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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. [1]
- Genevieve Tobin
Tobin in the trailer for The Petrified Forest (1936) She...
- Porter Hall
Hall's Broadway credits included The Great Gatsby (1926),...
- Genevieve Tobin
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
Overview. 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.
Alan Squier, a failed, world-weary British writer, hikes into an isolated, weather-beaten desert diner in Arizona owned by Jason Marple.
The ostensible hero is Alan Squier (Leslie Howard), a writer and drifter heading to California who stops at the diner and falls for Gabrielle in a matter of minutes, ultimately offering up his life for her.
The Petrified Forest, drama in two acts by Robert Sherwood, published and produced in 1935. This melodramatic Depression-era tale of frustrated lives and spiritual emptiness is set in a gas station and lunchroom along an Arizona highway.
In this film adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, a drifter, a waitress and a notorious gangster cross paths in the Petrified Forest region of Arizona.
- (14)
- Drama
