Jim Backus Movies

In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a…

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women…

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler’s 1956 film stars ’50s teen favorites Tab…

With posters featuring a stylized-drawing of Eva Six in a bikini, a tagline reading…”Temptation in Paradise…neither hell nor high heels could stop them”, and a Dream Sequence Technical Adviser credit…

Animated series featuring Jim Backus’s Mr. Magoo character in half-hour adaptations of classic stories for children. Praised by both critics and educators, and well-remembered by fans, the program won a…

During what was supposed to be a three-hour tour, the S.S. Minnow is shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island following a typhoon. The seven castaways include the Minnow’s blustery captain,…

A story following Lt. Peter Stirling and his dream being in the navy.

A doctor’s daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.

After WW1, Zeb and Thor start a cannery business in Alaska but eventually they drift apart with Zeb becoming unscrupulous and Thor becoming involved in Alaskan politics.

An animated, magical, musical version of Dickens’ timeless classic “A Christmas Carol.” The nearsighted Mr. Magoo doesn’t have a ghost of a chance as Ebenezer Scrooge, unless he learns the…

Fifteen year old tomboy Billie Carol, the younger of two daughters of Harding mayoral candidate Howard G. Carol and his wife Agnes Carol, is naturally athletic. She attributes her speed…

A marine scientist volunteers to have his family live in a prototype underwater home to prove it’s practical.

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.

The Castaways finally get permanently rescued and they turn their island home into an exclusive resort.

The famous Harlem Globetrotters crash land on Gilligans Island, immediately dispatching a terrifying ‘shark’ by throwing basketballs at it. A mad doctor and his accomplice plan to take over the…

Glicko, a young chipmunk living in the city with his sister, is enticed by the words of Pippo, the carrier pigeon, to leave home and find the Great Forest, the…

College co-ed Miriam Knight, portrayed by Stockard Channing is smart, witty, and well-meaning, but endures endless bullying because of how she looks and how much she weighs. But due to…

The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Peter Ustinov),…

A dog named Mooch comes to Hollywood and tries to make it in show business with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor (narrator).

1944. Hapless Second Lieutenant Merle Wye of the US army’s intelligence service is dismayed that he has not seen any action – he imagining himself as a suave undercover agent,…

A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they’re up to.

Philip Kent(Andrew Stevens) takes part in the american revolution and the newly formed congress.

Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that’s why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love…

Overwhelmed by rats, a medieval town hires a magical piper who can rid the town of the pest in exchange for gold but the crooked mayor has no intention of…

The head of a large publishing empire is dismayed when a top army general is about to be appointed to an atomic energy committee. She’s determined to discredit him prior…

Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy’s first taste “big city” life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy’s…