Tell Me Lies
02/02/1968
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.
Movie Information
Mark Jones
as Mark
Robert Langdon Llyod
as Bob
Pauline Munro
as Pauline
Ursula Mohan
as Avant-garde Actress
Hugh Armstrong
as Avant-garde Actor
Peggy Ashcroft
as
Patrick Wymark
as
Paul Scofield
as
Barry Stanton
as Film Editor 1
Henry Woolf
as Film Editor 2
Glenda Jackson
as Glenda
John Hussey
as English Actor Playing American Embassy Official
Tom Driberg
as Party Guest
Ivor Seward Richard
as Party Guest
Kingsley Amis
as Party Guest
Reginald Paget
as Party Guest
Peregrine Worsthorne
as Party Guest
Michael Williams
as Party Guest
Marjie Lawrence
as Party Guest
Leon Lissek
as Party Guest
Ian Hogg
as Ian
Eric Allan
as Eric
Kwame Ture
as Party Guest
Jacqueline Porcher
as Party Guest
Mark James Walter Cameron
as Garden Party Guest
Clifford Rose
as Helicopter Pilot
Bill Macy
as
Mary Allen
as
Jeremy Anthony
as
Noel Collins
as
Joanne Lindsay
as
William Morgan Sheppard
as
Hugh Sullivan
as
