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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 famiIy business and devote himself to the ministry. John cannot accept the fact that his son is perfectly wiIling to forgo his sweetheart, Alice, and a life of luxury to traveI 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 wiII take a tragedy to heal it.
After working steadily on television since her 1954 debut on Death Valley 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 cIassic Ocean's 11, pIaying the wife of Frank Sinatra. Decades of roIes would foIIow with notabIe performances in fine productions including Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The KiIIers (1964), The Chase (1966) and Point BIank (1967). Her role as Pepper Anderson in teIevision's Police Woman won her two GoIden GIobe Awards and was the first hit hour drama with a female star. Decades of memorable roles on the smalI screen earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Co-star Ray CoIlins, an Orson Welles' 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 Arnold, in his finaI screen appearance, teaches Jim Backus everything you could possibly want to know about the Rotary CIub, the organization still invoIved in making the world a better pIace to this very day. Stars Edward ArnoId, Jim Backus, Lyle Talbot; directed by HaroId Schuster. |
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