Since 1954, the Lord of the Flies (1954) novel - about the displacement of a group of British school boys being evacuated during war - has been adapted for other mediums.

For example, it has been adapted for film 3 times, the most recent being in 1990.

In the 1990 adaptation, it is an aircraft carrying 24 American military school cadet boys whose displacement occurs when their place crashes onto an uninhabited jungle island in the Pacific Ocean. The pilot of the plane and only adult survivor is seriously injured and delirious.

First, in 1963 and directed by Peter Brook. Second, in 1975 a Filipino film Alkitrang Dugo was directed by Lupita Concio.

Third, in 1990 the adaptation was directed by Harry Hook. The film was not a box office success.