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Salesman (1969)

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Average Rating: 8.9/10
Reviews Counted: 9
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1968 Wide

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One of the most well respected of the cinema verite documentaries of the 1960's, this non-fiction film follows a group of real-life Bible salesmen for the Mid-American Bible Company as they ply their wares. The central figure in the film is Irish-American Paul Brennan, a 56-year-old of great wit who traipses door to door in an effort to sell the good book to Catholic housewives who really can't afford to buy but don't want to appear rude to a Church-sanctioned representative. The documentary, a

Jan 1, 1998

Criterion Collection

All Critics (11) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (0) | DVD (11)

At the risk of sounding like a salesman myself, if you get a chance to see this documentary, you should jump at it.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

This up close look at the anxious Bible salesmen trying to close the deal has become a cult classic documentary.

January 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Functions as both a tribute to their work ethic and a condemnation of the system that considers such a profession a healthy route to the American dream.

March 28, 2006 Comment

May not sound like the most scintillating of subjects, but the Maysles brothers have made quite a riveting, multi-layered film about it.

March 5, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

represents a remarkably disturbing visual document of a lifestyle that may well be gone forever while exposing the underbelly of capitalism that remains live and well

October 13, 2002 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

It hasn't dated much at all, which is both disturbing and enlightening.

March 5, 2002 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment
MovieMartyr.com

a stark, indelible cinematic portrait of the trials and tribulations of the door-to-door salesman, a profession that is virtually extinct today

September 4, 2001 Comment
Q Network Film Desk
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Audience Reviews for Salesman

If I was born in another time, I would want to be born during this time. And this would probably have been my job.

July 6, 2007
tsigur
Tim Sigur

Super Reviewer

"Salesman" is a very effective cinema verite documentary from the Maysles Brothers about bible salesmen operating in Massachusetts and Florida on the surface. Unlike Jehovah's Witnesses, they are not selling religion. The targets are already believers who gave their names at their local churches. What they are

April 10, 2010
Harlequin68
Walter M.

Super Reviewer

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