Skin Game

Produced by James Garner’s company Cherokee Pictures, this western comedy set the stage for interracial buddy comedies to come.

  • Director

    Paul Bogart, Gordon Douglas

  • With

    Louis Gossett Jr, James Garner, Susan Clark

  • USA 1971. 102min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

In the pre-Civil War West, Gossett and Garner’s buddies and professional conmen Jason O’Rourke and Quincy Drew beat racist slave owners at their own game. Traveling through small towns, they swindle auction buyers out of their ill-gotten gains and abscond with their money. But what will these gamblers do when their luck runs out? Bogart and Douglas’ comedy balances action and quick-fire dialogue, and features its two stars at their very best.

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