Movie: The Insect Play

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Wilfrid Grantham
Wilfrid Grantham

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard
Edmund Willard

The Tranp

Pamela Standish
Pamela Standish

The Chrysalis

Frank Birch
Frank Birch

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill
Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters
Charles Peters

Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart
Rupert Bruce Lockhart

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay
Sheila Kay

The Larva

Leslie French
Leslie French

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye
Wendy Toye

Mrs. Cricket

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    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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    1939-05-29

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