Salesman

1969
G
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

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Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

5.9K

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Awards
- 4 wins total

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Salesman

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Trivia
49.95 U.S. Dollars (which is what the Bibles sold by the salesmen cost in 1965-66, when the film was shot) is the equivalent of $407.15 in 2019.

Connections
Featured in Camera Three: Direct Cinema: Part 1 (1969)

Soundtracks
This Land Is Your Land
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Written by Woody Guthrie

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10/10

Brilliant

Salesman(1969) Quite possibly the best documentary ever made. The Maysles' Brothers( Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens) mesmerizing story follows four bible salesmen pounding the turf selling over priced bibles to poor catholics and the tactics that they use to pull off these sales.One salesman in particular, Paul "the Badger' Brennan is the central character of the documentary and it is heart wrenching to watch his decline from a once successful salesman to an also-ran whose heart and soul just aren't into it anymore. One unforgettable scene has another salesman humiliating Brennan in front of a customer. This documentary is a real slice of Americana and a film worth watching time and time again.