The Insect Play
(1939)
May 29, 1939• 1h 30m
70%
TMDB ScoreOverview
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.
Stephen Thomas
Director
Top Billed Cast
WG
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
EW
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
PS
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
FB
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
MO
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
CP
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
RBL
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
SK
Sheila Kay
The Larva
LF
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
WT
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
