Watch The Insect Play (1939) Official Trailer
7 / 10 IMDb May 29, 1939 1h 30m
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.
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Runtime
1h 30m
Release Date
May 29, 1939
Genre
Music, Drama
Status
Released
Languages
English
Country
United Kingdom
Producers
Cast
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Wilfrid Grantham
as The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
as The Tranp
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Pamela Standish
as The Chrysalis
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Frank Birch
as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
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Charles Peters
as Robber Beetle/Journalist
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Rupert Bruce Lockhart
as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
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Sheila Kay
as The Larva
Leslie French
as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
as Mrs. Cricket
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Wilfred Franks
as The Blind Ant Timekeeper
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Geoffrey Wincott
as The Parasite
Production Companies
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