Salesman

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 …more

Recommended by 4 People

“Salesman is as deep as Death of a Salesman or The Iceman Cometh.”

James Franco

Actor, Comedian, Director

“This was one of the things that Mike said that we must watch just to develop our souls as well as prepare us to make that play.”

Andrew Garfield

Actor

“One of the greatest documentaries of the working man and the patois of the period and all that.”

Guillermo del Toro

Director, Producer, Writer

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