This one should not be overlooked though :Arthur Miller's play,with its ceaseless to and fro between present and past, imaginary world and reality was not easy to transfer to the screen,and Laslo Benedek's directing is quite estimable:the scenes in the present are dark and make the house look like a tomb (notably when Willy comes back home) whereas the past which seems so bright is filmed in plain day light (the scene when young Biff and Happy polish the car ) the subway is a good place to locate the events when willy has been fired ditto for the final scene ,with all these 'living' night lights.The one thing which is passed over in silence is the boys' attitude after the funeral:Happy is "staying right in this city and gonna beat this racket,(.) and gonna win for him" whereas Biff "knows who he is" and that he perhaps will not never be able to settle down and take orders from somebody.
Like many people ,I had seen the Schlondorff version starring Hoffman first,and I did like it.
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