children then fly back home. Mrs. Darling, who has grieved, thinks she is dreaming when she sees her children until the rush up on her. Wendy wants to keep Peter, but he says he never wants to grow up. Mrs. Darling agrees to allow Wendy to go back once a year to help Peter with his spring cleaning, and he leaves to go back to the home in the woods. Mr. and Mrs. Darling adopt all of the Lost Boys. Cast Betty Bronson as Peter Pan Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook Mary Brian as Wendy Darling Jack Murphy as John Darling Philippe De Lacy as Michael Darling Virginia Brown Faire as Tinker Bell George Ali as Nana the dog and Crocodile Esther Ralston as Mrs. Darling Cyril Chadwick as Mr. Darling Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily Maurice Murphy as Tootles Mickey McBan as Slightly George Crane Jr. as Curly Winston Doty as 1st Twin Weston Doty as 2nd Twin Terence McMillan as Nibs Louis Morrison as Gentleman Starkey Edward Kipling as Smee Robert Milasch as Kelt Production The film closely follows the plot of the original play, and even goes so far as to incorporate much of its original stage dialogue in the intertitles. Added scenes include Nana the dog pouring out Michael's medicine and giving him a bath, and Nana bursting into the home at which a party is being given, to warn Mr. and Mrs. Darling that Peter Pan and the Darling children are flying around the nursery. Like the original play and several other versions, and unlike the 1953 Disney film, the 1924 version makes it clear that Wendy harbors a romantic attachment to Peter, but Peter only thinks of her as his mother. The film omits the scene An Afterthought, which Barrie wrote after the play was staged, and in which Peter returns for Wendy, only to find that years have passed and that she is now a married woman with a daughter. Barrie selected Bronson for the role of Wendy. Release and restoration Peter Pan was first released in the United States on December 29, 1924. The distributor was Paramount Pictures. In Germany, where the premiere took place in December 1925, the distributor was UFA. Since there was no national film archive in the United States and Paramount had no interest in a long-term distribution of the film – distributors held movies only as