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

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

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

Those who felt that the Peter Pan of the screen would be disappointing may set their minds at rest, for it is the Peter Pan of their fondest imaginings.

| Oct 20, 2022

There are too many good things in the film to enumerate at length hut a word must he said for some particularly beautiful scenes including one in which the mermaids are seen disporting themselves on the seashore.

| Oct 20, 2022

It is a treat for children and grown-ups alike this wonderful fairy tale of the joyous Peter Pan. And Betty Bronson, selected by Sir James Barrie for the part, is most truly the elf he conceived when he wrote the play.

| Oct 20, 2022

It is told with a curious simplicity and whim, and if it is a little too sweet for large doses for adult digestion, Barrie and not Brenon is the man to blame.

| Oct 7, 2021

One of the loveliest movies for and about children ever made.

| Feb 2, 2011

Again and again the silence of the audience was snapped by the ringing laugh of a single boy which was quickly followed by an outburst from dozens of others, some of whom shook in their seats in sheer Joy at what they saw upon the screen.

| Mar 25, 2006

One of the best silent films for the whole family, this magical production of Peter Pan is true to both letter and spirit of Barrie's nursery tale.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 26, 2003