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Tell Me Lies

Tell Me Lies

(1968)

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.

Featured Crew

  1. Director : Peter Brook
  2. Producer : Peter Brook,Peter Sykes
  3. Writer : Michael Kustow,Peter Brook,Dennis Cannan
  4. Editor : Ralph Sheldon
  5. Cast : Mark Jones,Robert Langdon Llyod,Pauline Munro,Ursula Mohan,Hugh Armstrong,Peggy Ashcroft,Patrick Wymark,Paul Scofield,Barry Stanton,Henry Woolf,Glenda Jackson,John Hussey,Tom Driberg,Ivor Seward Richard,Kingsley Amis,Reginald Paget,Peregrine Worsthorne,Michael Williams,Marjie Lawrence,Leon Lissek,Ian Hogg,Eric Allan,Kwame Ture,Jacqueline Porcher,Mark James Walter Cameron,Clifford Rose,Bill Macy,Mary Allen,Jeremy Anthony,Noel Collins,Joanne Lindsay,William Morgan Sheppard,Hugh Sullivan

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Original TitleTell Me Lies

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1968-02-02

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 01h 58m

Genres

  • Drama
  • Documentary

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