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Salesman (1969) follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair. Their mission is simple: to convince people to buy what one of them calls "still the best seller in the world."
But although their customers are mostly middle or working-class Catholics recommended by the local church, the Bible is a hard sell. In action, the salesmen rely on trusty catch phrases, talking, pushing, cajoling and telling jokes. The salesmen make their “pitches” to a wide range of customers — lonely widows, married couples, Cuban immigrants, bored housewives — from those who clearly cannot afford the $50 book to those who, in the end, are convinced by the salesman’s somewhat too-cheerful patter.