1965, July: Canberra film releases
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1. Fail Safe (1964)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 24,414
Capitol – 01
2. Operation Camel (1960)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
As part of the U.N. patrol in Gaza, A group of Danish soldiers run into a series of misadventures.
Director: Sven Methling | Stars: Paul Hagen, Louis Miehe-Renard, Ebbe Langberg, Preben Kaas
Votes: 317
Capitol – 01 (2nd to Fail Safe)
3. Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley
Votes: 1,772
Capitol – 02–03 (plus "sexploitation" movie Naked in the Deep)
4. The New Interns (1964)
123 min | Drama
Sequel to the 1962 film 'The Interns', this medical melodrama details the work of interns, nurses and doctors at a major American hospital.
Director: John Rich | Stars: Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers
Votes: 217 | Gross: $2.67M
Capitol – 04–06 Civi – 07–08 Star – 14–15
5. The Jailbreakers (1960)
64 min | Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Alexander Grasshoff | Stars: Robert Hutton, Mary Castle, Michael O'Connell, John Garwood
Votes: 40
Capitol – 04–06 (2nd to New Interns) Civic – 07–08 (2nd to New Interns) Star – 14–15 (2nd to New Interns)
6. Sword of the Conqueror (1961)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, History, War
A 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.
Director: Carlo Campogalliani | Stars: Jack Palance, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Guy Madison, Carlo D'Angelo
Votes: 260
Civic – 01 [Italian] Capitol – 07–08 Star – 09
7. Incident in an Alley (1962)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama
Based 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.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Chris Warfield, Jacklyn O'Donnell, Harp McGuire, Virginia Christine
Votes: 175
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)
8. Carry on Spying (1964)
87 min | Comedy
Agent 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.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 3,113
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
9. On the Run (1963)
59 min | Drama, Mystery
Model 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.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson, Patrick Barr, Delphi Lawrence
Votes: 68
Civic – 02–03 (2nd to Carry on Spying) Star – 07–08 (2nd to Carry on Spying)
10. Irma la Douce (1963)
Approved | 147 min | Comedy, Romance
When 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.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell
Votes: 21,417 | Gross: $25.25M
Civic – 04–06
11. Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Western
In 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.
Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal, Alfred Ryder
Votes: 2,345
Star – 01
12. Girl Happy (1965)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A 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.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone, Gary Crosby
Votes: 2,971 | Gross: $7.09M
Star – 02–03; 05–06
13. Never Put It in Writing (1964)
93 min | Comedy
While 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--... See full summary »
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Pat Boone, Milo O'Shea, Fidelma Murphy, Reginald Beckwith
Votes: 32
Star – 02–03; 05–06 (2nd to Girl Happy)
14. Charade (1963)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Romance 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?
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn
Votes: 85,608 | Gross: $13.47M
Starlight – 01–04
15. The Ugly American (1963)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious American scholar becomes the ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
Director: George Englund | Stars: Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle
Votes: 2,464
Starlight – 06
16. Girls on the Loose (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Vera (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 ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Mara Corday, Lita Milan, Barbara Bostock, Peter Mark Richman
Votes: 210
Starlight – 06 (2nd to Ugly American)
17. The Last Sunset (1961)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Western
At 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.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 3,730 | Gross: $6.54M
Starlight – 07 [Ranch Night]
18. Drums Across the River (1954)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye
Votes: 1,089
Starlight – 07 (2nd to Last Sunset) [Ranch Night]
19. The Millionairess (1960)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica
Votes: 2,006
Starlight – 08–10
20. Surf Party (1964)
Not Rated | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
A 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.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Bobby Vinton, Patricia Morrow, Jackie DeShannon, Ken Miller
Votes: 295
Starlight – 08–10 (2nd to Millionairess)
21. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Merlin 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.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 855
Capitol – 09–10 Civic – 16–17
22. Operation Crossbow (1965)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Drama, War
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Votes: 5,508
Capitol – 10–13 Civic – 10–13 Star – 27
23. The Longest Day (1962)
G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Votes: 59,087 | Gross: $39.10M
Civic – 09–12 Capitol – 16–19
24. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British 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.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,396 | Gross: $44.91M
Star – 10; 12–13
25. Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton
Votes: 1,710
Capitol – 14–15 Star – 28–29
26. A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964)
80 min | Drama, War
The film follows a U.S. Marine Corps pilot (Marshall Thompson) who is shot down over the Vietnamese jungle. In his endeavor to get to safety, he meets a female guerrilla fighter (Kieu Chinh... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Thompson | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Pancho Magalona, Mario Barri, Kieu Chinh
Votes: 56
Capitol – 14–15 (2nd to Where Love Has Gone)
27. Goldfinger (1964)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 202,632 | Gross: $51.08M
Civic – 13–15
28. War Hunt (1962)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Tommy Matsuda
Votes: 1,119
Civic – 13–15 (2nd to Goldfinger)
29. Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A hunch horse-player's marriage is threatened by his betting ways; in desperation, his wife becomes his bookie.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau
Votes: 483 | Gross: $3.49M
Starlight – 13 (plus "The American by Night (A) a tour of the night clubs")
30. Guns of Diablo (1964)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Wagon train scout Linc Murdock reminisces about his old feud with rancher Rance Macklin over pretty Maria during the time when Linc worked for the Macklin ranch.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver, Kurt Russell, Jan Merlin
Votes: 874
Starlight – 14 [Ranch Night]
31. Fury River (1961)
74 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Rogers Rangers fight the French & Indians in Canada while searching for a waterway which will lead to this ocean.
Directors: Alan Crosland Jr., Otto Lang, Jacques Tourneur, George Waggner | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Luis Van Rooten
Votes: 92
Starlight – 14 (2nd to Guns of Diablo) [Ranch Night]
32. Flower Drum Song (1961)
Approved | 133 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo
Votes: 3,709 | Gross: $10.90M
Starlight – 15–17 (plus featurettes including "Norfolk Island")
33. John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
96 min | Comedy
A former Notre Dame football star crash lands over a mythical Arabian country while on spy mission to the USSR. He is then forced by the football-obsessed king of that country to coach their football team .
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus
Votes: 760
Star – 16–17; 19
"See this riotous tale of madcap misadventures in the land of Arabian nuts come to mirth shaking life on the screen in ..." – 15 Jul 1965
34. Marines, Let's Go (1961)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Four privates romp their way through occupied Japan while on leave, finding a little romance and some laughs. After it's over they head to the front lines of the Korean War where brutality and death are constant.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Tom Tryon, David Hedison, Tom Reese, Linda Hutchings
Votes: 236
Star – 16–17; 19 (2nd to John Goldfarb)
35. Sylvia (1965)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
A millionaire with a mysterious fiancee hires a detective to discover the truth about her past.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Joanne Dru, Peter Lawford
Votes: 424
Capitol – 27
36. The Power and the Glory (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach. It's the 1930s and Mexican government sees the church as competition. They send a secret agent to assassinate the priest.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Julie Harris, George C. Scott, Martin Gabel
Votes: 92
Capitol – 27 (2nd to Sylvia)
37. The Rounders (1965)
TV-PG | 85 min | Comedy, Western
In Sedona, two aging cowpokes bust broncos, charm local ladies and bet on outcomes at the rodeo.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday
Votes: 1,913
Capitol – 28–29
38. The Secret Seven (1963)
92 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Axel is dragged in chains by Rabirio, but Leslio, using five convicts he redeemed, manages to free him.
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Tony Russel, Helga Liné, Massimo Serato, Gérard Tichy
Votes: 64
Capitol – 28–29 (2nd to Rounders)
39. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,903 | Gross: $7.41M
Civic – 27 Capitol – 30–31
40. She (I) (1965)
Unrated | 106 min | Adventure, Fantasy
An Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson
Votes: 3,627
Civic – 28–29
41. Signpost to Murder (1964)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An escapee from an asylum takes refuge in a woman's house; but she has dark secrets of her own.
Director: George Englund | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier
Votes: 539
Civic – 28–29 (2nd to She)
42. The Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
84 min | Drama, Western
A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
Director: Bill Ward | Stars: Marty Robbins, Traveler, Joyce Redd, Robert Barron
Votes: 112
Star – 28–29 (2nd to Where Love Has Gone)
43. The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Approved | 98 min | Mystery, Thriller
A former intelligence officer is tasked by the heir to the Gleneyre estate to investigate the unusual deaths of a disparate group of eleven men on a list.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster
Votes: 5,756
Starlight – 27
44. Live Fast, Die Young (1958)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two teen sisters leave their no-good father for a lurid life on the road.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Mike Connors, Sheridan Comerate
Votes: 120
Starlight – 27 (2nd to List of Adrian Messenger)
45. Springfield Rifle (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Thriller, War, Western
Major Lex Kearney becomes the North's first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who's behind the theft of Union cavalry horses in Colorado during the Civil War.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly
Votes: 2,280
Starlight – 28 [Ranch Night]
46. The Bounty Hunter (1954)
Passed | 79 min | Western
A bounty hunter, hired by Pinkerton, trails 3 unknown murderous train robbers to a town and finds a host of suspects.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor, Howard Petrie
Votes: 1,328
Starlight – 28 (2nd to Springfield Rifle) [Ranch Night]
47. Strange Bedfellows (1965)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
Carter meets Toni and impulsively marries her. They disagree on everything and finally separate. Seven years later, on the eve of their divorce, they meet again and spend the night together.
Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Edward Judd
Votes: 1,124
Civic – 30–31 (plus featurettes including the Magnetic North) Star – 30–31
48. The Killers (1964)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager
Votes: 9,334
Star – 30–31 (2nd to Strange Bedfellows)
49. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 192,227
Starlight – 29–31
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