Resting Place

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.

6.1

100 min

Cast

John Lithgow

as Maj. Kendall Laird

Morgan Freeman

as Luther Johnson

CCH Pounder

as Ada Johnson

Frances Sternhagen

as Eudora McCallister

Richard Brooks

as Booker T. Douglas

Richard Bradford

as Gen. Willard P. Hauer

G.D. Spradlin

as Sam Jennings

M. Emmet Walsh

as Sarge

John Philbin

as Bradford Erskine

Brian Tarantina

as Sp4 Beyer

Director

John Korty