Salesman [videorecording - DVD] / a film by the Maysles Brothers

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: The masters of cimema series ; 42Publication details: United Kingdom : Eureka Video, 2007Description: 1 videodisc (91 mins.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p.)Subject(s): Production credits:
  • A film by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
Cast: Raymond Martos (The Bull), Paul Brennan (The Badger), Charles McDevitt (The Gipper) and James Baker (The Rabbit)Scope and content: This film is an account of four Boston bible hawkers as they struggle to stay afloat in hte cutthroat world of door-to-door sales. This film documents their carefully delivered spiel to bored housewives, widows, immigrants and distracted blue-collar workers. The salesmen wheedle, connive, and cajole their way toward the Holy Grail, but as the pressure of the job bears down, one of the salesmen begins o crack, exposing the dark and lonely underside of the American dream
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A film by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin

Raymond Martos (The Bull), Paul Brennan (The Badger), Charles McDevitt (The Gipper) and James Baker (The Rabbit)

This film is an account of four Boston bible hawkers as they struggle to stay afloat in hte cutthroat world of door-to-door sales. This film documents their carefully delivered spiel to bored housewives, widows, immigrants and distracted blue-collar workers. The salesmen wheedle, connive, and cajole their way toward the Holy Grail, but as the pressure of the job bears down, one of the salesmen begins o crack, exposing the dark and lonely underside of the American dream

Originally released 1969

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