CONVICTS

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• Release Year: 1991
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Freedom Has Its Price.; ; Oscar® winner Robert Duvall (1983, Tender Mercies) 'is terrific' (The New York Times) in this 'vividly realized' (Variety) drama co-starring Lukas Haas (Witness) and James Earl Jones (Field Of Dreams). 'Gracefully adapted to the screen' (Los Angeles Times) by Horton Foote (Of Mice And Men) and ably directed by Peter Masterson (Blood Red), Convicts is at once engrossing, poignant and heartrending.; ; In 1902 rural Texas, 13-year-old Horace (Haas) toils on a run-down plantation to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll (Duvall), the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation, has yet to pay the boy a penny of the money he owes him. But on Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise...forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
• Cast: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois, Carlin Glynn, Calvin Levels, Gary Swanson, Mel Winkler, Lance E. Nichols, Bob Edmundson, John McConnell, Jerry Biggs, Martin F. Schacker, Walter Breaux Jr., Tony Frank, Carol Sutton, Duriel Harris, Otis Jenkins, Joe 'Cool' Davis, Peter Masterson, Horton Foote
• Director: Peter Masterson
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie