Lord of the flies (1963) (Criterion Collection)

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When a group of young schoolboys are stranded on a Pacific island following a plane crash, they initially regard it as a grand adventure. However, after splitting into two rival groups, the children gradually descend into tribal warfare.

'lord of the flies' is famed theater director peter brook's daring translation of william golding's brilliant novel. the story of 30 english schoolboys stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war, 'lord of the flies' is a seminal film of the new american cinema and a fascinating anti-hollywood experiment in location filmmaking. as the cast relived golding's frightening fable, brook found the cinematic "evidence" of the author's terrifying thesis: there is a beast in us all.