Death of a Salesman

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Death Of A Salesman, 1985.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces Death Of A Salesman, 1985.

Not leveling with neighbor Charley (Charles Durning) about his job troubles, Dustin Hoffman as title character Willy Loman, losing himself in memories of his brother Ben (Louis Zorich), whom he presents to his wife and sons, (Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang), in the TV movie of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, 1985.

Dustin Hoffman as title character Willy Loman, unaware of the conversation his grown sons Biff and Happy (John Malkovich, Stephen Lang) are having upstairs, musing himself into a recollection of a scene we suspect never happened, in the TV film of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, 1985.

Opening the acclaimed TV movie, directed by Volker Schlondorff from the successful 1984 Broadway revival, and closely overseen by the playwright Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Kate Reid his wife Linda, home from an incomplete sales trip, in Death Of A Salesman, 1985.