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…
To market, to market, to sell your best friend, then split up the money and do it again.
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.
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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
George Tyne
Henry P.Bonner
Royal Dano
John Brown
J. Pat O'Malley
William
Joel Fluellen
Uncle Abram
Napoleon Whiting
Ned
Juanita Moore
Viney
Bob Steele
Bidder (uncredited)
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What is Skin Game about?
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…
When was Skin Game released?
Skin Game was released in 1971.
What genres does Skin Game belong to?
Skin Game is categorised as Action, Comedy, Western.
Who stars in Skin Game?
The cast of Skin Game includes James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes, Ed Asner.