The Insect Play
1939 | 90m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Stephen Thomas |
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| Writer: | Karel Čapek, Clifford Bax, Josef Čapek |
| Staring: |
| 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 |
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| Director: | Stephen Thomas |
| Writer: | Karel Čapek, Clifford Bax, Josef Čapek |
| Genres: | Drama, Music |
| Keywords | dance |
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| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 29, 2024 Entered: May 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Leslie French | Mr. Cricket / Second Snail |
| Wendy Toye | Mrs. Cricket |
| Wilfred Franks | The Blind Ant Timekeeper |
| Geoffrey Wincott | The Parasite |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Andrée Howard | Choreographer |
| Stephen Thomas | Director |
| Hugh Stevenson | Costume Design |
| Karel Čapek | Writer |
| Clifford Bax | Adaptation |
| Frederic Austin | Music |
| Josef Čapek | Writer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Stephen Thomas | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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