Resting Place

Resting Place

Release Date: 1986-04-27

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.

Rating: 6.1 / 10

Cast

John Lithgow

John Lithgow

as Maj. Kendall Laird

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

as Luther Johnson

CCH Pounder

CCH Pounder

as Ada Johnson

Frances Sternhagen

Frances Sternhagen

as Eudora McCallister

Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

as Booker T. Douglas

Crew

  • Robert Huddleston - Producer

  • John Korty - Director

  • Paul Chihara - Original Music Composer

  • William Wages - Director of Photography

  • Walter Halsey Davis - Writer

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