Salesman - Criterion Collection

Rating:
Summary: a nice documentary
Review: This review is for the Criteron Colection DVD edition of the film.

Salesman is a well made documentary on the now bygone era of door to door salesmen. This film focuses exclusively on the sale of Catholic Bibles. There are not interviews, but unscripted action of the salesmen doing their work. They film the sales pitches and the prospective customer's reactions. As one could guess, making a sale could often be difficult. The movie focuses on four different salesmen making their sales pitches in Boston, Florida and Chicago.

It is one of many documentaries made by the Maysles brothers and the Criterion DVD is one of their "director approved" editions.

The DVD has numerous special features including a theatrical trailer, filmographies of the directors, production photos, a 1968 TV interview with the Maysles brothers, a 2000 interview with one of the salesmen in the film, and audio commentary by Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zerwin who are two of the three directors of the film.