The best Jim Backus’s movies

Jim Backus

Jim Backus

25/02/1913- 03/07/1989
We present our ranking of the best Jim Backus’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jim Backus.
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Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1955
  • Character: Frank Stark
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 local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

Pete's Dragon

Pete's Dragon
6.3/10
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. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7.5/10
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.

Crazy Mama

Crazy Mama
5.5/10
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.

Deadline - U.S.A.

Deadline - U.S.A.
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1952
  • Character: Jim Cleary
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman
7/10
In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.

Friday Foster

Friday Foster
6/10
Friday Foster, an ex-model 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 conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Now You See Him, Now You Don't
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 12/07/1972
  • Character: Timothy Forsythe
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 plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.

Good Guys Wear Black

Good Guys Wear Black
5.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/06/1978
  • Character: Albert, the Doorman
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.

Sunday in New York

Sunday in New York
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1963
  • Character: Chief Pilot Drysdale
Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike, a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.

Pat and Mike

Pat and Mike
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/06/1952
  • Character: Charles Barry
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 cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1957
  • Character: Clarence Locan
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.

Angel Face

Angel Face
7.2/10
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

Myra Breckinridge

Myra Breckinridge
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1970
  • Character: Doctor
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 acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

Don't Bother to Knock

Don't Bother to Knock
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 18/07/1952
  • Character: Peter Jones
Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
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 breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

A Child Is Waiting

A Child Is Waiting
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/02/1963
  • Character: Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
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, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

Operation Bikini

Operation Bikini
3.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/03/1963
  • Character: Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
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 lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.

Angels' Brigade

Angels' Brigade
2.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 01/01/1979
  • Character: Cmdr. Lindsey March
Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

The Wheeler Dealers

The Wheeler Dealers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1963
  • Character: Bullard Bear
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 the lavish attention he spends on her but ...

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