Lord of the Flies 1963

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 92 min

genre: drama

theme: dystopian

director: Peter Brook

Score: 6 / 10

Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film based on William Golding's 1954 novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery. It was written and directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. The film was in production for much of 1961, though the film did not premiere until 1963, and was not released in the United Kingdom until 1964. Golding himself supported the film. When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned a script of Lord of the Flies from Nigel Kneale, but Ealing Studios closed in 1959 before it could be produced.

Plot

In the prologue, told through photographs, a group of schoolboys is evacuated from England following the outbreak of an unidentified war. Their aircraft is shot down by a briefly-glimpsed fighter plane and ditches near a remote island.

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Cast

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author	Peter Brook William Golding
award	National Board of Review of Motion Pictures National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
director	Peter Brook
editor	Gerald Feil Jean-Claude Lubtchansky Peter Brook
genre	drama
keywords	body painting boulder break conch conch seashell create dead body deserted island england hunt kill land listen lose navy officer no adult obsess paint their faces pass remote island royal navy run away school choir search sing walk
musicBy	Raymond Leppard
nomination	Palme d'Or
producer	Lewis M. Allen
productionCompany	Allen-Hodgdon Productions Lord of the Flies Company Two Arts
publisher	British Lion Film Corporation
recordedAt	Vieques
theme	dystopian independent survival