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The Insect Play poster

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.

Release: 1939-05-29
Runtime: 90 min
Cast
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Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
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Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
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Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
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
Leslie French
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
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Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
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Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite