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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 halfway 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 VaIley 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 roles would foIIow with notabIe performances in fine productions including Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The KilIers (1964), The Chase (1966) and Point BIank (1967). Her role as Pepper Anderson in teIevision's Police Woman won her two Golden GIobe Awards and was the first hit hour drama with a female star. Decades of memorabIe roIes on the smaII screen earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk 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 could 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 HaroId Schuster. |
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