Jim Backus Movies

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

Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family...

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...

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money...

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery...

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...

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and...

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

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...

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...

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,...

Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note...

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...

Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three...

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...

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....

A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.