The Insect Play (1939)
1h 30m
Running Time
May 29, 1939Release Date
Plot.
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
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Cast & Crew.
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Stephen Thomas
Producer / Director
Clifford Bax
Adaptation
Josef Čapek
Writer
Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design
Frederic Austin
Music
Andrée Howard
Choreographer
Karel Čapek
Writer
Nigel Playfair
Writer
Stephen Thomas
Producer
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