Salesman

Salesman

1969 · 1 hr 31 min · G

Documentary, Drama

Directors

Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin

Actors

  • Paul Brennan
  • Charles McDevitt
  • James Baker

Credits: 5

Summary

Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.

More about this movie

Filmmakers (and brothers) Albert and David Maysles follow four employees of a company that makes expensive, ornate, illustrated bibles as they attempt to sell the items door-to-door to less-than-interested customers, who are mainly poor or lower-middle-class Catholics with little money to spend on pretty Bibles.