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Peter Pan 1953 Film | You Can Fly! | JM Barrie Disney Adaptation



What's your review of the 1953 Disney animation film Peter Pan, adapted from JM Barrie's novel? #PeterPan #JMBarrie #Disney is the animated adaptation of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan one of your favourite Disney films? Did you see the trailer and then rush out to see the full movie or buy the DVD or blu ray? I’d love to know your own reviews if you saw it in the cinema or streamed it online! You can scroll down for more information, or check out the Rotten Tomatoes rating, IMDb page, or Wikipedia article!


Alternative titles (from Letterboxd): Peter Pan 1, Peter Pans heitere Abenteuer, Les Aventures de Peter Pan, As Aventuras de Peter Pan, 피터팬


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About Disney's Peter Pan 1953 Film

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

Produced by Walt Disney

Story by Milt Banta, Bill Cottrell, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright

Based on Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie

Starring Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske

Narrated by Tom Conway

Music by: Oliver Wallace (score), Sammy Fain (music-songs), Frank Churchill (music-songs), Sammy Cahn (words-songs), Edward H. Plumb, Ed Penner (words-songs), Winston Hibler (words-songs), Ted Sears (words-songs)

Production Company: Walt Disney Productions


Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Release date: February 5, 1953 (United States)

Running time: 76 minutes

Budget: $4 million

Box office: $87.4 million


Plot from Wikipedia: “In London, circa 1900, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates that was told to them by their older sister, Wendy. George, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less practical, angrily declares that Wendy has gotten too old to continue staying in the nursery with the boys. That night, they are visited in the nursery by Peter Pan himself, who teaches them to fly with the help of his pixie friend, Tinker Bell, and takes them with him to the island of Never Land.”


Peter Pan Characters and Voice Cast:

Bobby Driscoll Peter Pan

Kathryn Beaumont Wendy Darling

Hans Conried Captain Hook / Mr Darling

Bill Thompson Mr Smee / Pirates

Heather Angel Mrs Darling

Paul Collins John Darling

Tommy Luske Michael Darling

Candy Candido Indian Chief

Tom Conway Narrator

Roland Dupree

Don Barclay

Lucille Bliss Mermaid

Tony Butala Lost Boy

Carol Coombs

Robert Ellis

June Foray Mermaid / Squaw

Connie Hilton

Margaret Kerry

Karen Kester

Johnny McGovern

Norma Jean Nilsson

Jeffrey Silver

Stuffy Singer

Anne Whitfield


Music by Oliver Wallace

Film Editing by Donald Halliday


Peter Pan Soundtrack Songs:

The Second Star to the Right

You Can Fly!

A Pirate's Life

Following the Leader

What Made the Red Man Red?

Your Mother and Mine

The Elegant Captain Hook

Never Smile at a Crocodile


The Tinker Bell film series: A spin-off and prequel to the Peter Pan films. Disneytoon Studios produced a number of Tinker Bell films, including six feature-length straight-to-home video films, and two shorts.


The television series Jake and the Never Land Pirates includes Hook and Smee as main characters, and is set in Never Land, years after the events of the feature films.


Works Based on Peter Pan:

The Little White Bird or Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906 novel)

The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904 play)

Peter and Wendy (1911 novel)

1924 film

1953 film

1988 film

Peter Pan and the Pirates (1990 series)

Hook (1991 film)

Return to Never Land (2002 film)

2003 film

Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006 novel)

Starcatchers (2004 novel)

Shadow Thieves (2006 novel)

Secret of Rundoon (2007 novel)

Tinker Bell (2008 film)

Peter and the Sword of Mercy (2009 novel)

Neverland (2011 miniseries)

Jake and the Never Land Pirates (2011 series)

The New Adventures of Peter Pan (2012 series)

Peter and Wendy (2015 TV film)


The Lost Boys are: Tootles, Nibs, Curly, Slightly, and The Twins.”


Pirate Crewmen: Mr Smee, Gentleman Starkey, Bill Jukes, Cecco, Cookson, Noodler, Skylights (Morgan's Skylights), Black Pirate, Alf Mason, Robert Mullins, George Scourie, Chas. Turley, Foggerty, Whibbles, Ed Teynte, Black Gilmour, Alan Herb, Canary Robb.


The Fairies: Tinker Bell, Queen Mab.

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