Peter Pan (1953 film)

Peter Pan
Original release poster
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)
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) 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 (1953-02-05) (United States)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4 million
Box office	$87.4 million

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the 14th Disney animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953, by RKO Radio Pictures. Peter Pan is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney's founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, later in 1953 after the film was released. Peter Pan is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson after their roles in the animated feature Alice in Wonderland.

The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. A sequel titled Return to Never Land was released in 2002, and a series of direct-to-DVD prequels produced by DisneyToon Studios focusing on Tinker Bell began in 2008.

Set 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, told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, 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 them. 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.