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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tramp
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Clifford Bax
Writer
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Karel Čapek
Writer
Nigel Playfair
Writer
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Stephen Thomas
Producer
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Stephen Thomas
Director / Producer
Josef Čapek
Writer
Frederic Austin
Music
Andrée Howard
Choreographer