The Oldest Living Graduate
The Oldest Living Graduate
| 07 April 1980 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.