 Arthur Miller disliked this film version of his play because he felt  that the flashback sequences made it look as if Willy Loman were  literally acting out his past in front of others, and that this made  him seem insane. Perhaps because of this, other versions of the play  have been shown on TV and video, but the 1951 version has not been  televised in more than twenty years, and it has never been issued on  VHS or DVD.