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The Insect Play

Genre:MusicDrama

Released:1939-05-29

Runtime:90

Overview

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.


Cast:

Wilfrid Grantham

Character: The Lepidopterist / First Snail

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Edmund Willard

Character: The Tranp

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Pamela Standish

Character: The Chrysalis

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Frank Birch

Character: Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

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Maire O'Neill

Character: Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

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Charles Peters

Character: Robber Beetle/Journalist

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Rupert Bruce Lockhart

Character: The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

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Sheila Kay

Character: The Larva

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Leslie French

Character: Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

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Wendy Toye

Character: Mrs. Cricket

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Wilfred Franks

Character: The Blind Ant Timekeeper

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Geoffrey Wincott

Character: The Parasite

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