
Tell Me Lies
Drama · Documentary
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 Cast


Mark Jones
Mark Jones
Mark
Mark Jones
Mark


Robert Langdon Llyod
Robert Langdon Llyod
Bob
Robert Langdon Llyod
Bob


Pauline Munro
Pauline Munro
Pauline
Pauline Munro
Pauline
Ursula Mohan
Ursula Mohan
Avant-garde Actress
Ursula Mohan
Avant-garde Actress
Hugh Armstrong
Hugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor
Hugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor


Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft


Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark


Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield


Barry Stanton
Barry Stanton
Film Editor 1
Barry Stanton
Film Editor 1


Henry Woolf
Henry Woolf
Film Editor 2
Henry Woolf
Film Editor 2
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