The Petrified Forest

Release Date:

Feb 6, 1936

Running Time:

1:23

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Archie Mayo

Cast:

Leslie Howard	Alan Squier
Bette Davis	Gabrielle 'Gabby' Maple
Humphrey Bogart	Duke Mantee
Dick Foran	Boze Hertzlinger
Genevieve Tobin	Mrs. Edith Chisholm
Charley Grapewin	Gramp Maple
Porter Hall	Jason Maple

Producers:

Hal B. Wallis

Writers:

Robert E. Sherwood, Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves

Language:

English

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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. Alan, a destitute writer, goes into the diner where Gabrielle works. Gabrielle dreams of studying art, and she and Alan connect as they talk about Europe and she tells him her ambitions. But gangster Duke Mantee shows up and takes the customers hostage.

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