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The Petrified Forest: Directed by Archie Mayo. With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran. A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
- (15K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Archie Mayo
- 1936-02-08
The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television.
Petrified Forest, The - (Original Trailer) An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage in The Petrified Forest (1936) starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis & Humphrey Bogart.
- Archie L. Mayo, Dick Mayberry, Frank Shaw
- Leslie Howard
There he meets Gabby (played by Bette Davis), a young women who longs to move to France and become an artist. The quiet is interrupted by the arrival of Duke Mantee and his thugs, who are on the run from the police.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Alan (Leslie Howard), a destitute writer, goes into the diner where Gabrielle (Bette Davis) works. Gabrielle dreams of studying art, and she and Alan connect as they talk about Europe and she ...
- (14)
- Drama
Screenplay. Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage.
