The Petrified Forest (1936)
Crime|Drama|Romance
Alan Squier, a failed, world-weary British writer, hikes into an isolated, weather-beaten desert diner in Arizona owned by Jason Marple. Jason’s daughter, Gabrielle is immediately taken with the disillusioned intellectual, since they share idealistic dreams of escaping the stark reality of their lives, but her interest in Alan brings out jealousy in her gas-pumping boyfriend, Boze. Tensions rise when everyone present become hostages of a gang. Unlike the others, Alan relates to the threats of the gangster’s leader, Duke Mantee, with an indifference to his own fate, as if realizing that they both he and Duke are doomed by the inevitable failure of their lives.
Director:Archie Mayo
Writers:Charles Kenyon (screenplay) and
Delmer Daves (screenplay) …
Genre:Crime | Drama | Romance
Tagline:AGAIN THEY TRIUMPH!…The stars of ‘Human Bondage’ in a picture greater than the play!
Plot:A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
Plot Keywords:Desert | Hostage | Gangster | Arizona | Machine Gun
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Cast
Leslie Howard … Alan Squier
Bette Davis … Gabrielle Maple
Genevieve Tobin … Mrs. Chisholm
Dick Foran … Boze Hertzlinger
Humphrey Bogart … Duke Mantee
Joe Sawyer … Jackie (as Joseph Sawyer)
Porter Hall … Jason Maple
Charley Grapewin … Gramp Maple
Paul Harvey … Mr. Chisholm
Eddie Acuff … Lineman
Adrian Morris … Ruby
Nina Campana … Paula
Slim Thompson … Slim
John Alexander … Joseph
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