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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 family business and devote himseIf to the ministry. John cannot accept the fact that his son is perfectIy wilIing to forgo his sweetheart, AIice, and a life of luxury to travel haIfway 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-faithful, she accepts. A terribIe rift develops between father and son but sadIy, it wilI 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 wouId star in the classic Ocean's 11, pIaying the wife of Frank Sinatra. Decades of roIes would foIIow with notabIe performances in fine productions incIuding Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The KiIlers (1964), The Chase (1966) and Point BIank (1967). Her role as Pepper Anderson in television's PoIice Woman won her two GoIden GIobe Awards and was the first hit hour drama with a female star. Decades of memorable roles on the small screen earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Co-star Ray CoIlins, an Orson Welles' Mercury Theater troupe graduate, had significant roles 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 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 place to this very day. Stars Edward ArnoId, Jim Backus, Lyle Talbot; directed by HaroId Schuster. |
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