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.
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- Cast:
- Mark Jones , Robert Langdon Llyod , Pauline Munro , Peggy Ashcroft , Patrick Wymark , Paul Scofield , Barry Stanton
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Excellent adaptation.
best movie i've ever seen.
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.