Tell Me Lies
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.
Cast
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Mark Jones
Played Mark
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Robert Langdon Llyod
Played Bob
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Pauline Munro
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Ursula Mohan
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Hugh Armstrong
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Peggy Ashcroft
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Patrick Wymark
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Paul Scofield
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Barry Stanton
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Henry Woolf
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Glenda Jackson
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John Hussey
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Tom Driberg
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Ivor Seward Richard
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Kingsley Amis
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Reginald Paget
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Peregrine Worsthorne
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Michael Williams
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Marjie Lawrence
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Leon Lissek
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Ian Hogg
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Eric Allan
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Kwame Ture
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Jacqueline Porcher
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Mark James Walter Ca…
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Clifford Rose
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Bill Macy
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Mary Allen
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Jeremy Anthony
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Noel Collins
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Joanne Lindsay
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William Morgan Shepp…
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Hugh Sullivan
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