Tell Me Lies

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 Jones

Mark

Robert Langdon Llyod

Robert Langdon Llyod

Bob

Pauline Munro

Pauline Munro

Pauline

Ursula Mohan

Ursula Mohan

Avant-garde Actress

Hugh Armstrong

Hugh Armstrong

Avant-garde Actor

Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

Patrick Wymark

Patrick Wymark

Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield

Barry Stanton

Barry Stanton

Film Editor 1

Henry Woolf

Henry Woolf

Film Editor 2

Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

Glenda

John Hussey

John Hussey

English Actor Playing American Embassy Official

Tom Driberg

Tom Driberg

Party Guest

Ivor Seward Richard

Ivor Seward Richard

Party Guest

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

Party Guest

Reginald Paget

Reginald Paget

Party Guest

Peregrine Worsthorne

Peregrine Worsthorne

Party Guest

Michael Williams

Michael Williams

Party Guest

Marjie Lawrence

Marjie Lawrence

Party Guest

Leon Lissek

Leon Lissek

Party Guest

Ian Hogg

Ian Hogg

Ian

Eric Allan

Eric Allan

Eric

Kwame Ture

Kwame Ture

Party Guest

Jacqueline Porcher

Jacqueline Porcher

Party Guest

Mark James Walter Cameron

Mark James Walter Cameron

Garden Party Guest

Clifford Rose

Clifford Rose

Helicopter Pilot

Bill Macy

Bill Macy

Mary Allen

Mary Allen

Jeremy Anthony

Jeremy Anthony

Noel Collins

Noel Collins

Joanne Lindsay

Joanne Lindsay

William Morgan Sheppard

William Morgan Sheppard

Hugh Sullivan

Hugh Sullivan

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