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The Insect Play

05/29/1939

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1hr 30min

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Music

,Drama

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Wilfrid Grantham
  • Edmund Willard
  • Pamela Standish
  • Frank Birch
  • Maire O'Neill

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • BBC

      Production Countries

    • United Kingdom

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    Wilfrid Grantham

    The Lepidopterist / First Snail

    Edmund Willard

    The Tranp

    Pamela Standish

    The Chrysalis

    Frank Birch

    Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

    Maire O'Neill

    Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

    Charles Peters

    Robber Beetle/Journalist

    Rupert Bruce Lockhart

    The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

    Sheila Kay

    The Larva

    Leslie French

    Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

    Wilfred Franks

    The Blind Ant Timekeeper