Tell Me Lies
Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.
1968 | 118m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Peter Brook |
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| Writer: | Dennis Cannan, Peter Brook, Michael Kustow |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 02, 1968 |
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| Director: | Peter Brook |
| Writer: | Dennis Cannan, Peter Brook, Michael Kustow |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | vietnam, protest, musical |
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Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Mark Jones | Mark |
| Robert Langdon Llyod | Bob |
| Pauline Munro | Pauline |
| Ursula Mohan | Avant-garde Actress |
| Hugh Armstrong | Avant-garde Actor |
| Peggy Ashcroft | |
| Patrick Wymark | |
| Paul Scofield | |
| Barry Stanton | Film Editor 1 |
| Henry Woolf | Film Editor 2 |
| Glenda Jackson | Glenda |
| John Hussey | English Actor Playing American Embassy Official |
| Tom Driberg | Party Guest |
| Ivor Seward Richard | Party Guest |
| Kingsley Amis | Party Guest |
| Reginald Paget | Party Guest |
| Peregrine Worsthorne | Party Guest |
| Michael Williams | Party Guest |
| Marjie Lawrence | Party Guest |
| Leon Lissek | Party Guest |
| Ian Hogg | Ian |
| Eric Allan | Eric |
| Kwame Ture | Party Guest |
| Jacqueline Porcher | Party Guest |
| Mark James Walter Cameron | Garden Party Guest |
| Clifford Rose | Helicopter Pilot |
| Bill Macy | |
| Mary Allen | |
| Jeremy Anthony | |
| Noel Collins | |
| Joanne Lindsay | |
| William Morgan Sheppard | |
| Hugh Sullivan |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Dennis Cannan | Writer |
| Richard Peaslee | Original Music Composer |
| Ian Wilson | Director of Photography |
| Ralph Sheldon | Editor |
| Peter Brook | Director, Writer |
| Michael Kustow | Writer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Peter Sykes | Producer |
| Peter Brook | Producer |
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