Tell Me Lies (1968)
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.
Director: Peter Brook
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Mark Jones as Mark |
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Robert Langdon Llyod as Bob |
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Pauline Munro as Pauline |
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Ursula Mohan as Avant-garde Actress |
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Hugh Armstrong as Avant-garde Actor |
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Peggy Ashcroft as |
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Patrick Wymark as |
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Paul Scofield as |
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Barry Stanton as Film Editor 1 |
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Henry Woolf as Film Editor 2 |
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Glenda Jackson as Glenda |
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John Hussey as English Actor Playing American Embassy Official |
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Tom Driberg as Party Guest |
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Ivor Seward Richard as Party Guest |
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Kingsley Amis as Party Guest |
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Reginald Paget as Party Guest |
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Peregrine Worsthorne as Party Guest |
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Michael Williams as Party Guest |
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Marjie Lawrence as Party Guest |
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Leon Lissek as Party Guest |
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Ian Hogg as Ian |
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Eric Allan as Eric |
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Kwame Ture as Party Guest |
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Jacqueline Porcher as Party Guest |
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Mark James Walter Cameron as Garden Party Guest |
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Clifford Rose as Helicopter Pilot |
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Bill Macy as |
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Mary Allen as |
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Jeremy Anthony as |
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Noel Collins as |
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Joanne Lindsay as |
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William Morgan Sheppard as |
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Hugh Sullivan as |
| Directing | Peter Brook | Director |
| Writing | Dennis Cannan | Writer |
| Writing | Peter Brook | Writer |
| Writing | Michael Kustow | Writer |
| Production | Peter Brook | Producer |
| Camera | Ian Wilson | Director of Photography |
| Production | Peter Sykes | Producer |
| Sound | Richard Peaslee | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Ralph Sheldon | Editor |
