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  1. 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 (Leslie Howard), a destitute...

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  2. A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Ma...

  3. The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama 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. [1]

  4. In a small desert town on the edge of the petrified forest--whose trees long ago froze into lifeless, unchanging rock--a disillusioned British intellectual Alan Squier (Howard) meets young Gabby Maple (Davis) who sees him as her ticket to Paris and to her dreams.

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  5. About. A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage. As trapped as his captives, Mantee admits: "It looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead."

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    72 or 83 mins | Drama | 8 February 1936. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin [ More ] Director: Archie L. Mayo. Writers: Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves. Cinematographer: Sol Polito. Editor: Owen Marks. Production Designer: John Hughes. Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. HISTORY. DETAILS. CREDITS. SYNOPSIS. GENRE.

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  8. Feb 22, 2021 · The Petrified Forest (82 minutes) with its fascinating allegorical representations, rich dialogues, and marvelous performances, holds up as a real treat for classic movie-lovers. Even the movie’s stagey, studio-bound sets bring a certain charm to the proceedings.

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