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Dec 6, 1991 · Convicts: Directed by Peter Masterson. With Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois. Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.
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- Drama, Western
- Peter Masterson
- 1991-12-06
Convicts is a 1991 film directed by Peter Masterson. It stars Robert Duvall and Lukas Haas. It is based on the Horton Foote play The Orphan's Home.
In 1902, Soll (Robert Duvall), a Texas plantation owner who depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace (Lukas Haas),...
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- Peter Masterson
- Drama
- Robert Duvall
Robert Duval adds another memorable character to his screen portfolio in Horton Foote's "Convicts", a static, uncinematic play to film adaptation. Despite good supporting turns, the feature is strictly for Foote fetishists.
Convicts. 1991 · 1 hr 34 min. TV-14. Drama. A young boy frets that he’ll never earn the money to purchase his father’s tombstone while toiling on a brutish master’s cane field in 1902 Texas. Subtitles: English. Starring: Robert Duvall Lukas Haas James Earl Jones. Directed by: Peter Masterson.
- Peter Masterson
- January 1, 1991
- 93 min
Jan 1, 1991 · Overview. In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace.
A young boy comes of age observing the violent scenes on a Texas Gulf Coast cane field in 1902-even as life seems to be cycling to an end for an imposing plantation boss who survives by using convict labor to work in his fields.
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