Lord of the Flies
film by Brook [1963]
Lord of the Flies, British adventure-drama film, released in 1963, that was based on the acclaimed allegorical 1954 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. Set at the onset of an unnamed war, the film opens as a British plane carrying evacuees crashes onto an uninhabited tropical island. The survivors, a handful of schoolboys, are left to their own wits and resources to subsist on the island. Their initial cooperative spirit rapidly degenerates: first into revelry, which causes them to ignore the maintenance of the signal fire they had lighted to attract help, and later into ...(100 of 255 words)