The Petrified Forest (1936)
- Directed by
- Archie Mayo
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 219 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A vagrant writer stops at a remote diner in the Arizona desert. A gangster on the run takes everyone hostage. The writer and the diner owner's daughter fall in love as they face possible death.
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What happens
The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime tragedy 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. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. According to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures filmed two endings. Howard's character dies in one and survives in the other. In May 1945, Warner Bros. released another film based on Sherwood's play, Escape in the Desert. It pits a Dutch flyer walking across country to San Francisco and others against a bunch of escaped Nazi POWs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Two Against the World (1936)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.