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The Insect Play(1939)

7.0(1)1h 30m1939-05-29

MusicDrama

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.

Director:: Stephen Thomas
Writers:: Karel Čapek, Clifford Bax, Josef Čapek
Producers:: Stephen Thomas
Production:: BBC
Status:: Released

Cast

Wilfrid Grantham

Wilfrid Grantham

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard

Edmund Willard

The Tranp

Pamela Standish

Pamela Standish

The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

Frank Birch

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters

Charles Peters

Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay

Sheila Kay

The Larva

Leslie French

Leslie French

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye

Wendy Toye

Mrs. Cricket

Wilfred Franks

Wilfred Franks

The Blind Ant Timekeeper

Geoffrey Wincott

Geoffrey Wincott

The Parasite