Tell Me Lies
United Kingdom
- 1968-02-02
- ▪Drama,Documentary
- ▪ 1h-58m
Score
Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.
Overview
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Top Billed Cast
Mark Jones
Mark
Robert Langdon Llyod
Bob
Pauline Munro
PaulineUrsula Mohan
Avant-garde ActressHugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor
Peggy Ashcroft
Patrick Wymark
Paul Scofield
Barry Stanton
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