Salesman

Name: Salesman
Genre: Documentary
Released: 17 Apr 1969
Rating: 7.14
Cast: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, James Baker, Raymond Martos, Melbourne I. Feltman

The best seller and the world.

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.

Genre: Documentary
Studio: Maysles Films
Keyword: bible, salesman, traveling salesman, woman director, door to door salesman, direct cinema, observational cinema, holy bible, the bible
Cast: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, James Baker, Raymond Martos, Melbourne I. Feltman, Margaret McCarron

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