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.
- Released
- 1939-05-29
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Stephen Thomas
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Wilfrid Grantham as The Lepidopterist / First Snail
- Edmund Willard as The Tranp
- Pamela Standish as The Chrysalis
- Frank Birch as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
- Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
- Charles Peters as Robber Beetle/Journalist
- Rupert Bruce Lockhart as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
- Sheila Kay as The Larva
- Leslie French as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
- Wendy Toye as Mrs. Cricket
- Wilfred Franks as The Blind Ant Timekeeper
- Geoffrey Wincott as The Parasite