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The Insect Play
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 GranthamThe Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund WillardThe Tranp- Pamela StandishThe Chrysalis
- Frank BirchMr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'NeillMrs. Beetle / Philanthropist- Charles PetersRobber Beetle/Journalist
- Rupert Bruce LockhartThe Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
- Sheila KayThe Larva
Leslie FrenchMr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy ToyeMrs. Cricket- Wilfred FranksThe Blind Ant Timekeeper
- Geoffrey WincottThe Parasite
Details
- Director
- Stephen Thomas
- Writers
- Clifford Bax, Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek
- Release date
- May 29, 1939
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- BBC
