Resting Place

Resting Place

1986
1h 40m
6.1

6.1/10

17 votes • View on IMDb

"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.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Marian Rees Associates Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date April 27, 1986
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0091844

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

M. Emmet Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh

Sarge

John Philbin
John Philbin

Bradford Erskine

Brian Tarantina
Brian Tarantina

Sp4 Beyer

Key Crew

Robert Huddleston
Producer
John Korty
Director
Walter Halsey Davis
Writer

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