Movies and TvShows featuring "book-salesman" theme.

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are selling fictional books that contain famous stories involving various Looney Tunes characters. They encounter different characters and get involved in humorous situations.

A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.

In His Royal Slyness, a comedic short film released in 1920, a drunken American book salesman finds himself mistaken for a prince during a royal engagement. He must navigate the royal court, manage his dual identity, and contend with the social unrest and revolution occurring around him. Hilarity ensues as he tries to maintain the charade, all while dealing with the consequences of his drunkenness and the challenges of being an American abroad.

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates. When an elderly gentleman approaches the two men he uses sign language to communicate to the 'customer' and they leave together. This is when Stan sees the sign for the Deaf & Dumb Institute that his subject was standing in front of. An elderly lady then walks out of the gates and Stan uses sign language in an attempt to talk to her. Of course, she is not deaf or dumb and gives him some verbal abuse for assuming so.

As a forty-something door-to-door book salesman, Jerry is used to having doors shut in his face. However, a chance meeting with Jordan, an engaging young punk rocker, opens the door into a new world.