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Skin Game (1971)

PG 09/30/1971 (US) Action, Comedy, Western 1h 42m

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

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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.

Paul Bogart

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Peter Stone

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James Garner

Quincy Drew
Louis Gossett Jr.

Jason O'Rourke
Susan Clark

Ginger
Brenda Sykes

Naomi
Ed Asner

Plunkett
Andrew Duggan

Howard Calloway
Henry Jones

Sam Cutler
Neva Patterson

Mrs. Claggart
Parley Baer

Mr. Claggart
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on September 22, 2017

Skin Con!

Skin Game is predominantly directed by Paul Bogart and written by Richard Alan Simmons and Peter Stone. It stars James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes, Edward Asner and Andrew Duggan. Music is by David Shire and cinematography by Fred J. Koenekamp.

Slavery era America and two interracial con-men travel from town to town duping white folk into purchasing black Jason O'Rourke (Gossett Jr,). After Quincy Drew (Garner) strikes a deal, with money in hand, the pair meet up later to scarper and split the profits. A nice con, that is until ladies and savvy outsiders... read the rest.

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