1966, August: Canberra film releases
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- DirectorGuy GreenStarsSidney PoitierShelley WintersElizabeth HartmanA blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.Capitol – 01–02
Star – 12–13; 15 - DirectorJohn RichStarsTony CurtisJerry LewisDany SavalRobert Reed visits his philandering friend Bernard Lawrence just as Bernard's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three flight attendants goes awry. Based on Marc Camoletti's stage play.Civic – 01
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsDavid JanssenJeanne CrainDina MerrillA famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.Civic – 01 (2nd to Boeing Boeing)
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryClaudine AugerAdolfo CeliJames Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.Star – 01
Civic – 02–04 - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsElvis PresleyArthur O'ConnellAnne HelmA family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.Star – 02–04
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonOver two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.Star – 02–04 (2nd to Follow That Dream)
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor BuonoA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.Starlight – 01–02
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingBruce BennettDespite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.Starlight – 03 [ranch night]
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsSterling HaydenEve MillerBarton MacLaneWith the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.Starlight – 03 (2nd to Last Outpost) [ranch night]
- 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.Starlight – 04–06
- DirectorNigel PatrickStarsNigel PatrickYvonne MitchellWilliam BendixA small Irish town: atheist writer shot by a man claiming amnesia. Miracle or murder? Local priest discovers it's a plot: revenge killing. Gets to trial too late - the jury have acquitted. JN gloats - to be struck dead in the courtroom.Starlight – 04–06 (2nd to Carry on Spying)
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsGeorge MaharisRichard BasehartAnne FrancisA germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.Capitol – 03–04
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsLola AlbrightScott MarloweJoe De SantisAn older woman seduces an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Disillusionment sets in when the boy discovers that she is a stripper.Capitol – 03–04 (2nd to Satan Bug)
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsLeslie PhillipsJames Robertson JusticeShirley Anne Field"Doctor in Clover", a.k.a. "Carnaby, M.D." is another "Doctor" movie, but this time, Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips) is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of main Administrator Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), who wants his doctors to be one hundred percent focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Dr. Grimsdyke getting Spratt fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron Sweet (Joan Sims), and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.Capitol – 09
Civic – 12–16
Star – 20–23 - DirectorJohn KrishStarsJohn NevillePhilip StoneGabriella LicudiMysterious woman marries government scientist Davidson despite his lack of knowledge about her past. His bosses are suspicious of her unusual traits. After it's clear she does love Davidson, the pair come under attack.Capitol – 09 (2nd to Doctor in Clover) [HORROR]
Civic – 12–16 (2nd to Doctor in Clover)
Star – 20–23 (2nd to Doctor in Clover) - DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsLana TurnerJohn ForsytheRicardo MontalbanWhen her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.Capitol – 10–11
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJoan CrawfordJohn IrelandLeif EricksonTeenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.Capitol – 10–11 (2nd to Madame X) [HORROR]
- 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.Civic – 09–11
Capitol – 16–18 - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsDean MartinGeraldine PageYvette MimieuxJulian Berniers and his bride Lily leave Chicago to visit his two spinster sisters, Carrie and Anna, in New Orleans but Lily's jealousy combined with Carrie's possessiveness of Julian threaten to destroy the whole family.Civic – 09–11 (2nd to Secret Invasion)
Capitol – 16–18 (2nd to Secret Invasion) - 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.Star – 09–11
- DirectorJohn RichStarsJanet LeighVan JohnsonShelley WintersA struggling author and his wife suddenly become wealthy and move to the suburbs. Divorced neighbor and "companion" aid marital misconstrue which almost culminates in a divorce.Starlight – 09
- DirectorAlan RafkinStarsFrankie AvalonDwayne HickmanDeborah WalleyIn this musical, college classmates Todd Armstrong (Frankie Avalon) and Craig Gamble (Dwayne Hickman) head out on a group ski vacation, and agree that if they're going to get girlfriends, they need to understand how women think.Starlight – 09 (2nd to Wives and Lovers)
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsFred MacMurrayCharlton HestonDonna ReedAfter purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.Starlight – 10 [ranch night]
["Plus 'Rodeo'"; doesn't appear to be on IMDb, or at least it's too vague to search for.] - DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard AttenboroughAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.Starlight – 11–16
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsAnnette FunicelloDwayne HickmanBrian DonlevyFrankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, "stuffs" it with Cassandra, and sends her to distract advertising executive Ricky from Dee Dee.Capitol – 12–13