Jim Backus Movies

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the...

Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home. There, he finds evidence of all...

Magoo obliviously foils a criminal’s robbery plans.

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...

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...

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. When he...

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.

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.

Join Mr. Magoo as Uncle Sam, on an all-American animated adventure through our nation's history. Pull up a chair at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving,...

Magoo and Waldo are on safari in Africa.

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. He makes a bet with a...

An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California.

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

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...

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...

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

Bold animated drawings and a dramatic soundtrack provide background for narrators who argue that World War III is looming and, as such, world...

Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.