The Insect Play (1939)
1939 · 1h 30m · Music, Drama
Genres: Music, Drama
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…
Director: Stephen Thomas
Writers: Josef Čapek, Karel Čapek
Music by: Frederic Austin
Cast
Wilfrid Grantham as The Lepidopterist / First SnailEdmund Willard as The TranpPamela Standish as The ChrysalisFrank Birch as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the YellowsMaire O'Neill as Mrs. Beetle / PhilanthropistCharles Peters as Robber Beetle/JournalistRupert Bruce Lockhart as The Ichneumon Fly / InventorSheila Kay as The LarvaLeslie French as Mr. Cricket / Second SnailWendy Toye as Mrs. CricketWilfred Franks as The Blind Ant TimekeeperGeoffrey Wincott as The ParasiteMore like this
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