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 housewives and elderly couples.
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Albert Maysles Director · Charlotte Zwerin Director David Maysles Director
Budget $105K · United States release April 17, 1969 · Produced in United States
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$105,000
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Maysles Films
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United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · April 17, 1969
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Netherlands
March 19, 2007 · Physical · DVD
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