As far as I am concerned the picture version of James Barrie’s famous play is one of the most enjoyable pictures which has ever graced the motion picture screen.

| Mar 16, 2023

Peter Pan is so extraordinarily beautiful, so utterly true to the childish spirit in which it was originally written, that I have no choice in the matter: I must fall down and blubber.

| Oct 20, 2022

Betty Bronson, playing her first really Important role in the films, leaves no doubt concerning Sir Barrie's good Judgment In choosing her to play Peter.

| Oct 20, 2022

Never has a picture been better photographed. It is as clear and beautiful as your first memory. Ernest Torrence is a gorgeous Capt. Hook. Anna May Wong is Tiger Lily. Cyril Chadwick and Esther Ralston are delightful.

| Oct 20, 2022

These dreams are brought to the screen no cleverly, so convincingly and yet so simply that they provide a film of pleasing excitement, of rich humor and on a few occasions a tear or two.

| Oct 20, 2022

Peter Pan is a perfectly lovely, funny, Interesting, plaint, weird movie, and if Sir James Barrie is one-half as tickled with it as are the youthful (young-young and old-young) [viewers], why, he ought to be cockadoodle-dooing just as Peter does.

| Oct 20, 2022

Mary Brian as Wendy, George All as Nana (the dog), Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Esther Ralston as Mrs. Darling, Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily and Philippe de Lacey as Little Michael -- all merit special commendation.

| Oct 20, 2022

Peter Pan is a masterpiece from every standpoint and a credit to the industry.

| Oct 20, 2022

Peter Pan is a picture that will go down the years as a delightful fantasy and crop up again and again aa time rolls along, and with each return be welcomed with a new joy by a new band of children, who will Join the ranks of the never-grownups.

| Oct 20, 2022

One not In the cast must also be mentioned, Roy Pomeroy, assistant director... Flying people, a miniature fairy, a pirate ship sailing from the water's surface up cloudward -- much ingenuity was required for these and their like, and given by Pomeroy.

| Oct 20, 2022

Peter Pan, in the writer's opinion, is not only the best movie play of the year, but the best movie play of any year.

| Oct 20, 2022

I have never seen a more perfectly balanced cast than that In the picture of Peter Pan. It Is impossible to pick out anyone who did extraordinarily well in his part, for the performances were so excellent throughout.

| Oct 20, 2022

It's all so unreal, but still just as you would have it, that it is extraordinarily appealing. It carries one, if just for a moment, away from the material --the skirmish, the battle of modern life.

| Oct 20, 2022

If you are young, you will live and triumph with Peter Pan in all the glorious episodes that your imagination ever dreamed. If you are old, you will find yourself young again.

| Oct 20, 2022

The spritely and evanescent spirit of childhood has been coaxed Into a celluloid film at last, with Incomparable beauty and appeal, as Peter Pan.

| Oct 20, 2022

Ernest Torrence is the Capt Hook whose horrible malevolence is terminated by the ingenuity of the young hero and Nana, the dog, is delightfully played by George Ali.

| Oct 20, 2022

They searched far and wide for a "Peter Pan" type and found Miss Bronson right under their very noses in the Hollywood studios. To say that she's a "find" is putting it mildly. She's perfect!

| Oct 20, 2022

The direction of Herbert Brenon gave heart once more to those who still argue that there is imaginative intelligence in the picture industry.

| Oct 20, 2022

Now we have a silent Peter Pan who is as delicate a creation and ns lovable a figure as the Peter of the stage.

| Oct 20, 2022

George Ali cuts a wonderfully whimsical figure as Nana, the dog.

| Oct 20, 2022