Great Ormond Street Hospital Barrie's copyright to the "Peter Pan" works, with the provision that the income from this source not be disclosed. This gave the institution control of the rights to these works, and entitled it to royalties from any performance or publication of the play and derivative works. Four theatrical feature films were produced, innumerable performances of the play have been presented, and numerous editions of the novel were published under licence from the hospital. Its trustees commissioned a sequel novel, "Peter Pan in Scarlet", which was published in 2006 and received mixed reviews, with a film adaptation planned. When the copyright
Ron Ormond Ormond's first credit was 1948's "Dead Man's Gold". Ormond made his directing debut in "King of the Bullwhip" with La Rue in 1950. Ormond also wrote a series of Westerns starring former Hopalong Cassidy sidekicks James Ellison and Russell Hayden and filmed vaudeville acts for a film released by Robert L. Lippert. Western Adventure acquired re-issue rights to a number of Hal Roach's Laurel and Hardy comedies, and distributed them along with their own productions. As the economics of producing B picture Westerns changed in the era of television, Ormond moved into other exploitation genres with films such as "Mesa