Lord of the Flies

Name: Lord of the Flies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: August 13, 1963
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 67
Cast: David Brunjes, Hugh Edwards, James Aubrey, Kent Fletcher, Nicholas Hammond

1963

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Continental Distributing | Release Date: August 13, 1963 | Not Rated

Starring: David Brunjes, Hugh Edwards, James Aubrey, Kent Fletcher, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Davy, Roger Allan, Roger Elwin, Tom Chapin, Tom Gaman

Summary: Lost on an island, young survivors of a plane crash eventually revert to savagery despite the few rational boys' attempts to prevent that.

Director: Peter Brook

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Chuck Bowen

Brook renders savagery with the despairing eye of a humanist, and with the irresolvable ambivalence of an artist. Read full review

Scott Tobias

As it stands, Brook’s adaptation is an encroaching nightmare of innocence lost, following Golding’s thesis about what happens when civilization breaks down and man’s true nature is revealed. Read full review

Christopher Machell

William Golding’s tale of public schoolboys stranded on a desert island is an iconic depiction of fundamental savagery. More than fifty years on, Peter Brook’s 1963 Lord of the Flies remains the definitive film, its hallucinogenic brutality as terrifying as ever. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Brook knows he can't have his 10- to 12-year-olds mouthing philosophical and poetic paragraphs, so he shoots it like a documentary, overcoming the starvation budget, the location problems, and the sometimes awkward performances. However, the principals are excellent. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The theme of young boys reverting to savagery when marooned on a deserted island has its moments of truth, but this pic rates as a near-miss on many counts. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

A curiously flat and fragmentary visualization of the original. Read full review

Dave Kehr

William Golding's 1954 allegory on man's innate inhumanity is too facile by half, which makes it ideal for high school English classes but rather too gaseous and predictable for the movies. Read full review

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eagleeyeviking

Mar 21, 2020

This adaptation gets the foundations of William Golding's classic right, and pairs it with phenomenal acting and technical brilliance behind the camera.

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