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The Insect Play

May 29, 1939 · 1h 30m
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Music
Drama

PLOT

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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CAST

Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Directed by Stephen Thomas

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
BBC
Country
US, GB

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