LORD OF THE FLIES (THE ORIGINAL) (1963)

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A brilliant black and white adaptation of William Golding's novel about a bunch of English schoolboys stranded on a desert island. At first their unscheduled outward bound adventure is a great wheeze, but then things degenerate into tribal warfare based on class differences - the public school chaps are the hunters, and the oicks are virtual slaves. While the apocalyptic parable is hardly the subtlest ever devised, the imagistic prose makes it devastating. Underrated.