Jim Backus
A Dangerous Profession
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.
- 1949
- Crime
C.H.O.M.P.S.
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 boy’s invention from him.
- 1979
- Family, Comedy, Science Fiction
Half Angel
Director Richard Sale’s 1951 comedy about a sleepwalker and her alter ego’s romantic problems stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Jim Backus, Irene Ryan, John Ridgely and Herb Vigran.
- 1951
- Comedy
Slapstick (Of Another Kind)
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
- 1982
- Comedy, Science Fiction
Crazy Mama
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
An animated, magical, musical version of Dickens’ timeless classic “A Christmas Carol.” The nearsighted Mr. Magoo doesn’t have a ghost of a chance as Ebenezer Scrooge, unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt…
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno…
The Wheeler Dealers
Henry J. Tyroone 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. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore…
- 1963
- Comedy
Rebel Without a Cause
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. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed…
- 1955
- Drama