Tell Me Lies

The story

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.

Cast

M Mark JonesMark R Robert Langdon LlyodBob P Pauline MunroPauline U Ursula MohanAvant-garde Actress H Hugh ArmstrongAvant-garde Actor P Peggy Ashcroft P Patrick Wymark P Paul Scofield B Barry StantonFilm Editor 1 H Henry WoolfFilm Editor 2 G Glenda JacksonGlenda J John HusseyEnglish Actor Playing American Embassy Official

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T Tom DribergParty Guest I Ivor Seward RichardParty Guest K Kingsley AmisParty Guest R Reginald PagetParty Guest P Peregrine WorsthorneParty Guest M Michael WilliamsParty Guest M Marjie LawrenceParty Guest L Leon LissekParty Guest I Ian HoggIan E Eric AllanEric K Kwame TureParty Guest J Jacqueline PorcherParty Guest M Mark James Walter CameronGarden Party Guest C Clifford RoseHelicopter Pilot B Bill Macy M Mary Allen J Jeremy Anthony N Noel Collins J Joanne Lindsay W William Morgan Sheppard H Hugh Sullivan