Amazon.com essential video: An entire generation of baby boomers grew up with this stagy but magical production, which originated on Broadway but was broadcast several times on TV. They may not know Mary Martin or Cyril Ritchard--two staples of the commercial theater in their time--for any other reason, but they'll always be able to name them as Peter Pan and Captain Hook. The story of the boy who wouldn't grow up includes a classic score with songs that can bring a tear of nostalgia to the eye of the middle-aged--like "I Won't Grow Up," "I've Gotta Crow," and "Neverland." The flying, the goofy comedy--it's all there in this video version of the classic TV broadcast. It's hard to know what sophisticated modern youngsters would make of it, but their parents will gladly sit and watch with them. --Marshall Fine
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0018713770028 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Label: Goodtimes Home Video Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video Publisher: Goodtimes Home Video Release Date: May 05, 1998 Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 08, 1960
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My Favorite Childhood Movie
This movie is in black and white, as it was every christmas in my childhood, until one christmas they no longer showed it anymore, which broke my heart. And that was about 50 years ago. So every now and then at christmas time I will pop my black and white Peter Pan VHS movie with Mary Martin into my VCR and remember some of the best christmas's of my life.