Word of Honor

Overview

Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.

Directed by Robert Markowitz

Top cast

Don Johnson

Benjamin Tyson

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Maj. Karen Harper

Sharon Lawrence

Marcy McClure Tyson

John Heard

Dr. Steven Brandt

Arliss Howard

J.D. Runnells

Peter MacNeill

Brig. Gen. Norm Van Arken

Peter Stebbings

Maj. Michael Taix

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Jesse Johnson

Lt. Benjamin Tyson in Vietnam

Christopher Jacot

Young CPL. Lawrence Cane

Michael Adamthwaite

Young Beltran

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Che Ayende

Young PFC Billy Sanchez

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Randy Birch

Farley

JR Bourne

Mr. Douglas Picard

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Rita Bozi

Barbara Bellflower

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Paul Noah Braaten

Military Policeman

J. Adam Brown

Young John Kelly

Olivia Cheng

Reporter

Conrad Coates

Col. Pierce Truscott

William B. Davis

Lewis Kaplan - Tyson's Boss

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Joyce Doolittle

Eleanor Livander

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