Jim Backus Movies

  • 1953
    Above and Beyond

    Above and Beyond

    Above and Beyond

    6.0791953HD

    The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he...

    Above and Beyond
  • 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?

    5.31968HD

    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?
  • 1952
    Here Come the Nelsons

    Here Come the Nelsons

    Here Come the Nelsons

    71952HD

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

    Here Come the Nelsons
  • 1964
    Advance to the Rear

    Advance to the Rear

    Advance to the Rear

    5.21964HD

    As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude...

    Advance to the Rear
  • 1952
    Pat and Mike

    Pat and Mike

    Pat and Mike

    6.4131952HD

    Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she...

    Pat and Mike
  • 1969
    Hello Down There

    Hello Down There

    Hello Down There

    5.7891969HD

    Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family...

    Hello Down There
  • 1969
    Wake Me When the War Is Over

    Wake Me When the War Is Over

    Wake Me When the War Is Over

    5.21969HD

    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
  • 1957
    Top Secret Affair

    Top Secret Affair

    Top Secret Affair

    4.91957HD

    A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.

    Top Secret Affair
  • 1959
    The Wild and the Innocent

    The Wild and the Innocent

    The Wild and the Innocent

    6.3911959HD

    In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl...

    The Wild and the Innocent
  • 1963
    Critic's Choice

    Critic's Choice

    Critic's Choice

    5.6671963HD

    Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of...

    Critic's Choice
  • 1959
    Ask Any Girl

    Ask Any Girl

    Ask Any Girl

    6.51959HD

    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...

    Ask Any Girl
  • 1956
    The Naked Hills

    The Naked Hills

    The Naked Hills

    4.61956HD

    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 Naked Hills
  • 1979
    Angels' Brigade

    Angels' Brigade

    Angels' Brigade

    3.11979HD

    Seven women decide to fight the local drug cartel. When Las Vegas pop singer Michelle's brother is found severely beaten, he's discovered to have...

    Angels' Brigade
  • 1970
    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    71970HD

    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
  • 1955
    The Square Jungle

    The Square Jungle

    The Square Jungle

    6.11955HD

    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
  • 1951
    Bright Victory

    Bright Victory

    Bright Victory

    7.11951HD

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

    Bright Victory
  • 1975
    Cop on the Beat

    Cop on the Beat

    Cop on the Beat

    4.71975HD

    An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the...

    Cop on the Beat
  • 1950
    Trouble Indemnity

    Trouble Indemnity

    Trouble Indemnity

    6.21950HD

    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...

    Trouble Indemnity
  • 1952
    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion

    5.91952HD

    George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...

    Androcles and the Lion
  • 1951
    Bungled Bungalow

    Bungled Bungalow

    Bungled Bungalow

    101951HD

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

    Bungled Bungalow