I'll Give My Life
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Cast & Crew
William F. Claxton
Ray Collins
John Bryant
Angie Dickinson
Katherine Warren
Donald Woods
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Synopsis
At a party celebrating his graduation from engineering school, James W. Bradford confides in Alice Greenway, his father John's secretary, that he received a calling to the ministry years before when he was serving in the military. James then enters the seminary, bitterly disappointing his father, who had planned on having his son join the family's prosperous construction company. After being ordained a minister, James becomes a missionary in New Guinea and cables a marriage proposal to Alice, with whom he has fallen in love. Some years later, after James and Alice have had two children, John receives a cable from Alice informing him that James is gravely ill with jungle fever. Although he has remained bitter over his son's turning to the ministry instead of engineering, John and his wife Dora fly to New Guinea. They arrive in time to see James just before he succumbs to his illness. After James's death, John and Dora bring Alice and their two grandchildren back to the United States. Once home, John reads James's diary and realizes how unselfish his son was. Determined to carry on some of James's work, John takes a leave from his business to travel around the country, speaking to various groups and organizations to encourage donations to foreign missions.
Director
William F. Claxton
Cast
Ray Collins
John Bryant
Angie Dickinson
Katherine Warren
Donald Woods
Jon Shepodd
Stuart Randall
Richard Benedict
Milton Woods
Sam Flint
Ivan Triesault
Mimi Gibson
Jimmy Baird
Virginia Wave
Vera Francis
Crew
The Reverend Herman W. Cockel
Pierre Couderc
George Emick
Robert Fritch
Sam Hersh
The Reverend Otto C. Hintze
Tom Lambert
S. Roy Luby
Herbert Moulton
Lou Perlof
Bill Ross
Walter Strenge
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The credits and summary above are based on a cutting continuity contained in NYSA records. Although the film was not registered for copyright, according to the continuity, there was a 1960 copyright statement for Concordia Publishing House. The film was reviewed by The Exhibitor in April 1959, and additional information in NYSA records reveals that it was approved for exhibition in New York State in 1959, but Motion Picture Herald release charts list it as a January 1961 release.
It is possible that Concordia Films was related to Concordia University, which is affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in St. Louis, MO. Modern sources add Nancy Evans, Darryl Glenn, Irvin Mosley, Reginald Lal Singh and Paul Bradley to the cast.
