Resting Place
Resting Place

Resting Place

1986-04-27 - 100 minutes

6.10 / 10

Overview

Military honors knows no color

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.

Screenplay

Producer - Robert Huddleston

Genres

Drama

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Cast

John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Maj. Kendall Laird

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

Luther Johnson

CCH Pounder

CCH Pounder

Ada Johnson

Frances Sternhagen

Frances Sternhagen

Eudora McCallister

Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

Booker T. Douglas

Richard Bradford

Richard Bradford

Gen. Willard P. Hauer

G. D. Spradlin

G. D. Spradlin

Sam Jennings

John Philbin

John Philbin

Bradford Erskine