Lord of the Flies (1963 film)

Lord of the Flies
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Brook
Written by	Peter Brook
Based on	Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Produced by	Lewis M. Allen
Starring	James Aubrey Tom Chapin Hugh Edwards Tom Gaman
Cinematography	Tom Hollyman
Edited by	Peter Brook Gerald Feil Jean-Claude Lubtchansky
Music by	Raymond Leppard
Production companies	Lord of the Flies Company Allen-Hodgdon Productions Two Arts
Distributed by	British Lion Film Corporation
Release dates	12 May 1963 (1963-05-12) (Cannes) 23 July 1964 (1964-07-23) (United Kingdom)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$250,000 (£80,000)[1][2]

Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British survival drama film based on William Golding's 1954 novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery. It was written and directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. The film was in production for much of 1961, though the film did not premiere until 1963, and was not released in the United Kingdom until 1964. Golding himself supported the film. When Kenneth Tynan was a script editor for Ealing Studios he commissioned a script of Lord of the Flies from Nigel Kneale, but Ealing Studios closed in 1959 before it could be produced.

The novel was adapted into a movie for a second time in 1990; the 1963 film is generally considered more faithful to the novel than the 1990 adaptation.