Jim Backus Movies

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

A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director...

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

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

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different...

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...

Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup,...

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given...

Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.

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...

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...

An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.

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...

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

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

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...

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

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the...