Peter Pan

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

1953 / 77min / 35mm

The last Disney production featuring contributions from all of the company’s “Nine Old Men”—core personnel who’d been with the studio since its beginnings in the 1920s—was this charming animated imagining of J.M. Barrie’s Neverland yarns for stage and page, following Edwardian-era adolescent Wendy Darling (Kathryn Beaumont) and siblings out of the window of their London home to embark on a series of misadventures with Tinker Bell, the cocksure Peter Pan (Bobby Driscoll), and the eternally young Lost Boys. A bright Technicolor bauble brimming over with zest and exuberance, with the flamboyant Hans Conried–voiced Captain Hook one of the most deliciously devious villains in the Disney canon.

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

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