The Insect Play
The Insect Play

The Insect Play (1939)

1939-05-29

(US) •

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Overview

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.

Movie Cast

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Wilfrid Grantham

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

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Edmund Willard

The Tranp

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Pamela Standish

The Chrysalis

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Frank Birch

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

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Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

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Charles Peters

Robber Beetle/Journalist

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Rupert Bruce Lockhart

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

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Sheila Kay

The Larva

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Leslie French

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

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Wendy Toye

Mrs. Cricket

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Wilfred Franks

The Blind Ant Timekeeper

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Geoffrey Wincott

The Parasite