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Tell Me Lies

6.3 118 mins Drama   Documentary   1968
Director(s): Peter Brook

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.

Casts of Tell Me Lies

Mark Jones

as Mark

Pauline Munro

as Pauline

Ursula Mohan

as Avant-garde Actress

Hugh Armstrong

as Avant-garde Actor

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

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