Resting Place (1986)

  • PG
  • 04/27/1986 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 40m

Military honors knows no color

Overview

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.

John Korty

Director

Walter Halsey Davis

Writer

Cast

John Lithgow's headshot

John Lithgow

Maj. Kendall Laird
Morgan Freeman's headshot

Morgan Freeman

Luther Johnson
CCH Pounder's headshot

CCH Pounder

Ada Johnson
Frances Sternhagen's headshot

Frances Sternhagen

Eudora McCallister
Richard Brooks's headshot

Richard Brooks

Booker T. Douglas
Richard Bradford's headshot

Richard Bradford

Gen. Willard P. Hauer
G. D. Spradlin's headshot

G. D. Spradlin

Sam Jennings
M. Emmet Walsh's headshot

M. Emmet Walsh

Sarge

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