Salesman (1969)

Directors

Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles

Cast

Paul Brennan, James Baker, Charles McDevitt, Raymond Martos, Kennie Turner, Margaret McCarron, Melbourne I. Feltman

The story

The documentary follows four salesmen as they travel across New England and southeast Florida, trying to sell large, expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods, and attend a sales meeting in Chicago. The film focuses in particular on salesman Paul Brennan, a middle-aged Irish-American Catholic from Jamaica Plain, Boston, who struggles to maintain his sales.

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