Jim Backus Movies

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.

A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.

The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII...

A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.

The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sets out for a round of golf but catches the prison paddy wagon instead of the city bus and winds up in prison breaking...

At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty...

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients....

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to mistaking a gold rock for a rain cloud, he meets...

Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.

Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr....

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

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.

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...

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

An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California.

Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally falls into the ship's swimming pool and thinks he...

Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.

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...