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The Insect Play (1939)
Directed by Stephen Thomas
Music, Drama · 1h 30m
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
W
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
P
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
F
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
C
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
R
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
S
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
W
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
G
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Crew
- Director
- Stephen Thomas
- Writer
- Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek
- Producer
- Stephen Thomas
Details
- Release date
- 1939-05-29
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC