Resting Place

Military honors knows no color

Resting Place — Plot

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.

• Release date
• April 27, 1986
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• John Korty

Resting Place — Cast

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