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Lord of the Flies (1963)
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13 August 1963 (USA)
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Evil is inherent in the human mind, whatever innocence may cloak it...
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Shipwrecked on an island, the castaway boys eventually revert to savagery despite the few rational kids' attempts to prevent that. full summary | add synopsis
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A MASTERPIECE.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Aubrey | ... | Ralph |
| Tom Chapin | ... | Jack |
| Hugh Edwards | ... | Piggy |
| Roger Elwin | ... | Roger |
| Tom Gaman | ... | Simon |
| Roger Allan | ... | Piers |
| David Brunjes | ... | Donald |
| Peter Davy | ... | Peter |
| Kent Fletcher | ... | Percival Wemys Madison |
 | Nicholas Hammond | ... | Robert |
| Christopher Harris | ... | Bill |
| Alan Heaps | ... | Neville |
| Jonathan Heaps | ... | Howard |
| Burnes Hollyman | ... | Douglas |
| Andrew Horne | ... | Matthew |
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92 min
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According to the filmmaker's commentary on the DVD version of this film, because of the loud noise from the sea and jungle on the beaches of the islands on which the movie was set, none of the dialogue could be recorded on the actual locations where the scenes were filmed. Instead, at the end of each day, the actors would be taken to a quiet location in the interior of the islands, where the dialogue for the scenes they had just filmed would be recorded and re-dubbed during the editing process. The one exception is the scene where Piggy tells some of the younger children how his hometown of Camberly got its name (which is also the only scene in the movie which is not based on a scene in the original book.)
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Factual errors: As Piggy is nearsighted, his spectacles could not be used as a "magnifying glass" to light a bonfire: lenses for nearsightedness would scatter, not concentrate, the sun's rays. (This error occurs in the original novel and was perpetuated in the 1990 remake.)
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Referenced in "The X Files: Lord of the Flies (#9.5)" (2001)
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This is one of those rarest of rare birds: a film that is totally faithful to the novel upon which it is based.
During his lifetime, William Golding was ever protective of his greatest creation. When it came to making a film of 'Lord of the Flies' some of the greatest screen writers and playwrights of the day had a go at producing a script for it - all of them being turned down by Golding himself. Finally, it was decided to attempt the film as a sort of Drama Workshop. Thus it was that 30+ boys, plus director Peter Brook, a film crew and the regulation chaperones found themselves living in a bunk house, which had been an old canning factory, on the island of Vieques off Puerto Rico, with little more than copies of the novel and an outline of the idea and the limitation of the school holidays in which to make the film.
The result defies belief. This is a masterpiece of Youth Drama, years ahead of its time. Even today, 40 years on, it is still staggering in its truth and clarity. The powerful imagery, chilling in its simplicity, far transcends anything which could be achieved with present day digital trickery. Not for this film the obvious blood and guts of action horror; here we have the most unspeakable acts made far more terrifying by their very understatement. (Simon's death must be one of the foulest acts ever filmed - but then, in reality, it was not - it is all in the imagination of the viewer and becomes far more terrible than any actual depiction of the act of ritualistic murder could ever be!).
When the great day of reckoning comes, this film will stand head and shoulders above all other film adaptations of novels.