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By Hamad S (119) on 06 Apr 2010

An unencumbered (mostly) look into the livelihoods and experiences of Bible salesmen in the 1960s…

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By Josh G (853) on 24 Mar 2010

Albert and David Maysles are better known for directing the cult documentary Grey Gardens, but their first film Salesman shows them already…

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By Jonathan G (1,045) on 05 Mar 2010

A superb - and superbly depressing - piece of tranche de vie, a nonfictional Death of a Salesman without commentary in which we see four miserable…

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By Tony O (172) on 15 Feb 2010

You wouldn't be alone in thinking that a documentary from 1968 on the lives of a group of door-to-door Bible salesmen would rank right up there…

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By Masorad ( (274) on 31 Dec 2009

This is a crushing documentary of a man down on his luck and low in spirits…

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By Kevin M (2,627) on 10 Dec 2009

Rollin' around the East Coast with a pessimistic Irish Catholic bible salesman who loves show tunes…

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By Tom H (1,836) on 01 Dec 2009

Great documentary about bible salesmen. believe it or not this was very interesting…

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By Martin T (888) on 23 Nov 2009

Very compelling doc about four door-to-door Bible salesmen…

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By Frederick M (227) on 22 May 2009

This film plays like a fiction. True characters, almost too human to be real…

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By Pavandeep S (469) on 02 May 2009

I was intrigued more by the subject matter than anything else when I watched this and I found myself thinking how utterly strange it all was…

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By Christopher S (2,154) on 23 Apr 2009

The Maysles brothers and Charlotte Zwerin's documentary portrait of down-and-out Bible salesmen brilliantly conveys an atmosphere of desperation…

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By Eduardo C (424) on 13 Mar 2009

It is not long into the film that we begin to realize how amoral its subjects are, none more so than the company that employs them…

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By Chris H (3,076) on 29 Jan 2009

These men are absolute low lifes and I loved every minute of it…

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By Private U (13,627) on 26 Jan 2009

I lost a few night's sleep because I have a presentation on this movie aaarrrrgggghhh…

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By Deering R (131) on 22 Jan 2009

Maysles doing their thing pretty minimally, unobtrusive and sometimes vivid…

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By Andrew U (319) on 14 Dec 2008

Door-to-door Bible salesman, using every sales pitch they can think of…

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By Bryan W (959) on 06 Dec 2008

A fascinatingly stark documentary on the lives of Bible salesmen, this film wonderfully casts the salesmen as driven and morally questionable…

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By Max M (899) on 28 Nov 2008

Salesman is brilliant at both telling a story (it follows four men who are Bible salesmen outside of Boston, and focuses on one in particular…

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By Jason P (1,193) on 31 Oct 2008

Depressing but interesting and even-handed…

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By Susan K (113) on 20 Sep 2008

There are always many skeptics with narrative and of course documentary in showing truth, and how real it is…

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