Jim Backus Movies

A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the...

A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to...

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn...

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk...

An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as...

A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him.

In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a way of getting rescued from the "uncharted desert...

The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian,...

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

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit...

Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus.

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money...

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

A deep dive into the origin and legacy of United Productions of America, the innovative and iconoclastic studio that produced characters including...

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the...

Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across the alley, thinking he's dancing with the wife of...