Director: Albert Maysles
Salesman covers the travails of five Bible salesman as they go door-to-door trying to hock their $50 picture Bibles to generally poor Catholic families. This is obviously very weighty stuff - the Church has signed off on this practice, and the salesmen make sure to mention the Church and, if possible, the local priest, right away.
While Salesman is no doubt an important documentary historically, it fails to tell a compelling story. The scenes where the men are doing their aggressive pitches to people who cannot afford this product and don't realize they don't want or need it are skin-crawling in a good way, but there's not much else to this film.
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