Jim Backus Movie Trailers
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The Big Operator Trailer (1959)
01 August 1959
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him.
Trailblazer Magoo Trailer (1956)
13 September 1956
The near-sighted one decides to take a hunting-and-fishing trip, and hires a Native American guide. He quickly grows impatient with the guide and takes over leading the way.
Magoo's Puddle Jumper Trailer (1956)
26 July 1956
At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty salesman but he drives it off anyway.
When Magoo Flew Trailer (1954)
06 January 1954
Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater.
Magoo's Young Manhood Trailer (1958)
13 March 1958
In a flashback Mr. Magoo thinks back in time to the Gay 90's when he was a young man, and just as myopic then as in the 1950s.
Trouble Indemnity Trailer (1950)
14 September 1950
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 one of Magoo's old college chums.
Magoo's Canine Mutiny Trailer (1956)
08 March 1956
The nearsighted Mr. McGoo goes shopping for a dog as a pet, and enters the pet store just as it is being robbed by a crook wearing a fur coat.
Madcap Magoo Trailer (1955)
23 June 1955
Expecting a visit from his practical joker friend Smiley, Mr. Magoo instead entertains an escaped mental patient.
Meet Mother Magoo Trailer (1956)
27 December 1956
Mr. Magoo brings in his mail opening up a flyer for a store's "83rd Anniversary Sale". Magoo thinks that the flyer is a letter from his mother about her "83rd birthday" and begins to worry that maybe he hasn't spent enough time with his mother lately.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus Trailer (1974)
06 December 1974
Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus.
Rock Hound Magoo Trailer (1957)
24 October 1957
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to mistaking a gold rock for a rain cloud, he meets an old prospector and accuses him of claim-jumping.
Magoo Breaks Par Trailer (1957)
27 June 1957
The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sets out for a round of golf but catches the prison paddy wagon instead of the city bus and winds up in prison breaking rocks.
Magoo’s Homecoming Trailer (1959)
05 March 1959
Magoo ends up at the zoo instead of his college homecoming.
Magoo's Problem Child Trailer (1956)
18 October 1956
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home.
Ragtime Bear Trailer (1949)
29 September 1949
At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.
Magoo Beats the Heat Trailer (1956)
21 June 1956
Mr. Magoo, intent on going to the beach, winds up in the desert instead. Thinking himself to be at the beach, he tries fishing (he hooks a turtle which he mistakes for a crab) and swimming.
Magoo’s Three-Point Landing Trailer (1958)
05 June 1958
Magoo’s car breaks down on an airport runway.
Tom, Dick and Harriet Trailer (1960)
01 January 1960
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 or Dick's.
Magoo Meets Frankenstein Trailer (1961)
20 March 1961
Mr Magoo goes to what he thinks is a hotel but it’s actually a mad scientist’s castle and he’s after a brain.
Matador Magoo Trailer (1957)
30 May 1957
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, further lost than usual, mistakes a bullring in Mexico for a highway in the United States, and his myopic wanderings through the arena cause much havoc, and draws very few cheers, especially from the bull.
Destination Magoo Trailer (1954)
16 December 1954
The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure, hand in hand, off to the "Moon".
Magoo Makes News Trailer (1955)
15 November 1955
Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are shutting off his power.
Magoo Saves the Bank Trailer (1957)
26 September 1957
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, on his way to make a bank deposit, boards a race-track bound bus instead.
Pete Hothead Trailer (1952)
24 September 1952
This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper.
Hotsy Footsy Trailer (1952)
22 October 1952
Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across the alley, thinking he's dancing with the wife of an old friend.
Magoo Goes Overboard Trailer (1957)
21 February 1957
Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally falls into the ship's swimming pool and thinks he has fallen overboard.
Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) Trailer (1959)
27 December 1959
Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.
Terror Faces Magoo Trailer (1959)
09 July 1959
Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families and subsequently learns that he and Waldo have been scheduled to air on tonight's broadcast.
I Was a Teenage Magoo Trailer (1960)
01 January 1960
Told in flashback, the plot has teenage (but still nearsighted) red-headed Magoo picks up his date "Melba" (a kangaroo) from her home (in a circus) and go on a picnic.
Barefaced Flatfoot Trailer (1951)
25 April 1951
Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.
Pink and Blue Blues Trailer (1952)
18 August 1952
Mr. Magoo is hired by his neighbors to babysit their little son, Homer. Magoo is delighted to accept but, unfortunately, a notorious cat burglar is intent on entering and robbing the house Magoo is babysitting it.
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy Trailer (1950)
01 January 1950
In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known Podine Puffington (a life-size doll that Bergen would use as a comedy dancing partner).
Goodnight Jackie Trailer (1974)
27 February 1974
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!
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
Join medieval Mr. Magoo, as Friar Tuck, along with Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men on an exciting (mis)adventure in Sherwood Forest!