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Salesman

Documentary

1969, 1h 30min

This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.

"Salesman" — documentary movie produced in USA and released in 1969. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.7 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 30min. "Salesman" is currently available to stream on HBO Max, The Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime I Max and for rent and to buy on Apple TV. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: United States

Directors:

Albert Maysles,

Charlotte Zwerin

Cast:

Charles McDevitt,

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Critic David Parkinson

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10

The Maysles brothers’ 1969 documentary is one of the masterworks of Direct Cinema. There’s no narration here, just harrowing scenes (...) of four Florida Bible salesmen trying every trick not in the Good Book to fulfil their quota.

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You can stream Salesman on:

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Salesman include Moonwalk One - The Director's Cut, The Endless Summer, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen, Extraordinary People: Identical Quads, F for Fake, Chained Girls.

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Salesman was released in theaters on April 17, 1969.