An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Stanley Adams | ... | Stanley | |
| Edward Andrews | ... | Charley | |
| Lee J. Cobb | ... | Willy Loman | |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Ben | |
| Mildred Dunnock | ... | Linda Loman | |
| James Farentino | ... | Happy Loman | |
| Marc Fiorini | ... | Stanley | |
| June Foray | ... | Jenny | |
| Bernie Kopell | ... | Howard | |
| Joan Patrick | ... | Miss Forsythe | |
| Marge Redmond | ... | Woman in Hotel | |
| George Segal | ... | Biff Loman | |
| Karen Steele | ... | Letta | |
| Gene Wilder | ... | Bernard | |
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An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.
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8 May 1966 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
La muerte de un viajante See more »Filming Locations:
Studio 41, CBS Television City - 7800 Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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In his autobiography "Timebends", Arthur Miller said that Lee J. Cobb was his favorite Willy Loman. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Willy Loman never realises until the end that he is a loser. Although his son Biff knows he himself is a loser, his father won't accept this. Son, Hap, like his father doesn't know he is a loser, either. Miller seems obliquely to imply that society is to blame for Willy's sad life. Maybe so, surely society doesn't cut him much slack, especially as represented by the son of his long time firm, for which he has been a fairly successful salesman much of his life. Whatever one's opinion on this subject, the play certainly portrays very genuine emotions and problems as the aging Willy more and more loses contact with reality and harkens back to nodal points in his life, especially contacts with his successful brother Ben. Or is Ben just a figment of his imagination. We can only guess. At the final funeral scene, Hap's losing philosophy continues. Could he and Biff take Willy's $20,000 insurance award and make it as ranching partners out west? We'll never know; Hap is determined to "make it big" in the Big Apple. Fat chance!
A better cast would be hard to imagine and the stage setting is beautifully photographed. The "fantasy" scenes are smoothly integrated with bits of "movie magic" that emulate what would be accomplished in the theatre with tricks of lighting. Cuts from the complete play are minor. This was TV at its best.