
Tell Me Lies
Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.
1968 en 118 minutes
Rating: 6.3
Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast

Mark Jones
Mark

Robert Langdon Llyod
Bob

Pauline Munro
Pauline

Ursula Mohan
Avant-garde Actress

Hugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor

Peggy Ashcroft

Patrick Wymark

Paul Scofield

Barry Stanton
Film Editor 1

Henry Woolf
Film Editor 2

Glenda Jackson
Glenda

John Hussey
English Actor Playing American Embassy Official

Tom Driberg
Party Guest

Ivor Seward Richard
Party Guest

Kingsley Amis
Party Guest

Reginald Paget
Party Guest

Peregrine Worsthorne
Party Guest

Michael Williams
Party Guest

Marjie Lawrence
Party Guest

Leon Lissek
Party Guest

Ian Hogg
Ian

Eric Allan
Eric

Kwame Ture
Party Guest

Jacqueline Porcher
Party Guest

Mark James Walter Cameron
Garden Party Guest

Clifford Rose
Helicopter Pilot

Bill Macy

Mary Allen

Jeremy Anthony

Noel Collins

Joanne Lindsay

William Morgan Sheppard

Hugh Sullivan