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.
James Garner | Quincy Drew / Capt. Nathaniel Mountjoy |
Louis Gossett Jr. | Jason O'Rourke |
Susan Clark | Ginger / Miss Abigail Blodgett |
Brenda Sykes | Naomi (slave) |
Ed Asner | Plunkett (runaway slave hunter) |
Andrew Duggan | Howard Calloway (plantation owner) |
Henry Jones | Sam Cutler (slave buyer in Fair Shake) |
Neva Patterson | Mrs. Claggart |
Parley Baer | Mr. Claggart |
George Tyne | Henry P.Bonner |
Royal Dano | John Brown |
J. Pat O'Malley | William |