Jim Backus Movies

  • 1952
    The Rose Bowl Story

    The Rose Bowl Story

    The Rose Bowl Story

    3.51952HD

    The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.

    The Rose Bowl Story
  • 1959
    Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

    Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

    Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

    01959HD

    Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.

    Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
  • 1949
    The Great Lover

    The Great Lover

    The Great Lover

    6.81949HD

    The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an...

    The Great Lover
  • 1969
    Wake Me When the War Is Over

    Wake Me When the War Is Over

    Wake Me When the War Is Over

    51969HD

    During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who...

    Wake Me When the War Is Over
  • 1955
    The Square Jungle

    The Square Jungle

    The Square Jungle

    5.91955HD

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

    The Square Jungle
  • 1963
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    6.9661963HD

    A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is...

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • 1962
    The Horizontal Lieutenant

    The Horizontal Lieutenant

    The Horizontal Lieutenant

    4.81962HD

    A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between...

    The Horizontal Lieutenant
  • 1981
    The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

    The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

    The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

    4.71981HD

    The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must...

    The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
  • 1963
    My Six Loves

    My Six Loves

    My Six Loves

    5.61963HD

    A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.

    My Six Loves
  • 1959
    Terror Faces Magoo

    Terror Faces Magoo

    Terror Faces Magoo

    41959HD

    Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families and subsequently learns that he and Waldo have been...

    Terror Faces Magoo
  • 1970
    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    6.21970HD

    A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
  • 1977
    Pete's Dragon

    Pete's Dragon

    Pete's Dragon

    6.31977HD

    Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken...

    Pete's Dragon
  • 1956
    The Great Man

    The Great Man

    The Great Man

    5.21956HD

    Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

    The Great Man
  • 1951
    Bright Victory

    Bright Victory

    Bright Victory

    6.91951HD

    A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

    Bright Victory
  • 1957
    The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    5.41957HD

    The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which...

    The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  • 1968
    Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

    Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

    Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

    5.21968HD

    When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of...

    Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
  • 1956
    Magoo Beats the Heat

    Magoo Beats the Heat

    Magoo Beats the Heat

    01956HD

    Mr. Magoo, intent on going to the beach, winds up in the desert instead. Thinking himself to be at the beach, he tries fishing (he hooks a turtle...

    Magoo Beats the Heat
  • 1971
    Mooch Goes to Hollywood

    Mooch Goes to Hollywood

    Mooch Goes to Hollywood

    4.71971HD

    A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

    Mooch Goes to Hollywood
  • 1951
    Hollywood Story

    Hollywood Story

    Hollywood Story

    6.61951HD

    An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.

    Hollywood Story
  • 1950
    The Popcorn Story

    The Popcorn Story

    The Popcorn Story

    61950HD

    The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came...

    The Popcorn Story