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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British survival drama film written for the screen and directed by Peter Brook, based on the 1954 novel by William Golding. It follows 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery.
Plot
In the prologue, told through photographs, a group of schoolboys are 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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| author | Peter Brook |
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| director | Peter Brook |
| editor | Gerald Feil Jean-Claude Lubtchansky Peter Brook |
| genre | adventure drama |
| keywords | amnesia body painting break cannot remember it child conch conch seashell create dead body deserted island england feral pig fly force grieve hunt kill knife land listen littluns lose morning navy officer no adult obsess paint their faces parachute parachutist pass remote island retaliation revenge royal navy run away school choir search sing walk wild pig wild pigs |
| musicBy | Raymond Leppard |
| producer | Lewis M. Allen |
| productionCompany | Allen-Hodgdon Productions Lord of the Flies Company Two Arts |
| publisher | British Lion Film Corporation |
| theme | dystopian independent survival |