Jim Backus
Birthday: 1913-02-25
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography: 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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Rebel Without a Cause
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...
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Pete's Dragon
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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Don't Bother to Knock
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stab...
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Angels' Brigade
Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless...
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of ...
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The Killer That Stalked New York
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels t...
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island
When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a ba...
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His Kind of Woman
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself...
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Boys' Night Out
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred i...
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Hello Down There
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his famil...
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Macabre
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped...
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Deadline - U.S.A.
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster....
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Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)
Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing....
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including W...
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The Wheeler Dealers
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot ...
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression....
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Man of a Thousand Faces
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha...
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Francis in the Navy
In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message f...
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1001 Arabian Nights
In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is t...
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The Wild and the Innocent
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into troubl...
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Hollywood Story
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the uns...
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Ice Palace
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountai...
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Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film....
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Plutopia
Mickey's on vacation at Camp Utopia. At first Pluto thinks it really is utopia: trees everywhere and...
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A Dangerous Profession
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame....
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr....
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi...
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Iron Man
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother....
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Slapstick of Another Kind
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are ...
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Johnny Cool
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S....
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Zotz!
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He trans...
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The Man with a Cloak
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of ...
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Friday Foster
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the ...
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Billie
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend w...
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The Girl Most Likely To...
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the peop...
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Critic's Choice
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be ver...
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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 co...
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You Can't Run Away from It
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career....
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The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a wa...
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Crazy Mama
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California be...
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Ragtime Bear
At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be hi...
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Uncle Sam Magoo
Join Mr. Magoo as Uncle Sam, on an all-American animated adventure through our nation's history. Pul...
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Magoo's Puddle Jumper
At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into...
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by...
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Father Was a Fullback
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-a...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recogn...
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The Horizontal Lieutenant
A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost duri...
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The Rebels
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English n...
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Operation Bikini
The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's comm...
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor....
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Meet Me in Las Vegas
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds h...
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Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night ...
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The Naked Hills
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. The...
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Customs Agent
An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California....
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off ...
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The Girl He Left Behind
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the exp...
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Advance to the Rear
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his ap...
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Hurry Sundown
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tr...
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Top Secret Affair
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track....
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Inside Magoo
A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the ...
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The High Cost of Loving
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut...
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Fluffy
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, includi...
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My Six Loves
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property....
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I Want You
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea h...
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Miracle on 34th Street
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he ...
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The Big Operator
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. Th...
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Getting Away from It All
Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rur...
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Here Come the Nelsons
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with ga...
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Goodnight Jackie
Wendell Burton is a guy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend, Lana Wood. He is caught up in a nutty ...
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M
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police searc...
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I Love Melvin
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress nam...
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The Square Jungle
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through l...
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Spellbound Hound
Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped c...
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Barefaced Flatfoot
Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery....
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Angel Face
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...
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Bright Victory
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....
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Grizzly Golfer
Magoo goes golfing in an unbearable way. When Magoo and Waldo go to play golf, they wind up in the m...
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A Private's Affair
Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their uni...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...
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One Last Fling
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a posit...
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Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the exist...
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When Magoo Flew
Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinkin...
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Magic Carpet
A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway wh...
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Emergency Wedding
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife ...
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Never Con a Killer
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and he...
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The Great Man
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a go...
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Good Guys Wear Black
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members ...
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Fuddy Duddy Buddy
Mr. Magoo has mistaken a walrus for a human friend and various sight gags are shown in typical Magoo...
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Hotsy Footsy
Magoo's at a Rutgers alumni dance and winds up squaring off with a pro wrestler at the arena across ...
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I Was a Teenage Magoo
Told in flashback, the plot has teenage (but still nearsighted) red-headed Magoo picks up his date "...
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Cop on the Beat
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in thi...
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Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave...
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Myra Breckinridge
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautif...
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Magoo Meets Frankenstein
Mr Magoo goes to what he thinks is a hotel but it’s actually a mad scientist’s castle and he’s after...
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Trouble Indemnity
An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is ...
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There Goes The Bride
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream...
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Ask Any Girl
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-d...
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Don't Make Waves
Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going ...
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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned...
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The Opposite Sex
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair w...
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The Rose Bowl Story
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose...
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet ...
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A Princess for Magoo
Jim Backus (the voice of Mister Magoo) narrates a look behind the scenes at UPA Pictures during the ...
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Sunday in New York
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce....
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Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuri...
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Above and Beyond
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although una...
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Eighteen and Anxious
A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life....
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Terror Faces Magoo
Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families an...
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Magoo Express
Foreign-flavored intrigue abounds when Mr. Magoo is mistaken for a fellow spy aboard a European trai...
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Madcap Magoo
Expecting a visit from his practical joker friend Smiley, Mr. Magoo instead entertains an escaped me...
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Magoo Makes News
Mr. Magoo misreads a newspaper flyer thinking it is a letter from his power company saying they are ...
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Magoo Goes West
Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just ...
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Calling Doctor Magoo
When Rodney, a friend of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, goes to the hospital, Mr. Magoo decides to visit...
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Destination Magoo
The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself ha...
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Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery
Literary classics take a ribbing as the nearsighted bumbler portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein an...
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The Gossip Columnist
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on am...
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Magoo Beats the Heat
Mr. Magoo, intent on going to the beach, winds up in the desert instead. Thinking himself to be at t...
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Pat and Mike
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf ...
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Easy Living
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him....
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A-Lad-in His Lamp
Bugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they batt...
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Enchanted Journey
Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, yo...
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Trailblazer Magoo
The near-sighted one decides to take a hunting-and-fishing trip, and hires a Native American guide. ...
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Magoo's Problem Child
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for h...
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Meet Mother Magoo
Mr. Magoo brings in his mail opening up a flyer for a store's "83rd Anniversary Sale". Magoo thinks ...
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Magoo's Canine Mutiny
The nearsighted Mr. McGoo goes shopping for a dog as a pet, and enters the pet store just as it is b...
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Rock Hound Magoo
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to ...
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Magoo's Private War
The near-sighted Mr. McGoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/ir...
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Magoo Goes Overboard
Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally f...
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Matador Magoo
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, further lost than usual, mistakes a bullring in Mexico for a highway in ...
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Magoo Breaks Par
The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sets out for a round of golf but catches the prison paddy wagon instead of...
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Magoo's Masquerade
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wron...
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Magoo Saves the Bank
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo, on his way to make a bank deposit, boards a race-track bound bus instead...
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Magoo's Young Manhood
In a flashback Mr. Magoo thinks back in time to the Gay 90's when he was a young man, and just as my...
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Geraldine
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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Magoo's Lodge Brother
Near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to his lodger-convention and latches onto a robber, whom he thi...
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Damn Yankees
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New Yor...
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Wake Me When the War Is Over
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into Ger...
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A Child Is Waiting
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hans...
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Merry Minstrel Magoo
Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist....
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Have I Got a Christmas for You
Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors ...
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The Great Lover
The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a ...
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Rendezvous in Space
This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of...
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Of Thee I Sing
CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing...
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Where Will You Hide?
Bold animated drawings and a dramatic soundtrack provide background for narrators who argue that Wor...
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The Popcorn Story
The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown ...
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Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
Join medieval Mr. Magoo, as Friar Tuck, along with Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men on an exciti...
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Pink and Blue Blues
Mr. Magoo is hired by his neighbors to babysit their little son, Homer. Magoo is delighted to accept...
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Pete Hothead
This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper...
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