The Insect Play Poster

The Insect Play

0.00% | May 29, 1939 | 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 militaristic society.

Featured Crew

Stephen Thomas
Producer
Clifford Bax
Adaptation
Josef Čapek
Writer
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Cast

Wilfrid Grantham
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
Pamela Standish
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Frank Birch
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

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