Skin Game
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Skin Game is a 1971 movie starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr.
[edit] Plot
Quincy Drew (Garner) and Jason O'Rourke (Gossett) travel from town to town in the south of the United States. 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.
Skin Game features Ed Asner in a pre-"Roots" role as a slave trader.
Oddly, 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.
[edit] External links
- Skin Game at the Internet Movie Database
