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.
Mark Jones
Mark
Robert Langdon Llyod
Bob
Pauline Munro
Pauline
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February 2, 1968
1h 58m
6.4
Peter Brook
Peter Brook, Michael Kustow, Dennis Cannan
11
Ursula Mohan
Avant-garde Actress
Hugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor
Peggy Ashcroft
Cast
Patrick Wymark
Cast
Paul Scofield
Cast
Barry Stanton
Film Editor 1
Henry Woolf
Film Editor 2
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