Tell Me Lies (1968)
Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.
118 min
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
- February 2, 1968
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- Music
- Richard Peaslee
Trailer
Cast
- Mark Jones as Mark
- Pauline Munro as Pauline
- Eric Allan as Guest
- Robert Langdon Lloyd as Bob
- Mary Allen
- Ian Hogg as Guest
- Glenda Jackson as Guest
- Joanne Lindsay as Guest
- Hugh Sullivan as Guest
- Kingsley Amis as Guest
Crew
- Peter Brook · Director
- Denis Cannan · Writer
- Michael Kustow · Writer
- Mike Stott · Writer
- Peter Brook · Writer
- Peter Brook · Producer
- Peter Sykes · Producer
- Richard Peaslee · Composer
- Ian Wilson · Cinematographer
- Ralph Sheldon · Editor
- Sally Jacobs · Production designer