
Traveling salesman Bob Blake finds himself at a railroad junction instead of his intended destination through a practical joke played on him by two drummer friends, and he spends the night in an unoccupied house up for sale. In Grand River he falls in love with its owner, Beth Elliott.


Bob Blake’s valise hits the platform with the hollow thunk of a magician’s hat about to yield doves. What escapes instead is a town-sized confidence game masquerading as Main-Street wholesomeness. There is a special ache in silent cinema for spaces that speak louder than intertitles, and Traveling Salesman luxuriate...


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Joseph Henabery

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" Bob Blake’s valise hits the platform with the hollow thunk of a magician’s hat about to yield doves. What escapes instead is a town-sized confidence game masquerading as Main-Street wholesomeness. There is a special ache in silent cinema for spaces that speak louder than intertitles, and Traveling Salesman luxuriates in that ache. Directors James Forbes and Walter Woods treat the Grand River house like a porcelain echo: every mantel clock tick lands as a reminder that property—like affection—..."
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James Forbes, Walter Woods
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