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The Oldest Living Graduate

Release Date:April 7, 1980

Running Time:93 min

Genres:Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

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Cast

Henry Fonda George Grizzard Cloris Leachman Harry Dean Stanton Penelope Milford John Lithgow David Ogden Stiers Allyn Ann McLerie Timothy Hutton

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed son Floyd (George Grizzard) wants to get into the old man's good graces so that he can develop the Colonel's vast land ownings. Floyd arranges a city-wide celebration lauding Kincaid as the oldest living graduate of a nearby military academy. The festivities serve only to make the already sour Kincaid even more truculent and miserable. Adapted from Preston Jones' 1974 play and originally telecast live from Dallas' Southern Methodist University on April 7, 1980.

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