Tell Me Lies
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Peter Brook
Mark Jones
Pauline Munro
Robert Lloyd
Eric Allan
Jeremy Anthony
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Disturbed by a photograph of a mutilated Vietnamese child, three London actors--Mark, Pauline, and Bob--set out to learn the reasons for the war and what they can do to end the atrocities. Their quest takes them from protest demonstrations to a series of discussions with a group of politicians at a London cocktail party, with black power advocate Stokely Carmichael, with a Buddhist monk living in Hampstead, and with leftwing militants. Interspersed with these oral analyses is documentary footage of the Vietnam War and reenactments of several historic events, including the self-immolation of Quaker Norman Morrison on the steps of the Pentagon. Also converging on Mark's consciousness is a series of fantasies and dreams, including the constant petitioning of a Maoist woman for "class revolution" and Mark's imagining himself burning down the United States Embassy in London and touring Saigon's bars. The search for moral truth having proved fruitless, Mark, Pauline, and Bob find themselves still staring at the photograph.
Director
Peter Brook
Cast
Mark Jones
Pauline Munro
Robert Lloyd
Eric Allan
Jeremy Anthony
Noel Collins
John Hussey
Marjie Lawrence
Leon Lissek
Clifford Rose
Hugh Sullivan
Henry Woolf
Mary Allen
Hugh Armstrong
Ian Hogg
Glenda Jackson
Joanne Lindsay
Ursula Mohan
Morgan Sheppard
Barry Stanton
Michael Williams
Kingsley Amis
James Cameron
Peggy Ashcroft
Stokely Carmichael
Tom Driberg
Reginald Paget
Jacqueline Porcher
Ivor Richards
Hilary Rose
Steven Rose
Paul Scofield
Patrick Wymark
Peregrine Worsthorne
Crew
Robert Allen
Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Denis Cannan
Albert Hunt
Sally Jacobs
Michael Kustow
Adrian Mitchell
Richard Peaslee
Geoffrey Reeves
Michael Reeves
Michael Scott
Ralph Sheldon
Peter Sykes
Ian Wilson
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Released in Great Britain in February 1968; running time: 117 min. The working title of this film is Make and Break.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1968
The original staging of Denis Cannan's play "Us" by England's Royal Shakespeare Company was chronicled in Peter Whitehead's documentary "The Benefit of the Doubt" (Great Britain/1965.)
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1968
