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Convicts   1991         N/R, 92 min. Genre: Drama Director: Peter Masterson   Cast: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois, Carlin Glynn, Gary Swanson, Mel Winkler, Calvin Levels   Adapted from Horton Foote's play, this film is about young Horace Robedaux (Lukas Haas) and his lesson learned about injustice in the early 1900s' South as taught to him by Soll Gautier, a senile plantation-owner who uses Black convicts for back-breaking field labor. This film and "On Valentine's Day" are prequels to "1918."