Tell Me Lies
Tell Me Lies
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.
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Cast
Mark Jones
as Mark
Tom Driberg
as Party Guest
Jacqueline Porcher
as Party Guest
Mark James Walter Cameron
as Garden Party Guest
William Morgan Sheppard
Glenda Jackson
as Glenda
Henry Woolf
as Film Editor 2
Ian Hogg
as Ian
Patrick Wymark
Bill Macy
Eric Allan
as Eric
Barry Stanton
as Film Editor 1
John Hussey
as English Actor Playing American Embassy Official
Ivor Seward Richard
as Party Guest
Leon Lissek
as Party Guest
Pauline Munro
as Pauline
Michael Williams
as Party Guest
Clifford Rose
as Helicopter Pilot
Robert Langdon Llyod
as Bob
Peggy Ashcroft
Paul Scofield
Kwame Ture
as Party Guest
