Resting Place
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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
Released Date: 1986-04-27
Runtime: 100 mins
Director: John Korty
Writer: Walter Halsey Davis
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama
Original title: Resting Place
Production Companies: Marian Rees Associates, Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Production Countries: United States of America
