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

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)

Trailer

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