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Benedek also stressed the dreary, middle class setting of the film, using small rooms and gray shots. In fact, the playwright had no involvement with or control over the film. However, the playwright claimed that the movie was ruined by the truncation of key scenes. In many places, the film uses Miller's lines verbatim, sometimes leaving out only small lines of dialogue. Production īenedek took great care in making the film a close transcription of the play. Miller saw Career of a Salesman as an attack upon his work, proclaiming: "Why the hell did you make the picture if you're so ashamed of it? Why should anybody not get up and walk out of the theater if Death of a Salesman is so outmoded and pointless?" He argued against the portrayal of the salesman profession as "a wonderful profession, that people thrived on it, and there were no problems at all." Eventually, the very attitude that led Columbia to commission the intro film led to the failure of Death of a Salesman: Businessmen and other people in the political climate of the 1950s tried to distance themselves from a film depicting American failure. Eventually, Columbia agreed to remove the 10-minute short from the film's theatrical run. This short film, Career of a Salesman, showed what the producers believed was a more typical American salesman, and was an attempt to defuse possible accusations that Death of a Salesman was an anti-American film. Just before the film was about to be released, Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Studios over the short that was to appear before Death of a Salesman. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the past and the present, frantically trying to find where he went wrong. Willy Loman has led a life consisting of 60 years of failure. Alex North, who wrote the music for the Broadway production, was one of the five Academy Award nominees for the film's musical score. The film received many honors, including four Golden Globe Awards, the Volpi Cup and five Oscar nominations.

It was directed by László Benedek and written for the screen by Stanley Roberts. Death of a Salesman is a 1951 American drama film adapted from the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller.