
Support Your Local Gunfighter(1971)
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.


“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.

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
Skin Game is a action, comedy, western film released in 1971 exploring themes of con man, slave. Directed by Paul Bogart, it stars James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark. 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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