Jim Backus Movies

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

A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which...

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

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

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...

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he...

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,...

Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show....

In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a way of getting rescued from the "uncharted desert...

A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he...

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit...

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.

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...

A deep dive into the origin and legacy of United Productions of America, the innovative and iconoclastic studio that produced characters including...

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

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with...

Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would...

Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's...