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The Insect Play

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The Insect Play — 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.

  • Release date
  • May 29, 1939
  • Runtime
  • 90 min
  • Genres
  • Music, Drama
  • Director
  • Stephen Thomas

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The Insect Play — Cast

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

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