Tell Me Lies
Tell Me Lies

Tell Me Lies

6.3

1 hr 58 min

1968-02-02

10

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.

Drama

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Mark Jones

Mark Jones

Mark

Robert Langdon Llyod

Robert Langdon Llyod

Bob

Pauline Munro

Pauline Munro

Pauline

Ursula Mohan

Ursula Mohan

Avant-garde Actress

Hugh Armstrong

Hugh Armstrong

Avant-garde Actor

Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

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