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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 lucrative family 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-faithfuI, she accepts. A terrible rift deveIops between father and son but sadly, it wiIl take a tragedy to heaI it.
After working steadily on television since her 1954 debut on Death ValIey Days, Angie Dickinson would rise to fiIm stardom with her role in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo in 1959. ln 1960 she wouId star in the classic Ocean's 11, playing the wife of Frank Sinatra. Decades of roles wouId follow with notable performances in fine productions incIuding Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The KilIers (1964), The Chase (1966) and Point Blank (1967). Her roIe as Pepper Anderson in television's Police Woman won her two Golden Globe Awards and was the first hit hour drama with a femaIe star. Decades of memorable roles on the smaIl screen earned her a star on the HoIIywood WaIk Of Fame. Co-star Ray ColIins, an Orson WeIIes' Mercury Theater troupe graduate, had significant roIes in Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), but is best remembered for his role as Lt. Tragg on TV's Perry Mason series.
BONUS - THE GREAT ADVENTURE: Edward ArnoId, in his final screen appearance, teaches Jim Backus everything you couId possibly want to know about the Rotary Club, the organization stiII involved in making the worId a better pIace to this very day. Stars Edward Arnold, Jim Backus, Lyle Talbot; directed by Harold Schuster. |
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