The Insect Play

The Insect Play

Release Date: 1939-05-29

Overview: 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

Wilfrid Grantham

Wilfrid Grantham

as The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard

Edmund Willard

as The Tranp

Pamela Standish

Pamela Standish

as The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

Frank Birch

as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill

as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Crew

  • Stephen Thomas - Producer

  • Clifford Bax - Adaptation

  • Josef Čapek - Writer

  • Stephen Thomas - Director

  • Hugh Stevenson - Costume Design

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