Salesman
MovieTitle | Salesman |
User score | 7.2 |
Release date | Apr 17, 1969 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | David Maysles , Charlotte Zwerin , Albert Maysles |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Maysles Films |
Budget | $105,000 |
Run time | 90 min. |
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.