Death of a salesman [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Stanley Kramer Company production ; screen play by Stanley Roberts ; directed by Laslo Benedek.
Fredric March (Willy Loman), Mildred Dunnock (Linda Loman), Kevin McCarthy (Biff Loman), Cameron Mitchell (Happy Loman). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951. Based upon the play by Arthur Miller as produced on the stage by Kermit Bloomgarden and Walter Fried.
Contents:
Homecoming -- Lazy son -- Dad's worried -- Reminisce -- Shine it up -- What's wrong with me? -- Lonely -- Tirade -- Want a job? -- Opportunity -- Terrible thing happening -- His life is in your hands -- Sporting goods -- Advice -- Optimism -- A favor -- Fired -- How? -- Dreams -- Wishful thinking -- Can't work for you -- Little lies -- Living in a dream -- Indiscretion -- The garden -- Goodbye to phony dreams -- He loves me -- The funeral.
Summary:
Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is the story of the American Dream gone awry, as a small man is destroyed by society's false values. Winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, it is a meditation on the human condition packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. As drama, it builds a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, while uniting the facts of particular hard times with universal themes.
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