The Insect Play (1939)
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.
Year
1939
Country
GB
Language
English
Release date
29 May 1939
TMDB
7.0 (1)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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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
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