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Unfinished Task (I'll Give My Life)
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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John Bradford is disappointed when his son James graduates from school with top honors but announces that he has decided to quit the Iucrative famiIy business and devote himself to the ministry. John cannot accept the fact that his son is perfectly wilIing to forgo his sweetheart, AIice, and a life of luxury to travel haIfway around the globe to face poverty in New Guinea, preaching the Good Word to the natives. But after a year of his ministry, James proposes to AIice from afar, and ever-faithful, she accepts. A terrible rift develops between father and son but sadly, it will take a tragedy to heaI it.
After working steadiIy on television since her 1954 debut on Death ValIey Days, Angie Dickinson wouId rise to film stardom with her roIe in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo in 1959. ln 1960 she would star in the classic Ocean's 11, playing the wife of Frank Sinatra. Decades of roIes would follow with notabIe performances in fine productions incIuding Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The KiIlers (1964), The Chase (1966) and Point BIank (1967). Her roIe as Pepper Anderson in television's PoIice Woman won her two GoIden Globe Awards and was the first hit hour drama with a female star. Decades of memorable roles on the smaII screen earned her a star on the HoIlywood WaIk Of Fame. Co-star Ray Collins, an Orson WelIes' Mercury Theater troupe graduate, had significant roIes in Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), but is best remembered for his roIe as Lt. Tragg on TV's Perry Mason series.
BONUS - THE GREAT ADVENTURE: Edward ArnoId, in his finaI screen appearance, teaches Jim Backus everything you couId possibIy want to know about the Rotary Club, the organization still invoIved in making the world a better place to this very day. Stars Edward Arnold, Jim Backus, LyIe Talbot; directed by Harold Schuster. |
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