Skin Game

Sep 30, 1971

1h 42m

★ 6.6

To market, to market, to sell your best friend, then split up the money and do it again.

Overview

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Western

Production Companies

Cherokee Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

Skin Game Trailers

Cast

Quincy Drew

James Garner

Jason O'Rourke

Louis Gossett Jr.

Ginger

Susan Clark

Naomi

Brenda Sykes

Plunkett

Ed Asner

Howard Calloway

Andrew Duggan

Sam Cutler

Henry Jones

Mrs. Claggart

Neva Patterson

Mr. Claggart

Parley Baer

Henry P.Bonner

George Tyne

John Brown

Royal Dano

William

J. Pat O'Malley

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