Skin Game

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.

Cast

James Garner

as Quincy Drew

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Jason O'Rourke

Susan Clark

as Ginger

Brenda Sykes

as Naomi

Ed Asner

as Plunkett

Andrew Duggan

as Howard Calloway

Henry Jones

as Sam Cutler

Neva Patterson

as Mrs. Claggart

Parley Baer

as Mr. Claggart

George Tyne

as Henry P.Bonner

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