Resting Place (1986)
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.
- Date of release
- 1986-04-27
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- John Korty
Casting
- John Lithgow — Maj. Kendall Laird
- Morgan Freeman — Luther Johnson
- CCH Pounder — Ada Johnson
- Frances Sternhagen — Eudora McCallister
- Richard Brooks — Booker T. Douglas
- Richard Bradford — Gen. Willard P. Hauer
- G.D. Spradlin — Sam Jennings
- M. Emmet Walsh — Sarge
- John Philbin — Bradford Erskine
- Brian Tarantina — Sp4 Beyer
Interesting facts
Resting Place is an American TV movie directed by John Korty, starring John Lithgow, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder, Frances Sternhagen and G. D. Spradlin, released in 1986.
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