Skin Game

Skin Game

To market, to market, to sell your best friend, then split up the money and do it again.

PG 1971 · 102 min · ★ 6.6 · Action, Comedy, Western

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.

Directed by Paul Bogart · Written by Peter Stone

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