Movie, 1939
The Insect Play
IMDb 7.0, 90 min, Music, Drama, United Kingdom
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.
Cast
12 creditedWG
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
PS
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
FB
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
CP
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
RB
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
SK
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
WF
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
GW
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Details
DirectorStephen Thomas
WritersKarel Čapek, Clifford Bax, Josef Čapek
GenreMusic, Drama
Runtime90 min
ReleasedMon, May 29, 1939
CountryUnited Kingdom
IMDBtt0422473
