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This is a list of American films released in 1966.
A Man for All Seasons won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note
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10:30 P.M. Summer |
Jules Dassin |
Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch |
Drama |
Independent
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7 Women |
John Ford |
Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Betty Field, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock, Eddie Albert |
Drama |
MGM
|
Agent for H.A.R.M. |
Gerd Oswald |
Peter Mark Richman, Barbara Bouchet, Wendell Corey |
Spy film |
Universal
|
Alvarez Kelly |
Edward Dmytryk |
William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule |
Western |
Columbia
|
Ambush Bay |
Ron Winston |
Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney, James Mitchum |
War |
United Artists
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Any Wednesday |
Robert Ellis Miller |
Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Dean Jones |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
The Appaloosa |
Sidney J. Furie |
Marlon Brando, John Saxon, Anjanette Comer |
Western |
Universal
|
Arabesque |
Stanley Donen |
Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Kieron Moore |
Spy film |
Universal
|
Around the World Under the Sea |
Andrew Marton |
Lloyd Bridges, Keenan Wynn, Gary Merrill, Shirley Eaton, David McCallum |
Sci-fi |
MGM
|
Assault on a Queen |
Jack Donohue |
Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Tony Franciosa, Richard Conte |
Crime drama |
Paramount
|
Batman |
Leslie H. Martinson |
Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin |
Comedy, action |
20th Century Fox. Based on the TV series
|
The Bible: In the Beginning |
John Huston |
George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole, John Huston, Richard Harris, Stephen Boyd, Franco Nero |
Biblical drama |
20th Century Fox
|
A Big Hand for the Little Lady |
Fielder Cook |
Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Kevin McCarthy, Burgess Meredith, Paul Ford |
Western, comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula |
William Beaudine |
John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Virginia Christine |
Western, horror |
Embassy
|
Birds Do It |
Andrew Marton |
Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Doris Dowling |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Blindfold |
Philip Dunne |
Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden |
Suspense |
Universal
|
Blood Bath |
Stephanie Rothman, Jack Hill |
Lori Saunders, Marissa Mathes, Sid Haig |
Horror |
AIP
|
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! |
George Marshall |
Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller |
Comedy |
United Artists
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Title
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Director
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Cast
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Genre
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Note
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Cast a Giant Shadow |
Melville Shavelson |
Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson, John Wayne |
Action |
Warner Bros.
|
Castle of Evil |
Francis D. Lyon |
Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady, Lisa Gaye |
Horror |
United Pictures
|
Chamber of Horrors |
Hy Averback |
Patrick O'Neal, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon |
Horror |
Warner Bros.
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The Chase |
Arthur Penn |
Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson, E.G. Marshall, Janice Rule, James Fox, Robert Duvall |
Drama |
Columbia based on Horton Foote play; screenplay by Lillian Hellman; Remake of 1991 film
|
Chelsea Girls |
Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey |
Nico, Gerard Melanga, Ondine |
Drama |
|
Curse of the Swamp Creature |
Larry Buchanan |
John Agar, Francine York, William McGhee |
Horror |
AIP
|
Cyborg 2087 |
Franklin Adreon |
Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Corey |
Sci-fi |
United Pictures
|
The Daydreamer |
Jules Bass |
Paul O'Keefe, Ray Bolger, Hayley Mills, Patty Duke |
Stop-motion animation |
Embassy
|
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round |
Bernard Girard |
James Coburn, Aldo Ray, Rose Marie |
Crime |
Columbia
|
Destination Inner Space |
Francis D. Lyon |
Scott Brady, Gary Merrill, Sheree North |
Sci-fi |
United Pictures
|
Dimension 5 |
Franklin Adreon |
Jeffrey Hunter, France Nuyen, Donald Woods |
Sci-fi |
United Pictures
|
Drop Dead Darling |
Ken Hughes |
Tony Curtis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lionel Jeffries |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Duel at Diablo |
Ralph Nelson |
Sidney Poitier, James Garner, Bibi Andersson |
Western |
United Artists
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El Dorado |
Howard Hawks |
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Ed Asner, Michele Carey, Christopher George, Arthur Hunnicutt |
Western |
Paramount
|
The Endless Summer |
Bruce Brown |
Robert August, Mike Hynson |
Documentary |
|
An Eye for an Eye |
Michael D. Moore (as Michael Moore) |
Robert Lansing, Patrick Wayne, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott |
Western |
Embassy
|
Fantastic Voyage |
Richard Fleischer |
Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence, Stephen Boyd, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur Kennedy |
Sci-fi |
20th Century Fox; won 2 Oscars
|
The Fat Spy |
Joseph Cates |
Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard, Brian Donlevy, Jayne Mansfield |
Comedy |
Independent
|
A Fine Madness |
Irvin Kershner |
Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg |
Comedy, drama |
Warner Bros. Based on Elliott Baker novel
|
Fireball 500 |
Leo Townsend |
Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian |
Comedy |
AIP
|
Follow Me, Boys! |
Norman Tokar |
Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Kurt Russell |
Comedy, drama |
Disney
|
The Fortune Cookie |
Billy Wilder |
Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Judi West |
Comedy |
United Artists. Oscar for Matthau, plus 3 more nominations
|
Frankie and Johnny |
Fred De Cordova |
Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Nancy Kovack, Sue Ane Langdon |
Musical |
United Artists. Based on the song
|
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
Richard Lester |
Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford, Michael Hordern, Roy Kinnear, Buster Keaton |
Musical comedy |
United Artists. Based on Broadway show; music by Stephen Sondheim; Oscar for music
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Gambit |
Ronald Neame |
Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Herbert Lom |
Crime, comedy |
Universal. 3 Oscar nominations; inspired 2012 remake
|
The Gentle Rain |
Burt Balaban |
Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Fay Spain |
Drama |
Allied Artists
|
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken |
Alan Rafkin |
Don Knotts, Dick Sargent, Liam Redmond |
Comedy |
Universal
|
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini |
Don Weis |
Tommy Kirk, Nancy Sinatra, Basil Rathbone |
Comedy |
AIP
|
The Glass Bottom Boat |
Frank Tashlin |
Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Paul Lynde |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Grand Prix |
John Frankenheimer |
James Garner, Toshirō Mifune, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Bedford, Jessica Walter |
Drama |
MGM; won 3 Oscars
|
The Group |
Sidney Lumet |
Candice Bergen, Joanna Pettet, Shirley Knight, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Jessica Walter |
Drama |
United Artists. Based on a novel by Mary McCarthy
|
Gunpoint |
Earl Bellamy |
Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens |
Western |
Universal
|
Harper |
Jack Smight |
Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Julie Harris, Pamela Tiffin, Arthur Hill, Shelley Winters |
Crime drama |
Warner Bros. Based on Ross Macdonald novel
|
Hawaii |
George Roy Hill |
Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman |
Drama |
United Artists. Based on James Michener novel
|
Hold Me While I'm Naked |
George Kuchar |
Donna Kerness, Stella Kuchar |
Experimental short |
|
Hold On! |
Arthur Lubin |
Peter Noone, Shelley Fabares, Sue Ane Langdon |
Musical |
MGM
|
How to Steal a Million |
William Wyler |
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer |
Crime, comedy |
20th Century Fox
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Title
|
Director
|
Cast
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Genre
|
Note
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Incident at Phantom Hill |
Earl Bellamy |
Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea |
Western |
Universal
|
Is Paris Burning? |
René Clément |
Kirk Douglas, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Glenn Ford, Yves Montand, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles |
Drama, war |
Paramount; screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola; 2 Oscar nominations
|
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter |
William Beaudine |
John Lupton, Narda Onyx, Estelita Rodriguez |
Western, horror |
Embassy
|
Johnny Reno |
R. G. Springsteen |
Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, [[]] |
Western |
Paramount
|
Judith |
Daniel Mann |
Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die |
Henry Levin |
Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee |
Spy |
Columbia
|
The Last of the Secret Agents? |
Norman Abbott |
Marty Allen, Steve Rossi, Nancy Sinatra |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Let's Kill Uncle |
William Castle |
Nigel Green, Mary Badham, Linda Lawson |
Thriller |
Universal
|
Lord Love a Duck |
George Axelrod |
Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
Lost Command |
Mark Robson |
Anthony Quinn, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon |
War |
Columbia; based on Jean Larteguy book
|
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. |
Byron Paul |
Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff |
Comedy |
Disney; based on the book Robinson Crusoe
|
Madame X |
David Lowell Rich |
Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalbán |
Drama |
Universal
|
Made in Paris |
Boris Sagal |
Louis Jourdan, Ann-Margret, Richard Crenna |
Comedy |
MGM
|
The Man Called Flintstone |
Hanna-Barbera |
Alan Reed, Mel Blanc (voices) |
Animation |
Columbia. Based on TV series
|
A Man Could Get Killed |
Ronald Neame |
James Garner, Sandra Dee, Melina Mercouri, Roland Culver |
Spy |
Universal
|
Manos: The Hands of Fate |
Harold P. Warren |
John Reynolds, Harold P. Warren |
Horror |
Independent
|
Maya |
John Berry |
Clint Walker, Jay North, Sajid Khan |
Drama |
MGM
|
Mister Buddwing |
Delbert Mann |
James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury |
Drama |
MGM
|
Moment to Moment |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Sean Garrison |
Drama |
Universal
|
Munster, Go Home! |
Earl Bellamy |
Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis |
Comedy |
Universal. Based on TV series
|
Murderers' Row |
Henry Levin |
Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, Beverly Adams, James Gregory |
Spy film, comedy |
Columbia. Sequel to The Silencers
|
Nashville Rebel |
Jay J. Sheridan |
Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn |
Drama, musical |
AIP
|
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters |
Michael Hoey |
Mamie van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Edward Faulkner |
Sci-fi |
Realart
|
Nevada Smith |
Henry Hathaway |
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Arthur Kennedy, Janet Margolin, Suzanne Pleshette |
Western |
Embassy; Paramount; based on characters created by Harold Robbins
|
The Night of the Grizzly |
Joseph Pevney |
Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn |
Adventure |
Paramount
|
Not with My Wife, You Don't! |
Norman Panama |
Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Once Before I Die |
John Derek |
Ursula Andress, John Derek, Richard Jaeckel |
War drama |
Warner Bros.
|
The Oscar |
Russell Rouse |
Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Berle, Edie Adams |
Drama |
Embassy; Paramount; 2 Oscar nominations
|
Our Man Flint |
Daniel Mann |
James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan |
Spy comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
The Pad and How to Use It |
Brian G. Hutton |
Julie Sommars, James Farentino, Brian Bedford |
Comedy |
Universal
|
Paradise, Hawaiian Style |
Michael D. Moore |
Elvis Presley, James Shigeta, Irene Tsu |
Musical |
Paramount
|
Penelope |
Arthur Hiller |
Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Carl Ballantine |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Picture Mommy Dead |
Bert I. Gordon |
Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Horror |
Embassy
|
The Plainsman |
David Lowell Rich |
Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abby Dalton |
Western |
Universal. Remake of 1936 film
|
The Poppy Is Also a Flower |
Terence Young |
Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner |
Drama |
made for TV
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The Professionals |
Richard Brooks |
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Bellamy |
Western |
Columbia. Based on novel by Frank O'Rourke; 3 Oscar nominations
|
Queen of Blood |
Curtis Harrington |
John Saxon, Dennis Hopper, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith |
Sci-fi |
AIP
|
Rage |
Gilberto Gazcón |
Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso |
Drama |
Columbia
|
The Rare Breed |
Andrew V. McLaglen |
James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Jack Elam |
Western |
Universal
|
Red Tomahawk |
R. G. Springsteen |
Joan Caulfield, Howard Keel, Broderick Crawford |
Western |
Paramount
|
Red Zone Cuba |
Coleman Francis |
John Carradine, Anthony Cardoza, Coleman Francis |
Drama |
Independent
|
Return of the Seven |
Burt Kennedy |
Yul Brynner, Warren Oates, Elisa Montes, Robert Fuller, Claude Akins |
Western |
United Artists. The Magnificent Seven sequel
|
Ride Beyond Vengeance |
Bernard McEveety |
Chuck Connors, Kathryn Hays, Bill Bixby |
Western |
Columbia
|
Roman Candles |
John Waters |
Divine, Maelcum Soul |
Short film |
|
Rush to Judgment |
Emile de Antonio |
Archive footage of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Earl Warren |
Documentary |
|
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
Norman Jewison |
Alan Arkin, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, John Phillip Law, Brian Keith, Paul Ford |
Comedy |
United Artists. Golden Globe Best Musical or Comedy; 4 Oscar nominations
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Title
|
Director
|
Cast
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Genre
|
Note
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The Sand Pebbles |
Robert Wise |
Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Richard Attenborough, Simon Oakland |
Drama, war |
20th Century Fox. Based on novel by Richard McKenna; 8 Oscar nominations
|
Savage Pampas |
Hugo Fregonese |
Robert Taylor, Ron Randell, Marc Lawrence |
Western |
Independent
|
Seconds |
John Frankenheimer |
Rock Hudson, Murray Hamilton, John Randolph, Salome Jens, Jeff Corey |
Thriller |
Paramount
|
The Shooting |
Monte Hellman |
Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, Will Hutchins, Jack Nicholson |
Western |
Independent
|
The Silencers |
Phil Karlson |
Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Victor Buono, Nancy Kovack, Cyd Charisse |
Spy film, comedy |
Columbia; first Matt Helm film
|
The Singing Nun |
Henry Koster |
Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalbán, Greer Garson |
Musical biography |
MGM. Based on life of Jeanine Deckers
|
Smoky |
George Sherman |
Fess Parker, Diana Hyland, Katy Jurado |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Spinout |
Norman Taurog |
Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain |
Musical |
MGM
|
Stagecoach |
Gordon Douglas |
Ann-Margret, Red Buttons, Alex Cord, Bing Crosby, Bob Cummings, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers |
Western |
20th Century Fox. Remake of 1939 film
|
The Swinger |
George Sidney |
Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold |
Robert Day |
Mike Henry, David Opatoshu, Nancy Kovack |
Adventure |
AIP
|
Texas Across the River |
Michael Gordon |
Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Joey Bishop |
Western, comedy |
Universal
|
This Property Is Condemned |
Sydney Pollack |
Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Charles Bronson |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Three on a Couch |
Jerry Lewis |
Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Mary Ann Mobley |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
The Three Sisters |
Paul Bogart |
Sandy Dennis, Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley |
Drama |
Independent. Based on Anton Chekhov play
|
Torn Curtain |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova |
Spy mystery |
Universal
|
The Trouble with Angels |
Ida Lupino |
Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, June Harding |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
The Undertaker and His Pals |
T. L. P. Swicegood |
Ray Dannis, Warrene Ott, Rad Fulton |
Horror |
[1]
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The Ugly Dachshund |
Norman Tokar |
Suzanne Pleshette, Dean Jones, Charlie Ruggles |
Comedy |
Disney
|
The Unkissed Bride |
Jack H. Harris |
Tommy Kirk, Anne Helm, Jacques Bergerac |
Comedy |
Independent
|
Waco |
R. G. Springsteen |
Jane Russell, Howard Keel, Wendell Corey |
Western |
Paramount
|
Walk Don't Run |
Charles Walters |
Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton |
Comedy |
Columbia. Grant's final film
|
Way...Way Out |
Gordon Douglas |
Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Dennis Weaver, Dick Shawn |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? |
Blake Edwards |
Dick Shawn, James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
What's Up, Tiger Lily? |
Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi |
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Tatsuya Mihashi |
Comedy, parody |
AIP. Allen's first film
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Mike Nichols |
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis, George Segal |
Drama |
Warner Bros. Based on Edward Albee play; Oscars for Taylor, Dennis
|
The Wild Angels |
Roger Corman |
Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern |
Outlaw biker film |
AIP
|
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews |
Animation |
Disney. based on book by A. A. Milne
|
Women of the Prehistoric Planet |
Arthur C. Pierce |
Wendell Corey, Merry Anders, Irene Tsu |
Sci-fi |
Independent
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