Tell Me Lies (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.
- Released
- 1968-02-02
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Peter Brook
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 11 votes
Cast
- 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
- Patrick Wymark
- Paul Scofield
- 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