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Salesman

Filmmakers (and brothers) Albert and David Maysles follow four employees of a company that makes expensive, ornate, illustrated bibles as they attempt to sell the items door-to-door to less-than-interested customers, who are mainly poor or lower-middle-class Catholics with little money to spend on pretty Bibles.

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Paul Brennan
Self - 'The Badger'
Charles McDevitt
Self - 'The Gipper'
James Baker
Self - 'The Rabbit'

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Awards

  • 1992 - National Film Registry - - winner
  • 2015 - Cinema Eye Honors Award - The Influentials - winner
  • 2014 - Cinema Eye Honors Award - The Influentials - winner
  • 2016 - Cinema Eye Honors Award - The Influentials - winner

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