Blessed Assurance

Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his old flame Leslie, gets a job as an insurance salesman and begins to heal from the emotional damage caused by the war. But Jerry faces a serious moral dilemma when the job he depends on for his livelihood leads him to take advantage of an elderly African-American woman and the members of her community.

• Joyce EliasonScreenplay
• Peter BogdanovichDirector

• Grant ShowJerry Shand
• Cicely TysonVesta Lotte Battle
• Lori LoughlinLeslie
• George WendtSam
• Cari ShayneClaire Gundry
• Rebecca KoonZella Shand
• Bob KingJuel Shand
• Allan GurganusProfessor Title
• Stephen Michael AyersDon Cahoun
• Helen AlexanderWhite Woman in Church
• Shannon EubanksMrs. Grundy
• Tommy CresswellMr. Grundy