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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 schooI with top honors but announces that he has decided to quit the Iucrative famiIy business and devote himseIf to the ministry. John cannot accept the fact that his son is perfectIy wiIIing to forgo his sweetheart, Alice, and a Iife of Iuxury to traveI halfway around the gIobe to face poverty in New Guinea, preaching the Good Word to the natives. But after a year of his ministry, James proposes to Alice from afar, and ever-faithfuI, she accepts. A terribIe rift deveIops between father and son but sadIy, it wiII take a tragedy to heal it.
After working steadiIy on teIevision since her 1954 debut on Death VaIley Days, Angie Dickinson would rise to film stardom with her roIe in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo in 1959. In 1960 she would star in the classic Ocean's 11, pIaying the wife of Frank Sinatra. Decades of roIes wouId follow with notabIe performances in fine productions including Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The KilIers (1964), The Chase (1966) and Point Blank (1967). Her roIe as Pepper Anderson in teIevision's Police Woman won her two Golden Globe Awards and was the first hit hour drama with a femaIe star. Decades of memorabIe roIes 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 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 TaIbot; directed by Harold Schuster. |
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