couple is held hostage in a dismal, deserted town by three escaped convicts. The crooks are looking for a cache of stolen loot, and they intend to keep the couple alive long enough to locate and dig up the cash for them.Capitol – 04–06 (2nd to New Interns)
Civic – 07–08 (2nd to New Interns)
Star – 14–15 (2nd to New Interns) - DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsJack PalanceEleonora Rossi DragoGuy MadisonA cruel Lombard ruler marries the daughter of another king, kills her father, beats her lover but he ultimately faces a major popular revolt against him.Civic – 01 [Italian]
Capitol – 07–08
Star – 09 - DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChris WarfieldJacklyn O'DonnellHarp McGuireBased on a short story by Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone"), a cop "mistakenly" kills a 14-year-old boy during a robbery. Although acquitted for the shooting, the cop is haunted by his crime.Civic – 01 (2nd to Sword of the Conqueror)
Capitol – 07–08 (2nd to Sword of the Conqueror)
Star – 09 (2nd to Sword of the Conqueror) - DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsBarbara WindsorBernard CribbinsAgent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.Civic – 02–03
Star – 07–08
"Charlie Bind, O. O. OH! The double 'O' means he has the right to boob when he chooses . . . how he chooses . . . where he chooses!" – 06 Jul 1965 - DirectorRobert TronsonStarsEmrys JonesSarah LawsonPatrick BarrModel prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burglary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.Civic – 02–03 (2nd to Carry on Spying)
Star – 07–08 (2nd to Carry on Spying) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineLou JacobiWhen a policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn't want her to see other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will be her only customer.Civic – 04–06
- DirectorRichard WilsonStarsYul BrynnerJanice RuleGeorge SegalIn New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.Star – 01
- 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.Star – 02–03; 05–06
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsPat BooneMilo O'SheaFidelma MurphyWhile in Ireland, a young insurance executive finds out that back at company headquarters, someone else has been promoted to a job that he was hoping to get. Enraged, he writes a scathing--and insulting--letter to his superiors. He soon discovers, however, that the reason he wasn't promoted was that the company is going to promote him to an even more important job with even more money. Frantic, he desperately tries to get the letter back before it gets to his bosses.Star – 02–03; 05–06 (2nd to Girl Happy)
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsCary GrantAudrey HepburnWalter MatthauRomance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?Starlight – 01–04
- DirectorGeorge EnglundStarsMarlon BrandoEiji OkadaSandra ChurchAn ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.Starlight – 06
- DirectorPaul HenreidStarsMara CordayLita MilanBarbara BostockVera (Mara Corday) runs a nightclub that's really a front for her secret operation: an all-female crime ring that's been pulling off heist after heist. The gang does a major job with the help of Agnes (Abby Dalton), a new recruit and insider with access to a bank's payroll. But then the nervous Agnes threatens to squeal, so Vera has her rubbed out. And when Vera's good-girl sister, Helen (Barbara Bostock), starts dating suspicious policeman Bill (Mark Richman), Vera gets really cutthroat.Starlight – 06 (2nd to Ugly American)
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRock HudsonKirk DouglasDorothy MaloneAt a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.Starlight – 07 [Ranch Night]
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsAudie MurphyWalter BrennanLyle BettgerWhen whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.Starlight – 07 (2nd to Last Sunset) [Ranch Night]
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsSophia LorenPeter SellersAlastair SimA millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.Starlight – 08–10
- 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.Starlight – 08–10 (2nd to Millionairess)
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsTommy KirkAnnette FunicelloLeon AmesMerlin Jones, resident genius at Midvale College, inadvertently gets into a string of scrapes, both in college and with the law-much to the distress of his long-suffering girlfriend and the local district judge.Capitol – 09–10
Civic – 16–17 - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsSophia LorenGeorge PeppardTrevor HowardAllied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.Capitol – 10–13
Civic – 10–13
Star – 27 - 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.Civic – 09–12
Capitol – 16–19 - DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Star – 10; 12–13
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsBette DavisSusan HaywardMike ConnorsA divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.Capitol – 14–15
Star – 28–29