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June Foray, Kathryn Beaumont, Tony Butala, Candy Candido, Paul Collins, Hans Conried, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Ellis, Connie Hilton, Margaret Kerry, Tommy Luske, John Wilder, Jeffrey Silver, and Stuffy Singer in Peter Pan (1953)

Paul Collins: John Darling

Peter Pan

Paul Collins credited as playing...

John Darling

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Quotes9

  • Wendy: He can fly!
  • John: He can fly!
  • Michael: He flewed!
  • Peter Pan: Now you try.
  • Wendy: I'll think of a mermaid lagoon.
  • [sighs]
  • Wendy: Underneath a magic moon.
  • John: I'll think I'm in a pirate's cave.
  • Michael: I think I'll be an Indian brave.
  • Peter Pan: Now everybody try.
  • Wendy, John, Michael, Peter Pan: [as Peter tugs them up to try and get them to fly] One, two, three!
  • Wendy, John, Michael: [Peter lets go of them and they appear to fly briefly] We can fly! We can fly! We can flyyyyyyyyyy!
  • [the children all fall onto John's bed in a heap, then we see Tinkerbell laugh at the accident]
  • Peter Pan: This won't do. What's the matter with you? All it takes is faith and trust. Oh!
  • [we see Tinkerbell brushing herself off]
  • Peter Pan: And something I forgot--dust!
  • Wendy, John: Dust?
  • Michael: Dust?
  • [we see Tinkerbell dart away, trying to escape Peter]
  • Peter Pan: [grabs Tinkerbell] Yyyyyyyup, just a little bit of pixie dust.
  • [taps Tinkerbell a bit with his hand to make golden dust come off and rain down on the kids]
  • Peter Pan: Now, think of the happiest things. It's the same as having wings.
  • Michael: [referring to Tinker Bell] Oh, look! A firefly!
  • Wendy: A pixie.
  • John: Amazing!
  • [Tinker Bell angrily gestures at Peter]
  • Michael: What's the pixie doing?
  • Peter Pan: Talking.
  • Wendy: What did she say?
  • Peter Pan: She says you're a big ugly girl!
  • [everybody laughs]
  • Wendy: Oh... well, I think she's lovely.
  • Mr. Darling: Wendy, haven't I warned you? Stuffing the boys heads with a lot of silly stories?
  • Wendy: Oh, but they aren't.
  • Mr. Darling: I say they are. Captain Crook! Peter Pirate!
  • Wendy: Peter Pan, Father.
  • Mr. Darling: Pan... Pirate... Poppycock!
  • Wendy: Oh, no, Father!
  • John: Oh my gosh!
  • Wendy: How can you...?
  • Mr. Darling: Absolute poppycock!
  • Wendy: What's the chief doing, John?
  • John: He's giving an oration in sign language.
  • Michael: What's he saying?
  • John: He says... "Peter Pan... mighty warrior... save Tigerlily... make big chief... heap glad."
  • Wendy: [jokingly] Well, he certainly doesn't look "heap glad".
  • Indian Chief: How.
  • John, Cubby, Slightly, Twins, Michael: How, Chief. How.
  • Indian Chief: For many moons, red man fight paleface Lost Boys.
  • John, Cubby, Slightly, Twins, Michael: Ugh.
  • Indian Chief: Sometime, you win; sometime, we win.
  • Cubby: Okay, Chief. You win this time. Now turn us loose.
  • John: Turn us loose? You mean this is only a game?
  • Slightly: Sure. When we win, we turn them loose.
  • Twins: When they win, they turn us loose.
  • Indian Chief: This time, no turnum loose.
  • Slightly: Huh?
  • [laughs]
  • Slightly: The chief's a great spoofer!
  • Indian Chief: Me no spoofum! Where you hide Princess Tiger Lily?
  • Cubby: Uh, Tiger Lily?
  • Slightly: We ain't got your ol' princess!
  • John: I certainly have never seen her.
  • Twins: Me neither.
  • Indian Chief: Heap big lie! If Tiger Lily not back by sunset... burnum at stake.
  • John: [as Captain Hook] Blast you, Peter Pan!
  • Michael: [as Peter Pan] Take that! Give up, Captain Hook? You give up?
  • John: Never! I'll teach you to cut off me hand!
  • Wendy: [coming in; chuckling] Oh, no, John, it was the *left* hand.
  • John: Oh, yes. Thank you, Wendy.
  • Mrs. Darling: Now, George...
  • Mr. Darling: [mockingly] "Now, George."
  • [turning cross]
  • Mr. Darling: "Now, George!" Well, "now, *George*" will have his say!
  • Mrs. Darling: Please, Dear!
  • Mr. Darling: Mary, the child's growing up. I think it's time she settled for a room of her own!
  • Wendy: Father!
  • Mrs. Darling: George!
  • John: What?
  • Michael: No!
  • Mr. Darling: I mean it! Young lady, this is your last night in the nursery!
  • [Mr. Darling had just tripped over Nana and crashed into a dresser]
  • Mrs. Darling, Wendy, John, Michael: Ohhhhhh...
  • [Everyone runs right passed Mr. Darling and comforts Nana]
  • Mrs. Darling, Wendy, John, Michael: Poor Nana.
  • Mr. Darling: Poor Nana? This is the last straw! Out! Out, I say!
  • Michael: No, father! No!
  • Mr. Darling: Yes! There will be no more dogs for nurse maids in this house!
  • [Mr. Darling grabs Nana and takes her outside]
  • Michael: Good-bye, Nana.
  • Wendy: But Mother, I don't want to grow up.
  • Mrs. Darling: Now, dear, don't worry about it any more tonight.
  • John: He called Peter Pan "absolute poppycock".
  • Mrs. Darling: I'm sure he didn't mean it, John. Father was just upset.
  • Michael: Poor Nana, out there all alone.
  • Mrs. Darling: No more tears, Michael. It's a warm night. She'll be all right.
  • Michael: Mother.
  • Mrs. Darling: What is it, dear?
  • Michael: [handing her the cufflinks] Buried treasure.
  • Mrs. Darling: Now, children. Don't judge your father too harshly. After all, he really loves you very much.

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