The Insect Play
1939 · 90 min
Music · Drama
★ 7.0A 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.
Crew
- Director Stephen Thomas
- Writer Karel Čapek
- Writer Josef Čapek
Cast
- W
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
- P
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
- F
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
- C
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
- R
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
- S
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
- W
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
- G
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Crew
- Director — Stephen Thomas
- Writer — Karel Čapek
- Writer — Josef Čapek
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