1965, November: Canberra film releases
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1. Harlow (I) (1965)
Approved | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 1,060
Capitol – 02
2. A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
In 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.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 2,337
Capitol – 03–04 Civic – 11
3. Back Door to Hell (1964)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, War
During 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.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett, Annabelle Huggins
Votes: 925
Capitol – 03–04 (2nd to High Wind) Civic – 11 (2nd to High Wind)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The 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.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,312 | Gross: $44.82M
Civic – 02–04 Capitol – 05–11 Star – 12–18
5. A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, Western
West 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.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory
Votes: 1,105
Star – 02
6. Death Trap (1962)
56 min | Drama
A 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?
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Albert Lieven, Barbara Shelley, John Meillon, Mercy Haystead
Votes: 88
Star – 02 (2nd to Distant Trumpet)
7. Up from the Beach (1965)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, War
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US Army platoon liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring
Votes: 142
Star – 03–04
8. The Horror of It All (1964)
TV-PG | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When 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.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Pat Boone, Erica Rogers, Dennis Price, Andree Melly
Votes: 432
Star – 03–04 (2nd to Up from the Beach)
9. Holiday for Lovers (1959)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy
When 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.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley
Votes: 434
Starlight – 02
10. The Big Gamble (1961)
100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Misadventures 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.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Juliette Gréco, David Wayne, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 310
Starlight – 02 (2nd to Holiday for Lovers)
11. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Western
Blaise 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.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal
Votes: 4,423
Starlight – 03 [Ranch Night]
12. Canyon Crossroads (1955)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
During 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.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott, Russell Collins
Votes: 119
Starlight – 03 (2nd to Day of the Outlaw) [Ranch Night]
13. Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Approved | 145 min | Adventure, Drama, War
An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark
Votes: 714
Starlight – 04
14. The Ipcress File (1965)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
In London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd
Votes: 17,580
Capitol – 12–16 Civic – 19–23
15. That Man from Rio (1964)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A young man comes to the rescue of his girlfriend abducted by thieves and brought to Rio. An extravagant adventure ensues.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Roger Dumas
Votes: 6,183 | Gross: $0.04M
Civic – 12–13 Capitol – 19–20 Star – 20–23
16. How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy
A dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff
Votes: 6,945 | Gross: $12.47M
Civic – 14–18 Capitol – 22–25 Star – 26–30
17. Bikini Beach (1964)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A 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.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles
Votes: 1,758
Star – 11
18. Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964)
Not Rated | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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... See full summary »
Directors: Julio Coll, Luis García | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Martha Hyer, Sherry Moreland, Luis Prendes
Votes: 279
Star – 11
[HORROR]
19. 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: 5,507
Starlight – 11–16
20. The Money Trap (1965)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When 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.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 906
Capitol – 18 Civic – 24–25
21. The Lieutenant (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
The trials of a young U.S. Marine Lieutenant and his comrades at Camp Pendleton.
Stars: Gary Lockwood, Robert Vaughn, Don Penny, Carmen Phillips
Votes: 318
Capitol – 18 (2nd to Money Trap)
Civic – 24–25
[episode: "To Kill a Man]
22. Sandokan the Great (1963)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure
Malasyan 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.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Steve Reeves, Geneviève Grad, Andrea Bosic, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 412
Star – 19
23. Children of the Damned (1964)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Six 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.
Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke
Votes: 5,022 | Gross: $1.00M
Star – 19 (2nd to Sandokan)
[HORROR]
24. 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: 2,967 | Gross: $7.09M
Starlight – 18–21
25. Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Two 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.
Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Kirk Morris, Iloosh Khoshabe, Liana Orfei, Diletta D'Andrea
Votes: 697
Starlight – 18–21 (2nd to Girl Happy)
26. Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, History, War
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Directors: Leo McCarey, David W. Orton | Stars: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler
Votes: 861
Starlight – 22–23
27. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary 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.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,492
Capitol – 26–27
28. The Hill (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, War
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch
Votes: 15,157
Capitol – 28–30
29. The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Peter Sellers, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss
Votes: 3,845
Civic – 26–29
30. To Trap a Spy (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Adventure, Drama
The pilot for the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," re-edited and released to theaters as a feature.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Luciana Paluzzi, Pat Crowley, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 568
Star – 24–25
31. Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Family
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jay Jackson, Vivien Oakland
Votes: 390
Star – 24–25 (2nd to Trap a Spy)
32. Escort West (1959)
Passed | 75 min | Western
An ex-Confederate officer and his young daughter, traveling West, rescue two women survivors of an Indian attack.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue, Reba Waters
Votes: 611
Starlight – 24 [Ranch Night]
33. The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
Passed | 66 min | Western
A 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.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Merry Anders, Mark Allen, Addison Richards
Votes: 221
Starlight – 24 [Ranch Night]
34. High Time (1960)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical
Widower 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey
Votes: 785 | Gross: $5.45M
Starlight – 25–30
35. Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Family
A young boy sneaks onto his grandfather's hot-air balloon and together they travel over France.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: André Gille, Maurice Baquet, Pascal Lamorisse, Charles Bayard
Votes: 228
Starlight – 25–28 (2nd to High Time)
36. Knave of Hearts (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston
Votes: 509
Albert Hall – 23–25 [French/English]
37. The Girl in Lovers Lane (1960)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Brett Halsey, Joyce Meadows, Lowell Brown, Jack Elam
Votes: 1,118
Albert Hall – 23–25
38. House of the Damned (1963)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An architect and his wife encounter bizarre occurrences as they survey a mansion built by an eccentric heiress.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane, Erika Peters
Votes: 688
Starlight – 29–30 (2nd to High Time)
39. The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
A young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly
Votes: 3,752
Civic – 30
40. One Man's Way (1964)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Follows the life of a world-famous minister, lecturer and best-selling author.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine
Votes: 174
Civic – 30 (2nd to the Knack)
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