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Resting Place (1986)
Directed by John Korty
“Military honors knows no color”
Drama · 1h 40m
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.
Cast
John Lithgow
Morgan Freeman
CCH Pounder
Frances Sternhagen
Richard Brooks
Richard Bradford
G.D. Spradlin
M. Emmet Walsh
John Philbin
Brian Tarantina
Crew
- Director
- John Korty
- Writer
- Walter Halsey Davis
- Director of Photography
- William Wages
- Original Music Composer
- Paul Chihara
- Producer
- Robert Huddleston
Details
- Release date
- 1986-04-27
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Marian Rees Associates, Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions