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Summary: Peter Pan: Over 40 and Still WON'T GROW UP!
Review: "I Won't Grow Up"Ah to be a kid again. It was as a kid when I first saw this Broadway on Television Musical production of the timeless tale of the flying boy who refuses to grow up. Although I am a few years too young to have seen the original Live broadcast, I saw a later rebroadcast that left me with vague memories of a 40 something Mary Martin as Peter Pan, a huge furry (actor in a costume) sheep dog, pirates, indians and pieces of the tunes of "I won't grow up", and "Ugga Wugga" floating pleasently through my head. It was rebroadcast for a more recent "For the first time in 20 (or 30) years" anniversary just before being relased onto VHS for the first time. I don't feel there is much need to go into the story for this one since most viewers would be at least familiar with the Di$ney animated version of this magical story. So I'll mention some of the cast: Peter Pan (Mary Martin), Captain Hook (Cyril Ritchard) the musically inclined leader of the Pirates, Wendy (Maureen Bailey), Tiger Lilly (Sondra Lee) the Indian cheif. A coulple of neat keeper features are the original NBC Credits voice-over and the (back from the commercial breaks) Act slides. This DVD is Fantastic, there is only some slightly noticible video glitching (in the final scene)which is very good coming from GoodTimes Home Video. Most of my budget VHS tapes from them are on the cheesey "spit & bubble gum" side of quality. Considering it was mastered from the original Live broadcast, the video quality is incredible for a 40 year old television production. The audio track could use a little tweaking to get rid of the slight tin can sound, but is remarkably very good. The "Clam Shell" case (Yuck!) says it's in stereo... obviously it's remastered Mono to Stereo Stereo, since "Stereo" television didn't appear until sometime in the mid-eightys.. They also have a "this film has been modified to fit your television screen" message at the begining, WHY? It is from a Television Broadcast there should have been no reformating, oh well. The extras are very few: English and Spanish Captioned Subtitles 18 Still Photo Scene Index (numbered with hooks) and that's about it, Production Notes or Cast Bios might have been an interesting thing to add. I'm not sure if in 1960 they had "Teaser" promos for special shows or not, perhaps not for live events. Since the case is clam shelled there is no book with extra production notes or something thrilling like that. I give Peter Pan a 4 for picture and a 3 for sound.
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Summary: Peter Pan: Over 40 and Still WON'T GROW UP!
Review: "I Won't Grow Up" Ah to be a kid again. It was as a kid when I first saw this Broadway on Television Musical production of the timeless tale of the flying boy who refuses to grow up. Although I am a few years too young to have seen the original Live broadcast, I saw a later rebroadcast that left me with vague memories of a 40 something Mary Martin as Peter Pan, a huge furry (actor in a costume) sheep dog, pirates, indians and pieces of the tunes of "I won't grow up", and "Ugga Wugga" floating pleasently through my head. It was rebroadcast for a more recent "For the first time in 20 (or 30) years" anniversary just before being relased onto VHS for the first time. I don't feel there is much need to go into the story for this one since most viewers would be at least familiar with the Di$ney animated version of this magical story. So I'll mention some of the cast: Peter Pan (Mary Martin), Captain Hook (Cyril Ritchard) the musically inclined leader of the Pirates, Wendy (Maureen Bailey), Tiger Lilly (Sondra Lee) the Indian cheif. A coulple of neat keeper features are the original NBC Credits voice-over and the (back from the commercial breaks) Act slides. This DVD is Fantastic, there is only some slightly noticible video glitching (in the final scene)which is very good coming from GoodTimes Home Video. Most of my budget VHS tapes from them are on the cheesey "spit & bubble gum" side of quality. Considering it was mastered from the original Live broadcast, the video quality is incredible for a 40 year old television production. The audio track could use a little tweaking to get rid of the slight tin can sound, but is remarkably very good. The "Clam Shell" case (Yuck!) says it's in stereo... obviously it's remastered Mono to Stereo Stereo, since "Stereo" television didn't appear until sometime in the mid-eightys.. They also have a "this film has been modified to fit your television screen" message at the begining, WHY? It is from a Television Broadcast there should have been no reformating, oh well. The extras are very few: English and Spanish Captioned Subtitles 18 Still Photo Scene Index (numbered with hooks) and that's about it, Production Notes or Cast Bios might have been an interesting thing to add. I'm not sure if in 1960 they had "Teaser" promos for special shows or not, perhaps not for live events. Since the case is clam shelled there is no book with extra production notes or something thrilling like that. I give Peter Pan a 4 for picture and a 3 for sound.
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Summary: By FAR the best version!
Review: For baby boomers and their young children, THIS is the version you want. If you loved this, don't waste your money on the latest 2004 dark version which is comprised of non-stop action, violence, and special effects without any qualitative plot (what there is, is a sad perversion of the story) nor enough attention to casting. Of course, most of the X generation seems to love it-what a sad commentary! In comparison, this (Mary Martin) version is wholesome and won't give your kids nightmares!
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Summary: This movie is wonderful!
Review: I first saw this movie when I was really little in the 80's(it happened to be on TV). My mom taped it for me, and I am so glad she did. I watched it tons of times. The songs,the story, the whole movie was great. I still watch it once in a while. I'm almost grown-up, but I still love this movie. I mean, you gotta see this movie. It's wonderful!
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Summary: It was better on TV with those great 80's commercials
Review: I love the story of peter pan , but in all honesty this one has it's dull moments. I found myself fast forwarding through most of the songs. Because they were kind of slow and boring. Though, I did think the actress who played Peter Pan was great. One thing I can't get over is how fake the dog is. I mean you might as well have a person crawl around on their knees without the dog suit. Because it's that fake. I'm sure this broadway show would have been great on stage, but don't go waist money on a DVD. If you have kids who like Peter Pan, I wouldn't suggest they watch this one. Because they might get bored. I did and I'm thirteen. If you didn't notice , the dad in this movie also playes Hook later on.
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Summary: Worst quality DVD I have seen
Review: I loved this as a kid, but this is the worst looking/sounding DVD I have come across. Mary Martin still shines as Peter Pan, and the songs are classics, but the picture looks almost distorted. It has not been cleaned up at all for the DVD.
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Summary: Under Appreciated Classic
Review: I loved this movie as a kid (on TV) and thought Tiger Lilly was the best! I got a dvd player primarily because this was being re-released on dvd but not vhs and wanted to have it for my kids (ok, and so I could see it again). I'll admit the quality is very poor, especially when you're used to the excellent quality of today's productions - dvd or otherwise. But it's worth it anyway, especially when my 2 year old and 3 year old are mesmerized watching it and sing portions of the songs throughout the day.
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Summary: I wish they would remaster and put this out on DVD
Review: I loved this play when they aired it on TV back in the 50s-60s so I bought it on VHS a few years back. Now I have an 18 month old daughter who loves it, too. She saw the cover of the tape case, I told her "that's Peter Pan". She watched the first scene with Nana the dog and was hooked. She loves to dance to Tiger Lily's Ugga Wugga song just as I did. She doesn't have very many words in her vocabulary yet, but one of them is "Pet Pan". The tape quality is pretty poor, however. I wish they would remaster as release on DVD.
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Summary: I wish they would remaster and put this out on DVD
Review: I loved this play when they aired it on TV back in the 50s-60s so I bought it on VHS a few years back. Now I have an 18 month old daughter who loves it, too. She saw the cover of the tape case, I told her "that's Peter Pan". She watched the first scene with Nana the dog and was hooked. She loves to dance to Tiger Lily's Ugga Wugga song just as I did. She doesn't have very many words in her vocabulary yet, but one of them is "Pet Pan". The tape quality is pretty poor, however. I wish they would remaster as release on DVD.
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Summary: Pretty Good! :)
Review: I remember first hearing about this classic when I was in Elementary school and wanting to see what all the talk was about. But when I realized that a woman (Mary Martin), was playing the boy, Peter Pan, I thought it was different and weird. But I soon fell in love with the characters and the music in the movie, and soon forgot all about a girl playing a boy character.
Even at my young age, I figured out how the character Peter Pan flew, with cable wires. Though I could see the wires everytime Peter left the ground, the music and the atmosphere of the movie made me smile and wished that I could fly like Peter. I grew up with classic movies by appreciating the movie each classic gives us. I highly reccomend this movie to children of all ages (even children that refuse to grow up! ;)_) by introducing them to not only a story that has gone through generations of children, but to a 'real' classic movie that today's generation can appreciate. More people need to appreciate older classic movies and the talented actors and actresses worked so hard 50, 60, 70 years ago.
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