29 May 1939 Drama, Music 90 mins
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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Wilfrid Grantham as The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard as The Tranp
Pamela Standish as The Chrysalis
Frank Birch as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Charles Peters as Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay as The Larva
Leslie French as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye as Mrs. Cricket
Wilfred Franks as The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott as The Parasite
Karel Čapek Writer
Stephen Thomas Director
Stephen Thomas Producer
Josef Čapek Writer
Frederic Austin Music
Andrée Howard Choreographer
Clifford Bax Adaptation
Hugh Stevenson Costume Design
United Kingdom 29 May 1939
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