Jim Backus Movies

CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.

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...

The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.

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

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.

Wendell Burton is a guy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend, Lana Wood. He is caught up in a nutty crisis of trying to survive life without her!

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...

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

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his...

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

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...

In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke...

Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.

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....

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

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

A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.

Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before...

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