Most Popular Jim Backus Trailers
Total trailers found: 161
27 June 1965
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
18 April 1956
Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running.
02 January 1953
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
13 December 1965
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
06 December 1951
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
01 August 1951
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
26 March 1963
The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt.
01 December 1985
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
03 April 1963
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
01 January 1987
Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.
06 November 1972
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.
24 August 1952
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.
15 November 1950
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.
23 November 1949
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 ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of boys.
07 November 1963
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California.
07 July 1980
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 can't catch.
25 June 1969
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer.
30 January 1957
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
27 October 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems.
24 October 1972
CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.
14 November 1963
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market.
21 March 1980
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
16 December 1953
Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.
08 October 1949
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
22 December 1951
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.
01 June 1951
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
20 June 1967
Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances.
20 March 1953
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park.
03 November 1977
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble.
23 February 1952
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
06 May 1975
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 1975-76 series.
30 June 1949
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.
18 January 1972
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 be.
19 December 1957
The near-sighted Mr. McGoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/iron curtain days of the 1950s, seriously.
22 October 1948
Bugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they battle Mad Man Hassan.
14 December 1973
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 prove who he is.
13 May 1977
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 Runyonesque horseplayer E.
26 November 1957
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition.
01 October 1958
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 mere hours to find and rescue her.
09 February 1967
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.
08 April 1967
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant.
09 March 1956
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie.
01 March 1951
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
10 June 1964
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col.
20 September 1951
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
15 August 1951
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
12 July 1972
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible.
23 May 1952
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining.
17 June 1956
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver.
16 December 1977
Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas.
01 June 1975
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed.
19 June 1968
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 stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
15 November 1956
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal.
07 May 1959
Near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to his lodger-convention and latches onto a robber, whom he thinks is his room-mate.
06 November 1973
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
01 December 1959
In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin.
21 August 1959
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York.
12 January 1960
A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the regular series, this rare cartoon begins with a bunch of clips talking about the history of the movies, then has some discussion about how Magoo is made, and a talk with Jim Backus.
13 November 1963
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
01 June 1978
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.