Customer Reviews
The definitive film of Lord of the Flies - By: Alfanut, 08 Mar 2008 
Worthy restoration edition of this mostly forgotten film, with extras & director commentary. There's a whole generation who have never read the book or seen the film, unless it's on their GCSE topics list. Look around & see what's happening in inner cities today & you realise that this film is more relevant now than when it came out in '63. Don't blame the production team for the choppy editing or limited character development; that was the fault of the distributors who wanted a 90 minute film, not the two hours the director intended. It would be impossible to make a film as close as this to the book now. Don't even look at the '93 remake, its hopeless.
classic - By: Michael Scuffil, 17 Jan 2008 The novel is one of the great books of the 20th century, & in the nature of things, one might have thought it impossible to film (like Lolita) because you have to get children to do unchildlike things. How Peter Brook brought it off is a mystery (with great difficulty, as he explains, as the children reallly did revert to savagery, & far quicker than Golding feared). But he did bring it off, & the result is very powerful. A reallly great film.
Classic brilliance - By: Eye Can, 14 Sep 2007 All the family enthrallled by this Black & wHITE CLASSIC MY 2 boys aged 8 & 11 ENGROSSED.
I had seen it many years ago for book study at school.
The power,pathos, I will say no more, remain.
Could watch again one for the collection as I expect it will be back on the curriculum again.
a classic ; a justly famous film - By: Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane, 21 Jun 2007 To make this film, Peter Brook took a group of schoolboys to a tropical island & worked with them through improvisation to try to replicate the naturalness so well captured by Golding in his famous novel. Largely, he succeeded. The film does have its patchy moments but it is, as a whole, very powerful & very compelling. All of the central roles are well cast - Ralph reasonable & fair but struggling with the demands of leadership when things begin to falll apart, Jack eager, domineering & capable of dangerously over-excited behaviour, Piggy vulnerable, plodding, intelligent & strangely mature, Simon fey & weird but closer to the heart of truth than any of them. The film is in black & white, continuity is sometimes a little abrupt, a few of the lines are ineptly delivered, the special effects of the plane crash at the beginning are frankly primitive, but alll the important things are right, which is why this is so very very much better than the much more sophisticated but much weaker American remake. It's a unique film of a unique novel, & it fully does justice to its source.
brilliant! - By: huw, 19 Jul 2006 im 15 years old & my english group has read the book & both film interpritaations & i must say this was by far the best film. unlike the american version which lacked much detail, this version is very accurate to the book & you can follow many of the scenes with the book itself. although its 40 years old & black & white the scene were very clear & it was very easy to pick up who characters were. so if somebody has read the book & wants to watch a film. i recomend this one.
