Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)

Starring:James Farentino, Bernie Kopell, Stanley Adams, Gene Wilder, George Segal, Mildred Dunnock, Edward Andrews, Karen Steele, June Foray, Albert Dekker, Marge Redmond, Joan Patrick, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Alex Segal
Studio: Kultur Video
Product Type: DVD

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German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff's 1985 production of Arthur Miller's most famous play appeared squarely and quite hauntingly in the middle of the go-go economy of the Reagan-Bush years. Miller's story, set during the post-war boom period of the late '40s, concerns an aging, traveling salesman named Willy Loman (Dustin Hoffman), who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that loves and admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace. But the reality is far more pitiable than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions is found in his two sons, one (Stephen Lang) a ne'er-do-well gliding on inherited hot air and repressed feelings, and the other (John Malkovich) a mousy, retiring sort unable to reconcile--or forgive--the difference between his father's desperate impersonation of success and the truth. Schlondorff's remarkable cast explores Miller's rich subtext to great effect, though Hoffman--despite giving us a new model of Willy to contrast with Lee J. Cobb's definitive portrayal a generation before--is a bit insect-like and shrill in his approach. Malkovich, Lang, and Kate Reid (as Willy's long-suffering wife) are perfect, however, and the production is atmospheric and strong. --Tom Keogh

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Willy Loman has spent his entire life believing he and his family are bound for greatness. Struggling day to day as a traveling salesman, Willy begins to lose touch with reality and drifts away into the past. Meanwhile his family, including wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy, attempts to cope with Willy's self-destruction and the still-lingering ghosts of the past. Arthur Miller's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning play is brought to the screen with a powerhouse performance by Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman, who earned Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for this role. The stellar supporting cast features Kate Reid, Charles Durning, Stephen Lang, and in his first breakout role, John Malkovich as Biff, all guided by internationally-acclaimed director Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum) and a haunting score by legendary composer Alex North (Spartacus).

Customer Reviews:

A piece of art.......2007-07-03

Death of a salesman is one of the best samples of the american drama that reflects the real life of the dream that is not even reached by american people.

I love Dustin Huffman play but all the characters are amazingly builded which make the sense of being at the teather.

Obviously a collective dvd........2007-02-08

Death of a salesman is the show, which is being put on somewhere in the world almost every day of the year. It's so multi-dynamic and close to real life that it can hurt you for real. Beside the genius playwriting, this movie is an excellent performance of that. Dusting Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang they all have done superb job portraying their characters. Although I am not into literature, capable enough to pay homage for a play like this one, I for certainly recommend this movie for everyone to collect. A must have movie.

This is an utterly classic dramatic work.......2005-10-29

Sparse sets set-up the huge dramatic energy of this deceivingly simple story. Every actor and actress is outstanding and
the power, range, and depth of the performance is incredible.
Bristling with raw force, the drama digs through the layers
of mid-america near mid-century, creating a powerful historical
testament. The stars were aligned for Miller, Hoffman, Malkovic and the rest for this dynamic theatre. Pathos.

Searing drama.......2005-09-14

Dustin Hoffman is Willy Loman, the salesman who's come to the end of his rope as the illusions he's always believed in come crashing down on him. This was filmed originally for TV off the stage, with no attempt to make it into a "movie." It's a very great play, done extremely well here. I think I still might like the 1951 version with Frederic March as Loman a tad better, but Hoffman adds another feather to his cap. (Neither March nor Hoffman can top Lee J. Cobb's portrayal of Willy in the original 1949 stage version.) Kate Reid plays his harried wife Linda, John Malkovich is Biff, and Stephen Lang is Hap.

The "Private Conversations" piece, back-stage doings and interviews, is a let down after watching the movie. It completely knocks the wind out of the sails of the performance just seen.

Story about a Salesman who Travels but...Never Arrives.......2005-02-23

+++++

This movie is about hard-working, traveling salesman Willy Loman (Dustin Hoffman), a man whose life has become a permanent nervous breakdown. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff (John Malkovich) and "Happy" (Stephen Lang) don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. His wife (Kate Reid) still loves him but she is caught up in a state of "bitter helplessness." Willy, now in his sixties, wonders what went wrong (after all, his dream of monetary success should have come true by now!!) and how he can make things up to his family. He is now indeed a "low man."

A talented, sensitive director (Volker Schlondoroff) with a topflight main cast (stated above), under the supervision of the original author who penned the Pulitzer Prize-winning play in 1949 (Arthur Miller, Oct. 1915 to Feb. 2005) on which this movie is based, make this movie an unforgettable viewing experience. The emphasis of this entire movie is on the excellent performances.

Hoffman (who won an Emmy and Golden Globe for this role) gives a standout performance in this movie as the bewildered Willy who now is suffering a crisis, a kind of "success mania." Malkovich gives a superb performance as Biff, the son that Willy has decided to transfer his failed ambitions too. Also look for Linda Kozlowski of "Crocodile Dundee" fame in a small but sharp role.

Finally, the DVD extra called "Private Conversations" is a ninety-minute documentary with the entire cast that especially features Hoffman, Malkovich, Miller, and Schlondoroff.

In conclusion, this is an unforgettable movie with outstanding performances that's based on an award-winning play. Thus, you can't go wrong in watching this movie!!

(1985; 2 hr, 15 min; made for TV; full screen)

+++++

Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)

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NOT WILLIE'S TIME
Mr. Cobb absolutely riveting.
A Masterful Work and Presentation by Cobb
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Invaluable for Cobb and Dunnock

Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Starring: Mildred Dunnock , Karen Steele , Marc Fiorini , Albert Dekker , and Marge Redmond
Director: Alex Segal
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Release Date: 2002-04-16

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"Attention must be paid" to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock recreating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman--the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope--with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda. George Segal and James Farentino play their disillusioned sons, Biff and Happy. Shattering and unforgettable, this landmark television production has been digitally remastered and will endure for all generations to come. "In a word, superb." --New York Times. With Gene Wilder as Bernard.

Customer Reviews:

NOT WILLIE'S TIME.......2007-06-07

Arthur Miller had a good ear for the foibles and traumas of the ordinary people of the old middle class put up against the wall in a world that was dramatically changing after World War II. The time of the man in the gray flannel suit and the victory of corporate culture that destroyed the old independent professions was not Willie Loman's time. In this play, seemingly only about the trials and tribulations of Everyman Willie Loman a used up salesman at the end of his career, the underlying tension is that he cannot keep up with those changes and therefore has to be discarded. This has a fallout effect on his personal life as well. He does not understand what has happened to destroy the integrity of his dysfunctional nuclear family. The old standards that had guided him do not stand up in the new suburban-dominated world where he must try to survive. Obviously there is some dramatic tension between him and his sons who have in their own way nothing but contempt for the old man, his old ways, his illusions and his duplicity. But also, as is always the case with rebellious children, love, at least their conception of it, as well. That this is not good enough to save him in the end is one of the lessons to be learned from the play. Read the play and see the Lee J. Cobb version of the movie. Cobb is Willie Loman.

Mr. Cobb absolutely riveting........2006-06-29

Seeing Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in this David Susskind produced version is as close as possible to seeing the original play on Broadway, and a far sight better than just about any live production one could find nowadays.

Mr. Cobb's performance is so absorbing, so powerful and so disturbing, that we, (the audience) feel genuinely dazed at its conclusion. It's as though, by the time of the final scene, that we too, are attending Willy's funeral, and all stumble away drained and awed.

The supporting cast are each and all superb, with Mildred Dunnock probably topping anything else in which she has appeared. Set design is also inventive in its combination of abstract and realistic interiors and exteriors.

As to the character of Willy, it is to Mr. Cobb's credit, that for all of his past moral compromises and shabby aspirations, the most honest of us, will admit that we recognize something of ourselves in him.

Theater and television at its best! Thank you Mr. Susskind. (Also interesting to note Karen Steele relegated to a bit role while still such a young woman--what a step down from "Marty.")

A Masterful Work and Presentation by Cobb.......2004-06-29

An insightful play about the realities of life. Cobb gives a standup performance in this classic play equal to none. Actors of his caliber are few and far between. Simply the best performance of this play to date. Lee becomes Willy in a somewhat scary portrayal. It is hard to tell the difference between Lee and Willy. Highly Recommend this version to serious theatre affcianados.

VINTAGE THEATRE TELEVISION.......2003-10-05

Startling and ambitious vintage network TV production from 1966 is a heart-breaking and unrelentlessly tragic drama with Lee J. Cobb in such a supoerb performance, you want to reach out and console the troubled sympathetic character. So downbeat as to be almost dismal, the play succeeds in it's grip on the realities of grief and doom and the undying hope of a better tomorrow. The rest of the cast is equally superb and I loved the fake realism of the CBS cameras taping a obviously theatrical set.

Invaluable for Cobb and Dunnock.......2003-10-02

As a great admirer of Arthur Miller's work, I have always wished I could have seen the original 1949 production of his masterpiece, DEATH OF A SALESMAN. This video of a 1966 television production, featuring the original Willy and Linda, Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock, is the next best thing -- especially as it was taped "live" and is more like a stage production than like a movie. As wonderful as Dustin Hoffman's portrayal is in the superb 1985 movie version of SALESMAN, Lee J. Cobb simply IS Willy Loman; he conveys the sadness and insecurity that lurk beneath Willy's outward bravado. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Act II scene with Bernard, when he offers Willy a cigarette from his expensive silver case. Cobb takes the case, holds it, looks at it, then slowly hands it back to Bernard. This one moment is so telling: Willy, who never achieved success, either for himself or for his sons, is envious of Bernard's success (and Bernard was never even "well-liked"), symbolized by the silver cigarette case. Mildred Dunnock is likewise ideal as Linda: fragile, but hard as steel when defending Willy to her two resentful sons, Biff and Happy (George Segal and the excellent James Farentino). Segal is especially fine in the hotel-room scene and at the end when, in the middle of a heated argument with his father, he suddenly grabs him and hugs him, weeping. This gesture tells us that Biff is furious with Willy not because he hates him, but because he loves him. Of the supporting actors, Edward Andrews stands out as Charley, Willy's prosperous but "laid-back" neighbor -- the antithesis of Willy himself. Only Bernie Koppel as Howard, Willy's boss, seems an odd choice: he looks more like a college student than like the head of a company. (But perhaps the director, Alex Segal, was just trying to emphasize Willy's age and his failure to "keep up with the times.") This, however, is the only possible weakness in a marvelous production that is essential viewing, if only for the classic portrayals of Cobb and Dunnock.

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Death Of A Salesman

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Fredric March offers a powerful performance as Willy Loman, the over-the-hill drummer who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family and his life, in this acclaimed screen adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. The superb cast also includes Mildred Dunnock as Willy's song-suffering wife Linda, and Kevin McCarthy and Cameron Mitchell as Biff and Happy, his troubled sons; produced by Stanley Kramer. 115 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.

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Great film; poor DVD.......2006-03-03

Unfortunately, the quality of print from which this DVD was made is atrocious. Scratches (including a persistent one running through the center of the picture during most of the film) are distracting enough. Worse are the gaps created by scotch tape splices, resulting in missing dialogue and irritating jumps. It is a shame that there isn't a good print of the film, which itself is a tour de force with extraordinary perfromances.

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Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)

ASIN: B000IU3324
Release Date: 2006-09-18

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Acclaimed playwright Arthur Miller discusses the Broadway revival of his play Death of a Salesman, his process as a writer, the meaning behind this play, and the development of his career. Then, Death of a Salesman star Brian Dennehy joins the playwright to talk about tackling the legendary role of Willy Loman, his thoughts about stage acting and the commercialism of theatre, and his admiration for the play. Finally, MTV VJs Carson Daly, Dave Holmes and Jancee Dunn recap the Grammys as television spectacle and as indicator of the current state of popular music.

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Vital, Strong Adaptation of Miller Classic
Horrible casting
Hopeful Movie Despite a Pessimistic Premise
Powerful

Death of a Salesman [Region 2]
Starring: Dustin Hoffman , Kate Reid , John Malkovich , Stephen Lang , and Charles Durning
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
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Vital, Strong Adaptation of Miller Classic.......2007-05-19

This version of the venerable Arthur Miller tragedy reunites the Broadway revival cast, all veteran stage actors with strong film and TV résumés. Dustin Hoffman's Willy Loman is a man on the verge of disintegration; he has built himself a façade of Successful Salesman that is crumbling down around his ears. One son still blindly, stupidly worships him (Happy, played by Stephen Lang); the other resents the charade and, despite his father's clichéd supportive affirmations, purposely drifts through life as His Father's Disappointment (Biff, played to a bitter burnish by John Malkovich). Willy's wife Linda plays along, battered by his failed illusions and her sons' unhelpful life choices, knowing Willy's downfall is inevitable but dreading it all the same; Kate Reid is staggering, unforgettable, brilliant, strong yet despairing all at the same time. Charles Durning's turn as the Lomans' supportive neighbor is a small gem.

[For the reviewer who didn't appreciate Hoffman's work in this telefilm, I might ask: Have you actually ever read the play closely? Brian Dennehy is closer to the original Willy Loman-- Lee J. Cobb-- in physical stature and stage presence, but the character as written is a "small man" who imagines himself to be a Titan of Business, so a smaller actor provides interesting subtext and texture. The late, great Mildred Dunnock, the original Linda Loman, noted that Gene Lockhart (who replaced Cobb in the original Broadway production) was much closer to presenting Willy Loman as Miller wrote him; however, as she had built her Linda with Cobb's physically imposing Willy, she had to restructure her performance around Lockhart's smaller Salesman.]

This version does offer moments of lightness to offset the tragedy-- in fact, the fleeting glimpses of happy times make the tragedy of this little family even more shattering. Very worthwhile. Check it out the next time it's on TV!

Horrible casting.......2007-03-15

I love Death of a Salesman, and I was fortunate enough to see Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman in the Broadway version. Nothing has ever topped that performance since. Yet, even without that stellar performance to compare it with, I still would have been disappointed with Dustin Hoffman cast as Willy Loman in this movie version. Really, it annoys me that they cast Hoffman in that role when he clearly doesn't even look the part. Hoffman would have been better cast as Charlie, but because he's a big star, I suppose he had to have the leading role. They even changed some of the dialogue to suit Hoffman. For example, at one point in the actual play, Willy is telling his wife about an incident where he overheard some people making fun of him. The line mentions something about the people calling him a whale. This fits Dennehy because he's such a big man (I'm not calling him a whale, but he's big and tall). However, they knew how ridiculous that would seem coming from Hoffman, so they changed the lines so that Willy tells his wife that he overheard some people calling him a shrimp.

I'm a teacher, and because I had few other choices, I showed the Hoffman version of Death of a Salesman to my class. Instead of appreciating the movie, they laughed at some of the most serious parts because Hoffman just looks out of place in that role.

In short, this film is a big disappointment because the casting of Hoffman as Willy Loman is all wrong.

Hopeful Movie Despite a Pessimistic Premise.......2006-07-05

Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich shine in this now classic play. Like Nora in Ibsen's "A Doll's House," we have characters confined by prescribed fate looking to climb out into their own.

What is fate?

In this case, Willy Loman is bound by his belief that personality alone, of being liked, is enough to make it to the American Dream. Unable to reconcile that those days never existed, and that hard work involved more than a firm handshake and a smile, he becomes despondent as he thinks of the lost potential. He is reminded in flashbacks and visions of relatives and friends who have succeeded.

His two sons are also confined to Willy's delusions of grandeur. Biff, played by Malkovich, had a future as a football star, but was handicapped by his dad's inhibitions and lack of reality. When he realizes his dad is a failure without integrity, after idolizing him, he concludes he too will be a failure.

Hap, on the other hand, Bif's brother, played by Stephen Lang, is a young Willy. He thinks his dad is right, and although he lives in futile mediocrity, believes dreaming is enough.

Kate Reid plays Willy's wife, Linda. She knows Willy is a failure, but tries to exist within the lie. She never declares the truth, but instead allows Willy to dream without substance.

Willy's hopes are shown worthless when he meets up with those, like Bernard, the nerdy math geek when Bif and Hap were children, and now practicing law in front of the Supreme Court. Willy asks what the secret is. His dream is nothing but the puff of a distortion of a Horatio Alger story, but he won't accept it. Bernard's father, Willy's neighbor, offers him a job, but Willy refuses.

The conflict is about encountering reality, and who will meet the truth. Can Biff live his simple dream of working outside with his hands, but by doing so must destroy the family structure. He knows it, and so he struggles.

Willy Loman's failure is like the hope of an old spiritual show follower, looking for salvation, but not willing to commit to what gets paired with it. It is a search for meaning. Despite a pessimistic premise, there is hope resident in this amazing film.

I fully recommend "Death of a Salesman."

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

Powerful.......2006-05-29

Dustin Hoffman is incredible in this adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Performed in a both a theatre and film manner, this adaptation of Death of a Salesman makes full use of both Malchovich and Hoffman, but of the two, it is Hoffman who draws you in and wows you with his painfully human performance as Willy Loman, and draws tears from the viewer at his lowest moments.

Unfortunately, this version is not available on Amazon at this time, but if you find a copy available, take advantage and buy it. If you're a fan of good theatre or acting, you won't regret it.

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Release Date: 2006-08-10

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An hour-long appreciation of the great playwright Arthur Miller. He died recently at the age of 89.

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NOT WILLIE'S TIME
Mr. Cobb absolutely riveting.
A Masterful Work and Presentation by Cobb
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Invaluable for Cobb and Dunnock

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Customer Reviews:

NOT WILLIE'S TIME.......2007-06-07

Mr. Cobb absolutely riveting........2006-06-29

A Masterful Work and Presentation by Cobb.......2004-06-29

VINTAGE THEATRE TELEVISION.......2003-10-05

Invaluable for Cobb and Dunnock.......2003-10-02

Death as a Salesman: What's Wrong with Assisted Suicide

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Death as a Salesman: What's Wrong with Assisted Suicide
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Broadway Theatre Archive Arthur Miller Collection (Death of a Salesman/Incident at Vichy/Enemy of the People/Memory of Two Mondays) - Amazon.com Exclusive

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Broadway Theatre Archive Arthur Miller Collection (Death of a Salesman/Incident at Vichy/Enemy of the People/Memory of Two Mondays) - Amazon.com Exclusive
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Death of a Salesman
"Attention must be paid" to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock recreating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman--the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope--with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda. George Segal and James Farentino play their disillusioned sons, Biff and Happy. Shattering and unforgettable, this landmark television production has been digitally remastered and will endure for all generations to come. "In a word, superb." --New York Times. With Gene Wilder as Bernard.

Incident at Vichy
With his trademark unrelenting honesty and conviction, Arthur Miller examines a major Holocaust issue: the failure to assume responsibility and the consequent moral and social guilt of those who refuse to fight evil. Set in a detention room in Vichy, France during the 1942 German occupation, a number of people have been rounded up and are awaiting interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. It is soon obvious that they are Jews with false papers that will not stand up to close scrutiny. While individual stories flow past the juror's eye, events soon focus on Leduc (Harris Yulin), a psychiatrist, and an Austrian prince (Richard Jordan), who recognizes his guilt of silent complicity and his failure to act responsibly while the Germans rose to power. Miller raises theoretical and ideological arguments and brings up the question of where responsibility lies. Notions of the nature of personal sacrifice, issues of personal blame, and a debate on how much each person is obligated to help in a larger crisis are addressed in this truly important and provocative television event.

An Enemy of the People
Adapted by master playwright Arthur Miller from Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking 1882 play, An Enemy of the People is a scathing indictment of a corrupt society. An idealistic doctor, played by 1966 Emmy-winner James Daly, discovers that the medicinal springs- source of a small Norwegian town's wealth and fame--are in fact poisoned. "Few dramas... clamor with as much present-day social relevance," declared Variety. Veteran Broadway, screen, and television actress Kate Reid plays the doctor's indomitable wife who stands by him in the face of the town's hostility to his findings, as he becomes "an enemy of the people." "Few dramas...clamor with as much present-day social relevance." --Variety

A Memory of Two Mondays
Dramatizing a compacted group of memories passing over several years, Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job--any job--was everything. "...a beautiful play superbly performed." --The New York Daily News. With Jack Warden, Harvey Keitel, Dick Van Patten, Estelle Parsons, and Jerry Stiller.

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