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  • Director: Paul Bogart
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Comedy Western
  • Themes: Cons and Scams, Race Relations
  • Main Cast: Susan Clark, James Garner
  • Release Year: 1971
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 102 minutes

Plot

Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western starring James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. as a pair of clever Antebellum con men. Garner regularly "sells" the black Gossett into slavery for an exalted price, then "liberates" Gossett so that they can move on to the next sucker. Unfortunately, they outsmart themselves, and before long Gossett seems doomed to a lifetime of forced servitude. They are rescued by pretty pickpocket Susan Clark, who has a few surprises in store for them. Skin Game was supposed to be spun off into a TV series, but the project never got any farther than the 1974 pilot film Sidekicks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ed Asner - Plunkett; Parley Baer - Mr. Claggart; Tracy Bogart - Lizabeth; Jim Boles - Auction Clerk; Al Checco - Room Clerk; Dort Clark - Pennypacker; Susan Clark - Ginger; Royal Dano - John Brown; Charles Drake; Andrew Duggan - Calloway; Paris Earl; Joel Fluellen - Abram; Robert Foulk - Sheriff; James Garner - Quincy; Louis Gossett, Jr. - Jason O'Rourke; Don Haggerty - Speaker; Henry Jones - Sam; Forrest Lewis; Athena Lorde - Margaret; James McCallion - Stanfil; Juanita Moore - Viney; Burt Mustin; J. Pat O'Malley - William; Neva Patterson - Mrs. Claggart; Suzanne Pleshette; Hari (Harry) Rhodes; Robert Stack; Brenda Sykes - Naomi; George Tyne - Bonner; Napoleon Whiting - Ned; Jason Wingreen - 2nd Speaker; Rossano Brazzi; George Wallace - Auctioneer

Credit

Herman A. Blumenthal - Art Director, Clifford C. Coleman - First Assistant Director, Paul Bogart - Director, Walter Thompson - Editor, David Shire - Composer (Music Score), Gordon Bau - Makeup, Fred Koenekamp - Cinematographer, Harry Keller - Producer, Harry Miller - Producer, James W. Payne - Set Designer, Fred Faust - Sound/Sound Designer, David Giler - Screenwriter, Richard Alan Simmons - Screenwriter, Peter Stone - Screenwriter, Pierre Marton - Screenwriter

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Skin Game
Directed by Paul Bogart
Gordon Douglas
Produced by Harry Keller
Written by Richard Alan Simmons (story)
Peter Stone (uncredited)
Starring James Garner
Louis Gossett Jr.
Susan Clark
Brenda Sykes
Edward Asner
Andrew Duggan
Music by David Shire
Cinematography Fred J. Koenekamp
Editing by Walter Thompson
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) September 30, 1971
Running time 102 min.
Country USA
Language English

Skin Game is a 1971 movie comedy starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr.

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Plot

Quincy Drew (Garner) and Jason O'Rourke (Gossett) travel from town to town in the south of the United States during the slavery era. Quincy Drew claims to be a down-on-his-luck slave owner who is selling Jason O'Rourke as a slave. Quincy gets the bidding rolling, sells Jason, and the two later meet up to split the profit. Jason was born a free man in New Jersey and is very well educated. The twist comes when Jason is sold to a slave trader who is very savvy and intent on taking him down south to make a profit.

Cast

James Garner ... Quincy Drew / Capt. Nathaniel Mountjoy
Louis Gossett, Jr. ... Jason O'Rourke (billed as Lou Gossett)
Susan Clark ... Ginger / Miss Abigail Blodgett
Brenda Sykes ... Naomi (slave)
Edward Asner ... Plunkett (runaway slave hunter)
Andrew Duggan ... Howard Calloway (plantation owner)
Henry Jones ... Sam Cutler (slave buyer in Fair Shake)
Neva Patterson ... Mrs. Claggart
Parley Baer ... Mr. Claggart
George Tyne ... Henry P.Bonner (man who bought Jason in Dirty Shame)
Royal Dano ... John Brown (abolitionist)
Pat O'Malley ... William (slave buyer in Fair Shake)
Joel Fluellen ... Uncle Abram (head slave at Calloway Manor)
Napoleon Whiting ... Ned (Calloway cook)
Juanita Moore ... Viney (Calloway slave)

Remake

The film was remade three years later as a TV-movie called Sidekicks, with Larry Hagman playing Garner's role and Gossett reprising his part.

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