Jim Backus Movies

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.

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...

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 reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

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

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van...

Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her...

A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot...

In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage...

An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.

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...

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...

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...

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

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is...

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...