
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.
Cast

James Garner
Quincy Drew

Louis Gossett Jr.
Jason O'Rourke

Susan Clark
Ginger

Brenda Sykes
Naomi

Ed Asner
Plunkett

Andrew Duggan
Howard Calloway

Henry Jones
Sam Cutler

Neva Patterson
Mrs. Claggart

Parley Baer
Mr. Claggart

George Tyne
Henry P.Bonner

Royal Dano
John Brown

J. Pat O'Malley
William

Joel Fluellen
Uncle Abram

Napoleon Whiting
Ned

Juanita Moore
Viney

Bob Steele
Bidder (uncredited)

Dort Clark
Pennypacker

Robert Foulk
Sheriff

Athena Lorde
Margaret

George D. Wallace
Auctioneer

James McCallion
Stanfil
Tracy Bogart
Lizabeth

Mary Rings
Emaline

Jason Wingreen
2nd Speaker
Bill Terrell
The Songhais

Richard Farnsworth
Man in Saloon fight (uncredited)

Claude Stroud
Fred (uncredited)
Crew

Paul Bogart
Director

Gordon Douglas
Co-Director

Peter Stone
Writer
Walter Thompson
Editor

Fred J. Koenekamp
Director of Photography
Clifford C. Coleman
Assistant Director
Meta Rosenberg
Executive Producer
Paul M. Heller
Executive Producer

James Garner
Executive Producer
Harry Keller
Producer

David Shire
Original Music Composer
James W. Payne
Set Decoration
Herman A. Blumenthal
Art Direction



















