Convicts

Name: Convicts
Director: Peter Masterson
Released: 1991
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois, Carlin Glynn

1991 · 93 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 786 VOTES · DIR. Peter Masterson

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. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. 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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,190 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:31 Don't let him get away.

00:05:49 Oh, my God. I don't know what Horace's people are thinking about...

00:09:27 Right at the end of slavery time. My mama and papa are buried out here.

00:13:33 - I don't know. They didn't tell me. - Didn't you figure it out?

00:17:01 Leroy, do you know the Lord's Prayer?

00:20:31 I forget.

00:24:21 - What if he is sick? - Ain't gonna help him.

00:27:24 Ben, get out here. Martha, come here.

00:31:13 - How old are you? - Thirteen.

00:34:19 Come on.

00:37:36 - A lot? - Yeah, I guess so, sir.

00:42:12 "We can grow three crops a year here."

00:45:16 Ben and Martha. Faithful and trustworthy.

00:49:24 Tell him to come in where I can see him.

00:52:34 Took a club and clubbed him to death.

00:55:39 So he limp walked around here from then on.

01:00:01 I swore I heard something in there.

01:04:16 So you bury him in the convict's graveyard, you hear?

01:08:42 And a cold spell would come...

01:12:34 I don't know, sir.

01:16:16 And he don't want a preacher. Give me a hand here.

01:19:24 Where the hell is she?

01:23:09 "Rights of the citizenship are offered only to those individuals...

01:28:20 There wasn't nothing on it. Just a slab of marble sticking up with his name on it.

Cast & Characters

Robert Duvall Soll Gautier Lukas Haas Horace Robedaux James Earl Jones Ben Johnson Starletta DuPois Martha Johnson Carlin Glynn Asa Calvin Levels Leroy Gary Swanson Billy Mel Winkler Jackson Lance E. Nichols Sherman Edwards Bob Edmundson Overseer

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,190

Dialogue density12.8 lines / min

First line00:00:31

Final line01:28:20

Production Record

DirectorPeter Masterson

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes786