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Skin Game (1971)

• Directors
  • Paul Bogart
  • Gordon Douglas(co-director)
• Writers
  • Peter Stone(screenplay)
  • Richard Alan Simmons(story)
• Stars
  • James Garner
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Susan Clark

  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.