In William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of British schoolboys have crashed upon a desert island while being taken away from a war which is destroying the world. Forsaken and forlorn, what starts as a story from The Boxcar Children, ends up turning into anarchy, as the brutal pri...

In the midst of war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys is shot down, crashing in a thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lose each other. One of the older boys, Ralph, meets Piggy, a chubby, intellectual boy, on the beach. They discover a larg...