Tell Me Lies (1968)

Tell Me Lies (1968)

Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece. 1968-02-02 United Kingdom 118 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Pauline Munro is Pauline
Ursula Mohan is Avant-garde Actress
Avant-garde Actress
Hugh Armstrong is Avant-garde Actor
Avant-garde Actor
Barry Stanton is Film Editor 1
Film Editor 1
Henry Woolf is Film Editor 2
Film Editor 2
John Hussey is English Actor Playing American Embassy Official
English Actor Playing American Embassy Official