Skin Game

Because it’s James Garner and Louis Gossett, the viewer might guess it’s a scam, the former in the credit sequence having paraded the latter into a dusty Missouri town, 1857, George Tyne winning the bidding, with foul language, in the popular 1971 comic-Western Skin Game.

Con artist Quincy (James Garner) and partner Jason (Louis Gossett), whom he sells as a slave before they abscond, in 1857 Kansas, debate whether to press their luck, and meet Ed Asner as nasty trader Plunkett, early in Skin Game, 1971, from a story by Richard Alan Simmons, of Columbo fame.

Two rival Kansans (Henry Jones, J. Pat O’Malley) bid up the price on slave Jason (Louis Gossett), to the delight of Quincy (James Garner) who poses as his owner but who is really his con-artist partner, when Royal Dano appears as the radical abolitionist John Brown, in Skin Game, 1971.

Con men Quincy and Jason (James Garner, Louis Gossett), who work a scam where one sells the other as a slave, arrive in a fictional Kansas town, 1857, where a vote on slavery is imminent, and meet Ginger (Susan Clark), who expresses noble intentions, in Skin Game, 1971.