DramaDocumentary

Tell Me Lies

- Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.

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.

Release Date : 1968-02-02

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company :

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Mark

Original Name : Mark Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bob

Original Name : Robert Langdon Llyod

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pauline

Original Name : Pauline Munro

Gender : Female

Character Name : Avant-garde Actress

Original Name : Ursula Mohan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Avant-garde Actor

Original Name : Hugh Armstrong

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Peggy Ashcroft

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Patrick Wymark

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Paul Scofield

Gender : Male

Character Name : Film Editor 1

Original Name : Barry Stanton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Film Editor 2

Original Name : Henry Woolf

Gender : Male

Character Name : Glenda

Original Name : Glenda Jackson

Gender : Female

Character Name : English Actor Playing American Embassy Official

Original Name : John Hussey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Tom Driberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Ivor Seward Richard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Kingsley Amis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Reginald Paget

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Peregrine Worsthorne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Michael Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Marjie Lawrence

Gender : Female

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Leon Lissek

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ian

Original Name : Ian Hogg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eric

Original Name : Eric Allan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Kwame Ture

Gender : Male

Character Name : Party Guest

Original Name : Jacqueline Porcher

Gender : Female

Character Name : Garden Party Guest

Original Name : Mark James Walter Cameron

Gender : Male

Character Name : Helicopter Pilot

Original Name : Clifford Rose

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Bill Macy

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Mary Allen

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Jeremy Anthony

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Noel Collins

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Joanne Lindsay

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : William Morgan Sheppard

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Hugh Sullivan

Gender : Male

Reviews

No Reviews Found