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Salesman

1969 / 91m - USA
Documentary
1.5*/5.0*
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A couple of days in the lives of door-to-door salesmen. Salesman is a bare-bones documentary, a doc in the truest sense of the word, as the director and his crew never intervene. They merely document. A noble undertaking, except that I wasn't really all that interested in this tiny cultural niche.

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Paul Brennan and three others are touring America, trying to sell luxury versions of the bible to working-class Americans. They don't have the money to spend on such a book, but there lies their challenge. They will go to great lengths to convince their potential victims to shell out anyway.

The salesmen are sleazy, their victims are rather gullible, and the endless back-and-forth between the two becomes tiresome after a while. The setup is interesting for maybe 30 minutes, but there's not enough material here to fill an entire documentary. Unless you have a thing for salesmen.