Peter Pan (1953 movie)

Peter Pan
Directed by	Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske
Produced by	Walt Disney
Screenplay by	Milt Banta William Cottrell Winston Hibler Bill Peet Erdman Penner Joe Rinaldi Ted Sears Ralph Wright
Story by	J. M. Barrie (Play)
Starring	Bobby Driscoll Kathryn Beaumont Hans Conried Paul Collins Tommy Luske
Narrated by	Tom Conway
Music by	Oliver Wallace
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	February 5, 1953 (1953-02-05)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4 million
Box office	$87,404,651

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated movie. It was produced by Walt Disney. It is the 14th movie in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It was first released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Pictures. Peter Pan is the last Disney animated movie released through RKO. Walt Disney then made his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution.

It was released in 1990 as part of the Walt Disney Classic Collection. It was released on March 3, 1998 as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. It was released on March 6, 2007 as a Platinum Edition. It was released on February 5, 2013 to celebrate its 60th anniversary. The movie has gotten some controversy for the depiction of Native Americans.

The movie was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. A sequel called Return to Never Land was released in 2002. A series of direct-to-DVD movies about Tinker Bell began in 2008.

Cast and characters

• Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan
• Margaret Kerry as Tinker Bell
• Kathryn Beaumont as Wendy Darling
• Paul Collins as John Darling
• Tommy Luske as Michael Darling
• Hans Conried as George Darling
• Heather Angel as Mary Darling
• Nana: The Darlings' nursemaid, a St. Bernard dog
• Hans Conried as Captain Hook
• Bill Thompson as Mr. Smee
• Corinne Orr as Tiger Lily
• The Crocodile
• The Lost Boys
  • Robert Ellis as Cubby
  • Jeffrey Silver as Nibs
  • Jonny McGovern as Twins
  • Stuffy Singer as Slightly
  • Tony Butala as singing voices
• June Foray, Connie Hilton, Margaret Kerry, and Karen Kester as the mermaids
• June Foray as Squaw
• Bill Thompson as the other pirates
• Candy Candido as the Indian Chief/Big Chief
• Tom Conway as the Narrator
• The Mellomen (Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee, Bob Stevens and Max Smith) as the Pirate Chorus and Indians.

Release Dates

Country	Premiere
United States	February 5, 1953
Canada	February 20, 1953
Brazil	April 10, 1953
Argentina	July 7, 1953
United Kingdom	July 27, 1953
Ireland	July 31, 1953
Australia	October 16, 1953
Mexico	December 11, 1953
Italy	December 16, 1953
Australia	December 18, 1953
Finland	December 18, 1953
Sweden	December 21, 1953
West Germany	December 22, 1953
France	December 23, 1953
Denmark	December 26, 1953
Norway	December 26, 1953
Portugal	April 8, 1954
Netherlands	August 13, 1954
	September 16, 1954
Austria	December 3, 1954
Poland	December 6, 1954
Japan	March 9, 1955
	April 9, 1955
Turkey	December 1955
South Korea	June 13, 1957
Kuwait	December 24, 1993

Other websites

• Official website
• Peter Pan at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Peter Pan on IMDb
• Peter Pan at Rotten Tomatoes