Skin Game
- IMDb link: 0067763
- IMDb rating: 7 (2,225 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Western, Romance
- Director: Paul Bogart, Gordon Douglas
- Cast: James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes and others
- Release date: 1 Feb 1972
- Release year: 1971
- Runtime: 102 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: 1850s, abolition movement, john brown, john brown character, reference to john brown, friend, man, man in love with his slave, slave owner, physical abuse
Plot
Storyline
In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.
Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke have pulled off every dodge known for conning a well-heeled sucker, but it wasn't until they hit on the old skin game that they started to clean up. The game is simple. Jason, though born a free man in New Jersey, poses as Quincy's slave as the pair ride through Missouri and Kansas in 1857. Quincy picks a likely mark in each town, sells Jason to him for top money and rides out of town. Then Quincy and Jason get back together on the road to another town, because if Jason can't just run off after dark, Quincy finds a way to spring him loose.
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