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The Petrified Forest

Cast

Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin View All


Crew

Delmer Daves (Screenplay), Archie Mayo (Director), Charles Kenyon (Screenplay) View All

Release: Feb. 8th, 1936
Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes
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. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Iroquois
The Petrified Forest is a pretty lean little film that starts off with a romance unfolding between a hobo (Leslie Howard) and a waitress (Bette Davis) as he drifts into the town where the diner she works at is located.
Gideon58
The hostages include an intellectual drifter with a death wish named Alan Squier (Howard); a dreamy-eyed waitress named Gabrielle (Bette Davis) who hates her life and wants more than anything to get out of Arizona; a wealthy older couple named Mr.


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