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Jim Backus

Jim Backus

Jim Backus (1913–1989) was a radio, television, film, and voice actor.

Among his most famous credits are The Alan Young Radio Show, I Married Joan, Gilligan's Island, and Rebel Without a Cause. He also starred on his own show The Jim Backus Show.

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Movies Starring Jim Backus (163)

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom (2012)

Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the original movie star. ...

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Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents (2005)

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film. ...

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Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the my ...

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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets (1987)

Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood. ...

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Prince Jack (1985)

A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration. ...

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Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)

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

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Enchanted Journey (1981)

Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, young chipmunk Glikko leaves the safety of his comfortable cage to explore the world. ...

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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)

The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist. ...

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There Goes The Bride (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. ...

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The Gossip Columnist (1980)

New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters. ...

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C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)

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. ...

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The Rebels (1979)

This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and ...

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The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979)

In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a way of getting rescued from the "uncharted desert isle" for a second time through a series of misadventures but comes back to turn it into a tropical resort f ...

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Angels' Brigade (1979)

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

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Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)

When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into one struc ...

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Good Guys Wear Black (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. ...

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Have I Got a Christmas for You (1977)

Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk humorously attempt jobs they have never done before. ...

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Pete's Dragon (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. T ...

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Never Con a Killer (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.J. Valerian. ...

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Friday Foster (1975)

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of co ...

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Crazy Mama (1975)

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. ...

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Cop on the Beat (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. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time †...

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Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1974)

Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus. ...

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Goodnight Jackie (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! ...

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Miracle on 34th Street (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. ...

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The Girl Most Likely To... (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. ...

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Magic Carpet (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. ...

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Of Thee I Sing (1972)

CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series. ...

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Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

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 busi ...

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Getting Away from It All (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. ...

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Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)

A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor. ...

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Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his ...

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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)

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

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Uncle Sam Magoo (1970)

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, march in line with Davy Crockett and dig for gold in California. After all...in Magoo we trust! ...

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Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)

During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for ...

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Hello Down There (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. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs! ...

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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (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 M ...

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Don't Make Waves (1967)

Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances. ...

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Damn Yankees (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. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When ...

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Hurry Sundown (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. ...

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Billie (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. ...

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Fluffy (1965)

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

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his coun ...

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Rendezvous in Space (1964)

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair. ...

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Advance to the Rear (1964)

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag grou ...

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Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery (1964)

Literary classics take a ribbing as the nearsighted bumbler portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein and other characters. ...

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Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest (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! Whether fleeing from the Sherriff of Nottingham or feuding with King John, this band of caring castaways will stop at ...

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The Wheeler Dealers (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. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the ...

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Sunday in New York (1963)

An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce. ...

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (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. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

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Johnny Cool (1963)

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S. ...

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My Six Loves (1963)

A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property. ...

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Operation Bikini (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. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoo ...

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Critic's Choice (1963)

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. ...

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A Child Is Waiting (1963)

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, su ...

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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)

In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from th ...

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Zotz! (1962)

Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three powers: to inflict pain, slow down time or kill. Soon, he's pursued by enemy spies who have learned about the m ...

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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting or ...

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Boys' Night Out (1962)

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a ...

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The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)

A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets. ...

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Magoo Meets Frankenstein (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... ...

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Inside Magoo (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, an ...

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Ice Palace (1960)

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry ...

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Tom, Dick and Harriet (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. ...

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I Was a Teenage Magoo (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. ...

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Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) (1959)

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing. ...

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1001 Arabian Nights (1959)

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his nephew's laziness, Abdul insists that Aladdin find a wife. To his uncle's surprise, Aladdin falls in love wit ...

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Ask Any Girl (1959)

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds ...

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A Private's Affair (1959)

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. The three guys are up to the challenge, which begins a chain of unusual circumstances that not only have the ...

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The Big Operator (1959)

A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski. ...

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Terror Faces Magoo (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. Magoo proceeds to show the cameramen the various rooms and exhibi ...

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The Wild and the Innocent (1959)

Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all man ...

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Magoo's Lodge Brother (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. He winds up in the den of the thief thinking he is in his convention hotel room. He proceeds to toss around in fun dynamite, hand-gren ...

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Merry Minstrel Magoo (1959)

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

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Magoo’s Homecoming (1959)

Magoo ends up at the zoo instead of his college homecoming. ...

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Bwana Magoo (1959)

Magoo and Waldo are on safari in Africa. ...

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A Princess for Magoo (1959)

Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the development of the feature-length animated film "1001 Arabian Nights". ...

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Gumshoe Magoo (1958)

Magoo obliviously foils a criminal's robbery plans. ...

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Love Comes to Magoo (1958)

A female con artist is after Magoo's wealth. ...

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Macabre (1958)

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her. ...

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Magoo’s Three-Point Landing (1958)

Magoo's car breaks down on an airport runway. ...

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The High Cost of Loving (1958)

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 doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that h ...

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The Explosive Mr. Magoo (1958)

Mr. Magoo has a windup toy mistaken for a bomb. ...

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Scoutmaster Magoo (1958)

Magoo mistakes three bear cubs for three scouts. ...

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Magoo's Young Manhood (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. He makes a bet with a friend that he can get a date with a star of the Broadway stage. It isn't long before Stage-Door Johnny Mag ...

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Magoo's Private War (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. When he stumbles across the premiere of a new science-fiction movie at a theatre, he thinks his town has just been ...

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as ...

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Eighteen and Anxious (1957)

A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life. ...

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Rock Hound Magoo (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. Together, they actually discover gold. ...

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Magoo Saves the Bank (1957)

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, on his way to make a bank deposit, boards a race-track bound bus instead. Mistaking the betting windows for tellerwindows, he keeps making and winning bets on long shots. The track finally tosses him out with his bag of winnings ...

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Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate. ...

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Magoo's Masquerade (1957)

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo fugitive, in her place. A detective becomes suspicious, as well he might, when the ostrich becomes attached t ...

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Magoo Breaks Par (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. He complains to the warden, who he mistakes for the grounds keeper, about the conditions of the golf co ...

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Matador Magoo (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. ...

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Magoo Goes Overboard (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. When he tries to rescue one of the swimmers, the ship's captain jumps in and rescues ...

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Top Secret Affair (1957)

A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track. ...

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Meet Mother Magoo (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. He g ...

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The Great Man (1956)

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

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The Opposite Sex (1956)

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she bre ...

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You Can't Run Away from It (1956)

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career. ...

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The Girl He Left Behind (1956)

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by ...

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Magoo's Problem Child (1956)

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 manner of crimes, ranging from murder down to counterfeiting, and jumps to the conclusion that his nephew ...

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Trailblazer Magoo (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. He winds up in a big city and in a park lake, trail-blazing his way over park benc ...

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Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper (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. Unfortunately, the myopic Magoo drives off a pier and under the ocean where ...

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Magoo Beats the Heat (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. Meanwhile, a desert wanderer and his horse are lost beyond hope wh ...

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The Naked Hills (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. Six years later, Powell returns to ...

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Calling Doctor Magoo (1956)

When Rodney, a friend of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, goes to the hospital, Mr. Magoo decides to visit him and to take along some of his cure-all, homemade elixir. But he makes a wrong turn and ends up on a docked-ship visiting a stranger wearing a turban, t ...

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Magoo Goes West (1956)

Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to venture to California in search of sunny weather. Even though he never actually leaves town, the trip is a l ...

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Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning... ...

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Magoo's Canine Mutiny (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. McGoo puts a leash on him and heads for home as the crook thinks this will afford him a safe escape. But a police ...

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The Square Jungle (1955)

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. ...

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Magoo Makes News (1955)

Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are shutting off his power. Outraged, Magoo heads for the power company intent on giving them a piece of his mind. However, instead of going to the power compan ...

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Rebel Without a Cause (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. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for ...

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Francis in the Navy (1955)

In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note urges Pete to hurry to the Coronado, California naval base, where Francis is about to be sold as surplus. ...

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Madcap Magoo (1955)

Expecting a visit from his practical joker friend Smiley, Mr. Magoo instead entertains an escaped mental patient. ...

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Magoo Express (1955)

Foreign-flavored intrigue abounds when Mr. Magoo is mistaken for a fellow spy aboard a European train. ...

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Destination Magoo (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 " ...

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Deep in My Heart (1954)

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg. ...

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Geraldine (1954)

Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors. ...

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When Magoo Flew (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. Little does Magoo know the man he is sitting next to is actually a thief and when a detective appears on the plane to track the thief ...

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I Love Melvin (1953)

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 Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. M ...

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Angel Face (1953)

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne. ...

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Above and Beyond (1953)

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll r ...

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Androcles and the Lion (1952)

George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christi ...

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Hotsy Footsy (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. ...

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The Rose Bowl Story (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. ...

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Pink and Blue Blues (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. To make matters worse, Magoo is constantly ...

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Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be. ...

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Pat and Mike (1952)

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she ...

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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster. ...

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Here Come the Nelsons (1952)

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

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I Want You (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. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy. ...

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Grizzly Golfer (1951)

Magoo goes golfing in an unbearable way. When Magoo and Waldo go to play golf, they wind up in the middle of a bear hunt. Magoo mistakes a grizzly bear for Waldo and proceeds to make the bear caddy for him. The bear continually gets clobbered by clubs, bal ...

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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression. ...

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The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his w ...

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Fuddy Duddy Buddy (1951)

Mr. Magoo has mistaken a walrus for a human friend and various sight gags are shown in typical Magoo fashion. ...

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Iron Man (1951)

In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a boxer, knowing that when he fights he's consumed with a murderous rage that ma ...

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His Kind of Woman (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 ...

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Bright Victory (1951)

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life. ...

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Hollywood Story (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. ...

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Plutopia (1951)

Mickey's on vacation at Camp Utopia. At first Pluto thinks it really is utopia: trees everywhere and a cat to chase. But the cabin rules are strict: no dogs indoors, and dogs must be muzzled and leashed. Mickey puts Pluto out to sleep, just out of reach of ...

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Half Angel (1951)

Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She ...

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Barefaced Flatfoot (1951)

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery. ...

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M (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. ...

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Bungled Bungalow (1951)

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves. ...

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The Popcorn Story (1950)

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came about. ...

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Emergency Wedding (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. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt. ...

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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown i ...

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Trouble Indemnity (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 is now worth a hefty sum and is ready to collect after being bitten ...

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Customs Agent (1950)

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

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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)

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 which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs. ...

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Spellbound Hound (1950)

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location. ...

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Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy (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 ...

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A Dangerous Profession (1949)

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame. ...

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The Great Lover (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. Freddie, who's been a ...

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Easy Living (1949)

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him. ...

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Father Was a Fullback (1949)

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, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is a ...

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Ragtime Bear (1949)

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo. ...

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One Last Fling (1949)

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

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A-Lad-in His Lamp (1948)

Bugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they battle Mad Man Hassan. ...

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Where Will You Hide? (1948)

Bold animated drawings and a dramatic soundtrack provide background for narrators who argue that World War III is looming and, as such, world civilization is in danger. They contend that peace is our only alternative, an alternative we must all work toward ...

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Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)

A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor. ...

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Destination Magoo (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 " ...

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