118 minutos
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
Ursula Mohan
Avant-garde Actress
Hugh Armstrong
Avant-garde Actor
Peggy Ashcroft
Patrick Wymark
Paul Scofield
Barry Stanton
Film Editor 1
Henry Woolf
Film Editor 2
Glenda Jackson
Glenda
John Hussey
English Actor Playing American Embassy Official
Tom Driberg
Party Guest
Ivor Seward Richard
Party Guest
Kingsley Amis
Party Guest
Reginald Paget
Party Guest
Peregrine Worsthorne
Party Guest
Michael Williams
Party Guest
Marjie Lawrence
Party Guest
Leon Lissek
Party Guest
Ian Hogg
Ian
Eric Allan
Eric
Stokely Carmichael
Party Guest
Jacqueline Porcher
Party Guest
Mark James Walter Cameron
Garden Party Guest
Clifford Rose
Helicopter Pilot
Bill Macy
Mary Allen
Jeremy Anthony
Noel Collins
Joanne Lindsay
William Morgan Sheppard
Hugh Sullivan
