Convicts

Horton Foote’s coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old (Lukas Haas) working in 1902 at a plantation run by an irascible old man (Robert Duvall). Ben: James Earl Jones. Martha: Starletta DuPois. Jackson: Mel Winkler. Leroy: Calvin Levels. Asa: Carlin Glynn. Billy: Gary Swanson. Directed by Peter Masterson., 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., Amusing drama following the adventures of Horace Robedaux, a young teenager who finds work on a sugar plantation in Texas. Living with the eccentric owners and working alongside a group of convicts, Horace begins to learn a lot of life’s lessons., Set upon a struggling turn-of-the-century Texas sugar-cane plantation, this brutal and realistic drama centers on the efforts of an aging plantation boss (Robert Duvall), using convicts for workers, to keep his farm afloat. The story is adapted from Horton Foote’s cycle of plays The Orphan’s Home.