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
Details.
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