

Tell Me Lies
Synopsis
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.
Title | Tell Me Lies |
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Countries | United Kingdom |
Keywords | vietnam, protest, musical |

Mark Jones
Mark
Pauline Munro
PaulineUrsula Mohan
Avant-garde ActressHugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor
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 GuestKingsley Amis
Party GuestReginald Paget
Party GuestPeregrine 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