New York City 1965 Commercial Releases
(Reconstructed from New York Times archives; I didn't start keeping track week-to-week until 1998. List is probably not definitive—if it got neither an ad nor a review, I won't have caught it—but everything major should be here. This is the earliest year for which I currently have records. Films seen by yours truly are in blue.)
Week of 31 Dec
How Not to Rob a Department Store (Pierre Grimblat)
Week of 24 Dec
Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (John Rich)The Cavern (Edgar G. Ulmer)
Do Not Disturb (Ralph Levy)
Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
Love? and Kisses! (Ozzie Nelson)
Pinocchio in Outer Space (Ray Goossens)
The Slender Thread (Sydney Pollack)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Martin Ritt)
The Tenth Victim (Elio Petri)
Thunderball (Terence Young)
Week of 17 Dec
Battle of the Bulge (Ken Annakin)Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster (Ishirō Honda)
The Glory Guys (Arnold Laven)
The Great Wall (Shigeo Tanaka) [1962]
Harum Scarum (Gene Nelson)
Life at the Top (Ted Kotcheff)
A Patch of Blue (Guy Green)
Pussycat Alley (Wolf Rilla)
A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
Viva Maria! (Louis Malle)
Week of 10 Dec
Beach Ball (Lennie Weinrib)Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)
Winter-A-Go-Go (Richard Benedict)
Week of 3 Dec
Fanny Hill (Russ Meyer)Nothing but the Best (Clive Donner)
That Darn Cat! (Robert Stevenson)
Yanco (Servando González & Mohy Quandour)
Week of 26 Nov
The Bremen Town Musicians (Rainer Geis) [1959]The Grand Substitution (Chun Yen)
Hansel and Gretel (Walter Janssen) [1954]
Johnny Nobody (Nigel Patrick) [1961]
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
The Magic World of Topo Gigio (Federico Caldura) [1961]
Rattle of a Simple Man (Muriel Box)
Requiem for a Gunfighter (Spencer Gordon Bennet)
Sands of the Kalahari (Cy Endfield)
Week of 19 Nov
Arizona Raiders (William Witney)Friend of the Family (Robert Thomas)
Laurel & Hardy's Laughing 20's (Robert Youngson)
Maid for Murder (Robert Asher) [1962]
Return From the Ashes (J. Lee Thompson)
The Walls of Hell (Gerardo De Leon & Eddie Romero)
The War Lord (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Welcome, Kostya! (Elem Klimov)
Week of 12 Nov
Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)Coast of Skeletons (Robert Lynn)
The Face of Fu Manchu (Don Sharp)
The Leather Boys (Sidney J. Furie)
Rumpelstiltskin (Herbert B. Fredersdorf) [1955]
Swedish Wedding Night (Åke Falck)
Week of 5 Nov
The Bedford Incident (James B. Harris)Ecco (Gianni Proia)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (Richard Kaplan)
Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (Pietro Francisci)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
The Nanny (Seth Holt)
Never Too Late (Bud Yorkin)
The Secret of My Success (Andrew L. Stone)
Week of 29 Oct
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)The Cincinatti Kid (Norman Jewison)
Murieta (George Sherman)
King Rat (Bryan Forbes)
The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi) [1956]
Week of 22 Oct
Carry On Cleo (Gerald Thomas)Fluffy (Earl Bellamy)
A Rage to Live (Walter Grauman)
Sergeant Dead Head (Norman Taurog)
Ski Party (Alan Rafkin)
That Funny Feeling (Richard Thorpe)
Week of 15 Oct
Agent 8¾ (Ralph Thomas)Apache Rifles (William Witney)
The Loved One (Tony Richardson)
Sallah (Ephraim Kishon)
Situation Hopeless—but Not Serious! (Gottfried Reinhardt)
Snow White (Erich Kobler) [1955]
Underworld Informers (Ken Annakin)
Week of 8 Oct
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Carol Reed)Dead Eyes of London (Alfred Vohrer) [1961]
The Playground (Richard Hilliard)
Seaside Swingers (James Hill)
Village of the Giants (Bert I. Gordon)
Who Killed Teddy Bear (Joseph Cates)
[NOTE: The New York Times wasn't published this week, due to a
strike; dates are consequently less reliable than usual.]
Week of 1 Oct
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)The Hill (Sidney Lumet)
Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
[NOTE: The New York Times wasn't published this week, due to a
strike; dates are consequently less reliable than usual.]
Week of 24 Sep
Love in 4 Dimensions (various)
The Mad Executioners (Edwin Zbonek)
Marriage on the Rocks (Jack Donohue)
The Skull (Freddie Francis)
To Die in Madrid (Frédéric Rossif)
[NOTE: The New York Times wasn't published this week, due to a strike; dates are consequently less reliable than usual.]
Week of 17 Sep
Billie (Don Weis)The Great Race (Blake Edwards)
The Little Ones (Jim O'Connolly)
The Reward (Serge Bourguignon)
Week of 10 Sep
Hysteria (Freddie Francis)Operation C.I.A. (Christian Nyby)
Week of 3 Sep
The Hours of Love (Luciano Salce)Once a Thief (Ralph Nelson)
Paris Secret (Edouard Logereau)
She (Robert Day)
The Shepherd Girl (Lo Chen)
Week of 27 Aug
Help! (Richard Lester)Morituri (Bernhard Wicki)
Rapture (John Guillermin)
Revenge of the Gladiators (Michele Lupo)
The Sons of Katie Elder (Henry Hathwaway)
A Very Special Favor (Michael Gordon)
Wild on the Beach (Maury Dexter)
Week of 20 Aug
Having a Wild Weekend (John Boorman)I'll Take Sweden (Frederick De Cordova)
The Last Woman of Shang (Yueh Feng)
Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
Maedchen in Uniform (Géza Radványi) [1958]
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Monkey's Uncle (Robert Stevenson)
The Time Travelers (Ib Melchior)
World Without Sun (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
Week of 13 Aug
Crazy Paradise (Gabriel Axel) [1962]The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
The Moment of Truth (Francesco Rosi)
Seven Slaves Against the World (Michele Lupo)
Week of 6 Aug
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (Andrew Marton)Darling (John Schlesinger)
The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)
The Third Day (Jack Smight)
Week of 30 Jul
And So to Bed (Alfred Weidenmann)Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Shenandoah (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Ship of Fools (Stanley Kramer)
Week of 23 Jul
Casanova '70 (Mario Monicelli)Dark Intruder (Harvey Hart)
Female Prince (Chow Sze-luk)
Harlow (Gordon Douglas)
A Home of Your Own (Jay Lewis)
I Saw What You Did (William Castle)
Rotten to the Core (John Boulting)
Week of 16 Jul
Harvey Middleman, Fireman (Ernest Pintoff)The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli)
Week of 9 Jul
Back Door (Li Han-hsiang) [1960]These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey) [1962]
Town Tamer (Lesley Selander)
Week of 2 Jul
The Art of Love (Norman Jewison)Bambole! (various)
The Bounty Killer (Spencer Gordon Bennet)
Dingaka (Jamie Uys)
The Hallelujah Trail (John Sturges)
High Infidelity (various)
The Knack...and How to Get It (Richard Lester)
Lorna (Russ Meyer)
The Winner (François Reichenbach) [1961]
Week of 25 Jun
Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein)The Eye of the Needle (Marcello Andrei)
Genghis Khan (Henry Levin)
Gunmen of the Rio Grande (Tulio Demicheli)
Image of Love (Lou Stoumen)
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (Edward J. Montagne)
Tickle Me (Norman Taurog)
Von Ryan's Express (Mark Robson)
What's New Pussycat (Clive Donner)
The World of Abbott and Costello (no director credited)
Week of 18 Jun
Buddha (Kenji Misumi) [1961]The Collector (William Wyler)
Convict Stage (Lesley Selander)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (Freddie Francis)
The Enchanting Shadow (Li Han-hsiang) [1960]
The Fascist (Luciano Salce) [1961]
The Girls on the Beach (William N. Witney)
A High Wind in Jamaica (Alexander Mackendrick)
The Naked Brigade (Maury Dexter)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (Ken Annakin)
The Truth About Spring (Richard Thorpe)
Week of 11 Jun
Black Spurs (R.G. Springsteen)Brainstorm (William Conrad)
Joy in the Morning (Alex Segal)
Up From the Beach (Robert Parrish)
The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (Gordon Hessler)
Week of 4 Jun
Beach Blanket Bingo (William Asher)Eva (Joseph Losey)
La tía Tula (Miguel Picazo)
War-Gods of the Deep (Jacques Tourneur)
Week of 28 May
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (Terence Young)The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (Delmer Daves)
Cavalcade of Russian Ballet and Dance (various?)
Girl Happy (Boris Sagal)
Mirage (Edward Dmytryk)
Symphony for a Massacre (Jacques Deray)
Week of 21 May
China! (Felix Greene)Code 7...Victim 5 (Robert Lynn)
Die! Die! My Darling (Silvio Narizzano)
The Kingdom and the Beauty (Li Han-hsiang) [1959]
Murder Most Foul (George Pollock)
Operation Snafu (Cyril Frankel) [1961]
Taboos of the World (Romolo Marcellini)
Week of 14 May
A Boy Ten Feet Tall (Alexander Mackendrick)Crack in the World (Andrew Marton)
Harlow (Alex Segal)
Mister Moses (Ronald Neame)
My Baby Is Black (Claude Bernard-Aubert) [1961]
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (Anthony Asquith)
Young Dillinger (Terry O. Morse)
Week of 7 May
Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin) [1961]Goldstein (Philip Kaufman & Benjamin Manaster)
New Angels (Ugo Gregoretti) [1962]
Pajama Party (Don Weis)
Synanon (Richard Quine)
The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman)
Variety Lights (Alberto Lattuada & Federico Fellini) [1950]
Young Fury (Christian Nyby)
Week of 30 Apr
Across the River (Stefan Sharff)Backfire (Jean Becker)
Get Yourself a College Girl (Sidney Miller)
Il successo (Mauro Morassi)
Love Without End (Doe Ching) [1961]
Masquerade (Basil Dearden)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
The Rounders (Burt Kennedy)
To Love (Jörn Donner)
Week of 23 Apr
The Magnificent Cuckold (Antonio Pietrangeli)Male Hunt (Edouard Molinaro)
Nobody Waved Goodbye (Don Owen)
The Outlaws Is Coming (Norman Maurer)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
Week of 16 Apr
Fort Courageous (Lesley Salander)Plisetskaya Dances (Vassili Katanyan)
Sandu Follows the Sun (Mikhail Kalik) [1962]
The Satan Bug (John Sturges)
Those Calloways (Norman Tokar)
White Voices (Pasquale Festa Campanile & Massimo Franciosa)
Week of 9 Apr
The Bus (Haskell Wexler)Bus Riley's Back in Town (Harvey Hart)
In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger)
Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah)
Week of 2 Apr
Mondo Pazzo (Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi)Not on Your Life! (Luis G. Berlanga) [1963]
Operation Crossbow (Michael Anderson)
Quick, Before It Melts (Delbert Mann)
Red Lanterns (Vasilis Georgiadis)
A Stranger Knocks (Johan Jacobsen) [1959]
Taxi for Tobruk (Denys de La Patellière) [1961]
Week of 26 Mar
Circle of Love (Roger Vadim)Devil Doll (Lindsay Shonteff)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (J. Lee Thompson)
My Blood Runs Cold (William Conrad)
Young Cassidy (Jack Cardiff)
Week of 19 Mar
Empress Wu (Li Han-hsiang)Samurai Assassin (Kihachi Okamoto)
The Train (John Frankenheimer)
Week of 12 Mar
Carry On Spying (Gerald Thomas)Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
Over There, 1914–1918 (Jean Aurel)
Strange Bedfellows (Melvin Frank)
War Party (Lesley Selander)
Week of 5 Mar
Dear Heart (Delbert Mann)Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)
The Love Goddesses (Saul J. Turell)
One Way Pendulum (Peter Yates)
The Overcoat (Alexi Batalov) [1960]
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
Week of 26 Feb
Lord Jim (Richard Brooks)Love Has Many Faces (Alexander Singer)
None but the Brave (Frank Sinatra)
Week of 19 Feb
Ferry Cross the Mersey (Jeremy Summers)The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens)
Joy House (René Clément)
When the Trees Were Tall (Lev Kulidjanov) [1962]
Week of 12 Feb
The Guide (Tad Danielewski)The Lady General (Yueh Feng)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Sylvia (Gordon Douglas)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson) [1962]
The Young Lovers (Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.)
Week of 5 Feb
The Crooked Road (Don Chaffey)East of Sudan (Nathan Juran)
Week of 29 Jan
The Blue Beast (Hiromichi Horikawa) [1960]Dear Brigitte (Henry Koster)
How to Murder Your Wife (Richard Quine)
My Wife's Husband (Gilles Grangier)
The 7 Dwarfs to the Rescue (Paolo William Tamburella) [1951]
The T.A.M.I. Show (Steve Binder)
36 Hours (George Seaton)
Week of 22 Jan
Andy (Richard C. Sarafian)Banana Peel (Marcel Ophüls)
Could I but Live (Zenzō Matsuyama)
Man in the Dark (Lance Comfort)
The Night Walker (William Castle)
Pattern for Plunder (John Ainsworth)
Resurrection (Mikhail Shvejtser) [1960]
Week of 15 Jan
Baby the Rain Must Fall (Robert Mulligan)Love à la Carte (Antonio Pietrangeli) [1960]
The Love Eterne (Li Han Hsiang)
Raiders From Beneath the Sea (Maury Dexter)
Thank Heaven for Small Favors (Jean-Pierre Mocky)
Two on a Guillotine (William Conrad)
Week of 8 Jan
Godzilla vs. the Thing (Ishirō Honda)Last Woman of Shang (Yueh Feng)
Little Red Riding Hood and Her Friends (Roberto Rodríguez) [1961]
Voyage to the End of the Universe (Jindrich Polák)