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| Maysles Films | Release Date: April 17, 1969 |
Starring:
Charles McDevitt, James Baker, Kennie Turner, Margaret McCarron, Melbourne I. Feltman, Paul Brennan, Raymond Martos
Summary:
Four relentless door-to-door salesmen deal with constant rejection, homesickness and inevitable burnout as they go across the country selling very expensive bibles to low-income Catholic families.
Genre(s):
Drama, Documentary
Runtime:
91 min
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A vérité masterpiece of the bulls**t that America sells itself, Albert and David Maysles’ Salesman, from 1968, documents a way of life that was dying even then — the soiling grind of getting by as a door-to-door salesman, talking people who don’t want you there into buying junk they don’t need with money they’re almost certainly short on.
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The film doesn't succeed even on its own dubious terms, the phony soliloquies of the salesmen while driving ostensibly alone being particularly disconcerting and unconvincing and ultimately unrevealing. [01 May 1969, p.48]
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