Lord of the Flies
By March 13, 2000
All I wanted was a small sum of money, no script; just kids, a camera, and a beach. A young American, Lewis Allen, felt that private backers could be found who would be Read more »
- United Kingdom
- 1963
- 90 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- English
SYNOPSIS: Lord of the Flies is famed theater director Peter Brook’s daring translation of William Golding’s brilliant novel. The story of thirty 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.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Ralph | James Aubrey |
| Jack | Tom Chapin |
| Piggy | Hugh Edwards |
| Roger | Roger Elwin |
| Simon | Tom Gaman |
Credits
| Director | Peter Brook |
| Producer | Lewis Allen |
| Executive producer | Al Hine |
| Associate producer | Gerald Feil |
| Music | Raymond Leppard |
| Editing | Peter Brook, Gerald Feil and Jean-Claude Lubtchansky |
| Cinematography | Tom Hollyman |
Disc Features
- New, pristine digital transfer, with fully restored image and sound
- Audio commentary by director Peter Brook, producer Lewis Allen, director of photography Tom Hollyman, and cameraman/editor Gerald Feil
- Excerpts from the novel, read by author William Golding
- A deleted scene, with a reading by Golding and commentary
- Original theatrical trailer, with commentary
- Production scrapbook, home movies, and outtakes
- Excerpts from Gerald Feil’s 1972 documentary The Empty Space, showing Brook’s methods for creating theater
- English Subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
- Optimal image quality; RSDL dual-layer edition
