Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever; because the adult world does not please him at all. Together with the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter Pan lures the girl Wendy and her two brothers John and Michael to Nowhere, where Peter teaches them to fly. They join forces with the Indians, led by the beautiful Tigerlilly, to fight together against the evil Captain Jack Haken and his wild pirates.
Direction
Verhoeven's early style: theatrical, grotesque, already provocative.
Practical Effects
Low-budget flights and pirate ships: charming DIY ambition.
Costume
Tigerlily and Hook designs: European theater meets Neverland.
Director
Paul Verhoeven
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Verhoeven's second feature and his only children's adaptation, made for German television with a shoestring budget that shows in every charmingly janky flying sequence.
The 1962 production arrived during a European wave of gritty fairy-tale revisions, though Verhoeven would later disown his early TV work as 'learning to point a camera.'
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