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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.
Year: 1968
Genre: Drama
Studio:
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Mark Jones, Robert Langdon Llyod, Pauline Munro, Ursula Mohan, Hugh Armstrong, Peggy Ashcroft
Crew: Peter Brook (Director), Michael Kustow (Writer), Peter Brook (Writer), Dennis Cannan (Writer), Ian Wilson (Director of Photography), Peter Brook (Producer)
Runtime: 118 minutes
Release: Feb 02, 1968
IMDb: 6.30/10 by 10 users
Popularity: 3
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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