Lord of the Flies (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at it's center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot LORD OF THE FLIES with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of it's characters' ids. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as it's source material.

Starring: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, The Surtees Twins, Roger Allen, David Brunjes, Peter Davy, David M. Walsh, Jerome Willis, Johnny Walsh, Surtees Twins, Nicholas Hammond, John Walsh

Director: Lewis M. Allen