Resting Place
Resting Place
Release: 1986-04-27
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 6.1
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Marian Rees Associates
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Trailers & Videos
Cast
John Lithgow
as Maj. Kendall Laird
Frances Sternhagen
as Eudora McCallister
Richard Bradford
as Gen. Willard P. Hauer
G. D. Spradlin
as Sam Jennings
Brian Tarantina
as Sp4 Beyer
Morgan Freeman
as Luther Johnson
CCH Pounder
as Ada Johnson
Richard Brooks
as Booker T. Douglas
M. Emmet Walsh
as Sarge
John Philbin
as Bradford Erskine
