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The Insect Play

The Insect Play

Stephen Thomas

1939

  • Music
  • Drama
7.0

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

  • Stephen ThomasDirector
  • Wilfrid GranthamThe Lepidopterist / First Snail
  • Edmund WillardThe Tranp
  • Pamela StandishThe Chrysalis
  • Frank BirchMr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
  • Maire O'NeillMrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
  • Charles PetersRobber Beetle/Journalist
  • Rupert Bruce LockhartThe Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
  • Sheila KayThe Larva

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